Glued To The Set
I have a tendency to continue to watch/read TV shows/comics/etc even when they go drastically downhill in terms of quality. I’m not sure if it is loyalty so much as it is being ingrained in routine. But I like to imagine that it’s a grace period for the property to show it still has some juice left.
Case in point is Smallville, a show I have always watched for concept and good acting over writing. But for most of this season, the writing has been painfully bad. I haven’t actually stopped watching, but I haven’t bothered to set the VCR anymore either.
But tonight, the show was back in form. I won’t bother detailing the plot, which was rather contrived as per usual, but it brought about a glimpse at evil Lex Luthor, the Lex Luthor that Superman fans have been waiting for since the show started. Lex has been such a wellspring of angst and torment that it was refreshing to see him be completely evil and ENJOY it. Well, the half of him that wasn’t chained in the basement in an iron mask being angsty and tormented.
Not being a big Superman fan (everyone knows that Batman is way cooler), I’ve been more interested in the Luthor aspect of the show for the whole run. Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover are easily the strongest members of the cast. It seems like the writers put the majority of their effort into the two Luthors anyway. Or else Rosenbaum and Glover are just better at making mediocre dialogue work.