Brain Assassin

It’s been a long time again. Well, I don’t care any­more. Cur­rently, there are two to three peo­ple read­ing this blog. Even­tu­ally, I’ll get it right and visit more often but at the moment things are com­pli­cated enough. How­ever, what was I try­ing to write? Ah, I remem­ber. I wanted to write some­thing about Smal­l­ville. Fair warn­ing, isn’t it? If you’re not inter­ested in my ram­blings you can still drop outta here. Wow, I can’t remem­ber being that nice.

Now, where should I begin? Let’s try it this way: I started with Sea­son 1 and I thought it’s nice but def­i­nitely not mine. Sea­son 1 to 2 mostly have been the same. Vir­tu­ally no infor­ma­tion on Clark but lots of meteor freaks turn­ing up. Sea­son 3 was kinda dif­fer­ent but not that much. I wasn’t inter­ested in those, really. Thus, my rela­tion­ship with this series really started with sea­son 4. For the first time, I’ve seen every sin­gle episode and I had to reeval­u­ate my atti­tude towards this ‘new’ Super­man fran­chise. Frankly writ­ten, it wasn’t that good either but it’s been way bet­ter than the first seasons.

And then – with sea­son 5 – things started to get very inter­est­ing indeed. More action, more emo­tion, more thrill, more dra­matic, more time pres­sure – quite intim­i­dat­ing way to make it bet­ter. I’d like to say that Smal­l­ville finally has devel­oped and poses as a really enter­tain­ing series. Yeah, grow­ing up comes at a cost, all good things in life do. Choices have to be made … actu­ally, it’s a lot about mak­ing choices. I can’t await this season’s finale episodes and the offi­cial deci­sion to pro­duce another one.

I under­stand that all good things must come to an end. Peo­ple like to move on and try other things. Then there’s the bud­get. We all know what hap­pens to a really suc­cess­ful fran­chise, don’t we? Actor deals are usu­ally made for five years while seven years gen­er­ally is the max­i­mum. Let’s face it: peo­ple are becom­ing big stars and that’s mak­ing them ever more expen­sive until you reach a point where to much money is spent that stops going on screen. There­fore, it’s surely not wrong to assume that there’ll be at least another sea­son rush­ing in – there’s enough unused poten­tial left, enough sto­ries to explore. Think about it. Clark hasn’t fig­ured out how to fly yet. He doesn’t even know that there are some pow­ers cur­rently unknown to him; tele­scopic and micro­scopic vision or Super-​​Breath, for instance.