Product: Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season (2009)
Rating: 1.0
Is there a rating for less than zero stars?
Each new episode of S9 constantly amazes me at how awful this season is. It seems that following the show for 8 seasons and any dvd sets before s9 are now worthless to the overall story for those previous seasons don't seem to matter to the show creators any more. They are simply creating a new show in S9 with no concern for the story they have been telling these past 8 seasons. Personally, I blame the focus on Lois this season for dismal ratings and utterly horrible storytelling - and I'm not the only one who thinks this if the ratings are anything to go by. Come on, being on Friday can excuse some of a drop, but wealth of viewers that departed this show this season compared to last is mindboggling. Season 9 pretty much killed any notion that Smallville can come close to what it was like barely a season ago in s8.Worst of all, is Smallville's idea that Superman is a thug who has no qualms about being violent to women. Holding Tess over the edge of a building? Gleefully destroying the Two Towers with no thought for the humans scurrying out of the way on the street below? Arson? That is not the Clark of Smallville season 1-8 and I prefer that Clark to the black suited violent thug he is currently. I can't imagine how DC signed off on this version of Clark and I for one have no desire to see anything related to Superman, movies or otherwise, because of Smallville season 9. If the "mythos" has decided the new Superman for a new generation of viewers is a violent thug who likes lording his powers over the humans he is supposed to protect, that I can do without. Coupled with the ignorant, fame-seeking and feminsim-regressing "Lois Lane" Smallville is THE WORST addition to 70 years of mythos.