Product: Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season (2009)
Rating: 4.0
Excellent season, but disc holder system flawed
Season 9 is an excellent season. However, I wouldn't give it the rave reviews that I have seen from some others. It's about as good as all the other seasons were. Honestly, while I know that they had to follow Superman lore in pairing Lois Lane and Superhottie, I really HATE IT! I think Lana Lang looked much better dangling from his arm---and I do mean dangllllliiiiinnnngggg. That is something that I believe is finally being corrected in this mini Super saga. The writers and directors aren't playing relationship cat and mouse between Lois and Clark quite as much as they did with Lana and Clark. I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sick of it. Let the boy catch the girl and keep her for awhile sheesh. What I don't like about season 9 (and season 8) is the way they drewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww outtttttttttttttttttt in slooooooooooooooow mooooootion, the Oliver Queen brooding bad boy, "I hate myself so much for killing Lex" story line. Enough with the whining Ollie--you killed Lex, get OVER IT ALREADY!!! Penance doesn't suit you! Leave that to SuperHottie. Apart from the season story line itself, I am very very unhappy with the disc protection or rather lack thereof in this set. They've changed it in the last two seasons and it really stinks. It falls apart much too easily. I would have thought it was just the fault of the first seller I purchased from, but when I received the season 9 discs, the inner system was falling apart there too. The reason I buy boxed sets is because I want to keep them like . . . FOREVER! So getting a season with a faulty inner holder just isn't cool, and most certainly not when ive had to pay close to 50 bux a season in some cases.