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[ivyfic]

It's official. Smallville is dead to me. I just removed myself from the ClarkLex yahoo group. I'm now not in any Smallville communities. I'll probably still watch season 5...someday... But I just have no interest in being in the fandom.

Most fandoms don't end with a bang (though those that do are quite spectacularly horrifying), they end with a whimper.

Smallville - dead fandom walking.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Interesting. What prompted this decision? I'm still keeping up with the show (often a few weeks later, because I've been getting the episodes via bittorrent, but I've seen up through 5x08), and I don't think it's significantly dumber than it was for the last few seasons. Have you just finally gotten fed up?

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I feel like it's a huge improvement over season four, but the writing and acting are as cheesy as ever so I can only attribute it to them finally dropping that dumb "collect the Krypton crystals" storyline. I'm enjoying this season a lot, though I have yet to see last weeks "Lexmas" episode. Smallville has never been a great show, except for a few episodes here and there, but I think it's good and fun most of the time.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

It's less a concious decision than a realization that I've forgotten to tape it for a couple weeks and I'm not terribly interested in watching the episodes I did tape.

Smallville was never a fantastic show, but I was so hooked in the beginning by trying to suss out Lex's psychological motivations. Seeing how he can try to be a good person and make the wrong decisions over and over again, how the only way he can get any satisfaction in his interactions with his father is by being vicious and cut-throat, but even when he wins this way he loses. And then into that you add Clark, who's trying to find his own way, make his own decisions, but makes wrong choices and is swayed by others' opinions.

After season 3, I pretty much got the portrait of Lex that I wanted, and with that tied up, nothing new came along in the show to captivate me. Instead I was left with a season with a terrible through-line and all I can see is how tepid the writing has always been. Meh. And even if I watched the show, I don't feel a need to discuss it anymore.

I also have to attribute some of my apathy to the destruction of the Smallville Ledger and Smallville Torch sites. I loved those things - they tied up loose story lines and were just meta enough to show that the producers didn't take themselves seriously. Then in season 4 they went from three articles a week to one, and then to nothing at all. I feel like the ancillary support the WB put into keeping the fandom going just dried up.