Thyme Laird

I ask you...what is the point of having a huge overarching story if you don't properly resolve it? Why bother building up the threat of Darkseid and his minions if they were that easy to defeat? Desaad, Granny Goodness, and Godfrey were all individually built up to be a huge threat. Except Oliver ends up taking all three of them out with a single shot. Seriously.

Wait...it gets worse. Clark effectively beats a Darkseid-possessed Lionel Luthor was a single strike. Clark also makes ...

I've been thinking about this for a while now. There are some speculative fiction franchises that, by design, can't possibly deliver.
They are the veritable soap operas of speculative fiction in that either....
a.) the audience can wait until eternity for the plot to resolve, or
b.) the payoff is going to be a massive let down.


Smallville
Smallville has to wait until the last episode for Clark to become Superman because they designed the show with ...

I am incredibly frustrated with how Smallville is winding down.

While I understand that the central focus of the series is obviously Clark Kent, the show has many interesting characters who ultimately serve only to demonstrate how wonderful Clark is in comparison. This has led to a series of missed opportunities in my opinion. What we have had recently is a series of episodes that, from a dramatic standpoint, belong at the beginning of a season...certainly not at the end of the ...

I was thinking about this the other night.

Certainly there have been plenty of lame companion moments, but, as I thought about it, it was much harder to simply write off most companions as lame.

Ian, Barbara, Sara, Ben, Jamie, Zoe, Liz, Leela, Romana, Nyssa, and Ace seemed pretty strong and competent.

I think Vicki, Steven, Polly, Sarah Jane, Harry, and Tegan were depicted as pretty strong and competent depending on who wrote for them.

I can excuse ...