Friday, January 19, 2007
Smallville: Justice
It may be wrong to love corny, but if loving corny is wrong, I don't want to be right. I was expecting a little mre, but I have to say that I loved the whole premise of the superdudes getting together to foreshadow the creation of the justice league. It would be tough for them to continue Smallville forever since Clark is quickly becoming a man, so this creates a nice out for them. It is also a nice way for them to segueway Clark from local do gooder to world saver.
The writers have also set themselves up nicely for a new series based on the Justice League if they ever got the notion. The series would automatically inherit a large portion of the Smallville audience, especially if Smallville went away and Tom Welling moved over to the new show as Superboy.
It's interesting to me that they also gave a rationale for the power monger that Lex Luthor eventually becomes. We know that he will end up being a super baddie, and now we see that his initial interest in collecting what become super villains started out as an effort to protect humanity from unregulated super humans. You know what they say about power...
I expected that this episode was going to pit the new Justice League against some of Lex's other super humans. I guess that will have to wait. For now, we'll have to settle for watching Clark take out the remaining Zoners....
Labels: Smallville, tv
