When (if ever) did you and Smallville part ways?

[OmahaStar]

Episode three.

When they started showing the episodes daily on one of the cable networks, I decided to tune in, having read so many positive reviews and such.

I set my DVR to record the first week's worth of episodes. I made it through the third episode before deleting the rest in disgust. I don't know what anyone sees in the show, because it's utter crap. The acting, the writing, oh the painful writing, it's bad with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

 

[DanTheGrey]

I never got into the show. I liked the idea and then I decided to go into 'wait and see' mode because of the amount of hype it got. When I found out that Lex, Lois and all sorts of others were in the show from what is generally taken to be Clark's adult life were crowbarred in I just couldn't bring myself to watch it...

 

[backstept]

I stopped watching when I couldn't figure out what the hell night it was on . . . they kept moving it and I just gave up

Is this supposed to be a joke? It was on tuesday night for seasons 1 and 2, wednesday night for seasons 3 and 4 and thursday night since season 5. If you couldn't figure that out, you didn't even try, it's not like it moved constantly.

no joke . . . after season 3 or 4 it just became sort of dull for me so when they changed nights I just lost interest

 

[cultcross]

I watched till the end of season 3, gave up on 4 very quickly (I can't stand Jenson Ackles) picked it up again for 5, but finally gave up after that.
The show had a number of very solid characters (Lex, Chloe, Jonathon, even Clark on a good day) but never managed to use them effectively or in a non ridiculous way. Lana became the single most annoying person on genre TV and the her and Clark on-again-off-again got tired within a year once it was obvious that was all they were intending to do with it.
Putting in just about every other Superman character and still refusing to acknowledge he was now bascially just plain old Superman was another nail in the coffin for me.

 

[Christopher]

3)When they clearly showed Cloe's death in an explosion, then several episodes later said whoops! she faked her death. (even thos she didn't have time to in the way they showed her death)

Actually that was Lana. And it was obvious from the get-go that she faked her death, since a big truck blocked her from Lionel's view when she was heading toward her car, so he (and we) never actually saw her get in the car. And she had plenty of time to set it up in advance, and plenty of reason to disappear. So the writers didn't kill her off and then change their minds; they intended from the start that it was a faked death, and they tried to fool us into thinking it was real, but not well enough. If anything, the absurd thing is that a canny, devious man like Lionel was fooled by such an obvious deception.

 

[Takeru]

Actually that was Lana.

He was talking about Chloe's "death" at the end of season 3. She went into the house, closed the door and the thing blew up, you could still see Chloe through the window, there really wasn't time for her to get out.

no joke . . . after season 3 or 4 it just became sort of dull for me so when they changed nights I just lost interest

Okay, it makes sense if you lost interest before the switch, I thought you lost interest because they switched nights and that seemed a little strange.

 

[Ethros]

I watched the first 3 Seasons, then a bit of Season 4 but I couldn't be bothered following it every week. A little later I caught the rest of Season 4 on repeats, but again when Season 5 onwards started I really couldn't be arsed.

I did see a random episode of Season 7 though last year, and it was like NOTHING had happened at all since. Reminded me why I gave up

 

[CorporalClegg]

3)When they clearly showed Cloe's death in an explosion, then several episodes later said whoops! she faked her death. (even thos she didn't have time to in the way they showed her death)

Actually that was Lana. And it was obvious from the get-go that she faked her death, since a big truck blocked her from Lionel's view when she was heading toward her car, so he (and we) never actually saw her get in the car. And she had plenty of time to set it up in advance, and plenty of reason to disappear. So the writers didn't kill her off and then change their minds; they intended from the start that it was a faked death, and they tried to fool us into thinking it was real, but not well enough. If anything, the absurd thing is that a canny, devious man like Lionel was fooled by such an obvious deception.

He's talking about the season 3/4 cliffhanger.

I gave up on the show twice. First was mid-way through season 4. (I think Pariah or there abouts.) And got back into it during season five because of Marsters. (I have since seen all of season four.)

Then I bailed again at the end of last year and never saw the last two or three episodes--it was just so God awful. I decided to give it another chance this year after hearing Milfred was finally gone. But honestly, after hearing some of the things they were doing (and what was), I was really only watching to see the train wreak. Thankfully I was in for a shocker as this is turning out to be the best season. Too little too late though, I'm afraid.

In any case, I doubt I'll ever buy season seven on dvd and probably never see those episodes. But by the sound of things, I ain't missing anything.

 

[Mr Light]

I only watched the show because my college roommate did. After that (the first two years) I only bothered to watch the premiere and finale since those were the only episodes to actually have anything HAPPEN in them

 

[Christopher]

Actually that was Lana.

He was talking about Chloe's "death" at the end of season 3. She went into the house, closed the door and the thing blew up, you could still see Chloe through the window, there really wasn't time for her to get out.

Oh, that. I'd forgotten that. Very little from this show sticks in my memory. Yeah, that was pretty contrived.

 

[Greg Cox]

The episodes tend to pile up on my DVR when SURVIVOR is in play, but I always catch up eventually. I'm in to the end.

Bring on the Legion of Superheroes!

 

[Praetor]

I watched through the end of season two, when I went to college, and then had lots of other stuff to do. They were already losing me through that season. Then by the time I got around to catching an episode, I guess with the teen angst out of my life it didn't resonate as much with me anymore. I've caught an occasional episode here and there (enough to be annoyed by the presence of Lois and Jimmy, and I enjoyed when Lionel Luthor took his fall) but I've never been able to get back into it.

 

[btflash]

early into the first season. i just can't buy welling as superman. plus, the stories were pretty lame.

 

[Orac Zen]

It just wasn't for me so I gave up pretty much immediately, although I dipped in and out to see if it had managed to become watchable (nope). Michael Rosenbaum and John Glover aside, the acting was atrocious, the characters generally were too bland and unconvincing to hold my interest, and there was just waaaaaaaaay too much wangst. To each their own, however.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I came very close to parting ways during last season after tolerating much frustration...this season has me back, for the time being. There is always time to piss me off.

 

[Kryton]

I let it go when the whole UPN/WB --> CW thing happened. I didn't have good access to the new channel here, so I was willing to let it go. Started up again this season thanks to a new cable/satellite setup and while they're on holiday hiatus I've Netflixed season 7 to find out "how we got here" on some of the plot points. This season is definitely better, but last year showed some improvement from the original "meteor freak of the week" format that got so dull.

 

[shapeshifter]

End of season 3, for all the above listed reasons.

 

[Gaith]

1) early in the series, a new female Sherrif announced she was in town and watching Clark. In the next episode, the space ship blew up in the Storm cellar, yet neither the new sherrif nor the FBI showed up to investigate the 'Meth lab' explosion! (things like this show that the producers know nothing at all about Kansas)

Reality was clearly never a big concern for the show. They didn't show a classroom the whole first season, though they at least had school-related plots. By the middle of S3, however, half the action was already taking place in Metropolis.

I may watch some S8 someday, but only the ones Neal Bailey says are genuinely worth the time. I've found his reviews to be pretty dead-on:
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville-reviews

 

[Cicero]

I love Smallville, but didn't start watching more than the occasional episode (or part episode) until the fourth season. Every year since, I've caught up on a season's worth of episodes in a few weeks with the DVDs (usually in December, when the winter break makes television viewing possible), and I've seen larger portions of the earlier seasons.

I only regret Lana's decent from being Clark's moral equal, Clark's sometimes (and progressively less frequent) idiocy, and the revelation that Zor-El was evil (I also wish Lara had been classically dark-haired and blue-eyed).

 

[trekkerguy]

I never parted ways with it, just found it more convieniant to
watch after my mom would buy the DVDs since she's obssessed.
I just borrow them from her. I'm so glad Lana isn't so pouty anymore.