3 seasons and still no Booster

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Hah, that's our Booster. Looks like someone read the source material for a change.

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Fucking convinced, making room and torrenting the whole show when I wake up. I’m excited as fuck to watch this.

From what bits I've seen even Black Canary was more accurate to the comics.

What was Birds of Prey like?

I heard it was cringy in parts and Harley Quinn became this boss villain that acted as the Birds of Prey's arch enemy.

Pretty terrible, but the actresses were hot.

The first three to four seasons were tolerable at best then it completely jumped the shark. Didn't help that Clark himself was portrayed as some wishy-washy jackass most of the time and most of the characters and plotlines from the comics were completely bastardized. To top it off, both Lane and Lois were insanely fucking annoying. It was basically Gotham except for Superman.

So no, it wasn't anything remotely approaching good. There's even a podcast floating around from way back when Smallville was still going that did a pretty good job of dissecting all the dumb shit happening on the show, I just wish I could remember its name.

I watched a good chunk of it not too long ago. The shows is decent if you completely ignore Lana. Unfortunately, the writers were obsessed with her and turned her into the biggest fucking Mary Sue in existence. And I mean that quite literally It's a decent show to have on in the background while browsing the internet, but it's not something I would sit down and binge.

I’m watching it now, I’m liking it well enough. The teen drama is not good but it’s tolerable till the fun, early 2000’s super hero hijinks kicks in. I also like how teenage Clark isn’t portrayed as some complete beta loser and will actually stick up for himself.

Also Lex is fun whenever he’s on screen.

Neal Bailey used to do some funny reviews of Smallville on the superman homepage. He really didn't like that show.

supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville8-ep15

My first taste of American Television. The first four season was an addiction to my autistic childhood. The fifth to seven is my development to a cynical teenager. Eight to ten gave me a depression every time I watch. It was fucking torturous to watch but I still wanted to see it end so I watched it like an abused housewife.

The teen drama maybe dumb but the mystique, ethical questions and characters growing up made up for them in the early seasons. It is a mystery show with supernatural elements, problem solving and great threatening villains. Jor-El is mysterious and could really be a bad guy.

Fifth season onward, they darken the color tone for some fucking reasons and Clark Kent and co, never grew up. Lana and Lois are both dull, stupid and annoying. Green Arrow and the rest of the league are one-dimensional hypocrites. Supergirl, a teenager, is in her mid 30s. Jimmy 'the god' Olsen is the only good addition. Lex is the only one in the original cast that had development and it still felt rushed.

8th to 10th is a shit show. Lex gone and his replacement is a piece of shit. Olsen dead and nothing for the good guy is good anymore. The plots had a ton of loose ends they forgot. Inshort, the shows sucked. Watched it until the end of seven season, then skip to the last one. You will save a lot of headaches.

Fun fact, the guy that play Lex in Smallville is the voice actor for The Flash in the Justice League series.

Neat

Can’t unhear it now, still

Also, I’m liking this a lot more than I thought I would which makes me worried because I’ve heard some of the later seasons are rough.

The show almost has a light horror feel to it at times and the “monster of the week” formula is enjoyable. Also, they get the sacrifice that comes with being a superhero just right at times.

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I've always hated the "Can't have a personal life" aspect that people always choose as the "sacrifice" of being a hero. It's retarded, because in the context of the story if they told the people around them everyone would be happy and trusting and all would be well. I prefer the stories where some of the sacrifice comes from the idea that the person is physically injured constantly, and people think they're some sort of thug and avoid them. "Can't be happy if you keep secrets" is retarded for a genre that hinges on having a double life you keep secret.

MFW Legends of Tomorrow is embarrassing, Flash is cringeworthy, Gotham is insane, Arrow tries too hard to be edgy - any yet, all of those are better than the current DC cinematic universe.

But that’s one of the big plot devices that has been lost about old school super heroes. Retarded or not, that was a big reason for the costumes and masks. There are some heroes that break that trend, but I don’t like the phase we’ve hit where everyone in the various super hero universes knows everyone.

I think it especially works in Smallville because even if it would be a good decision to tell people Clark’s a dumb teenager who also has his parents fear of revealing his identity on his shoulders.

Also, for somebody who knows, does that light horror vibe the show has going in season one stick till the end or is it eventually abandoned?

Lana can be a bitch to endure in more ways than one, and Chloe is fun for 6 seasons, she gets more annoying than anything beyond that Unless she's suffering, not because I hate her but because she's being interesting.

Season 6 and 8 are probably my favs, is weird, when I was an edgy teen watching this I thought it was cringy as fuck but as the DARKANDEDGY DCEU made is way now I appreciate how actually brave this series was for daring to have comic like charm, in every aspect really since the episodic nature gave it opportunities to exploit a lot of styles, and it's length made it able to manage its plot threads far better than usual, without the hurries to have a cliffhanger every 22 pages.
Don't get me wrong, the early seasons can still be cringy but the things it got right it really got right like the Clark-Lex relationship, forever have I complained when this "friendship breakups" are never that tragic because they never interact enough for me to consider them close friends, but now this was tragic especially as Lex slips out the deep end by his obsessions and insecurities and Clark's stubbornness to follow Jonathan Kent's rules despite the damage they're causing.
Also Clark himself, him being a not so bright, naive, obedient and church-going raised kind of guy for so long made it so believable that Supes would act like a hopeful "boy scout".

Where does S1 rank on your list?

Oh, shit, I didn't saw it, I guess just above S2, it isn't as bad but as you can see, it's forgettable.

That’s actually really good to hear considering I like S1, though I guess I’ll have to brace myself for season 2. I appreciate the rundown user.

I like how this is just a smallville thread.
SOMEBODY SAAAVE ME

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That's just my opinion, really, I'm just entirely sure on the S6, 8 & 5. Season 7 would've been higher but it fell on the 2007's writers strike so the whole thing was very rushed but the ideas it had were FUCKING AMAZING is a very interesting elseworld truly but at the end of the day is as said, a mixed bag.

One must not forget this was a network series of 26 episodes per season type of show with all the faults this brings sometimes you have an awesome arc then you get interrupted by very stupid filler like not even dumb fun, or an outright RETARDED version of a character to fit the series episodic style like Mr. Mxyzptlk being a foreign student who got experimented on or forced situations like Lois Lane living with the Kents and being in the same highschool as Clark just to have her being a regular character although I'm pretty sure that last one must've been on a comic some time, I'm just weighing on averages here really.

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I meant Lois living with the Kents there.

I meant that if S1 fell so low on your list and I’m still enjoying it, it’s nice that it only has up to go… aside from S2 in your opinion of course.

It definitely there throughout all seasons that take place in high school, and is still there for a little bit later on. If I remember correctly, season five is where horror is slowly phased out in favor of more action, drama, and vigilantism. Take it with a grain of salt, as I haven't seen the show in quite a few years.

Yeah is around season 5 when it starts to follow the comics more… as well as it can, of course, really they're more like Comic guest appearances, season 6 really ramps up in the horror dept… Lex faking Lana's pregnancy was beyond fucked up, seriously, dude. But not in that daylight horror thing, just horror.

If I remember my trivia correctly, that was the plan. It started development as a show about a young Batman but then it was decided that was a stupid idea and switched it to Superman.

Good

Worth all the pain, tbh.

well now Smallville's got me all curious, what are the recommended Superman stories?

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All-Star Superman
Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?
Kingdom Come

Most of the best Superman stories were Elseworlds. I didn't mind John Byrne's run, apart from, you know, John Byrne.

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I wish i had the old Holla Forums recommendation list.

Oh man I love Green Lantern.

Just how bad is Gotham?

Mediocre.

These suggestions are good, and, think what you may about Waid, Kingdom Come was excellent.
I'd say
Exile
No Limits
President Lex
Up, Up and Away
Last Son
Brainiac
DC Comics Presents #85
For The Man Who Has Everything
Peace on Earth
Secret Identity
Superman/Gen 13 (not for Superman, but because I will never not recommend a hot muscly redhead with huge tits in a supergirl ourfit).

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Almost forgot. Read Hitman #34. It's good.

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comraderecs.tumblr.com/
It's where an user collated them all. Grab a scrapper and get them all, then never go back.
There's probably newer ones from halfchan, but I wouldn't exactly trust their judgement if they're still wallowing in Redwood's shit.

Actually, use this one instead:
comraderecs.wikia.com/wiki/Comraderecs_Wikia
Looks to be the same with a few minor additions, and it's better sorted (though still pretty badly done).

My issue is that superheroes used to have a life separate from the superheroing. Modern capes always portray it as being completely impossible to have anything happen in your life outside of being a superhero. They saw that in the Sam Raimi Spiderman, which is perfect for Spiderman, but now they cram that into every cape story.

That song is my whole childhood

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So should be stop counting until the Bendis run?

Storytiming Superman vol 2 #151. Superman of the modern era done right, with his postcrisis history intact and no merged with new 52 bullshit. And no stupid gay little son. Enjoy the beginning of the criminally underrated turn of the century superman, that never gets recommended. The only thing ever recommended from around this time is Action Comics #775, which had an animated adaptation that ruined the point of the comic.

Loeb was a damn good Superman writer.

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Do you have a torrents?
I'll love to read this on my own and Getcomics.info is a little bitch with its stupid search functionality, readcomicsonline.to has watermarks and low quality.

A lot of modern superman is garbage. Nothing worth reading pre-Flashpoint after Brainiac unless you want to slog through the obnoxiously long New Krypton/World of New Krypton/Last Stand of New Krypton arc. Not many liked New 52 supes. Rebirth from what I've seen is just Jurgens recycling shit from his 90s run.

Don't make em like they used to

Your best bet is one of those big collections. Just pick and choose what files you want. Postcrisis. This one looks alright. Start with 198-No Limits.

mediafire.com/file/3hahvne4zz9d8zt/255DBD6E32DD6C169C9F3673828ED7C926E93E00-1.torrent

Modern shows don't even have credit sequences. They just have a 3 second title card. It used to be that you would have the opening get you pumped as fuck for a show, like Stargate, and show off all the badass moments from the show to let you know what you were in for. Hell, you can have never seen a single episode of Smallville before, but if that opening comes on, it tells you every thing you could possibly need to know about the show.

Don't forget the best piece of Smallville trivia; the actresses who played Chloe and Lana using the show to recruit women into their sex cult
thesun.co.uk/news/4875033/hollywood-actress-allison-mack-brainwashed-into-recruiting-up-to-25-women-into-the-terrifying-nxivm-slave-cult-where-they-are-beaten-and-branded/amp/
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I appreciate all the comic recommendations guys. Gonna finish up NU52 Batman and Robin and start tracking them down. I read Kingdom Come recently and it was absolutely incredible. Was it ever determined if Powergirl survived the super nuke?

Also, I finally see what you guys were talking about with the women in this show… holy shit can they be bad. At least when it’s good it’s reallt good. Also, what’s the deal with all the Egyptian imagery in the show?