She has entered a plea of "recent exposure to glowing green rocks." · 9:47pm Apr 20th, 2018
To be fair, if you were stuck on that show for ten years, you'd probably turn evil too.
I have a complete Smallville set: managed to acquire it on the cheap. And truthfully? I barely made it through four seasons, and then I just... gave up. Coming from me of all people, this next statement might feel hypocritical -- but it was just too drawn out. I looked at the full run of the show and realized it was literally going to take a decade to get anywhere. Too many cases of easy amnesia added to forgotten lessons, with the total as a foregone conclusion being tallied by the world's slowest pencil. I quit on the series: the last six seasons are still in their shrinkwrap, and probably worth about $0.40 each at finer garage sales everywhere. And to that extent, I have no emotional investment in the characters or their actors -- except to feel like Michael Rosenbaum did the most he could with his sentence, trapped in a prison made of endlessly repetitive scripts.
So as what wound up being a non-fan, I didn't pay much attention to the comings and goings of the performers. I completely missed Sam Jones III's initial arrest and only got to be mildly surprised in retrospect: it's supposed to be the athletes and reality show stars who use their money to deal drugs. But this time, I got to see Allison Mack trending on Twitter. My first thought was 'Who's that?', because that is the amount of impression she left. But seeing her face brought it back.
She has an innocent sort of face, doesn't she? Even now. I think it might be most of the reason she was cast. She had to project that air of someone who just couldn't hurt anyone. I imagine that's useful when you're recruiting for a cult.
I have no emotional investment in characters or actors, and so the only people I care about in this story are the victims. But I do wonder what happened to her, between series end and what should be a very dark trial. The plot thread of her life may turn out to be a very twisted one.
...which will probably still make more sense than 60% of the episodes...
Smallville always struck me as a show that was really kinda shitty, and made me really reticent to watch Arrow, as not much good comes from CW.
Yes, that was odd.
You have to remember that actors say words written by someone else. You will probably never know what an actor really believes or stands for. Because actor.
If you look at the Slave Cult that Allison Mack was part of... It's really weird just how upper class it was. There is almost no reference to menial labor at all, just obedience.
Okay, that's going to make watching old Smallville episodes really weird, if I ever actually do that.
As for that show itself, I abandoned it shortly after the writers started to do huge amounts of inadvisable character shilling for Lana Lang.
Yeesh.
At least it comes with its own catchy tagline: "The Secret World of Allison Mack".
(And I rather agree with you on the show itself, but that's a tangential issue.)
Did you just date yourself with a Loc'nar comment? I suppose it could be worse, It could of been a Wizard's quote.
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More of a Smallville comment. For the sake of giving the show a never-ending (and oh, how I wished it would) supply of bad guys to fight, humans who were exposed to Kryptonite generally experienced two effects: instant psychosis accompanied by superhuman abilities. And glowing green rocks were everywhere. The fatality count in Smallville is not a small one, and many of them were caused by classmates who decided their best use for powers was making sure the local stores sold a few less graduation gowns.
So a typical early episode would go:
* Someone in school has an Issue
* Student exposed to Kryptonite, develops powers
* Said student probably begins to kill people with their powers to solve Issue because plot
* Clark learns what's going on and stops student in a way where they either die through no fault of Clark's own or lose all memory of how he stopped them, thus preserving his secret
* No adults in town believe anything strange is happening, but the funeral home is doing big business
And this repeated. A lot. Especially the memory loss part. There may be towns with more murders-per-capita somewhere, but Smallville was the amnesia capital of America. (If there's somewhere worse, they've probably forgotten it.) And once it reached the point where repetition had gone past laziness and into hilarity, the show lost me.
Having had no exposure to Smallville, all I can do is boggle at how messed up people can be.
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Oh good, I wasn't the only one thinking of that.
When I learned that a training seminar for modern business executives had somehow mutated into a debased sex slave pyramid scheme, it was dismaying how fast I arrived at "Well, that makes sense."
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There's a Mature story in there somewhere. A Feature box-topping Mature story.
I'm not writing it.
II watched Smallville when it first aired. It wasnt bad. Couldnt keep up with it and it also got bad. It really needed to end a lot sooner then it did. Which could be said of a lot of tv shows.
Smallville was notable to me only by being one of the few live action shows my mom watched that I could remember the name of. My mom watched so much tv that it was just an endless deluge. Shows just how forgettable it really was when she didn't even remember who Allison Mack was until I brought up the title of the show.
Maybe it's the arrogance of celebrity that lends itself to creating literal cults of personality around themselves, but damn is show business giving the backwoods midwest a run for its money on cults.
As I recall, season four is about where I threw up my hands and walked away too.
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It's not an argument. It's more a thing you realize when you see an actor you really like stand up and try to express a personal or political view that you think is stupid.
Which is about anytime you hear an actor open their mouth and speak their own words. There is a sudden wrenching moment as you are forced to divorce the actor from the characters that they play.
So yeah, that cute little blond girl from that daytime superhero themed soap opera wanted to brand her initials into some gullible women.
Surprising as I sure didn't see that one coming.
But surprising also because I have never heard a single word of Allison Mack's devising and yet I thought I knew who she was.
Are all CW shows just really repetitive? All the ones I've seen are. Even Legends of Tomorrow, except there aren't also three other shows doing what it does at the moment.
I'd like to point out that while she's been arrested, the trial is still going as far as I can tell. Innocent until proven guilty guys. That said, I pray justice will be done.
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Oh. You're talking about the characters they are paid(or not paid) to portray. I was talking about their actual opinions off the set. My misunderstanding.
Well... I never watched Smallville. It was on my radar as "something that exists", but it wasn't something I even tried to get into.
So, I checked her filmog. Some that I've heard of, but very little that I've seen. Huh.
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ICR the charter's name (Chloe?) but Perry White called her "the queen of tabloid journalists" & she replied to the effect "I have an unfair advantage. I live in Smallville"
I also remember seeing a bumper sticker "Honk if you were saved by the red/blue blur".