A Tenth Season?

Well, you gotta give Smallville credit for staying power.  It is, after all, an achievement, being renewed for an unprecedented tenth season–unprecedented in Superman TV history, that is.   Personally, I was hoping it would just go away.   The writing is poor, the series a hodgepodge of random elements from the DC Universe cynically, heedlessly thrown together.  Everybody in the thing flies except Superman.  I swear, at this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Streaky the Super-Cat zoom by in a flash of red and orange–anybody, anything but Clark/Kal-El/whoever he is. 

Nevertheless, somebody’s gotta be watching this thing.   The bottom line remains the bottom line.  Networks don’t keep unprofitable series on the air, certainly not for a decade.  I guess Smallville has done better than anything else the CW dumped on Friday night.  Somebody’s watching, dare I say enjoying. 

Do you like this series?  Please tell me why.  I’d really like to know.  I don’t like stomping on a program that I, a Superman fan, would really like to like.  I’d like to know why you, whoever you are, like it.   Drop a comment.  I’d appreciate it.