Smallville any thoughts

ascan1984 · Feb 4, 2006

Smallville any thoughts? Heres mine. It is cool. The sotrylines are really good this season (5). I bought the first two seasons of the new adventures of superman and it is a little hard to watch because of smallville in that there are allot of errors as it implies lois and clark have never met etc. But you can probably get away with it by saying they wanted to keep it a secret they new eachother. A big one is Jonnathan kent is still alive in the 1993 series but not in smallville. But i dont anticipate that he will remain dead in smallville for very long. Sci fi is weird that way. Bye Ps is smallville sci fi?

vagueship · Feb 7, 2006

Since it's based on a person from another planet, I think it would be scifi. In the comic book Johnathon Kent died about the time Clark was in high school. (JK never ran for senate.) Other than the Lois issue there are other inconsistencies. Clark and Lex ended up being enemies when there was a chemical explosion that Clark caused when he tried to put out a fire. This caused Lex's hair to fall out, not a meteor shower. I actually don't recall a meteor shower when Clark landed and he arrived with all his powers. He didn't gradually get them. It is after all a TV show. Did you think it would be based on "fact"?

scull · Feb 7, 2006

You could also say that the 1993 series was a separate timeline from Smallville -- different universes, if you will. The people from one timeline can never know anything about, or interfere with, the people from the other timeline.

Saiph · Feb 8, 2006

Or....you could just point out all the strange inconsistencies that normally occur in the superman story-line (indeed, most DC comics). So the fact that the TV superman series has inconsistencies is really par for the course, at worst. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> --------------------SaiphMOD@gmail.com -------------------"This is my Timey Wimey Detector. Goes "bing" when there's stuff. It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually. I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink" </div>

dougdegraw · Feb 8, 2006

Even DC realized all the problems they had by constantly creating new Earths {timelines} to explain away inconsistancies. So they had the Crisis on Infinate Earths series to trim them down and cut away some of the flak.

Saiph · Feb 8, 2006

I'd forgotten about that. BTW, I've only a passing familiarity with comics in general. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> --------------------SaiphMOD@gmail.com -------------------"This is my Timey Wimey Detector. Goes "bing" when there's stuff. It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually. I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink" </div>

scull · Feb 8, 2006

It's the same with Marvel comics. The X-Men universe, for example, has several timelines. It depends which title you're reading: "Astonishing X-Men" "New X-Men" "Ultimate X-Men" "Uncanny X-Men" "X-Men: Evolution" "X-Men" Plus some X-Men have their own comics like, "Wolverine", "Rogue", etc... The X-Men movies and TV series are also different timelines.... You have to have a good memory to keep up. LOL <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

vagueship · Feb 9, 2006

Or some things don't translate well from paper to the screen. I don't think the Xmen would very intimidating running around in yellow spandex like they do in some of the comics.

scull · Feb 9, 2006

LOL. That's true, although the pencillers seem to have caught up with the times. The characters wear jeans and stuff now. If you want to see spandex, subscribe to "Astonishing X-Men." It's Marvel's latest take on the X-Men, but it's also the most nostalgic when it comes to hero-costumes. It's like mid-80's or something. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

Aetius · Feb 9, 2006

I never read very many comic books as a boy, but now I sort of understand all the seemingly nit-picky comments made by comic book fans regarding superhero TV shows.

hracctsold · Feb 10, 2006

And speaking of black and yellow spandex, there was a line from the first movie to that effect. Cyclops was telling Wolverine something like that, "what, do you want us to run around in black and yellow spandex?" Or something like that. Since they were one of my favorites as a kid, (that was 12 cents a copy now!!!), I found lines like that really funny. And about Superman timelines, I remembered a Superman comic where the opening page had him testing the age of his baby space ship and found it was around 100 years older then he could account for, and could not explain why. But the comic powers that were gave the lowly readers the scoop on it. It seems, ( now this is over 40 years ago to remember), he went first to a planet that in the end went beyond the dooms day bombs and blew it self up, and naturally he was launched back in space somehow and put back on the right space-time coordinates and landed on the right earth. That is about all I remember from those days of yesteryear though. But I don't remember any other storylines of that nature after that issue though, and thought that that was strange to do at the time.

scull · Feb 10, 2006

TV series are ok, but there's nothing like getting your subscriptions in the mail. LOL. Some do get real possessive about the storylines and timelines. They don't want a TV writer reinventing the history of the characters.

scull · Feb 10, 2006

Yeah, I know what you're saying. There's a lot of smart-ass one-liners in the comics. In "Ultimate X-Men", for example, Storm tells Colossus (something along the lines) that Dr. Xavier is demeaning the women X-Men by making them wear spandex. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

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