Is it Saturday morning in Australia? I can't remember which way the date line goes. It's Friday night in California, and I have something like 150 papers to grade before I leave for Chicago on Tuesday, so if I suddenly go radio silent, that is why.
Of course you're correct about Clark's immortality being a tragedy--and that scene with the gravestones strongly supports that reading. They've been setting this up from the beginning--I'm not sure how I missed that.
As for Pete--yes, what a complete waste of a good character AND a good actor. Though sometimes I want to give the producers the benefit of the doubt--like, how much is all the teen drama that took up so much story time (and took time *away* from developing minor characters more, or presenting more coherent Luthercorp storylines) a product of being on the WB and having pressure to capture a particular demographic? We know for sure that the network did stupid things like make them take that actress who played Victoria Hardwick--who could have made a very convincing ongoing foil to Lex, if she had been played by someone who could ACT).
But on the other hand, I can understand why Sam Jones got fed up and quit. I sometimes wonder why Annette O'Toole is still hanging on--she's amazing but completely underused, and they only give her about one good episode a season.
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Of course you're correct about Clark's immortality being a tragedy--and that scene with the gravestones strongly supports that reading. They've been setting this up from the beginning--I'm not sure how I missed that.
As for Pete--yes, what a complete waste of a good character AND a good actor. Though sometimes I want to give the producers the benefit of the doubt--like, how much is all the teen drama that took up so much story time (and took time *away* from developing minor characters more, or presenting more coherent Luthercorp storylines) a product of being on the WB and having pressure to capture a particular demographic? We know for sure that the network did stupid things like make them take that actress who played Victoria Hardwick--who could have made a very convincing ongoing foil to Lex, if she had been played by someone who could ACT).
But on the other hand, I can understand why Sam Jones got fed up and quit. I sometimes wonder why Annette O'Toole is still hanging on--she's amazing but completely underused, and they only give her about one good episode a season.