"Fonzie's on the water skis, goofy blue shorts and leather jacket. He's moving fast. Now, he's going up the ramp, and there he goes. He's just jumped the shark, ladies and gentlemen!"
I hate to say it. After months of watching this once great show teter on the edge, flirting with the leather jacket and the ramp, after waiting and waiting for the string of episodes that would prove Gough/Miller had not lost their freaking minds or their way...Well. I can't deny it any more. This show has lost it. The greatness it aspired to is gone and in it's place is a vapid rehashing of the same old plots over and over again. When you can enjoy only 10 minutes of a show, and the other 35 you spend scratching your head in disbelief or yelling at the screen for the stupidity, the lost greatness, and the idiotic situations, you have to admit it.
Here's to hoping it somehow jumps back.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Pfft. That show jumped the shark so long ago! *shakes head sadly*
Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
I kept hoping. There were some real crap episodes in s3 too. But then there was Shattered, Asylum, Memoria, Transference, and Run. More perfect episodes there could not be. So there was hope.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I pretty much gave up after s3's opening episode. Really, near the end of s2 . . . I've watched every so often since then, but it's just too painful.
Posted by rav (Member # 7595) on :
I kept watching because Lois came into the picture. But it seems this last season has been drawn out and reaching for things at every turn. Oh well. Back to Lost, and Veronica Mars.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If I want Lois, I'll watch my Lois&Clark tapes. Or read a nice L&C fanfic.
Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
Lois is incredible eye-candy, especially last night. And I do love her character (despite canon issues because, let's face, the supes canon has never been consistant anyway and as long as the story is moving is interesting, consistant-with-itself ways, then I'm happy). But it's like they don't care anymore.
Clark (in Pariah)- my wife is dead! She was murdered. She was the only one I could ever be myself with. I can't go on.
Clark (in Recruit, the next week)- Wow, I'm excited to be trying out for Met U's football team! Wife? What wife?
Dead bodies right and left, sometimes killed by the bodies of our heroes. Do the Smallville police really go, "Oh. It was the evil Lex that killed two people. Oh. Ok. Well then, we're not pressing charges."
It's like they just put situations out there for the fun of it with no real thought to it's believability or consistancy with what came before.
Come on! it's not that hard, people!
Is it really hard for TV writers to see what was working before- what made the magic- and then keep it up? Or was it unconscious? Do they not listen to the fans or see how many people are tuning out? We want to see Clark/Lex's journey to the cape/evil. All the rest is peripheral. That's what we come back for.
But then South Park hasn't been as funny, lately, either. It seems they're going out of their way to find an issue to poke fun at, but it seems more forced. "Ha ha! look at us. We're funny! We're doing it again!" There've been a few good episodes certainly (as with Smallville s4) but on the whole, I have been disappointed.
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