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I really like the fact that it's in Kansas, with the verdant grasses of Vancouver, and three hour's drive away from Metropolis, which is very obviously New York.
Which is just brilliant.
I think to some extent it does suffer because it is enough like Buffy (series one) to be compared to it, but has done a far worse job of developing its second string (partly because, rather than turning up intermittentlym the "Angel" figure - separated older man - gets his own plotline pretty much every week, making a very different project). The quality of the writing is also quite astonishingly variable.
However, it still rocks, and has indeed been rocking harder and harder as time goes on, although possibly through acclimation rather than improvement. Also, it *is* getting more self-aware; there was a quality moment where Whitney, Chloe and Clark are racing off to rescue Lana from the Scooby Doo carnival (which will never be mentioned again, betcha), and Whitney is all gun-ho about driving them there right now when Chloe very politely proposes that maybe she should drive...because Whitney always crashes.
Plus, I love the fact that the Kent farm just *doesn't make sense* - they have cows but don't seem to sell any dairy produce or beef, they have a lot of hay but no immediately apparent horses, and Bo Kent refuses to take part in any actual farming, preferring instead to weld, cut, fix machines and basically do the cool stuff, while Clark seems to plant nothing but fenceposts. |
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