{"id":248,"date":"2009-04-08T17:19:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T06:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=248"},"modified":"2009-04-08T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T06:19:50","slug":"wither-smallville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/04\/wither-smallville\/","title":{"rendered":"Wither Smallville?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the completion of BSG, I&#8217;ve found it hard to find something to write about. I&#8217;ve been following <em>Smallville<\/em> for years, but the quality of the writing is so all over the shop that I&#8217;m just not as invested as I used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the shift of focus to Metropolis (though that was inevitable), but the show feels stagnant. Although we&#8217;ve finally ditched Lana (kinda &#8212; she&#8217;s still alive), the metaplot is slowly circling this inevitable showdown between Doomsday and Clark, but that&#8217;s nowhere near as exciting as Oliver forming the Justice League, or Clark taking on General Zod, or even just having Kara around.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that there aren&#8217;t enough of the good characters for Clark to play off. Right now it&#8217;s lots of Chloe, some Lois, some Tess, and a little Davis. Gone are the days of the whole Kent family, and both the Luthors.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, that&#8217;s probably it. Without Lex and Lionel, the show has no real heavyweight manipulators (or actors for that matter), so the plot feels either contrived or simplistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the completion of BSG, I&#8217;ve found it hard to find something to write about. I&#8217;ve been following Smallville for years, but the quality of the writing is so all over the shop that I&#8217;m just not as invested as I used to be. Maybe it&#8217;s the shift of focus to Metropolis (though that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[228,229,227],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-40","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}