{"id":373,"date":"2010-05-15T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/?p=373"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:17","slug":"smallville-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/373\/smallville-redemption","title":{"rendered":"Smallville Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago I wrote <del>an article called &#8220;Why the World Doesn&#8217;t Need Superman&#8221;<\/del> postings which I called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/94\/smallville-is-getting-nowhere\"><em>Smallville<\/em> is getting nowhere<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/111\/doomsday-for-smallville\">Doomsday for <em>Smallville<\/em><\/a>&#8221; because I was so disappointed and frustrated with how the series had progressed in recent years and how that season (eight) ended.<\/p>\n<p>I am still convinced that seasons seven and eight were the worst years in <em>Smallville<\/em> history because whatever the makers had in mind, it didn&#8217;t work in either year. When I randomly pick an episode to watch, it&#8217;s rarely an episode from these seasons.<\/p>\n<p>But for me, they redeemed themselves this year. There were still a few bumps in the road (e.g questionable decisions by all characters including Clark) but overall it was much better and it had quite a number of really great episodes in it, starting with the season openers <em>Savior<\/em> and <em>Metallo<\/em>, continuing when the Blur gets his own fan club (<em>Idol<\/em>), then the two-parter <em>Absolute Justice<\/em> and the following <em>Warrior<\/em> and in the end <em>Charade<\/em> and <em>Salvation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely watched so many episodes twice or more during the year of airing. <\/p>\n<p>Now I just hope they can create a shining final year to give the show a great ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago I wrote an article called &#8220;Why the World Doesn&#8217;t Need Superman&#8221; postings which I called &#8220;Smallville is getting nowhere&#8221; and &#8220;Doomsday for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-review","tag-smallville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}