A Fervent Discourse Upon Smallvile, Season 8, Ep 7: Identity

I have something to say, and as I don't really have a medium for it elsewhere I'm going to say it here.

Tonight I watched a full episode of Smallville for the first time since WAAAAAY back in season one. At the time I thought it was vacuous, dumbed down, piece of soap opera lite that wasn't worthy of spit shining Superman's shiny red boots.

After tonight's episode I have decided I rated it too highly!

Bleargh!

Please allow me to point out some of the more obvious cases of vapid stupidity that so offended my sensibilities.

1. Jimmy Olsen takes a photo of red blur in the vicinity of Lois Lane not dying and decides it means there's a superhero zipping around the city saving people at the speed of light. Because he takes a picture and there's a red BLUR in it!

2. Later he sees a picture of Clark in a red shirt. Its obvious Clark is the guy! Cause' he's wearing red! It's so obvious!

3. Clark comes up with a clever plan to fool Jimmy into thinking he's not a superhero. His plan is to shove Jimmy in front of a car, (which sounds like a good idea all by itself), and have his buddy swing down on a line while wearing a red cape and shove him out of the way. Now I don't know about you, but somehow I'm not going to confuse super speed dude with Green Friggin' arrow swinging through the night wearing a red cape!

4. Lois is attacked by a bad guy in her apartment. She calls Clark Kent for help, (because why would you call 911 instead of a reporter when you're about to be shot, that would be silly!), and two seconds later the mysterious superhero that moves superfast zips through the room and tosses the bad guy into the wall. She now leaps to the conclusion that this superhero, (who was just across town saving Jimmy and posing dramatically on a rooftop), just happened to zip across town, into her apartment, and save her life. What the expletive? She doesn't question the fact that the only person on earth who knew she was in trouble was Clark, she just automatically assumes that there's this omniscient super-fast guy in a cape who shows up whenever Daily Planet reporters are threatened? What the heck?

Now wrap this all up in dialog so lame that it makes me wanna eat car barf in comparison. I love the way that Lois oh-so-delicately, and with a suave journalistic style, steers her conversation with the bad guy to the subject of jail, (where she suspects he's been for the last four years). "Wow that certainly is an interesting life story. But what happened to you more recently? Had any fun experiences in large, fortified, government buildings? I love to hear stories about experiences in large, fortified government buildings!" And she was playing it serious!

What the hell!?

Dumbest show ever!