Last year after hearing several people go on about how good Smallville is, Sonya and I decided to start renting them off Netflix. This was back in July 2007. Last night we finally finished up mid-season 8, which is where the show now currently stands. Everyone knows about the Superman mythos and has seen the old tv show in the 60s and the Christopher Reeve movies in the early 80s, and read the comics. With so much already invented, the creators of Smallville has taken this somewhat boring, all super strong, superhero concept into something way cooler than ever before. I always liked Superman, but found his strength too simplistic and boring. I liked his origins, and his villians, but tossing cars around wasn't enough. Smallville puts the myth into a more realistic concept of how basically aliens started all the problems within the Earth, and how Clark has grown up with remorse of his addition to Earth, as well as those outer space beings that have ties to his origins that have occupied the same space. Absent is his tights and cape, his glasses that hide him, and up until now flying.

Season 1 starts out from Clark's high school beginnings and how meteor rocks (i.e. kryponite) start this whole wave of odd behaviors and how Lex Luthor fits into the story. So for the first three seasons you get a lot of teenage freak drama where Clark is trying to cool the flames of how meteor rocks affect humans in odd ways and how the people respond to this in mainly devious and fatal ways. But by Season 4 the show goes beyond this into a new phase that is pretty damn cool.

You can't miss last night's episode. Oh man... [link]

Just ended season 4 of Smallville. (spoilers) Clark finding himself surrounded by snow and ice and mountains with the crystal amulet in his hand which he throws it to the ground. I'm wondering if he understands what he just did? Lana escaping death yet again by pulling herself out of the crashed helicopter and viewing a spacecraft, like Clark's, sitting just yards away from the 'copter. And what about Clark's parents and Lana's ex ready to kill either one of them at any moment. The suspense!

Season starts this Friday, 10p EST/9p CST. Has it really been a year this last season's finale? Man, I need some refreshing!

Hulu rocks!

and not only does Hulu rock, but this episode of the Simpsons is great.

For some reason, this commerical cracks me up.

According to the Battlestar Wiki site, He That Believeth In Me will be episode 1 of season 4 which starts in April 4 2008.

The feud between Conan, Stewart, and Colbert continues. [link]

"No, seriously: Bill Laimbeer, the widely loathed giant who played center for the Detroit Pistons from 1982 to 1993, appeared as a Sleestak in at least one episode of the cheesy ’70s show Land of the Lost, a program that terrorized a generation of young kids on Saturday mornings. " [link]