I have reviewed a lot of comments in Smallville's two major web sites, Kryptonsite.com and DTS. I hope thatTPTB listen to the common "thread" (pardon the pun)
* viewers want continuity from week to week - how many people were totally excited that Shelby appeared in "Lucy"?
* Lana started outliving her usefullness when she left for Paris (it's not realistic - her Aunt lives in Metropolis, how does she support herself, etc? I know Lex bought her out of the Talon, but really now...she's still in high school. And how could she go from loving the Talon so much because her parents met there, to completely ignoring it now that's she back?? She has lost depth if she ever had it. I don't know how they're going to bring that back.
* Smallville is so out of canon that's it's really an Elseworld now. That being the case, the flirtation between Clark and Lois is irresistable. When they were trading snarks by the telescope in "Lucy", I wanted Clark to just move in and kiss her. I know I shouldn't want it...but I did. Lois is far more interesting than Lana, she always will be.
* Speaking of continuity between week to week, there are several plot points that could surface to make the Lana and other storylines more believeable:
1) Bring back Henry Small
2) or....have Aunt Nell guest-star. Lana needs some family. No teenager lives above a coffee shop by herself at 17-18. It's just weird
3) Lex should have mentioned Lucas when he said "you can share the same genes, but it doesn't make them family"...and then he could have said, "Clark I have a brother but we didn't grow up together ...etc etc..." but he didn't.
4) If Clark is mistrusting Lex, why would he go to him for help? He thinks that Lex is just one big ATM machine and that Lex is that big a sucker that he wants Clark's friendship that much that he will do anything (i.e., opening his seemingly unlmited wallet) for him just to get his friendship back.
5). When Lex found the tractor trailer with the window punched in and the driver knocked out, he didn't even comment. Isn't the bad guy going to say "the Kent kid flew onto the truck I shot bullets at him still didn't kill him, then he punched open the window and knocked me out!"
????? I know strange things happen in Smallville but pullllease!
6) I know in the comics that Lana was the Insect Queen or something silly but this whole warrier/princess/witch thing is sillier. And Lana coming back because of the tatoo? I don't buy it. Sure, she could have come back to look at the caves, but why drop out of a school she obviously loved and tried like hell to get into?? TPTB should have left her in Paris this season with Jason Teague. They could have all run into each in China chasing after the stone.
7) I would like to see a flashback of what happened to Clark in the phantom zone from the season cliffhanger. There has been no explanation of why he suddenly dropped out of the sky (except to show "Clark Jr" to a wide-eyed Lois Lane!!)
8) CLark is going to be 18 - that's when he flies. He needs to be able to fly in the season finale.
I RUNNETH AT THE MOUTHETH AGAIN
