Saturday 30 April 2005

Pic of the day: What's on the monitor today?

Ever smaller ville

Season 3 of Smallville. Since I don't have a TV (and frankly I have no idea how many seasons have been aired in Norway) I bought this on DVD from amazon.co.uk.

Yes, I like it even if it may be a bit too targeted at girls, what with all the relationship stuff running through it and the abundance of overly good-looking guys. But I always was most interested in that part of Superman's life, where he was just discovering his powers. That's the part I like to play in role playing games, it's been like that since I was young I think. When heroes become too godlike, I kinda lose sight of them. The people who are just slightly more than human, those interest me the most. Perhaps it's an old habit from when I thought I was one. Although I couldn't see through walls, just make computers do things that seemed impossible to most.

I still enjoy the show, but I feel it may be declining. Oh, the acting is getting better, but the story is growing stale. And there was the horrible "drifter Joe" episode that not only takes Jor-El completely out of character, but also utterly negatest the whole rationale for there only being one Superman. If Kryptonians could casually wander around on Earth a generation before the demise of Krypton, why would they all be conveniently assembled on their home planet when it exploded? Even if they did not really believe the planet was doomed, you'd think a routinely spacefaring civilization would have some people in transit. I'll chalk this down to the producers thinking it's a girl show, and girls don't need logic if there's lots of emotional drama and hot boys. I won't even speculate on whether they are right.

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Apart from that, I was moderately sick through most of the day, with random bouts of queasiness, and feeling weak despite 8 hours of sleep. (Actually the sleep helped, I got to the shop and back without trouble, but it grew worse through the day.) So I spent some time thinking about the meaning of life and such too. But it's kinda hard to combine the meaning of life and Smallville, don't you think?

I'm feeling pretty small myself these days. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. To repeat my new destillation of ultimate useful truth: "Humility is just a subset of realism."