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The Top 25 Smallville Episodes
Hourglass, Shattered, Transference, and Nemesis were all major omissions to me, personally I would have replaced season 4's Onyx with Transference. And while I agreed with *some* of the finales and premieres that were included (Crusade, Commencement, Odyssey were all unarguably epic episodes) I didn't agree with including the less memorable ones like Phantom and Bizarro. I especially wouldn't have put the series finale in the top five, cause really? It felt like the list was at times just going with the ~obvious~ choices of the bigger episodes, rather than the actual best episodes. Well the best ones IMHO anyway g*
I'm not even sure what my top 25 would be at this point though, it's been so long now that a lot of it is kind of a blur to me, but hopefully I'm going to pick my SV re-watch back up at some point. I watched seasons 1-4 last year originally intending for it to be a complete series re-watch, but there's just sooo much more tv to keep up with every year that I keep falling behind with everything :( I still need to pick my X-Files re-watch back up with season 6, I want to fit in a complete rewatch of Farscape, and then there's Gilmore Girls 7 seasons as well before the Netflix episodes...Oh and I want to re-watch The Good Wife from the beginning soon too when the DVDs for the complete series come out. And maybe Nikita too, I would like to re-watch Nikita...Hopefully I will start on season 5 of SV soon though, next year maybe
Hourglass, Shattered, Transference, and Nemesis were all major omissions to me, personally I would have replaced season 4's Onyx with Transference. And while I agreed with *some* of the finales and premieres that were included (Crusade, Commencement, Odyssey were all unarguably epic episodes) I didn't agree with including the less memorable ones like Phantom and Bizarro. I especially wouldn't have put the series finale in the top five, cause really? It felt like the list was at times just going with the ~obvious~ choices of the bigger episodes, rather than the actual best episodes. Well the best ones IMHO anyway g*
I'm not even sure what my top 25 would be at this point though, it's been so long now that a lot of it is kind of a blur to me, but hopefully I'm going to pick my SV re-watch back up at some point. I watched seasons 1-4 last year originally intending for it to be a complete series re-watch, but there's just sooo much more tv to keep up with every year that I keep falling behind with everything :( I still need to pick my X-Files re-watch back up with season 6, I want to fit in a complete rewatch of Farscape, and then there's Gilmore Girls 7 seasons as well before the Netflix episodes...Oh and I want to re-watch The Good Wife from the beginning soon too when the DVDs for the complete series come out. And maybe Nikita too, I would like to re-watch Nikita...Hopefully I will start on season 5 of SV soon though, next year maybe
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Date: 2016-10-03 08:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-10-04 06:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-10-04 04:47 pm (UTC)Seems only really interested in the 'iconic' Supermanly stuff, the spectacle, the fights, the big tentpole eps and the comics characters turning up (which kind of misses the point as SV is a re-imagining in it's own right not just a televising of the comics). Also biases the list towards the later seasons with the parading of superheroes through town, which I had no interest in at all.
Only 2 of those eps make it into my personal top 25 - Red (my number 17), and Memoria (my number 2). 11 of them aren't even in my top 100 (why yes, I did once rank all 216 eps (I counted the two parters as two separate eps) from best to worst). His number 1 ep? I ranked it at number 133 :D
Me and this reviewer were clearly watching SV for (and seeing) completely different things. Also I can't really take any review seriously which contains the line "as well as a great vehicle for the return of Lana Lang" for on my planet there is no such thing!
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Date: 2016-10-04 06:30 pm (UTC)And I know what you mean, it felt very much like it was a fairly casual watcher who was just picking out the landmark episodes that they felt like they should be singling out, whether because some villain or another made an appearance, or something else ~iconic~ happened. And I liked Absolute Justice a lot actually, it was interesting to see the show trying something different, but all-time best Smallville episode? I think not!
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Date: 2016-10-04 08:09 pm (UTC)Yes, it has the feel of someone who came into the series late for the eye-catching eps and then went back and had a quick zip through the early seasons, which they then didn't like because they don't have the flashy (desperate) stuff of the late seasons.
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Date: 2016-10-05 03:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-10-05 06:19 pm (UTC)More or less accurate probably - I added each season into the rankings as they went along rather than rewatching them all together so over 10 years it's a bit difficult to remember exactly why I ranked one episode just above another :)
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Date: 2016-10-06 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-10-16 01:23 pm (UTC)http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2016/10/smallville-15th-anniversary-the-top-25-episodes/
I'm still side-eying the finale being listed in the top #5, but otherwise there is at least a better mix of episodes throughout the series like Leech, Insurgence, Transference etc, and it's not just the big comic book related stuff being focused on.
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Date: 2016-10-16 02:35 pm (UTC)At least there's a fair number of early season episodes in this list though and not just all the comic-y ones
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Date: 2016-10-05 02:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-10-05 03:21 pm (UTC)