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Smallville was Fine:) James was great and got to be hot, caring and evil all in one episode - and even in the good clothes. I wish the final fight had gone on a bit longer, but the straddling and the thrusting - I'll be in my bunk. Pookiac got a great comic strip death that isn't. I might not be the greatest comics expert in the world but I do know that when the character can be fluid, is shown leaking and there's no body, he's coming back. Hopefully as Zod as I have this strange craving for Clark and Lex to kneel to Zod. In the meantime, Professor Fine can be off having crossover-y goodness with hot vampires, Elder Gods and the Winchester boys.
Apart from some cringe inducing product placement from Lois, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Lionel gave Chloe flowers - craves bent over the desk in the Daily Planet fic. My fave BDW pairing got flowers and Miss Sullivan. Wibble.
Chloe stalked Fine in a great little trenchcoat. Also requires being caught fic.
Chloe was magnificent generally. Worries over her survival.
Bring back Pointless Pete and kill him. Plus Bo.
AOT did a great dying mum scene. Very affecting.
I do hope Bo bites the farm soon. He was at his most hypocritical, platitudinous annoying again this week.
Lois snarking at the guy that bailed out her sister and gave her a job was also annoying, though the Lex snark was priceless. The Lois is Lois superjourno was also annoying and Chloe's one-pieceness worriting.
Lex and Lionel were magnificent.
I do still want a John Glover JM scene. I need this. They can be Zod vs Jor-El. *Needs*
Needs more James, but with a mercifully Lana free episode and only really Bo to piss me off, it was thoroughly enjoyable.

Alias Was definitely more back to form this week with the merciful scaling down of the new characters and some great Sloane and Jack scenes. Jack and the crib of assembled in the wrong room was priceless.
Though I don't believe that he didn't already know Sloane made a deal with Dean - Spy Daddy is smarter than that - but there were some great Sloane-Syd-Jack scenes as Sloane twisted and turned like a twisty turny thing beautifully. He is so dead - poor fucked up bunny, but the reason why are so there - and at least Mia Maestro got to do something this week, even if she's back to being pawn again. Poor Sloane - though at least he fucked up Dean's shit nicely.
I did like the Shovel/Dean OTP.
Amy did good evil and I really liked her coat.
Dixon was barely in it but still annoyed me in the ridiculous Arab disguise of WTF. Dixon must die. Soon.
Much better use of the ensemble this week and some good angst that didn't overwhelm the twisty turning plot goodness.
I think they may need to remove Dean's eye. Marshall - the spork.
Some cringe inducing RL affecting show moments, but not as bad as previous episodes.
Needs more Spy Mommy - loved the image of Spy Parents building the crib and I wonder how many microdots etc were in it.
Also more Sark. Stat.
But generally, much better.

Veronica Mars I felt surprisingly blegh about. This episode might have worked much better coming straight after the 'Shred It'. As it was, the Jackie and Wallace episodes feel a shoed in waste of time that killed the pace and dramatic tension to this one. It's another symptom that the cast is too big and the plot threads too many for the plot to have the emotional resonance it needs as the characters react to events on a timely basis. We also seem to be having scenes passported that we need to see - and would have done in S1 - so we feel it only for more plot strands to be thrown into the mix without the time character care we need to care. Right now, I'm not feeling it.
I'm really not feeling the LoVe from V at all and I'm still getting the 'she's writing to Wallace, she's a good person, he's being a jerk to Kendall - like what you're told to like, dammit flashbacks of doom. I don't like that.
CC really isn't having much to do. 25? She looks good, but 25? Suspension of disbelief is sometimes not helped. Also the hotel scenes were ooky. Not quite Concord levels of ook, but not that far off.
A place of 900 people can be a city? Boggles. I've lived in way bigger villages. Also you can chose what's in your city? Way to abuse much.
Dick is a sleazoid.
Poor Beaver.
I really felt sorry for Logan when he asked for help and didn't get the feeling she wanted to help him at all. I don't like that feeling. Been there, done that, am still scarred.
The COTW was so obvious. Who didn't immediately get that it was Meg's own family?
Good layer for Lamb - good to see them bringing that missing key in.
Some good moments with the unspeakable parents and fucked up offspring of Neptune, but I wasn't blown away. I wanted to, but I think a drastic cast culling is needed to focus more on the emotions of the plot. Right now, it seems all plot and no character emotions. I need the emotions if I'm to care. I know they can do it. They did it last year. How about a return to some of that writing style.

Lost >Felt like a whole heap of unearned angst that would have worked better intertwined with the main group's story over the past weeks, or at least a two parter. That way they would have got a better balanced tragedy with Shannon's death and what happened to the other lot. But either way they need to tone down the bully in A-L. Right now, she's well out of order. Also stick guy's man boobs are also a bit much. Hopefully they can find him a shirt as right now I'm distracted by fears of sagging. The last few minute of recap were also seriously pointless - especially when they ended on a death and we need to get back to it's consequences. Again, pacing.

I can't wait for the new Doctor Who Scene tonight during Children in Need, set immediately post POTW. Digs out tape.
I believe it's on around 9, but will be streamed here at 9.30 our time.