There's always vomit, Katie.

• *Holy cow, Mickie. JHC actually posted to the board. ::boggles::

have you ever checked the Dom when one of the cast members posts? It happens every so often and there usually are some 200+ posts in that thread.

grinner, I stay as far away from the Dom as I can. Everyone's better off.

t still peeved about the arsehole at the Dom who spoiled everyone for the S3 finale

t still peeved

nope, that tag won't close.

you don't have to tell me about that. There was an idiot who spoiled the season 4 ending over there as well.

I avoid the Dom like the plague. I rarely post there... I mainly post over at FMD.

Apparently, John Shea met MR at a convention in London and they came up with a bunch of different scenarios as to how he could guest on Smallville. . . if only it could happen.

(May be some slightly spoilery things for Mutant X in the article. . . if it's possible to spoil Mutant X.

Last night was my first time seeing the Rosetta episode. Hearing Lana say "story of my life" in response to Lex saying something about them being abandoned made me want to kill her slowly with a million toothpick pricks. I'd love to ignore the character, but she infuriates me too much.

I was going to say that if you wanted to convince someone that Smallville was worth their time, last night's 2 episodes would be the ones to use. There is, of course, the caveat that you must ignore all of Lana's scenes, which applies to almost any episode of Smallville. (Personally, I used her scenes to switch over to ESPN and see Clemens strike out Barry Bonds).

And if anybody can't see the HoYay after "Asylum", they are totally blind.

Heh, oops I meant toothpicks. Not pricks. But, whatever it takes.

It was Shattered and Asylum that finally managed to get me hooked on this show. Before that, I would try and watch, but it always seemed like I tuned in during one of those interminable Lana/Clark talks about how they couldn't be together or something.

Asylum is painful to watch. It's painful to watch Clark try and save someone he loves and fail, it's painful to watch Lex be tortured by Lionel and told that it's for his own good, it's horribly painful to watch Lex try and make a run for it in the teaser, it's painful to watch the final scene between Clark and Lex. It's all just painful. In a good way. I love the fact that they had Clark being drained of his powers result in Lex being saved from the electroshock therapy and then Clark getting his powers back immediately lead into Lex getting the electroshocks. I have to say though, it really bugs me that the final shot of the episode is not on Clark walking away from his friends. That kind of thing makes me feel like they don't understand what it is that is powerful about the show.

Rosetta was enjoyable because it had internal conflict for Clark about things that actually matter as opposed to his usual romantic angst. Plus, I always enjoy seeing Clark go against his parents wishes for a little bit. Plus, great guest star.

I wrod to OtherKate's Asylum paragraph.

I sometimes wonder if (some of) the writers get it, wrt what makes the show good when it's good, or if they're shooting blind and managing to hit things every once in a while.