there've just been so many superfluous episodes in season three that i can't see it being my favorite season.

t ponders, looks at S3 episode list

I don't think they are as superfluous as you think. Even the throwaway ones like Sons and Lovers have some important character stuff going on. Different Destinations is incredibly powerful, and ratches up the fucked-up-ness of Crichton. Scratch-N-Sniff? Well, it's funny as hell. Incubator gives us Scorpius' backstory. Revenging Angel... well, nah. Not a lot of arc there. But most of the Moya episodes do show us M!John spinning slowly into obsession without Aeryn there to ground him.

I will grant that Meltdown is a total throwaway, of value only for the porn. But it's the honeymoon aspect which makes the Infinite Possibilities two-parter all the more painful.

but the Scorpius scene finally breaks through "that's so fabulously over-the-top!" to "eye-roll." It was all just a little too artfully disastrous, y'know?

I loved it. My tolerance for artful disaster is quite high, it seems.
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Adored Crais's arc.

Still can't say which season was my favorite between 2 and 3, though.

Watching Smallville right now, I have questions:

When did Charmed's writers take over this show? Have they no shame? Is "wet and naked" a mandatory aspect of every show now? Is there any reason, any at all, to watch this anymore, beyond the HoYay?

So sad. On so many levels.

Kristin, for your last question, was there ever?

Dana, I know you're right. But it's just gotten so so much worse. I really knew it the second I saw the Charmed-esque promo this past week with the pukey subtitle.

Gratuitous shower make-out scene aside, it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Of course, based on the preview from last week I thought it was going to be absolutely wretched.

Of course, next week it looks like we have yet another "someone/everyone loses their inhibitions due to random, most-likely kryptonite-related, thing" episode. Le sigh. However, the look on Clark's face in that one scene with Chloe is rather priceless, even if it's pretty much been there/done that in TV land.

When the teaser for tonight's Smallville came on, I was so confused because I had just watched the Season 1 repeat on Family and it was the one with the coach and the fire and suddenly -- it's all about the football team again. Very odd. I cannot believe that Lois is supposed to have been a new college Freshman. I actually think that this episode is better than I expected. . . not that I expected much. Also, I'm sad that they're doing the Teacher-Student relationship on this show too. And that Jason Teague looks so much like Whitney (when glanced at) that even the titles were Season 1 nostalgic.

Tom Welling is older than Jensen Ackles, and last night I was feeling his age more than ever before.

Something about the hair part in the flashback scene made me wonder about his hairline too.

I think that Lois looks contemporaneous with Clark. Of course, Clark looks like he has put off writing his PhD dissertation a little too long, if he looks any sort of school age at all, so that doesn't exactly help with the whole high school thing. Tom and whoever is playing Lois have more chemistry than TW and KK, so since I'm suspending disbelief about Clark's whole high school situation I figure Lois might as well come along on the ride.

What's the time delay on white-fonting?

Just to be safe: In last week's episode, Lois mentions her mother died when she was 6 and then goes on to comment how her dad is finally involved with someone after 15 years. (She think's Chloe's pseudonym is her dad's gf at this point) which makes her 21 which is way too old to be a recently graduated senior/college freshman.

Also, wouldn't she have found out from her highschool that she didn't have enough credits instead of from the college she applied to?