unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probablly heard that Doomsday, the unstoppable killing machine responsable for The Death of Superman way back in 1994 has come to Smallville... about 20 years early by my reckoning... and by the look of things, they've finally taken the comic backstory for the character and used it to wipe DC/WB's collective asses...

while i think the special effects and costume were reasonably well done for the character, the entire backstory they have for Doomsday is so wrong it's pathetic...

i know Smallville is basically one big elseworlds, but they do at least try and keep the origins of heros / villains true to the comics... or they did until we got to Doomsday...

who was now created by Faora (Zod's wife... wtf, but thats another complaint) and is basically a mutant who's genetic material is stored inside the Paremedic git (can't remember his name) until he blacks out and Doomsday takes over...

anyone else spotting the similarities between this season of Smallville and Season 5 of Buffy?

in Smallville we have Doomsday, unstoppable killing machine who can only come out when a medic blacks out and 'releases' him... the end of the series will result in a massive fight on which Clark has to sacrifice everything for the people he loves...

In Buffy we had Glory, unstoppable killing machine who can only come out when a medic blacks out and 'releases' her... the end of the series will result in a massive fight on which Buffy had to sacrifice everything for the people she loved...

yeah... right...

anyway...

Also, wtf is up with Doomsday being able to speak? he could never speak in the comics unless he was being controlled by someone...

and Doomsday in love? Doomsday can't feel love... he's a mindless, souless killing machine who's only objective is to kill, maim and destroy all life in the entire universe...

and again, wtf is up with Chloe? and why is 'doomsday' in love with Chloe? and why is 'doomsday' working with Brainiac...

so many questions and with such bad writing i seriously doubt we'll get good answers any time soon... hold on, i'll have a go at writing the outline for the next episode...

a group of people from the future, calling themself the Legion, come back through time to tell Clark not to go up against Doomsday yet because he's not ready... Clark tells them to get stuffed and goes after Chole anyway... in the midst of the battle, while Clark is getting his ass handed to him, The Legion intervene and turn the tide of the battle against Doomsday... during the battle, one of the Legion is seriously injured... Doomsday gets away and Clark has to face up to the reality that his choices killed someone...

yada, yada, yada... we all know whats coming... seriously people, get a clue and stop writing the usual teen angst with romance twists around supervillains that shouldn't meet Superman for another 10 / 20 years... if i wanted to see that i'd mix Dawsons Creek and Heroes DVD's up and watch that.