Meanwhile, on the podcast ...

On Hour 42 last night, @ThePeterPixie and I had a lot to talk about, including:

* Marvel's newest Avenger
* The latest Doctor Who casting rumors
* Our shared frustration with the Smallville season finale
* The newest comic convention for you to travel to
* And we announced our special guest for next week: the guy who should be writing Doctor Strange, Toronto's own MightyGodKing!

So we hope you can spend part of your holiday weekend with us this coming Sunday, and if you missed last night's show, you can listen to it on the handy-dandy player below:

Podcast tonight!

(x-posted from the Hour 42 blog!)

Lots to talk about for @ThePeterPixie and myself tonight, including:

-- The newest Avenger and his connection to Trek
-- The new lease on life for Dollhouse
-- The craptastic Smallville finale
-- A travel tip for you comics folks who can't make SDCC
-- And an announcement for next week's show!

All this plus your comments and questions at 646.716.4799 LIVE at 11pm est (8pm pst) tonight on HOUR 42!

Quick Notes on the Smallville finale

After you give up on something, it's natural, after some time has passed, to reconsider your feelings -- was your judgment rushed earlier? Were there qualities you'd forgotten about when you chose to walk away? Would time and distance give you a new perspective if you made the choice to come back?

Thank you, Smallville, for renewing my faith in my own instincts.

After sort-of keeping up to date on the season thanks to SV loyalist @ThePeterPixie, I tuned in for last night's season finale and saw the same things that drove me away. It's not about canon -- that got thrown out the window the minute Lois was brought into the picture. It's the relentless monologuing by everybody about everything they're going to do. This particular episode, it was the tease of a Legion return and possibly a team-up with the Little League, which yielded a pointless cameo by Cosmic Boy, and the rest of the team looking like imbeciles. Really? Hog-tying Doomsdreamy was the big plan? Would a Wet Willie have "crossed the line"? It's little wonder Bruce Wayne hasn't been allowed to associate with this batch of whiners -- it'd be like sticking Denis Leary on a soap opera:

Bruce: Okay, we're gonna send Doomsday to the Phantom Zone. Here's what we --
Chloe: But there's still a real person there!
Bruce: SHUT THE FU*K UP! NEXT!
Bruce: After that's done, we're taking down Lexcorp.
Ollie: Um, I already had an idea about --
Bruce: SHUT THE FU*K UP! NEXT!

Ok, maybe that sounds more like Frank Miller. But you get my point.

And then there was the long-promised throwdown between Super ... guyClark and the Doomsday entity, which lasted all of a good three minutes, sacrificed for the sake of, what, Lois and Tess hurling pronoun modifier smack at each other? Bart Allen's Spicoli impersonation? Look, Clark Kent's morality and immigrant issues can make for a good story. But sometimes, Clark just needs to beat somebody down.



See how satisfying that is for everybody? Anyway, I'll spare you more vitriol. If you check out my twitter feed, you can see how upset I got watching the show. And if you check out the HOUR 42 show blog, wonder of wonders -- Peter didn't like the show either!