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by Rick Norwood
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Smallville has had some extremely powerful episodes in its seventh season. By all reports,
Lex Luthor will only occasionally appear in the eighth and last season. The absence of Lex will be a loss, but he
has completed his character arc, from good to absolute evil, and it will be time for the show to focus on Clark Kent
and his transition from super boy to Superman. I just hope that in the last episode he dons his costume and they play
the theme music as he flies off into the sky.
SF on TV in April (all dates subject to change!)
And then just three more Smallville episodes left in Season Seven.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
The big event in April is the return of Battlestar Galactica for one final season. The creators of the show hope
for a 20 episode season, but the SciFi Channel has only ordered 10 episodes, so expect another long hiatus starting in
June. The previous season of Battlestar Galactica, despite critical acclaim, only attracted 1.8 million
viewers. Most TV viewers don't even get the SciFi Channel, and if they get it, they don't know that they get it. By
contrast, a network show like Jericho is cancelled (again) because it only has 7.1 million
viewers. TANJ! There will be a Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, but recall
how many problems the Star Trek prequel had.
Friday, April 4
 
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