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Last Night's Television
Well it appears that the Milton Fine/Brainiac (James Marsters) story arc is finished on "Smallville" which means I probably won't watch it any more. Last night they introduced Jimmy Olsen as working at The Daily Planet, seemingly the same age as Clark Kent. Now back in the day when I was reading the comic books Jimmy Olsen was the young cub reporter and Clark Kent was the older, experienced chief reporter. Jimmy Olsen should be a freckle-faced kid running around with Lana's kid sister Lucy. Comic book canon is so easily ignored even by the people who create it which is one of the reasons I gave up reading comic books years ago.
I know that a lot of people out there love "Supernatural" and I must admit that the leads are incredibly handsome but the show is a throwback to the early days of television when women were either victims or villainesses. Few, if any, of John's colleagues that the boys have encountered are female. The show, for all the eye-candy, leaves me feeling excluded as if demon-hunting was exclusively a male perogative and best left to the menfolk. I had enough of that sort of mindset on TV shows when I was a kid so I'll continue to be only an occasional viewer of the show.
I know that a lot of people out there love "Supernatural" and I must admit that the leads are incredibly handsome but the show is a throwback to the early days of television when women were either victims or villainesses. Few, if any, of John's colleagues that the boys have encountered are female. The show, for all the eye-candy, leaves me feeling excluded as if demon-hunting was exclusively a male perogative and best left to the menfolk. I had enough of that sort of mindset on TV shows when I was a kid so I'll continue to be only an occasional viewer of the show.
