I'm kinda stupidly excited for tonight's Smallville series finale. It's going to be terrible. They're going to stuff as many bit parts/cameos as possible (I would lol like hell if Michael Shanks comes back as Hawkman again, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN SMALLVILLE!). Nothing with Darkseid will make sense, much less canon sense. And I hope evil!Lex fucks Clark up good (...not like that...).

Not to mention, Comics Alliance is going to be liveblogging the episode!

ETA WHY HAS NOTHING HAPPENED A QUARTER OF THE WAY THROUGH? I can't take much more of this Lois and Clark angst. Lois, you're Lois fucking Lane. You deserve better than imposter!Clark!

ETA 2 I know you're superhuman and all, Clark, but seeing and conversing with your dead father can't be healthy.

ETA 3 This would have actually been kinda compelling if they had compressed the first hour's events into about 20 minutes instead. I still don't understand their need to reinterpret the Superman mythos in cosmic terms (i.e., prophecies, light and darkness, balance).

ETA 4 I TAKE IT BACK! I TAKE IT BACK! No amount of editing could change the sheer fail of this script!

ETA 5 It's over! BRB LOLING 4EVER!

“One of the biggest things I deplore about our culture, Asian culture, is this need to be perfect. It comes from a place of arrogance to think we’re perfect because that means we believe we’re better than everybody else. We will always be looked at through a filter of one dimensional positivity and never as multi-dimensional humans. It’s because of this insidious need to be perceived as perfect that, as a culture, we rarely ever directly address topics of taboo and dysfunction. We deal in avoidance, suppress emotions, turn away from confrontation, only to let it fester like a cancer so it eventually expresses itself in ugly ways...The reason why I’m producing this K-TOWN show is because I want to celebrate being Asian and all the wonderful baggage that comes with it! Yes, we Asians are smart, play the piano, work hard, but at the same time we’re sexy, stylish, have swagger, and we can party and fuck up just like everybody else."
- Mike Le

The article is deeply personal and surprisingly honest. I feel it comes from a place that a lot of Asian Americans share about their heritage and background- our ambiguity and reluctance about how and where we fit.

( Maybe I watch too much TV... )

ETA Just looked up the upcoming fall anime lineup, which seems mostly filled with otaku bait. Uh, thanks Japan, but no thanks. I'll give Iron Man a try though, because (1) it's animated by Madhouse and (2) Warren Ellis worked on it so it's gotta at least be entertaining, right?