Gleebo, it's not like Clark can't just go back whenever he feels like it. It'll be like Gilmore Girls. But I do think that at least one of the non-adults needs to stay in Smallville for it to work. Are they Juniors or Seniors this year?

Big word on the "we don't need no stinking logic" of Alias. There are some shows (unfortunately, Angel fell into this category a lot last year), where it's best to think of events on them only in the context of what happened just before, and not try to bring in larger continuity.

Buffy was continuity porn. Angel's soft core. Alias is a friggin children's book.

(Angel made perfect sense to me last year, but I am willing to admit that a large portion of that is probably that I'm nuttier than a bag of pecans no matter how you say it.)

I think Angel's been busted down to See Spike Run this year. Note to ME writers: Mindwipe did not affect longtime viewers as it did characters on the show.

(psst... Matt--not a NAFDA thread.)

Ack! Sorry, forgot it reverted to non-NAFDA.

IMO, you can make it make sense, without that much trouble, but there are leaps that you have to make that aren't pointed or nodded to in the text. This is where I normally start my "give us a line, one line, that's all I want" speech. Anyway, this year looks like it's getting back on track, from my perspective.

Umm...Buffy....yeah....there were things from Buffy that I wish they'd mentioned when relevant things were happe...yeah, not gonna work.

BTW, does anyone no where I might find screencaps from last night's Alias? (I'm talking about that Sark-Simon scene.)

IMO, you can make it make sense, without that much trouble, but there are leaps that you have to make that aren't pointed or nodded to in the text.

That's the thing: I didn't have to make it make sense. It already *made* sense to me.

From Season 5 BtVS on, I had to make it make sense to make sense of it, and I had to make a lot of S3 AtS make sense to make sense of it, but the majority of S4? It hit my pattern recognition circuits hard.

Really? That's so weird. Not that you're weird, Plei, except in the good way. Just that people's (and I feel safe saying smart people's, given other discussions of this I've seen on this board) sense-making buttons are so different. I shall have to go back into the archives. Sometime when I don't have shitloads of work to do.

I hear you on a lot of late Buffy, though. I was more thinking 2/3.

Buffy was continuity porn. Angel's soft core. Alias is a friggin children's book.

If this keeps going down the line Smallville would be a Raffi sing along tape, and Mutant X would be a mobile hanging over a baby's crib.