Smallville

Back to Smallville - on s3 at the moment. I find it hard to concentrate on it, only manage a couple of episodes in one go. It's frustrating really, for the first two seasons seemed that the story never really moves forward, some improvement here already, but still - it's too open-ended for my liking. Too many characters to follow, Clark and Lana, Pete, Chloe, not to mention Lex and his dad and all the other people, hard to keep track cause there's just never enough explained about their involvement.


But I admit, it is very entertaining, I do find myself strangely drawn to it. I can't help but to compare this to Roswell (of course..), which has a fixed story arc, a complete storyline to follow start to end and a very strong team of characters. Each character has been written as complete, we don't see one-episode-only villains, come to think of it, we see no one-episode charaters at all in Roswell. Smallville is full of this, every single episode sees a new character to follow, then they go away and you forget about them.
And why it is that I can quote lines verbatim from Roswell, but none from Smallville?
Well, we will see - I have 5 seasons to see yet, and who knows, maybe they make more?
But I can't watch it all back to back, so I have to find something else to watch in between...