dude, i am so there with you on this one. teeny bopper demographics be damned, they need to keep a lid on the tiger-beat lana lang weepy eyed shit and remember to kick some ass once in a while to keep the hardcore comic book crowd around. if the writing keeps heading down the toilet this fast, i'm not going to stick around for five seasons. this current plot arc is agonizingly lame and they are relying on the same devices way too heavily.
i thought i was alone on this, but if you haven't checked out Omar G's brilliant smallville commentary on television without pity, you are missing a marvelous bit of hilarity.
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show.cgi?show=81