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Orson Scott Card rules as always. I love his latest article on Alias. I especially love :
As we were watching the first few episodes of Alias, though, I began to notice a creepy similarity to Smallville. For instance, the main character has a dangerous secret that only a few people are aware of -- and bad things happen to the people who know it.
There's a distant father with whom the hero has a complicated relationship. There's a black friend who isn't in any of the cool adventures but provides her with doses of "normal" life.
The main character also has a reporter friend of the opposite sex who is in love with her, but can't stop digging into her secrets, exposing him -- and her -- to great danger that he is completely oblivious to. He has a name, but I just call him "Chloe."
Clearly it's time for the fall season to begin, so I can get fresh doses of Smallville and stop seeing all other TV shows as being good only to the degree that I can find similarities to Smallville within them.
You absolutely do not want to know the Smallville elements I have detected in the Jimmy Kimmel show.
As we were watching the first few episodes of Alias, though, I began to notice a creepy similarity to Smallville. For instance, the main character has a dangerous secret that only a few people are aware of -- and bad things happen to the people who know it.
There's a distant father with whom the hero has a complicated relationship. There's a black friend who isn't in any of the cool adventures but provides her with doses of "normal" life.
The main character also has a reporter friend of the opposite sex who is in love with her, but can't stop digging into her secrets, exposing him -- and her -- to great danger that he is completely oblivious to. He has a name, but I just call him "Chloe."
Clearly it's time for the fall season to begin, so I can get fresh doses of Smallville and stop seeing all other TV shows as being good only to the degree that I can find similarities to Smallville within them.
You absolutely do not want to know the Smallville elements I have detected in the Jimmy Kimmel show.
