Bored bored bored bored bored

It's really amazing how this season of Smallville is capable of a having subplot that involves a guy moving from Paris to Smallville to be with his underage girlfriend and getting a job at her high school -- which must be some sort of stalker distance record -- and said girlfriend's body being mysteriously scarred by some alien power, and making said subplot unspeakably, impossibly boring. Sometimes I get the feeling no one on the Smallville production staff has ever sat down and thought about just how creepy every single relationship they've put Lana in is...at this rate, they won't need to write a tearful, wistful parting of Lana and Clark in the final days of the series, because she'll be dead in a gutter somewhere. I mean, DAMN.