TR’s Smallville: Absolut(e) Justice Live-Blog
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?As promised, I will be live-blogging tonight two-hour Smallville special. Now, frankly, despite me finding Smallville too silly to watch many years ago, I have no animosity for the show, having heard both good things about it and bad things. I also have no animosity for Geoff Johns, who wrote these episodes and a previous one, which I’m told by even the haters was a series highlight. Admittedly, I also personally think the JSA is kind of goofy, but I regularly read a manga about a pirate made of rubber, so I’m willing to admit I’m not necessarily the ultimate arbiter of nerd taste. Point is this should be very different from a Heroes live-blog in that I’m not looking for ways to end my life the whole time.
That said, 1) it’s Friday night, 2) I have to work, 3) I’m being snowed in as I type, and 4) I’m about to watch two hours of Smallville starring the JSA. I’m not going to be even close to sober for this thing. I’ll be posting the live-blog in this article, so you can bookmark it if you want; after the show is over, I’ll be moving it below the TR Contest, in case anyone wants to re-live the experience. I’ll bring the corn, and you guys bring your favorite cucumbers, and we meet back here at 7:55. Break!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.