>>35817
>This reeks of Smallville, like when they made Lana into a chink and pete ross into a nigger just because of the actors they casted
Whatshername that played Lana might have been part asian, but the character wasn't. Her family was all white, and it's not like the actress looked particularly chinky. She's also the worst character and ruins the show, but they never once make any reference to her having any asian ancestry or culture, despite extensive focus on her extended family, including flashbacks to her parents, her aunt being a regular character in the first three seasons, a multi-episode arc about finding out her mom cucked her dad, then getting to know her real dad, and an entire season arc about her medieval french witch ancestor.
But yes, they did make Pete black, then wrote him out after season 3 in favor of an OC white girl being Clark's only best friend. God, the female characters on that show were written so badly. Except Ma Kent. She was actually a pretty good character. But all that said, I rewatched it a while back and was surprised to find almost no SJW shit. Pete being black is never a plot point, they never try to play racism or whatever. Lana and Chloe get away with bullshit, and obviously because the writers are biased toward women, but it's nothing compared to modern shit. It's just regular writers' pet stuff. Specifically, the showrunners were clearly in love with the actress that played Lana, which is very evident in commentaries and interviews, and that really fucked up the show. But it wasn't SJW, it was just they loved that bitch (and to a lesser extent, the crazy sex-cult general that played Chloe).
But the rest of the characters were all very well written and performed. Smallville had problems with too much teen drama, especially in its middle seasons, but it's nothing like modern shit. It's not SJW, and comparing to even the earlier seasons of Arrow and The Flash really makes it striking how fucked up things got in the years after Smallville ended. By the way, it ended in 2011, the same year SJWs ruined cuckchannel. Coincidence? I think not. The SJWism was getting very, very big right around that time. And it just got worse since then.
>and everything was the fault of Krypton tec and shit instead of original villain motivations.
I'm not recalling that happening much in Smallville. Lex's backstory is changed and expanded, what with his father actually being a main character, but frankly, its way better than any comics version. Smallville Lex is by far the best Lex. And I think in Season 7 they retcon some stuff so that his dad was involved in investigating aliens the whole time, but that's not really enough to say Lex's motivation was changed to anything with Krypton tech shit. It's still that he's a greedy rich smart guy, with some resentment against young Superman from when they were kids (which is from Earth-One continuity, then brought back by Geoff Johns in the late 2000s), and also he has bigger daddy issues than he did in the comics.
But you're probably not talking about Lex when talking about villains being fucked up. But which other villains did they use?
>Morgan Edge
They never mention Intergang's connection to Darkseid, or Edge owning the Daily Planet. He's just a powerful mobster that was friends with Lionel back in the day. Meh. That's fine. Didn't make it Krypton tech or whatever.
>Mxyzptlk
I think he was the first other comics villain they used, and yeah, they fucked him up beyond belief, but not by tying him to Krypton, just by trying to make him less of a crazy cartoon god and instead just saying he has luck powers or something. Why they'd pick him to be the first Superman villain they'd use after Lex is beyond me. But they didn't say it was Krypton tec.
>Brainiac
They did say he was from Krypton instead of Colu, but they just got this from the DC Animated Universe, and to be fair, I think it works well in both. Simplifies things and ties it to the origin without changing the character too drastically. Keep in mind this is also the era when, in the comics, Brainiac wasn't even a robot, but a psychic from Earth possessed by the ghost of an alien (who was the same alien that pre-Crisis robot Brainiac had the memories of, but still, weird).
>Zod
Well he is from Krypton, so that's kind of the whole point. Now, they made it fucking weird by saying he died and then Zod's ghost is the villain, and then later there's a clone of Zod from before he became evil, so Clark tries to be his friend but he becomes evil anyway (like Lex), and then after that Ghost Zod possesses Clone Zod so now they're one guy with all the memories of both and the body of the one we watched for a whole season arc. But hey, by the end there, that's a pretty good solution. Now he's got all of Zod's regular story, but also he remembers a time he basically lost his memories and became friends with Superman but slowly became evil again.
>Bizarro
Alright, they did fuck this up too. Some sort of kryptonian ghost possesses Clark then splits into two so now he has an imperfect copy of a kryptonian body. So different from Bizarro that it basically isn't even the same character, since it's not like there aren't plenty of other evil copies of Superman, too. But I will point out that during this era in the comics, Bizarro wasn't made by Lex, but by Mxyzptlk. But yeah, at least that version was still retarded, and not some sort of evil ghost.
>Doomsday
Now look, I know it looks bad because he's a guy who transforms into Doomsday like a werewolf, but in terms of his backstory and motivation, it's not bad. Instead of being an ancient Kryptonian experiment that hates Krypton and everything from it, he's Zod's genetically engineered son designed to be a conquering weapon. They later adopted most of this into Doomsday's New 52 origin, and you know what? I'm gonna say it's better. It's not that different in any way that really matters, but it ties into plot points about Zod's wife and son (both stories already mentioned in both the show and the comics), instead of the otherwise non-important origin of some scientist who was around on ancient krypton before kryptonians were. Also, even the stupid romance teen drama shit with his human alter ego ends up being a little clever when they reveal that
Davis wasn't attracted to Chloe, Doomsday was attracted to (not sexually, but because he was meant to work together with) Brainiac, who had possessed Chloe in the previous season and left her with some remnants of himself that were referenced regularly (as increased intelligence).