The English Chick speaks

[mamajoan]

Am I the only one who noticed a MAJOR grammar goof in the "Smallville" season finale?

When Clark comes home and finds his parents reading the newspaper article about the plant shutting down, there's a close shot on the front page of the paper, and the sub-headline clearly reads, MANAGEMENT INCOMPETENCE SITED.

Augh!!!!!!!

That should be "CITED," in case you're not seeing the problem. I really can't believe they let that slip by. The grammar cop in me is twitching and frothing at the mouth.

Comments

[jrosehale.livejournal.com]

Omigod--that's funny. I would have noticed if I weren't dreamily mooning over Lex.

C'mon--other than the disgusting grammatical error, how great was that finale?! It was great, wasn't it?!

Yes, I'm still happy.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I would have noticed if I weren't dreamily mooning over Lex.

And he wasn't even in that scene! ;)

C'mon--other than the disgusting grammatical error, how great was that finale?! It was great, wasn't it?!

It had far too much Lana, but otherwise, yeah, it was pretty great. The slashy scenes were WAY slashy. :)

[jrosehale.livejournal.com]

Omigod--when Lex was all freaky about the "friendships built on lies" thing in the Fortress of Barnitude?! I thought I *was* reading fanfic.

I don't dislike Lana the way a lot of people do. But I have to admit to fast-forwarding through most of her scenes with Whitney, which are--if possible--even more boring than the Gunn-Fred stuff on Angel.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I thought I *was* reading fanfic.

LOL! I had that thought too.

I don't actively hate Lana; I just find her boring and lame. Actually, the same goes for Gunn and Fred. I like them individually, and even as a couple they were cute at first, but they moved into Snoozeville pretty damn fast.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Either that, or it's a really bad pun.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I thought of that, but I don't really give the Smallville writers that much credit. ;) Anyway, it would be a stupid pun, because WTF does it mean?

[jrosehale.livejournal.com]

Maybe that the paper is so low-quality that they can't even proofread their own headlines? Maybe it was making a point about the paper?

I'm with you on not giving the writers that much credit for subtlety, but I can't believe no one would notice that.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious... obviously, the paper's management is a bit incompetent, too.

They *did* say it was a rush special edition. The Ledger usually comes out once a week, and I think that issue came out... probably about eighteen hours after the initial scene with Lionel being a bastard.