It's not so much cringy as just not extremely interested by them, I suppose. Er...well, that came out wrong. I like them well enough - every so often they'll do something that will grab my attention, like tell Clark he should leave Lex to be a vegetable to make his secret safe. Then they interest me. But the whole family unit as a whole just didn't grab my attention - keep in mind I have the attention span of a hyperactive toddler - because they are normal. Or as normal as it is possible to be when you have a 15 year old from Outer Space. I like them in fic and in theory, but they haven't really grabbed me on-screen yet. Which is probably very sad, and says that deep down in order for characters to grab my attention they have to be homicidal, self-centered or completely insane - or hey, all three! This explains Mulder and Spike.

Then again, I haven't gotten to watching the first half of S3 yet - so keep in mind there is a large portion of canon here I am totally missing. You could tell me Bo Duke gives up farming and drives around on his Harley dressed like James Dean from episodes 3x01 to 3x07 and I would probably believe you. So I suppose I should really get on that - I suspect the Kents will be more interesting after that.

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