Least Favorite Character: James Olsen
Oof. We’re assuming that 21% of the people who voted in this category picked James Olsen as a “protest vote” to keep shipping-type melodrama away, as the Kara/James/Lucy triangle was a bit heavy-handed. Either way, he was picked as Least Favorite this year.
Coming in second in this category was Sam Lane, because he surely came off as annoying and even racist at times, and those are never good looks. He had 12%.
Siobhan Smythe was picked as third least favorite with 10%. We’re assuming that’s because Italia Ricci did such an amazing job at making her a character we weren’t supposed to like, and we’re all on Team Kara over here.
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Craig Byrne
Craig Byrne has been writing about Superman TV since 1995, when the "Lois & Clark Krypton Club" launched. He founded KryptonSite.com in February 2001, becoming the first fan site for The WB/CW television series Smallville. He also wrote the Official Companion books for Smallville seasons 4-7 as well as the Smallville Visual Guide.
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Halberdier17
September 26, 2016
For the “Worst Episode” I think I voted for the 2nd episode because looking back the Pilot got me into the series but it got better around the 4th or 5th episode so I couldn’t pick anything after those episodes so I only had two episodes to choose from episode 2 or 3.
For best guest star I voted for Italia Ricci because I liked here character as a villain.