One way to describe smallville is a mix of dawson's creek and x files, a lot of the time there is too much dawson's creek. The x files thing gets old... fast.
What is good IMO are the action scenes; superman doing superman stuff; uncovering a version of the superman mythos; appearances of DC characters and hot babes.
Even though spike is credited as playing brainiac and he's doing all that T1000 stuff, he did arrive in the same ship as the disciples of zod and the ship had the same "Z" kryptionian insignia taht was tattooed on the female disciple's back.
It might be an amalgamated character. Btw who thought Carrie Fisher looked like the Joker last week?