Gay Tube: Smallville Season 8 on DVD, Lost's 100th Episode

It's always sad to see the end of the line for a long running TV show.

When shows like Smallville, CSI, and Law & Order appear in our living rooms, year after year, there's solid comfort in the familiarity of the story and the complexities of the characters who seem to grow with us in every season. Over time they develop a history and we begin to talk about these characters as if they were real.

If our own lives are falling apart around us we can take comfort in the knowledge that our favorite cast of characters will never let us down or beat up on us. Television writers are careful not to BS the fan base with lame Dallas-like dream plots or heroes getting over death and destruction as quickly as the commercial break ends. Seeing a character leave a show feels as bad as having to say goodbye to a much loved work colleague or secret love who dares not speak his name.

When the end is near and characters are left dangling without ever getting the boy or receiving a resolution, we are left with an empty void that begs comparisons to the end of relationships. Only a new lover or fresh new TV show can fill the void. And so it is with Smallville, now in its eighth season and arguably its last. It is time to cut the cord and let this one go.