What works in one medium doesn't necessarily work in another. That's why the best superhero adaptations are the ones who subvert the rules of the comic (like Iron Man and DK).
Besides, what kind of excuse is that? It's based on a superhero comic so it's allowed to be utterly idiotic? When have I said that all superhero comics are good? In fact, I think most of them are mediocre, and I've said so many times (I love that word, apparently). I prefer superhero comics that have a twist to make them intereting, or over the top self-aware stuff that's allowed to be silly because it doesn't take itself more seriously than it should (the exact opposite of what I've seen in Smallville: the fact that those characters never stop to think how repetitive and unlikely the situations they're in are completely disqualifies them as rational thinking people. Unless those meteor rocks also made them retarded.).
As I've said before it's the soap opera aspect what annoys me the most. I've seen how those things are done: the people who make those shows don't give a shit about what they're doing. They're only concerned with stretching the concept as much as they can, beyond the point where things stop making sense (hence, you know, countinuing the show after the characters are older than the logical age the initial concept allowed, and after most of the cast and even the creators have wisened up and left).
I don't know for sure 'cause I haven't watched the new season, but I think Doomsie Davis Jr. is an example of that. The idea of Lex going from nice guy to evil bastard is obviously very appealing and one of the main draws of the show (even if him being childhood friends with Clark is one of the silliest ideas to come out of the Silver Age, one that never should have found its way outside brightly colored comics). So the actor is gone? Fine, let's just replace him with another nice guy who'll do the same thing. Maybe he's not Clark's friend and he probably isn't as psychologically complex as Lex, but he's still got the same Anakin thing going, just in time to replace Lex's arc.
