Why is smallville still on

Browsing illegal download sites as usual to find movies, games, tv shows to watch while bored and i came across a new episode of smallville, a show that I've been watching since it first aired in the early 2000s. Bitch has been on since the days of the star wars prequels, so it kind of always reminds me of when I was religiously devoted to all things star wars. It's the same basic story line, a prequel to superman's story, same way star wars episodes 1,2,3 told the origin of vader etc. So it's just ironic that the superman prequels continue after the star wars ones end, even though we've had a superman movie requel thingy already. It's just odd as hell that we're still focused on the past with supes. The show is dead to me anyway. Ended right around 5th season, I'll give it that. I reckon it really jumped in the 4th, but I suspect some of the 5th still has some quality episodes on par with the best of the third. The show has no purpose anymore... Though the actors still play the same characters, their not as interesting to watch in the new storylines, some bullshit lois and clark level stuff nowadays. Smallville used to be a deep drama interweaving the story of clark with lex, and their very different fathers. This was fucking genius. Now what the hell is it about. I try to watch the new episodes but they're painfully pointless, heros jump around in costumes now, while superboy wears regular clothes? To hell with all the cock teasing and dawn the suit. THEN the show will be interesting. It's every bit a superman show without superman actually being in it. Tom welling for instance looks frankly retarded still pouting and putting on boyish expressions at his age when he should be playing clark as a grown man. I don't know, maybe in hindsight I'll wish tv were as good as the stuff we're getting now with smallville even as mediocre as it is, lord knows I wish tv today were half as good as some of the merely decent stuff from the 90s. Nothing's going to top some of my favs from back then, namely simpsons in its prime, seinfeld, batman tas, what else... pete and pete fuck load of shit I can't remember. Little did I think at the time that we'd need a 90s retro historical record site, but kids today need to be taught that we came from better, tougher, more creative times. You couldn't just fill a show with special fx and call it quality entertainment, no, no nonononoononononon, if that sumbitch didn't do something intelligent or interesting beyond the surface, didn't get put on air, for the most part.