Smallville 04/13/2005: "Onyx"

[John Crichton]

Yeah, it did give one a sort of foreshadowing, didn't it. I also get a kick out of the occasional reference in there - "You possess powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men."

I gotta wonder how Rosenbaum can say lines like that with a straight face.

Maybe because he knows that he can pull it off?

Good question, tho. It's a tough line to make sound serious and not absurd.

 

[Henry]

Given where it originated, I love it when Gough and Milar come up with stuff like that, but maybe the reason it's straight-delivered is that only old-time goofballs like me remember it.

 

[Steverooo]

"You look good in blue!" - Chloe

"No one in my family has ever flown, before." - Clark
"Well, Clark, I think that's about to change!" - Lex

 

[Insight]

I had a really hard time getting past all of the problems presented by the 'splitting' of Lex into Good Lex and Bad Lex. Like why, for example, were his clothes duplicated? Are Lex's clothes part of his essential nature? Also, how come Bad Lex could read the thoughts and memories of Good Lex but not the other way around?

And don't even get me started on the problems with merging them back together. Where the heck did the ring go?

 

[Datt]

To answer Insight's question: When Clark super heated the green K into black K the ring shattered.

Of course I am not totally convienced that the good Lex came out on top after the merge. What better way to gain the upper hand then to have everything think he was the good Lex and didn't remember a thing.

 

[spacemonkey]

To answer Insight's question: When Clark super heated the green K into black K the ring shattered.

Of course I am not totally convienced that the good Lex came out on top after the merge. What better way to gain the upper hand then to have everything think he was the good Lex and didn't remember a thing.

Yeah, he did have that sly look on his face... but then Lex usually has those expressions (on and off anyway..) I too got the feeling that maybe Lex remembered something that he isn't letting on.


Insight: I don't think Bad Lex could read Good Lex's thoughts, he was just hidden in the lab when the Lex/Clark conversation took place (that's how he was able to answer Clark's questions - though maybe you were referencing something else?) Both Good and Bad Lex had the same memories (up to the split, after which they had individual memories only). That's how I saw it anyway.

I was paying attention to the clothes he wore, as they were mostly doing a 'good lex wears white, bad lex black' thing. When they were recombined into regular Lex, he was wearing the good guy clothes.. interesting.

 

[Felon]

Smart Aleck. Yes.

Look, I didn't say nothin' when Chloe "died" in the season finale last year and everyone was like "I can't believe they killed off Chloe!"

Yeah, she's as good as gone.

Well, I used to think they'd have to do that to get the show to fit into the canon. But now it doesn't seem like actually care if its at all canonical. On top of Clark not having a bespectacled secret identity to hide from Lex, he currently doesn't have one to conceal from Lois or Perry White either. What's he going to do, hypnotize them all to make them think he was wearing a disguise all thsoe years? Or maybe he'll just wear glasses while in his Superman costume? Part his hair differently?

And will he still be in Smallville when he's 38?

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, the main reason the glasses/hair/posture thing worked as a disguise in comics (apart from pre-Crisis super-hypnotism) was the fact that Smallville was an isolated backwater community, and the people who knew Clark back when he didn't wear glasses weren't close enough to him as Superman to notice the similarities. Plus he disappeared when graduating and no one heard from him for almost 10 years (leaves Smallville at 17, debuts as Superman at 28), allowing him to return, don the glasses and convince everyone that "boy, Clark didn't age all that well, eh?".

 

[Belen]

Chloe's relevance is building, with the little pow-wow she and Clark had over the goodness of sharing your secrets with those closest to you, and it makes me think she'll either die or be written off soon, because they're dropping hints like free matchbooks.

"You're always around when I need you, Clark - I hope I can return the favor someday."
"You share your secrets with those you love, because otherwise you're all alone."

Yeah, she's as good as gone.

Nope. Apparently, Chloe will be off to Metropolis next year for college while Clark will attend Central Kansas U and commute from home. Clark and Lana will stay in Smallville.

I do not think that Chloe will die this season, although I caught a hint that someone major would be knocked off. This episode really makes me think that Lionel will be dead by the end of the season. His return to evil is a direct threat to Lex. And Lex already threatened Lionel with death, so he has a reason to go after Lex. In order for Lex to truly turn to the darkside, then he needs to committ patricide, like his father before him.

Also, the main point of this episode had deeper connotation. A Lionel would could embrace good gave Lex intrinsic hope in his fight to walk a different path. Lionel's comment at the end of the show "We're Luthers" and "cannot fight your true nature" are deep-seated fears in Lex. It was all in the look at the end of the episode. Lex did not deny it, he did not protect it, he took his father's statement as fact. This episode was pivotal. Lex has seen the darkness in himself and can no longer deny it. And his father showed that he cannot fight it either.

Finally, the episode further separated Lex from the one's who could redeem him. Lana did not just see how Lex felt about her, she also saw the madness inside of him. She fears Lex now. Lex has been doing underhanded things to her all season in his attempt to "protect" her. She fears him and now she will become the final rift between Clark and Lex.

Eventually, she will tell Clark the truth about what Lex did to her. That will be the final straw for their friendship. Once that friendship is gone, Lex will move beyond redemption.

I loved this episode.

 

[John Crichton]

Nope. Apparently, Chloe will be off to Metropolis next year for college while Clark will attend Central Kansas U and commute from home. Clark and Lana will stay in Smallville.

Dude, if that is just speculation on your part, that's cool. But if it's something that you read in the news or on a spoiler site please keep that stuff in spoiler text or give a warning. Sorry for the nitpick, but I really don't like to know anything beyond the previews/commericals for the next episode.