Smallville 10-13 SPOILERS

[Orius]

I guess I could see the jump angle. But then how did he get back to Earth? Thats a long way down from orbit...

So? He's the Angsty Teen of Steel. Indestructable and all that.

 

[Crothian]

Good. Then maybe they can get away from the boring teen angst and freaks of the week.

All evidence indicates no

 

[Orius]

This episode really strained the limits of credibility to me anyway. How did that punkass kid even manage to get inside that missile silo to begin with? There would be so much security there that would shoot him on site that he wouldn't have been able to get past the front gate.

I mean the only scene in this episode that I found at all easy to believe was the "busted" scene.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

You know I have been thinking about the nuclear warhead scenario: Lets say that in an alternate reality, the bomb did go off. Which do you think would be more likely: the warhead mixed with the abundance of Kryptonite desroys all life on earth including Clark (think kryptonite laced warhead) or everyone within the balst radius is killed (minus clark) and krytonite laced fallout creates meteor mutants in a tri-state area?

 

[Crothian]

This episode really strained the limits of credibility to me anyway. How did that punkass kid even manage to get inside that missile silo to begin with? There would be so much security there that would shoot him on site that he wouldn't have been able to get past the front gate.

I mean the only scene in this episode that I found at all easy to believe was the "busted" scene.

When in Smallville's 4 seasons has it shown itself to be realistic?? The kid though obviously new of all the security measures and people from his dad the silo had lax guards that were not expecting any trouble and due to budget cuts they were a bit undermanned. And they don't have gates, the silos were mentioned to be in peoples farms. But of all the things in the epside to have problems with, I think the boy with super powers would be the big one.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Crothian said it already, but in the episode with Perry White, we learn that Solar Flares have an impact on Clark. Pete and he theorize that the Sun must be where Clark gets his powers... So they've at least touched on it for those of us that know the mythology.

woops, i forgot that! Thanks.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

This episode really strained the limits of credibility to me anyway. How did that punkass kid even manage to get inside that missile silo to begin with? There would be so much security there that would shoot him on site that he wouldn't have been able to get past the front gate.

I mean the only scene in this episode that I found at all easy to believe was the "busted" scene.

Well, it was inferred that his father was the local caretaker for all the missle silos. Obviously the kid knew just about everything about them. He learned their computer systems/security procedures either directly from his father, or behind his fathers back.

Its credible enough for the boundires of the show.

 

[Belen]

I think that it will be Clark's father who bites it. Kryptonian power is already keeping him alive. I think that Jor-el will remove that power soon.

 

[Henry]

I think that it will be Clark's father who bites it. Kryptonian power is already keeping him alive. I think that Jor-el will remove that power soon.

I didn't get that from season 3. Instead, when he temporarily got super-powers to "Whup that boy's butt an' bring 'im home from the big city," it damaged Johnathan's body tremendously - he went from (if I remember the scene with the doctor) from having the health of a man half his age to having the health of a man a little older than he is. That's why I think Lionel Luthor is nothing but a vessel now, or he's due for a relapse of bodily malfunction.

We know the kryptonians have god-like healing powers, too, but when a human being takes on some of their physical power, it makes short work of life expectancy. I wonder if it's some kind of temporary "DNA-code rewrite" or such, which when the body is put back together as human it's imperfect? I'm sure someone with more biology-savvy than me could come up with a possible but nigh-improbable way that it could be done.

 

[Arnwyn]

I'm with Orius. I found that a single teenage kid breaking into a nuclear silo with only a handgun to be somewhat... idiotic.

Now, I don't want to talk about "implausability" in a show where some alien boy disarms a nuclear missile while riding it into space, but that first scene pretty much killed the entire episode for me.

Against the grain of this thread, I pronounce: Bad Episode.