Smallville 2-25-03-cooooooooool

[Assenpfeffer]

I did manage to catch it. (It's good to have geek buddies who tape this stuff every week.)

I do not watch Smallville religiously. I've seen, oh, about a dozen episodes, most of which have been at least good, though I understand where all the "Krypton's Creek" cracks are coming from.

This was the first great episode of Smallville I've seen.

 

[KnowTheToe]

I did manage to catch it. (It's good to have geek buddies who tape this stuff every week.)

I do not watch Smallville religiously. I've seen, oh, about a dozen episodes, most of which have been at least good, though I understand where all the "Krypton's Creek" cracks are coming from.

This was the first great episode of Smallville I've seen.

I have seen almost every episode and this was the only great episode. There have been many good episodes, a few really good episodes, but nothing else of this caliber.

 

[Richards]

I just saw this episode this afternoon (the WB station pre-empted it last week for some basketball game). I'm not a big Superman fan, although I am somewhat familiar with his origins and history.

I should state up front that this was the first episode of "Smallville" I've ever seen, and even then it was at my wife's urging (she's seen it once or twice before, but she especially wanted to see Christopher Reeve). I thought it was pretty well done, and I appreciate the fact that so far in this thread everyone's had nothing but raves for the episode, so I sort of hesitate to mention this, but there was one thing I really didn't "get."

Clark's vision starts to go wonky, and then all of a sudden he's doing a Scott Summers/Cyclops routine - okay, that's Superman's "heat vision" kicking in, I get that. But what I don't understand - and maybe you long-time viewers can help me out here - is how did his heat vision manage to carve a Kryptonian symbol into the side of the barn? From my understanding of Superman's heat vision, he would have had to have specifically focused his heat vision on each point of that symbol to burn it into the wood. And it certainly didn't look like he was doing that.

Okay, from a "plot" sense I can see that was necessary - because the writers needed Chloe (is that her name? the reporter girl) to shoot a picture of a Kryptonian symbol and get it published in a newspaper so the Christopher Reeve character could see it and get in contact with Clark. But realistically, it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

Anyone care to enlighten me? I'm not trying to pick apart the show - all in all, it was very well done. And heck, since it's the only episode I've ever seen, I guess I can even join the "best episode ever" chorus.

Johnathan

 

[Viking Bastard]

The single-point-focus-heat-vision is just mostly from the movies (and maybe the pre-crisis comic version). The post-crisis (current) comic incarnation's heat vision is much more potent.

 

[Chun-tzu]

The Heat Vision thing was another example of how powerfully the ship was calling out to Clark. As far as we can tell, it had him sleep-flying. So I don't find it at all surprising that it could have imprinted that image on his subconscious, which took him only a few seconds to carve out with heat vision.

 

[Negative Zero]

i got the impression that the heat-vision-on-the-barn thing was a side effect of the info dump that the cave wall did on him. after forcing all that info into him, it forced the symbol/word for hope to manifest itself. thereby giving him the reassurance that he was not losing his mind. (or something along those lines, anyway.)

that Chloe saw and published it, was convenient for the plot, whereas the event itself, was convenient for the story.

~NegZ

 

[Ziona]

Re: How about the music?

When they used the John Williams "Krypton" and "Superman" themes, the hair on my arms stood up.

This was definitely a great episode. Christopher Reeve calling Tom Welling "Kal-el" was also definitely cool.

I got chills just thinking about it again after reading what you posted. (or it could just be that we have no heat in our office today)

I did get the chills when they played the theme, and thought it was an awesome episode. Finally hearing things like Kal-el and Krypton in the show was great, especially coming from Christopher Reeve!

Very, very cool!

 

[WayneLigon]

Finally saw it tonight.

OMG.

Perfect.

Rampant speculation ensues:

I think I now subscribe to the 'Chloe is Lois' theory because of her considering herself Lana's 'sister'. She could decide that when high-school ends (at the end of this season, I'm pretty sure) she's going to go to Metropolis and make a complete change. Dye her hair, change her name. She'll look for a cool, catchy one. And think of Lana, her 'sister'.

'Chloe Lang' is awfully close to 'Lois Lane'. Maybe she gets misunderstood by Perry and chooses to use LL as her byline

And am I the only one to think that she has Terri Gar's haircut?

Yeah, I think that the '8' symbol is the one for 'Kal-El', or it could be 'Krypton'. 'Krypton' seems better, since Superman would be using it as a tribute.

The archeologist probably becomes something very much like Brainiac, OR he starts muttering in his sleep, and Lex begins to use those mutterings to aquire the alien tech. Or, I like the 'Lex Gets The Info-Dump' theory, too. That works very neatly.

 

[Ranger REG]

Also, the Lingust who got the information overload, I suspect he will become a future Villian. Perhaps Brainiac?

I suspect that when he is no longer catatonic and able to process the information forcefed into him, he'll be Clark's antagonist. I don't know if you'd call him a villain, but he'll view Clark as a viable threat to mankind.

It is only natural for us human to assume that about a mysterious individual who has super-strength, super-speed, enhanced vision and hearing, and near-invulnerability. I mean the only thing keeping him from using his powers frivolously is his upbringing from two human parents.

Of course, we did the bad side of Clark when exposed to the red kryptonite.

BTW, that was a nice reference in tribute to the original movie Superman, when Dr. Swann sent Clark to decipher in that instant message/email. It was the three words Supeman/Christopher Reeve spoke to Lois Lane after rescuing her and the helicopter.

I assume you all caught that, right?

 

[fba827]

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BTW, that was a nice reference in tribute to the original movie Superman, when Dr. Swann sent Clark to decipher in that instant message/email. It was the three words Supeman/Christopher Reeve spoke to Lois Lane after rescuing her and the helicopter.

I assume you all caught that, right?

Huh?


Hmm.. guess I am as bad at catching things on TV as I am at catching a baseball...