Smallville 4/22--spoilers, most likely

[Mystic Eye]

I guess I am easy enough to please in regards to television (the time vampire that is helping to make our average young people truly dense) and movies.

I liked last nights episode. It was far from the best Smallville has had to offer but I thought it was fine. Not great, just fine. There have been some episodes of Smallville that are fantastic but this was not one of them. Still, we did get a hoot about the Dukes of Hazzard insert there and I kinda laughed in a "oh my god, I can't believe she said that" sort of way when the sherrif said "There is a new Sherrif in town."

I was debating last night if any of the Smallville episodes have held a candle to even one of the Alias episodes and I am not sure but Smallville is still one of the shows I don't like to miss. Even last nights episode.

 

[WayneLigon]

Something's up with that lady sherrif & that bad ass attitude. Bet you 10-1, she's from Metropolis. I think 95% of Smallville residents either moved from Metropolis or have family there.

Considering you can see Metropolis from Smallville, that's not an unlikely assumption.

I liked the episode, all in all. Good to see that our stalker was just crazy and not possessing any super powers. Good to see Lex taking that step.. which I think might be the thing that eventually puts him on the road to evil. I'm glad to see he didn't shoot the guy; that sort of last step should be in a midseason ep or season finale.

 

[LrdApoc]

Which goes to show how tall the sky scrapers in Delaware are.. since that's where Metropolis is.. sigh..

 

[WayneLigon]

Which goes to show how tall the sky scrapers in Delaware are.. since that's where Metropolis is.. sigh..

In the comics, yes. I'm figureing that Metropolis is the St. Louis of the Smallville world.

 

[John Crichton]

I was debating last night if any of the Smallville episodes have held a candle to even one of the Alias episodes and I am not sure but Smallville is still one of the shows I don't like to miss. Even last nights episode.

I can count 1 or 2 eps that have been as good as some of the more "average" Alias eps. But that's about it. Alias is the consistantly best show that I watch. I have yet to see a bad ep.

 

[Negative Zero]

thanks for the link JC. still trying to confirm that hers is the version from the ep.

~NegZ

 

[John Crichton]

thanks for the link JC. still trying to confirm that hers is the version from the ep.

No problem. It's been bugging the heck out of me. Unfortunately I erased the ep from TiVo so I don't have a reference point for any songs I come across that could potentially be the same from the ep. I also tried doing a search and seeing if BOC did any acoustic albums. No luck there.

 

[Petrosian]

Well, to me it was an OK episode, thrown into 'ahhh come on!" by the crouching tigress wonder switch so quickly. The ongoing training from Luthor and potential rivalry for lana's affections would have been great if they kept the fu training long term.

All i can say for lex is having someone else be your reason for redemption is a sure fire sign that she will be tragically killed very soon. A season finale that kills the good looking doctor and sets the alien spaceship or such up as the culprit or perhaps his father is to me a good probability, either this season or next.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I was so-so on this one. I liked some of the story, Lex and his inner conflicts, Clark and his power and the law. What I disliked was locations and the new sheriff.

Spoiler warning (maybe)...

I can see where some of this is going. Lex's love dying and him blaming Clark. This is why we had the old flame, who is similar to Lex. I just wonder if she will die, become a villian, or fall in love with Clark.

As for the sheriff, I hated. Well, I see her and Clark as good buddies and directing Clark to use his powers for the good of the people, building Superman's code of right/justice/the American way. It is interesting to see the underling story of what makes the Man of Steel.



edit to finish...

 

[Fast Learner]

Don't Fear the Reaper was an excellent song for that scene.

In that scene: Lex proves his evil by noting that the only thing that stopped him from murdering the guy was the fact that she wouldn't like it, effectively noting that he doesn't have a functioning internal conscience, and he's inviting an otherwise-good person to, effectively, join his evil world.

It wasn't a romantic scene. It was an evil seduction scene. While it doesn't perfectly parallel inviting your love to commit suicide with you, it was certainly an effectively creepy song in my book. I got chills watching the scene, which I believe was the intent. The song enabled the chills.