Smallville "Aqua"

[Crothian]

And I see nothing wrong with Orange + Green. Brazil uses yellow + blue + green for soccer, Australia uses a richer (almost orange) yellow + green for their olympic teams, Netherlands use orange + white, etc...

It's also the colors of the Univeristy of Miami where he went to school I believe

 

[drothgery]

It's also the colors of the Univeristy of Miami where he went to school I believe

And super-heroes shouldn't wear the colors of Evil.

 

[Aaron L]

I guess Im really going to have to start watching the show. Its just the whole Lex Lthor, and Lois Lane being in Smallville with Clark when they were all teenagers thing blows my mind.

 

[Crothian]

I guess Im really going to have to start watching the show. Its just the whole Lex Lthor, and Lois Lane being in Smallville with Clark when they were all teenagers thing blows my mind.

well, its easy when you come top realize this is not the same Superman you know and love. Lots of things are different so its like a different version of the story. It seems comics do this sort of thing all the time.

 

[Aaron L]

well, its easy when you come top realize this is not the same Superman you know and love. Lots of things are different so its like a different version of the story. It seems comics do this sort of thing all the time.

Oh yeah, I know, it just kind of blew my convolution sensors when I started reading about it. It just sounds too good not to watch anymore.

 

[Just_Hal]

Overall I enjoyed this episode and the special effects were nice in this episode, the first epi of the season I actually really liked. Others were good but I truly enjoyed this one.

 

[WayneLigon]

What ever happened to the Batman Begins cross-over? I thought Bats was supposed to make an appearance?

As I've read, any talk of a Bruce Wayne appearance (and there was a lot of speculation around 2003) was scuttled by the movie because they 'don't want to confuse the audience' by not having him be like the movie character, or dillute the character. It's really sad when marketers have that much power. That could always change, since the co-creator has always been hot to have a Bruce cameo, but it's currently a dead idea.

 

[Staffan]

I guess Im really going to have to start watching the show. Its just the whole Lex Lthor, and Lois Lane being in Smallville with Clark when they were all teenagers thing blows my mind.

The Lex thing is in part a throwback to the old-school Superman, or rather Superboy. From wikipedia:

It was revealed that when Luthor was a teenager, his family moved to Smallville, with Lex becoming a large fan of Superboy. In gratitude and to encourage Lex's scientific pursuits, Superboy built for Lex a fully stocked laboratory. There, Lex began an experiment in creating an artificial new form of life, along with a cure for kryptonite poisoning. However, when a fire caught in his lab, Superboy mistakenly used his super-breath to extinguish the flames. This rescue attempt spilled chemicals that caused Luthor to go prematurely bald and destroyed both his kryptonite cure and his artificial life form. Luthor attributed Superboy's actions to jealousy and vowed revenge. First, he tried to show Superboy up with grandiose technological projects to improve the life of Smallville's residents, which time and again went dangerously out of control and required Superboy's intervention. Unwilling to accept responsibility for these accidents, Lex rationalized that Superboy was out to humiliate him and vowed to spend the rest of his life proving to the world he was Superboy's (and later Superman's) superior by eliminating the hero.

Plus, Lex Luthor is the most iconic of all Superman villains, just like Dr Doom is the most iconic FF villain and the Joker is the most iconic Batman villain. You couldn't really make a Superman-based show without him.

 

[weiknarf]

I thought it was really interesting that the promos referred to him as 'Aquaman'. Did they do that with the Kid Flash appearance?

Yeah, they advertized him as the Flash in the promos.

 

[Steverooo]

I guess Im really going to have to start watching the show. Its just the whole Lex Lthor, and Lois Lane being in Smallville with Clark when they were all teenagers thing blows my mind.

Huh?!? Which re-write of the Supes story were you reading???

This is pretty much the way it was, back in the 1960s comics, back before they "rewrote" Superman for the first time... Lois, cousin Lana, and Kal-El (Clark Kent) "Superbaby" all grew up, together in smallville, with Lex Luthor showing up after Clark had become Superboy. There was even a white kid (Sam Jone's character), who was Clark's best friend, early on.

Martha Kent is much hotter, in this version, without the grey hair and spectacles. Lana Lang (formerly played by Miss O'Toole, in a movie!) no longer has red hair, in this version, nor does Lois have black, nor does Supes have all of his powers, nor full control of the ones that he DOES have... and Sam's character is black. Other than that, not too much has changed, from the original.

Now what they did in all the re-writes, who knows? I've never read them...