Smallville "Suspect" (Spoilers)

[John Crichton]

Who shot Lionel Luthor? The Butler? His croney? Lex? Lana? Pa Kent?!

Well, I'll leave it up to the ep as to the answer but this was a pretty decent mystery show. They dropped enough subtle hints in there to throw you off but still left it open to be solved in hindsight. It was a little odd how Clark was able to basically run free with his powers and not have anyone pick up on them (escaping from an exploding car, shattering a lock with his hand, etc.) but it happens on the show from time to time and I guess it just comes with the territory.

As usual, I dug the Lex stuff the best. "Darkness like that doesn't just come out of nowhere," said Clark to Lex. Best line of the show. I love how it always comes back to those two. The foreshadowing of their adversarial relationship to come and Lex's eventual fall. Solid show, strong ending. Very entertaining. Not as good as last weeks but a good follow-up.

Footnote: I just have to say that Sunday's Alias has ruined me for weeks. I don't know if anything will be able to stand up to that ep. I may have enjoyed this Smallville even more had it not been for that.

 

[Jamdin]

From the shadow of the killer, it should have been a tall slender person & not the shorter rounder figure of the sheriff. I was expecting it to be Mr. Small...

If I was Pete, I would stay away from Clark when he starts digging around. He has already been seriously hurt & now his car went up in flames. Clark can do some snooping by himself. Tonight's episode felt a little like the Hardy Boys...

Love the way Lex was giving Clark the cold shoulder at the hospital...

 

[KnowTheToe]

I too felt it was a little like a Hardy Boys or even dare I say Encyclopedia Brown story. Overall I thought it was a little weak mostly because I am hungry for some character development and they have done little recently. On the plus side, I think they are setting up for an excellent end to the season.

An aspect I really liked about this episode is there was no super villain who was changed by meteor rock. While the plot and motivations were a little thin, I would like to see them experiment more with this. I really wanted to see Lex’s father die so Lex can start to expand past the Father Son rivalry that has dominated his character. I guess it will be better when Lex beats his father and proves he is the master.

 

[orbitalfreak]

[sings badly]
"I was shot by the sherrif,
but was not shot by the dep-u-tyyyyy"
[/sings badly]

Really liked this episode, it was quite entertaining. I never would have guessed at the shooter's identity, and I was quite shocked when it was revealed.

I missed the previews for next week's episode, anyone care to fill me in?

 

[John Crichton]

I missed the previews for next week's episode, anyone care to fill me in?

Bad Clark returns and it looks like Pete and Chloe get in on it. Something to do with lollipops...

 

[Negative Zero]

i on the other hand was really annoyed by this ep. i thought it was a complete waste of airtime. i've all but given up on watching murder mysteries at all, because they are so hard to get right that most people fail miserably at them. and when that happens you get the agonising rip-your-eyeballs-out nonesense that we saw on tuesday.

to do an effective murder mystery, you have to give out just enough clues for the audience to be able to figure out who the real killer is, but mislead them from the truth. not have NOTHING pointing to the real killer and have it be some random person who had nothing to do with anything ever before, and then concot some ridiculous backstory in hindsight that one could have been aware of. awful. that was just awful television.

it obviously wasn't gonna be one of the main characters, so Lionel's assistant was the only real suspect. and still, his involvement wasn't even menstioned in the first half of the show. i mean c'mon, everyone knows that Clark's father didn't do it. the only real suspect was Lex, and he already had at least one chance (two if you count last weeks ep) to kill of dear old dad, and he passed. why all of a sudden? made no sense.

plus it's really getting on my nerves this amazing phenomenon in smallville and apparently metropolis where, no one and i mean NO ONE, EVER fingerprints ANYTHING! and the fact that no one can ever seem to visually id Clark, is just shoddy writing. i sadly keep watching the show in hopes of seeing something of all the promise it showed, but other than getting to see Kristin Kreuk (which i can do on countless Neutrogena ads now), there's less and less reason to tune in each week.

oh well. just my two cents.

~NegZ

 

[Sulimo]

I on the other hand really liked it. The more they focus on Lex the better imo...

 

[Wormwood]

I can't believe Maggie Simpson did it.

 

[John Crichton]

I on the other hand really liked it. The more they focus on Lex the better imo...

Definately. His relationship with Clark is the best part of the show.

Originally posted by Wormwood
I can't believe Maggie Simpson did it.

Heheh. Yeah, that was an odd twist.

 

[John Crichton]

First, I want to say that I'm sorry you didn't dig this ep. I was obviously quite entertained by it.

to do an effective murder mystery, you have to give out just enough clues for the audience to be able to figure out who the real killer is, but mislead them from the truth. not have NOTHING pointing to the real killer and have it be some random person who had nothing to do with anything ever before, and then concot some ridiculous backstory in hindsight that one could have been aware of. awful. that was just awful television.

it obviously wasn't gonna be one of the main characters, so Lionel's assistant was the only real suspect. and still, his involvement wasn't even menstioned in the first half of the show. i mean c'mon, everyone knows that Clark's father didn't do it. the only real suspect was Lex, and he already had at least one chance (two if you count last weeks ep) to kill of dear old dad, and he passed. why all of a sudden? made no sense.

I wouldn't quite say nothing pointed to the sheriff. If someone was setting Pa Kent up, the sheriff would have been the person to do it. They did give subtle clues here and there such as the sheriff doing the toxicology report himself and he and his boys checking that area thoroughly. It wasn't a great setup but I did think it was entertaining.

plus it's really getting on my nerves this amazing phenomenon in smallville and apparently metropolis where, no one and i mean NO ONE, EVER fingerprints ANYTHING! and the fact that no one can ever seem to visually id Clark, is just shoddy writing. i sadly keep watching the show in hopes of seeing something of all the promise it showed, but other than getting to see Kristin Kreuk (which i can do on countless Neutrogena ads now), there's less and less reason to tune in each week.

I mentioned a similiar distaste for Clark getting away with all of this above but it doesn't ruin the show for me. I think it just comes with the territory as weird things seem to happen in the town all the time and it not like the police are a big-time highly funded crime fighting unit in the big city. It's a podunk unit that probably has just enough to get things done.

The realism isn't quite there but at the same time it is a show about a teenager with X-ray vision, super speed and typically has villians who have weird powers like controlling insects or the ability to shape change. It's the Sunnydale syndrome all over again.