Smallville Season 10 Premier tonight
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Posted on: 2010-09-23 22:48 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Darkseid IS the main villain season...it's already been confirmed.|
Originally Posted by Morbid Star
was kind'a a good episode...
seriously hated the "new" (bad) Lex. why didn't they use the same kid they had used for the "young" Lex ? , i miss Michael Rosenbaum, and i will be seriously disappointed if he doesn't return for atleast the final season finalle, just my opinion (not sure how many actual actors have portrayed the role in all the various series both tv and movie) but his portrayal of the role was the best that i've seen... the father son talk was touching, ... and you know it's Darksied especially with everyone saying "something dark is comeing" ... |
The kid who played alexander in this episode was close enough looking to the other kid who played him previously.
I agree...Michael Rosenbaum is the best portrayer of Lex on screen...and Smallville's take on the character is the best...in my opinion.
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this of course being but one fan's opinion. The first couple season were worthwhile, but once he finished high school the entire show just dragged on and on and on and on. but then, i think this is a problem for any show that's on the air for longer than four or five seasons, so it's not like Smallville is alone in having more than a few really bad seasons. the problem being that the bad seasons were REALLY bad, and the past two seasons have brought the show up, but too many episodes are inundated with the same problems that have inundated the entirety of the show's run. |
Originally Posted by Vitality
It definitely has. If you like Superman and DC...it's definitely a good watch...especially the last couple seasons...minus the Doomsday finale.
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Last season's ending was definitely one of the stronger endings, and i thought the opener was pretty good. the clone collection made sense, and the idea of one of them getting loose to muck with Clark worked. was damned awesome seeing Jonathan again, and i hope this isn't the only time we see him this season. the weakest part of the episode was Oliver's. even worse was the 'trade' at the end. came the hell out of nowhere. good opener, but here's hoping they dont end up dragging themselves down with too much garbage.
As a season opener this wasn't one of Smallville's strongest and as the opener for the final season it was a bit disappointing.
For all the talk of letting Clark man up it was pretty ******* stupid to actually have a scene where Clark is opening up Ma's present with the suit inside, ready to put it on and step into the light, only to be utterly cockblocked by his father.
Not only that, but his dad tells him he's a failure because he's got darkness in his heart. Haven't we had entire episodes or seasons even revolving around the fact that Clark, and, um, EVERYONE, has a dark side, but he's in control of his decisions? And then it looks like daddy locked up the suit. Ugh.
Here's hoping that Clark finds something to busy himself with (perhaps heading to Africa) while Green Arrow and Deadshot duke it out next episode.
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Seriously. I mean, they ended with him without powers, stabbed with a kryptonite knife, and falling off a building, and opened pretty much with him waking up and getting better. Really? ... Really? Thats the best you've got? All those heroes on active patrol and looking for the Kandorians, and not one could have caught him, and eliminated the need to explain away the splatter? The splatter they just decided to not have anyway.|
Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
As a season opener this wasn't one of Smallville's strongest and as the opener for the final season it was a bit disappointing.
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Ditto on the stuff with Jor-El, and evil Lex. I just wasn't feeling that convo at all. And how the hell did Tess save Little Lex, when she was handcuffed to a thingie, and Evil Lex was burning the place down while talking about how he could be the only Lex?
How To Write a Smallville Episode
Lois: Meet you at the barn later!
Clark sets his alarm to go off at precisely later o'clock.
Clark: Erky Derky!! See you there!
----- Later o'clock -----
Lois: Here I am, Clarky-poo!
**Insert Brand New Villain**
Lois get's KO'd
----- Later:30 -----
Clark super-speeds up to Brand New Villain. Somehow honing in on him without noticing a burning field or Lois.
Clark: Hey, you're not really all that Brand New.
LexClone: But I'm older, therefore smarter.
Clark: OH SNAP!
LexClone: There's darkness in you!
Clark: I've heard that before, but just for saying it - CHOKE HOLD!
LexClone: S'okay, I was gonna keel over anyway. Oh yeah, save the girl you love or a buncha people.
Clark: But, how do you know she's the girl I love?
LexClone: Der, I have Lex's memories from before he went boom-boom.
Clark: But we weren't dating before that point.
LexCloneL Well... uh... look over there!!
**Clark does both deeds**
----- Later-Later o'clock -----
**Clark finds note**
Note:
Clark, I'm leaving. I'm not going to tell you how I know you're the Blur, because I know I'll just serve as a weakness for you. Even though that's something I pointed out to Clark that the Blur would never do (put me in danger by revealing himself) then later went back on. I'm just going back on my going back. Makes sense, y'know, right?! Also, it serves the ongoing purpose of this show to always have you going back and forth in a relationship that eternally clock-bocks you.
PS, say hello to Ghost Dad.
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I know...what a sweet post.
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Originally Posted by Ironik
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She told him to run when she was fighting the older Lex.
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Originally Posted by Gaderath
Seriously. I mean, they ended with him without powers, stabbed with a kryptonite knife, and falling off a building, and opened pretty much with him waking up and getting better. Really? ... Really? Thats the best you've got? All those heroes on active patrol and looking for the Kandorians, and not one could have caught him, and eliminated the need to explain away the splatter? The splatter they just decided to not have anyway.
Ditto on the stuff with Jor-El, and evil Lex. I just wasn't feeling that convo at all. And how the hell did Tess save Little Lex, when she was handcuffed to a thingie, and Evil Lex was burning the place down while talking about how he could be the only Lex? |
Yeah, I noticed and commented on those things at the time as well Rylas 
Also, did anyone else think of this when Evil Lex said, "Even you, with your great speed can't possibly stop them both" almost word for word? And then laugh when that is exactly what happened?
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Yeah, I didn't have a problem with Alexander surviving. Tess told him to run and he took off while Old Lex was busy with her. With a decent head start I'm sure a place like Cadmus has lots of good hiding places for someone Alexander's size and it's not like the entire lab was a raging inferno when Clark got there.|
Originally Posted by Vitality
She told him to run when she was fighting the older Lex.
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What I want to know is who was running Cadmus and where were they when Tess let Old Lex out? I mean someone had to bring Tess there and fix her up but we see absolutely no sign of anyone but Tess and a bunch of Lex clones who are either too young, confined to a test tube, or locked up because they're dangerous psychopaths. Personally I'm kind of disappointed that Granny Goodness didn't grab Tess to turn her into a Female Fury.
"Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good and let me be judged accordingly. The rest is silence." -- Dinobot
So yet another totally anticlimatic season open to yet what was another totally predictable season finally.
Did anyone not seriously see "Just pull the knife out and he heals" coming from a mile away? I guess well just skip the idea that a human falling for the distance he did wouldnt have simply bounced on the ground and landed, but would be total street pizza, and have exploded probably over a 20 square foot area. Oh and i liked the touch of being a totally raining night so we get wet lois boobs, but the sun coming out in like 20 seconds oh be its still pouring down rain......
Really the only good part of this episode was Lois tied to the rack in the feild, for obvious reasons.
Otherwise, we get Chloe giving her self up to who knows how and how she even knows who we have no idea. We get a pretty crappy and out of character speech from jorel about how clark is not living up to his potenial when he is probably attempting to more now then ever before. We get a soppy reuinion with Pa kent, which I guess was probably one of the better parts of the show, but we get no explaination as to why is pa can come and go to council clark he hasnt done so in the last 4 years. We for the I lost count time get clark looking like he is flying only later to say he wasnt and just jumped. Oh and again when you question to physics of it, i would imagine that the speed needed to launch yourself off the ground and to keep momentum in order to reach the roof after you caught the globe would have likely broken the globe apart in mid air and showered the peices down on the people on the ground.... oh who once again stood there watching a big *** globe fall on top of them instead of running away.
And to top it all off we got one glimps of dark side who basicly looked like he should have been in one of those crappy 3d animated tranformers cartoons rather then a evening action show. Seriously that shot made doomsday from the other season look like ILM quality effects and i thought doomsday was just barely a step above a Rita monster from Power rangers.
Oh well 21 more episodes to go.
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Oh and i liked the touch of being a totally raining night so we get wet lois boobs
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
Otherwise, we get Chloe giving her self up to who knows how and how she even knows who we have no idea.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
We for the I lost count time get clark looking like he is flying only later to say he wasnt and just jumped.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
And to top it all off we got one glimps of dark side who basicly looked like he should have been in one of those crappy 3d animated tranformers cartoons rather then a evening action show. Seriously that shot made doomsday from the other season look like ILM quality effects and i thought doomsday was just barely a step above a Rita monster from Power rangers.
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Thankfully...someone who actually watches the show and doesn't just hate.
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Originally Posted by Rock_Crag
Me too.
She's knows because of Fates Helmet. It may also be *why* she gives herself up... Don't let her look while being traded look fool you, she knows exactly what she's doing. Didn't he actually say "I think I flew"? I'm pretty sure this will be the lead up to Clark learning how to fly. He knows he can, but because of the adrenaline he doesn't know/remember how. This I completely agree with. That CGI was horrible. I haven't even finished getting my BA and have very little experience with 3D technology... and I'm pretty sure I could do better. |
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I really hope you're not suggesting that those who were less than satisfied with the season premiere didn't actually watch it.
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Originally Posted by Vitality
Thankfully...someone who actually watches the show and doesn't just hate.
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No...not everyone...just the one.|
Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I really hope you're not suggesting that those who were less than satisfied with the season premiere didn't actually watch it.
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I understand the show has a lot that people can hate on...but hating on things, without fully watching it, is ridiculous.
I think this episode should have been 2 hours for the amount of content... it suffered from skip stuff syndrome.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
Really the only good part of this episode was Lois tied to the rack in the feild, for obvious reasons.
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Which one is the "one?"|
Originally Posted by Vitality
No...not everyone...just the one.
I understand the show has a lot that people can hate on...but hating on things, without fully watching it, is ridiculous. |
Qui might have missed some things, but his overall complaints are pretty valid.
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Funny thing is, they're also completely irrelevant. As much as people can whine and moan about Smallville (And I've done it as well) it's managed to stay on the air for an entire decade, and is leaving on its own terms. Nothing else in the sci-fi/fantasy genre from the last few decades can really even come close to competing with that kind of longevity.|
Originally Posted by Rylas
Which one is the "one?"
Qui might have missed some things, but his overall complaints are pretty valid. |
As bad as it may be sometimes, it's managed to stand the test of time while other shows have faded into dust. The one thing that all the ranting and complaining can't deny is that the show was a success.
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Originally Posted by Judas_Ace
Funny thing is, they're also completely irrelevant. As much as people can whine and moan about Smallville (And I've done it as well) it's managed to stay on the air for an entire decade, and is leaving on its own terms. Nothing else in the sci-fi/fantasy genre from the last few decades can really even come close to competing with that kind of longevity.
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But your defense lacks a lot of merit when it disregards the quality of show we had in the first 4 seasons, and the subject material from whence it draws its characters from. Then the fact that it ignores the characterisitics these people SHOULD have. Clark, acts like a buffoon and creep sometimes. Then sometimes, the characters can't act the same from episode to episode.
That's what most people are upset about when they complain. The fact that the show completely disregards the things that made it great from the beginning. Now, the writing is just a joke. The only real reason it stays on, is because the CW needs something to carry it along.
Oh, and when you say there's been no other prevelant shows in recent decades to be as successful as Smallville, you missed at least one very obvious success. And it's spawned spin-offs and (straight to DVD) movies. And has probably made a lot mroe money.
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Originally Posted by Judas_Ace
Funny thing is, they're also completely irrelevant. As much as people can whine and moan about Smallville (And I've done it as well) it's managed to stay on the air for an entire decade, and is leaving on its own terms. Nothing else in the sci-fi/fantasy genre from the last few decades can really even come close to competing with that kind of longevity.
As bad as it may be sometimes, it's managed to stand the test of time while other shows have faded into dust. The one thing that all the ranting and complaining can't deny is that the show was a success. |
I think most people complaining about it are doing so from a place of wanting it to be good. It's a superhero show and we play a superhero game. It is a shame that it's a constant disappointment; aside from a few individually excellent episodes, overall the quality is pretty low. I think a lot of that stems from the fact it was created by a couple guys who had neither knowledge of nor interest in Superman or comics. Their original show idea was shot down and they were offered the chance to reboot Superman and they said, "Yeah, okay, sure." And when they started doing a little research (VERY little, from all accounts) they were repulsed, hence the "no flights, no tights" rule. Even now, three years after they've left the show, it's still saddled with their baggage which is why they're just now getting around to showing the suit.
But all that doesn't excuse the really poor writing of last night's episode. They really should've come out swinging and they didn't.
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This is crazy.
My comment was about the person who clearly did not fully watch the show.
The show has its flaws...and people point them out all the time.
That's why I find it ridiculous to make things up about the show to hate on.
There is so much to hate on without the need to make things up.
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Originally Posted by Rylas
Is the show a success? Yes. Not that it means much on the station it airs on. Being the best that the WB/CW has to offer is like being the most polished turd. It's still a turd.
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Never watched it, but it's true, it does help carry the WC as much as Smallville does. If not more.
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Originally Posted by Innovator
Take that back. Supernatural has been from day one, one of the best shows on television.
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was kind'a a good episode...
seriously hated the "new" (bad) Lex. why didn't they use the same kid they had used for the "young" Lex ? , i miss Michael Rosenbaum, and i will be seriously disappointed if he doesn't return for atleast the final season finalle, just my opinion (not sure how many actual actors have portrayed the role in all the various series both tv and movie) but his portrayal of the role was the best that i've seen...
the father son talk was touching, ...
and you know it's Darksied especially with everyone saying "something dark is comeing" ...