Smallville (spoilers)

Planet-man said:
Stryde Gum episode. Look it up.

I mean.... holy ****.... it's not even a show anymore....
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Neal Bailey gave it 4 out of 5 (the best he's given an episode in years). Was it that bad?!

EDIT: I can understand where you're coming from, though. Check this out for some jokes about the product placement in the episode (which is what I'm guessing your frustration is from).
 
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Planet-man said:
Wrong episode. He gave "Hero" an absolutely scathing 1 ouf of 5.
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Ah. Sorry.

EDIT: I just watched it and it really wasn't the worst episode I've ever seen. The product placement peaked after about five minutes and it wasn't annoying after that. The rest of the episode was pretty good and wasn't bogged down by crazy-*** story concepts, like usual.

There was a very hilarious moment at the end where Supergirl asks Lex if she can 'stay with him' in his house and he just smiles, moves over to the door and closes it, with a filthy look on his face. The unintentional smut was hilarious.

In other news...

From The Superman Homepage:

Sci Fi Wire spoke with "Smallville" executive producer Brian Peterson and co-executive producer Kelly Souders about the up-coming April 17th episode of the show titled "Descent", in which Lex Luthor takes the final plunge in to all-out villainy.

"I would say if you are going to watch one episode of Smallville, you need to watch 'Descent,'" the April 17 episode, Peterson said in an interview. "It is pivotal. It is up there with Clark [Tom Welling] opening the Fortress of Solitude. It's right up there."

Souders added: "Lex has had a lot of challenges in his life, and he's sort of gone and sat on that fence all these years. This is the episode he leaps off of it."

"Descent" deals with Luthor's decline into "his own personal hell," Peterson said. "There is a major turn that happens in his life that drives him into pure darkness. ... It's Lex's real descent into the villain he becomes. I think that is what fans have been waiting for. It's what I've been waiting for," Peterson added with a laugh.

You can read the complete article at SciFi.com, although the article's writer is a bit behind the times, not realizing that the show has already been renewed for an eighth season.
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What will inevitably happen:

- I will watch this episode.

- It will be terrible.

- I will want that 48 minutes of my life back.
 
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'Veritas' wasn't as bad as the rest of the season. They have finally found a way to utilize Kristen Krueks' inherant ability to imitate a piece of wood. Brainiac turned her into a zombie.
 
Hellsbuttmonkey said:
'Veritas' wasn't as bad as the rest of the season. They have finally found a way to utilize Kristen Krueks' inherant ability to imitate a piece of wood. Brainiac turned her into a zombie.
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I LOVE the episodes when one of the characters' personalities are completely changed by some outside force. I wish they'd have episodes like that every single week!

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You this is the first time in a long time that I actually felt that the actors were emoting in an episode. The last scene with Clark and Lana was actually pretty good. And I'm excited for 'Descent'.
 
I actually caught this recent episode on accident.

I was flipping thru the channels and I saw the episode guide description "Kara teaches Clark to fly in order to prepare him for his battle with Brainiac...". I thought I was actually gonna see him fly, and instead I got emo Clark again being the same impetuous douche he was 3 seasons ago.


I was typing something up while this was on so the show only served as background noise. But within the last 25 minutes of the show that I caught---I was easily reminded of why I dropped this ****bomb of a show. But Michael's Lex is the only highlight of show so I'm actually debating on whether I want to watch Decent.
 
Gothamite said:
I LOVE the episodes when one of the characters' personalities are completely changed by some outside force. I wish they'd have episodes like that every single week!

:mad:
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It wasn't so much changing her personality, as Lana didn't have one to begin with. They just chopped out all of that irritating talking she does and have her stand there.

bluebeast said:
And I'm excited for 'Descent'.
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Victor Von Doom said:
But Michael's Lex is the only highlight of show so I'm actually debating on whether I want to watch Decent.
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I am interested to see 'Descent'. The description is 'The day Clark and Lex become mortal enemies' so it could be an interesting one. Also someone is supposed to die for good in this episode. The preview suggests Lex killing Lionel, but I am holding out for the thing that pushes Clark and Lex to mortal enemy status is Lex trying to run Lana over in a truck.
 
Hellsbuttmonkey said:
The preview suggests Lex killing Lionel, but I am holding out for the thing that pushes Clark and Lex to mortal enemy status is Lex trying to run Lana over in a truck.
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My money is on Lionel.

Not only because of the Greek tragedy undertones, but because I don't think the CW will ever kill Lana off simply because she stays alive in the comics/movies.
 
I'm not going to watch "Descent" because I have no interest in Lex "becoming evil"(yeah, that's how the world works) on the show now. Same with Clark's first flight. They've sucked any fun out of it by turning it into this well-known and much-hyped thing he knows he's been able to do for years but is too afraid/retarded to do. The real first flight is a great moment because it's the complete opposite of that. It's unexpected for him and wonderful and completely alien, because nobody has ever done it before.

**** this.
 
Hellsbuttmonkey said:
After season 8 is announced... This happens

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=7018

Gough and Millar quit as showrunners...
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Usually a show gets bad after its founding fathers leave...since Smallville is already scraping the bottom of the barrel...could it possibly get better?

Especially since I've been hearing this:

From The Superman Homepage:

In the aforementioned 150th episode, we'll get our first glimpse of Clark sporting an iconic Superman look. What does that have to do with Lois, you ask? Well, Ms. Lane's responsible for the wardrobe change!
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For a while now, I've accepted that if and when Clark becomes Superman, it's going to be far removed from the classic formula of "nobody knows who he is except us ~wink~". I came to the conclusion a while back that the only way the concept can remain interesting and the only way Clark and Lois can ever hope to have something resembling the relationship we can expect them too is if Lois is actually the initial inspiration for Clark to become Superman. It's a brave idea, but if they do it right, it could become the most memorable 'alternate' origin ever.
 
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'Descent' synopsis and images

Yup. No way are they just going to say "Lex later grows to hate Superman as well, which is funny because he also hates his secret identity."

I reckon Clark doesn't have a secret identity, if he ever becomes Superman.
 
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Gothamite said:
For a while now, I've accepted that if and when Clark becomes Superman, it's going to be far removed from the classic formula of "nobody knows who he is except us ~wink~". I came to the conclusion a while back that the only way the concept can remain interesting and the only way Clark and Lois can ever hope to have something resembling the relationship we can expect them too is if Lois is actually the initial inspiration for Clark to become Superman. It's a brave idea, but if they do it right, it could become the most memorable 'alternate' origin ever.
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If I know Smallville, which I do, they're going to have Jor-El do some kind of a mindwipe on the world so that they always saw Clark as a scrawny, weak dude in glasses. Or they just won't even talk about it.

Also, the iconic look that Lois is giving Clark is the glasses and dress suit. Clark goes undercover for her and she dresses him up like that.
 
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