Smallville (spoilers)

SSJmole said:
That does sound cool. I hope we get to see him in the suit
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Now we can...

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THANKS TO STRIDE GUM!!!!

Superman is more minty fresh, than ever.
 
Maxima will also be showing up.

You know, it's disturbing to be reminded that the better stuff in the show (the earlier stuff like season 2 and 3) had the influence of Loeb....
 
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There a good billion Tom Welling-as-Superman manips out there, but this might just be the best one ever.

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Pity it'll never happen.
 
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Well, they have pretty much explained what Doomsday is in Smallville now.

Apparently Zod and his Wife created a weapon from the DNA of the strongest creatures on Krypton. It was just genetic matter at first, which was sent to Earth on Kal-El's ship in secret, it would then evolve into "The Ultimate Destroyer".

When Zodd's wife possessed Lois, she tracked down DoomsDavis and started being all motherly in a very creepy way, explaining his role in everything. She then decided he wasn't ready yet, and to speed up the process ran him through with a metal bar, whispering "What kills you, makes you stronger."

Oh, and the trailer for the next episode 'Bride' shows Doomsday in all his glory, and he looks very similar to the original.
 
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It's...it's not just some hot guy with red eyes and grey skin and a few bones slapped onto his face.

It's actually Doomsday. And (I say this in the nicest possible way) if this was a Superman movie made in 1999, that would actually be amazing CGI.

I'm actually excited, even though you just know that Clark will punch him maybe twice, get punched four times, nearly die and then beat him with a magical Kryptonian Heritage Crystal or some such stupidity. Maybe Doomsday will kill everyone on the show, first.
 
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I've read that the new writers are really doing a good job reviving Smallville. A lot of people already wished they took over years ago.
 
been watching the few old episode here and there, (going to get a few box sets in january to catch up) but I've only just noticed, Considering Lex was meant to be the big tough guy he sure gets knocked out easy. Sure Clark I can understand but I've seen none super powered people knock him out with ease too. Kinda funny when you think his dark past if got in fight no one must have hit him as if they did he'd be K.O'd after one punch.
 
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SSJmole said:
been watching the few old episode here and there, (going to get a few box sets in january to catch up) but I've only just noticed, Considering Lex was meant to be the big tough guy he sure gets knocked out easy. Sure Clark I can understand but I've seen none super powered people knock him out with ease too. Kinda funny when you think his dark past if got in fight no one must have hit him as if they did he'd be K.O'd after one punch.
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One of the few problems with the otherwise brilliant early seasons was the fairly common emasculation of Lex which made him a little bit harder to take seriously in his villian moments. But it also kind of added to the character. ****.... it was such a great show back then. At least it's finally getting better again. I've actually started watching this season, after over a year off.
 
Planet-man said:
But it also kind of added to the character. ****
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How so?



Also I heard Supergirl was on it properly this time as well as Bizarro, How did those two story's go (not too-much spoilers but the general thing) and were they different to comics? I've seen a bizarro scene with skin changed that looked weird but still hope he was cool.
 
Why do all of his villains and supporting cast appear in Smallville? This seems ridiculous to me. It's like if Peter Parker fought Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus and Venom and all his other villains before he was bitten by the spider or if Bruce Wayne fought The Joker and Two Face and The Penguin before he trained himself to be Batman. This is why I cannot watch this show. :?
 
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How so?
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They established from the first episode that Lex started out as a sickly child with no friends and an overbearing father. As a young adult, he is healthy and courageous, trying and often succeeding at kicking his dad in the ***, and has found a true friend and perhaps even real family in Clark Kent, who inspires him. But he still gets knocked around. He lets his guard down to be friends with Clark and his family, tries to use his money and power for good, falls in love with women, and all of it ends up biting him in the *** or allowing other things to. It's setting the stage for the idea of Lex's hatred. On top of just standard envy of a heroic life, he hates how unfair it is that someone can do these things without fear because they are super-human. Becomes convinced that there shouldn't be people like that. He's vulnerable, and that turns him into a poison.

Then they threw it all away with constant moral flip-flopping and lazy, inconsistent writing around seasons 4 and 5.

ProjectX2 said:
Why do all of his villains and supporting cast appear in Smallville? This seems ridiculous to me. It's like if Peter Parker fought Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus and Venom and all his other villains before he was bitten by the spider or if Bruce Wayne fought The Joker and Two Face and The Penguin before he trained himself to be Batman. This is why I cannot watch this show. :?
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The use of characters Clark traditionally meets later was both one of the show's greatest assets and a big part of its undoing. Lex-off-the-bat was brilliant. It set the stage for a show that, despite being pre-Superman, is one of the freshest and most suspenseful Superman stories ever. They continued to make good use of future characters with the single Perry White episode.

This was a good place for them - we got the fun of seeing these characters on the show as well as the satisfaction of good stories that made SENSE with the future mythos they were still on the path toward.

Then Lois showed up. For the first few episodes she worked. Unfortunately, she was also very sexy. This caused the raitings to spike. This caused the networks to say "More Lois". This caused the writers to force her in as a regular character, LIVING WITH THE KENTS and turning the show into a painful-to-watch, completely off-the-path-we'd-been-excitedly-following-for-years mess.

After this, it kept getting worse. Characters like Supergirl and the Martian Manhunter as well as other Kryptonians show up and can already fly before Clark, destroying the exciting idea of Clark Kent SUDDENLY BEING ABLE TO FLY OMG NO ONE HAS EVER DONE THIS BEFORE IT FEELS SO GOOD OMG I WANT TO DO GOOD THINGS FOREVER I AM NOT A GOD-RULER-POWER-INVADER I AM A SUPERMAN that had been the mascot for fan-love and anticipation the show had run on from day one.

It all killed the show because what made it good was an ordinary, relatable teenage boy growing up gaining super-powers, learning what to do with them, and becoming the Superman we know today.

But, once upon a time, it was brilliant how they did it. It was brilliant how they did almost everything. It was a brilliant show and easily one of the greatest Superman stories ever told, for every character involved. It was the show everyone had been waiting for, the work of art that was already inside the stone but hadn't been freed yet. It is so much of the reason I love Superman today. It was super.
 
Planet-man said:
They established from the first episode that Lex started out as a sickly child with no friends and an overbearing father. As a young adult, he is healthy and courageous, trying and often succeeding at kicking his dad in the ***, and has found a true friend and perhaps even real family in Clark Kent, who inspires him. But he still gets knocked around. He lets his guard down to be friends with Clark and his family, tries to use his money and power for good, falls in love with women, and all of it ends up biting him in the *** or allowing other things to. It's setting the stage for the idea of Lex's hatred. On top of just standard envy of a heroic life, he hates how unfair it is that someone can do these things without fear because they are super-human. Becomes convinced that there shouldn't be people like that. He's vulnerable, and that turns him into a poison.

Then they threw it all away with constant moral flip-flopping and lazy, inconsistent writing around seasons 4 and 5.
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That is true but most of that stuff was done with out him been knocked out with ease. He became weaker than Pete or Chloe from it. That was a bad move.


However I do agree with season 4 and 5. That's when the show for me stopped been good and I stopped watching. Though season 7 with Lex the clips and episode I saw called "Decent" I think when Lex fully turns and the funeral scene at the end was brilliant and with doomsday coming and me missing supergirl i thought "I'm going to get back into this"
 
SSJmole said:
How so?



Also I heard Supergirl was on it properly this time as well as Bizarro, How did those two story's go (not too-much spoilers but the general thing) and were they different to comics? I've seen a bizarro scene with skin changed that looked weird but still hope he was cool.
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When you say not TOO much spoilers, here are the basic origins of the two, doesn't give away any storyline details but just generally explains how they came about, look if you wish... mwahahahahaha.
Supergirl was pretty much Clark's cousin from Krypton sent to look after baby Clark but for some reason was left in suspended animation on her ship instead of emerging, who then pops out right around the time Bizarro was born.

Bizarro was a phantom from the Zone who borrowed some of Clark's DNA and became the crackly faced loon we all love. Although not as retarded as classic "Me am not Bizarro".

Supergirl was hot. But kinda rubbish as a character. I liked the couple of episodes with Bizarro in, they did him quite well and made him pretty damn brutal.
 
Cool thanks dude. All I had seen of Bizarro he looked just like red K clark but with white skin but if he gets better (including skin effect) that could be cool.


Does Supergirl get put back in suspended animation or can she return?
 
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