(S06E02) Second show and already here we go with the gimmicks. Clark gets a cold -- a super-powered cold, but nevertheless ...I know a lot a viewers were disappointed when Zod's conquest of Earth was thwarted in only one episode. I rather, prefer Lex to be Lex, but it's tough to buy the world returning to normal so soon -- even though Kal-el is spending his nights surreptitiously cleaning up Metropolis after "Dark Thursday." It's too soon for me to get excited over a comic relief episode filled with Kryptonian super-sneezes. Clark's fourth-wall-breaking quip to Chloe about putting the world in jeopardy "on an annual basis," was kind of cute though.
In unintentional humor: Lex is kidnapped by a black-ops duo using massively corny walkie-talkie code: the bear is hibernating. Over.
I'm not the smartest viewer, but even I figured out way too early that Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) was behind the Lex-napping. Of course Ollie hadn't expected his Val-Kilmer-ish operative to go as far as he did. Ollie's hiring skills need honing -- but he's young yet. However, Metropolis's population of twenty-something billionaires has just doubled. Maybe Lana will be changing residences again soon. Actually, I think Oliver's supposed to be a love interest for Lois, setting up a triangle with Clark. Clark's timing is always terrible with women. He is bound to fall for Lois eventually, but only at the worst possible moment.
Pacing was extra slow in the captured Lex scenes -- and how many times have we seen him or another character chained up in some abandoned factory, already?
So there we have it, and Clark's cold turned out to actually just be a cold. Beyond that, this is technically a two-milestone episode. First, Kal-el discovers another power (super breath), even though an entire episode is a long way to go around for it. Secondly, Lois Lane offers her first story to the Daily Planet -- and quickly receives her first rejection, along with helpful composition hints courtesy of Chloe: there's only one "h" in "weather" and no "e" in tornado. My favorite visual moment came right at the end, with Oliver's CGI-created target practice on the Daily Planet's globe across midtown.
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10-06-2006 @ 1:36AM
Erica said...
Yawn. Maybe I will be watching Ugly Betty after all.
Introduce new super-power, *check*
Introduce Oliver/Green Arrow, *check*
Lana in danger, secretly saved by Clark, *check*
Erica Durance in skimpy outfit, *check*
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10-06-2006 @ 2:24AM
Dave said...
Smallville has been good for only 11 episodes... the season premieres and finales of each season
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10-06-2006 @ 7:39AM
Blue Spider said...
Smallville is good only for every moment that Eric Durance appears wearing as little as possible as tightly as possible.
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10-06-2006 @ 11:10AM
Justin said...
Hey Michael, too bad I won't be getting to read anymore of those Blade recaps eh?
Smallville...gosh it's like Charmed to me again. I'll watch it but I can't say I like it anymore. The Lana character is so badly drawn up and the constant feel of a noir atmosphere whenever Lana/Lex is in the room is starting to feel a tad grating. Why do I constantly get the feel that they are both scheming each other, when they aren't? Bad acting? Bad dialogue? The latter's starting to show especially when I predict the lines before they even mouth it.
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10-06-2006 @ 11:33AM
Rich Keller said...
I have a science question concerning the scene where Clark blows down the steel door with his super-breath. The scene shows Clark sucking in almost all of the air in the room while Chloe (?) watches. Wouldn't anyone else in the room pass out from Clark sucking up all of the available oxygen?
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10-06-2006 @ 1:50PM
Jonathan Cleary said...
Man,
I'll watch that show every time. Its just fun. The only time the show gets into trouble is when it becomes to "teen soap".
@1...I would've thought Erica Durance in a skimpy outfit would be plenty of reason to keep watching.....
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10-06-2006 @ 11:45PM
Blue Spider said...
For crying out loud! If you're going to go to the effort of showing Clark sucking so hard, you should at least have Chloe pass out from all the sheer CGI flying past her head.
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10-09-2006 @ 7:41PM
Py said...
Does a skimpy outfit equate to an episode of character development for Lois? One moment she's investigating the barn door, and the next the Inquisitor is publishing the "article". And she's found her calling. Without a college degree. While still being employed as Martha's Chief of Staff and apparently unable to use the spell-checker. Poor Chloe. Here she is slogging it out for five seasons to get her dream, while in the meantime the writers are preparing a series of blinding lightswitches in order for Lois to swoop in claim everything Chloe has been working for. The worst part of it is, after this ep, after Clark questioning her integrity in allowing the article that showed her that journalism is her calling to be reworked to feature an ET-Spin...he's still supposed to fall for her? This show seems to want to cement his nature as a Big Dumb Alien.
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12-01-2006 @ 12:32AM
Ralph Garcia said...
Hurry up and get Clark Kent in the Superman costume. If you keep making waste episodes like these you might be cancelled. I want to know how Clark is going to fool Lex Luthor, Lana Lang, Lois Lane, etc. when he puts on the Superman costume. He may put on glasses but they already know what he looks like without glasses. How are they going to pull this off? Maybe they'll forget what Clark looks like without glasses if they all get hit in the head by pieces of Kryptonite meteor rocks.
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