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I agree. This episode was an absolute disgrace, except for the AFI "Prelude 12/21" ending setting up 33.1. However, the previews for next year make the show look pretty kick ass again. The Green Arrow actually made the show watchable this season, so I have high hopes for the Justice League arc. However the pessimist in me thinks that they'll have one awesome episode, and then revert back to the freak of the week like they always do after the season premiere/finale's.

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The best part of this episode was the trailer for the upcomming episodes. The episode before the finale looks MUCH better than the finale, I think that's what most of the trailer was. Not to spoil it too much, the heroes are back....as a team.

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Hmmm guess i should have read ALL of the post. lol. Anyway, according to tv.com, they come back Jan. 11 with Hydro, then Justice (the badass ep), then Labryinth, some lame episode of Clark inside his mind. Although my previous post is wrong, as it seems tv.com has just updated and now there are 15 episodes, but before they were listing Labryinth as the finale (or rather the last episode)

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Kevin: Do you really think that an area needs to be near the border to have illegal laborers? I'm not one to normally take a pot shot at a TVSquad blogger, but come on!

Also, the upcoming preview didn't specificially state next week, as I'm pretty sure the show is in reruns until the new year.

But you're right... They looked badass. Its about time for Clark to start becoming Superman.

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Why does this sound familiar...it was the plot of an episode of V: The Series.

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I would agree that it wasn't the greatest episode but its not the worst. And as Dorv eludes to, there are migrant workers all over the country - no matter how close one is or isn't to the border. The only exception I took with this week's show is the flawless accent (or lack thereof) of Javier; the thing about Lana going away isn't a big deal.

I looked at it as she gets a taste for power - and likes it (which isn't a bad thing, really, when you are in a Lex world). At that point where Lex and her are talking about money = power, you almost feel that Lex is going to start jumping for joy that someone else feels like he does. Only she gets a different outlook on how to use the power than he does and it sets the wheels in motion for the showdown (between Lex, Lana, and Clark).

And the last part where he is walking down the hallway was the bet part of the episode, I agree. Although we know Lex is "evil" I, for one, never really thought he was above some mafia-style business (single killings, extortion, bribery, etc.) but "the others" in the corridor just make him a monster - a seriously evil and deranged man.

That's just my take on it, anyway.

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It's great to see people discussing Lex Luthor! I like it!

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That's it. I can't take it anymore. I'm out!
Ahhh, never mind, dang nabbit, I've invested too much time... sob.

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As much as I hate to say it, it just might be time for Smallville to come to an end. The characters aren't growing or maturing and instead of moving Clark more towards his destiny, the writers seem to be looking for ways to keep him the smalltown boy. I've been a fan of this show since the beginning, but enough it enough. Welling is getting too old to play the teenage boy hero. Hell, his face was showing crow's feet in one scene! I mean, he's 31-years-old! No, that's not old, but it is too old to still be playing a kid two years out of high school.

The show is flat this season and you can even see it in the way the actors are portrayig their roles. Welling almost always seems to be calling it in. If it wasn't for addition of Green Arrow there would be nothing exciting about this season. It's time to ramp of the story and push Clark towards becoming Superman.

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People, u have to admit the fact what this show is smells like shit. And with every new episode this smell getting more and more umbearable.

Bring it on brother Smallville. Give us some shit to talk about. Give us some f... action. Or die.... die hard!

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That was almost unwatchable. In fact, it would've been had I not continued to watch it in the hopes that it was going to get better. Lame, lame, lame!

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I almost declared to myself that it was time to start watching the Office instead, until I saw the preview for Jan. If the writers had any sense (which after this episode makes me think they dont) they will use the Justice Leauge for more than a couple episodes, and have them help Clark turn into Superman by the end of the season, because I'm starting to have doubts whether CW will renew this show for another season, and they might want some closure for the fans. Also was anyone else put off by the fact that the American TV Javier watched gave him a Cali accent too?

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THE FOLLOWING IS AN UNOFFICAL ENTRY INTO "WHO'S WHO IN THE DC UNIVERSE":

Name: Jed McNally.
Alter Ego: The Tunneler!
Height: 5ft 10in
Weight: 180 lbs
Occupation: Farmer. Tunnler. Tunnel Farmer.
Location: Smallville, Kansas.
First Appearance: Action Comics #389 (Dec. 2006).
Final Apperance: Action Comics #389 (Dec. 2006).
Known Meta Human Abilities: Jed McNally (The Tunneler) is able to displace minerals and earth within his immediate vacinity, allowing him to move at incredible speeds, reaching up to 60 kmh through the ground. It is unclear how McNally (The Tunneler) is able to navigate blindly and at such high rates of speed. Also, it is not revealed what would happen should McNally strike a boulder or tree roots while tunneling.
Non-Meta Human Abilities: Whitteling. Glaring. Hatred for Mexicans. Corn growing. Complaining about how things "used to be". Large German pre-Nazi antique pornography collection. Tunneling.
Status: In a coma.

History: Eighteen years ago in Smallville, Kansas a meteor shower rained down upon the hapless community. Large chunks of radioactive meteors crashed into Jed McNally's barn where he had been working. Strange glowing rocks pinned him to the ground and completely covered him from head to toe. Beginning to panic, and thinking that he would be crushed to death or suffocate, McNally found himself sinking into the earth of the ruined barn and tunneled himself to freedom at an astonishing rate. Unknown to Jed McNally, the meteors that slammed into Smallville were the last remenants of a proud planet known as Krypton, its radioactive core known as Kryptonite fused with McNally's molecular structure and altered his DNA to allow him to tunnel at great speeds.

Rather than using his new found abilities for justice, McNally turned his efforts into rejuvinating his failing farm. After eighteen long years and two failed marriages enough was enough for McNally, who felt that the latino work base that had been tending to his crops should continue to work for the wages he deamed appropriate (a half cup of warm soda a day and three jolly ranchers). Outraged that illegal immigrants might shirk their duties and their work ethic by leaving his farm, McNally began to turn his ability into a monstorous form of murder, killing those whom thought they might want to try another lifestyle besides corn picking and being sunburned.

McNally's reign of terror finally came to an end, when the last known survivor of Krytpon, now known as local farm boy Clark Kent, hit him once in the face putting him into a coma. Later it would be revealed that Lex Luthor's company, LuthorCorp. may have been aware all along of McNally's meta human abilities. Strangely, McNally was not placed with the regular authorities, but rather is contained at a mysterious facility run by Lex Luthor called 33.1.

It is hoped by much of the comic community that this character is never revisited again.

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This episode is what i would call the filler episode. It has no revelance to pushing the characters forward. In every season there's atleast one or two.The way the current story is going i can see Lex becoming more of hungry with power with Lana as the only string of his humanity left. Someway somehow Lex will either inadvertenly make Lana loose the baby, driving the two of them apart. Then Lex will loose the last of humanity and become 100% evil. As for the justice league arc i see it only lasting 1 episode.I dont know if this will be the last season or not but, I figure there will be a couple more deaths along the way.Chloe_ Clark couldnt save her from someone or something,,and Lionel_ At the hands of Lex. And when the finale episode does take part it will be probaly the last scene showing Clark entering the Fortress and not coming out. Might be wrong but hey thats what i think.

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I must say I feel cheated by this last episode. It has all the appeal of a documentary on African albino slug poo. At the Kent farm, where even the animals don't move, let alone the tractor that is always being repaired, I have grown accustom to seeing the Widowed Sentor in her kitchen. I realize that she has billionaire backers but does she have to go to the office EVER or is she excused after her PTSD experience aboard Luther1. An nag already, good grief I thought once Jonathan pushed up daisies that the nagging might stop - lucky momma picked up where Jo-nag-athan left off.
Did anyone else notice that Javier spoke better English than Smallville's newest deputy - or even me for that matter. Those in charge of casting had to notice that the only thing Mexican about this kid was his name on the show - like calling Taco Bell "real" Mexican food.
Time for Clark to save the day, show ender, could he have despensed with the Tunneler any quicker.
I love Superman (like a bro, not a foe) but we are far from the trunk of the tree and out on a limb. Some have called it filler episode - I have watched snow on tv that was more appealing. The saving grace of that show was the preview of momentous things to come - when in doubt add more people. BAM superhero bonanza.

Now for Lana - I am sorry to all that hold her in any regard. Her character is completely despensible - if she bit it in the next episode there would be cheering from the sofa just behind yours to the left - and it will be me.

S

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