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Smallville: Arctic (season finale)

Posted May 15th 2008 10:02PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Smallville, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

Smallville(S07E20) After a pretty intense set of scenes from the past season, we open with Edward Teague trying to run to South America (as all fugitives tend to do). His stewardess ends up being Kara, who takes a very sinister turn as she threatens to throw Teague out of the plane. When he gives her the information she requires, she destroys the plane and kills him anyway (along with everyone else on the plane).

For the last time this season: Somebody saaaavvvveeee meeeee...

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Smallville: Sleeper

Posted Apr 24th 2008 10:24PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

Smallville(S07E17) In a mild diversion from the main story arc of the season, Jimmy Olsen becomes James Bond. At least he's a James Bond that makes breakfast.

Of all the characters in the show, the ones who have undergone the most growth is Chloe. It makes sense since the character was created specifically for this series (although it was somewhat as a Lois Lane stand-in).

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Smallville: Descent

Posted Apr 17th 2008 10:40PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

Smallville(S07E16) Smallville returns from its hiatus with a death that was extremely predictable (particularly given the spoilers available throughout the Internet). I'm trying not to spoil it for anybody who hasn't watched yet so I'm saving the reveal until after the jump. It's surprising that they didn't even wait for the opening credits for that particular reveal.

At this juncture, I think it's safe to say that the character permanently died. No alternate timelines. No Kryptonite-fueled resurrections. No clones. No imaginary stories. Mind you, in the Smallville universe, it wouldn't surprise me if this or any death was only temporary (such as with Buffy before it).

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Smallville: Veritas

Posted Mar 27th 2008 11:00PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Episode Reviews

Smallville(S07E15) This episode could have easily been the season finale of Smallville. It had characters change, characters vanish and a very sad cliffhanger ending. I wonder if it was the last one written before the writer's strike started?

It opened with a quiet day on the Kent farm. Then Brainiac (played by James Marsters) showed up and things got violent. In a rare instance, Clark showed up on time in the beginning to save the day, rather than the end of the program. On another note, that farm gets trashed a LOT.

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Smallville: Traveler

Posted Mar 20th 2008 11:00PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Smallville, Episode Reviews

Smallville(S07E14) Tonight's episode taught us a lot about the Luthor family. They seemed to be more the focus of this episode with Clark and company as supporting characters.

How is it that anyone can sneak up on Clark in a barn like that? I know flight hasn't kicked in, but doesn't he have superhearing and supervision? For that matter, doesn't he have superspeed to dodge the tasers? It's a minor quibble (since it could be argued that proximity of the Kryptonite lessened his powers), but it's a quibble nonetheless.

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Kirsten Kreuk will only be a part-timer for Smallville's eighth season

Posted Mar 18th 2008 8:02AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Casting

Kristin KreukIt looks like Kristen Kreuk will only be back for a couple of episodes of Smallville for season eight. She has apparently said something to that effect on her Facebook profile. Between that and the rumors of Michael Rosenbaum not returning, I think season eight will likely be the final season of the show.

This means the only regulars from the first season who will be there in the eighth are Clark and Chloe. On a positive note, the whine factor of the show will definitely decline. It could also mean that the inevitable Lois/Clark romance could start up.

I do wonder where they can go with the show without Lana and Lex. It's not really Smallville anymore, is it? A more appropriate name would be Metropolis. They might be saving that for the spin-off, about a group of six twenty-something superheroes sharing two apartments across the hall from each other.

Smallville: Hero

Posted Mar 13th 2008 10:30PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Episode Reviews

Smallville(S07E13) With regard to Smallville, and at the risk of sounding slightly racist, the token African-American from the first few seasons is back (which is more P.C. to write than "the token black is back"). Since then, he's become a meteor freak and a walking commercial for Stride gum at the same time.

Let's hear it for the token band One Republic. They must have gotten a good minute of air time. I bet money they're a Warner Brothers label (part of the same empire as the CW and Smallville).

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Smallville: Fracture

Posted Feb 14th 2008 10:04PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville

Smallville(S07E12) Finally! They've gotten back to the amnesiac Kara in Detroit. Unfortunately, Lex got to her first.

Along with the amnesia from the confrontation in the Fortress with her father, Kara has also lost her powers. As a result, she couldn't punch out a psycho stalker fellow employee in the diner who kidnapped her.

And Lois, being the ever-stalkery reporter herself, found Lex stalking Kara using her own resources. Oh what a tangled web we weave.

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Smallville: Siren

Posted Feb 8th 2008 1:15AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Episode Reviews

Smallville(S07E11) Black Canary has entered the universe of Smallville, and she's totally goth. She's a pawn of Lex Luthor, and in her secret identity she is apparently that universe's version of Ann Coulter.

I've read Black Canary in the comic books and in that medium she's never been a knife-thrower. She also apparently has super-leaping powers. Perhaps she gained them in the short-lived series Birds of Prey.

Here's a gallery of images from the episode. More review follows after the jump.

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Smallville: Persona

Posted Jan 31st 2008 11:45PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Smallville, Episode Reviews

Smallville(S07E10) In a triumphant return to television after a few months off, Smallville returns with Brainiac (played by James Marsters, best known as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and introduces a new Kryptonian named Dax-Ur (played by Marc McClure, best known as Jimmy Olsen from the Christopher Reeve Superman movies).

Has any actor involved with a previous screen version of Superman NOT been involved with this show? Anyone? Anyone? Okay, maybe Gene Hackman...

More after the jump...

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Smallville: Gemini

Posted Dec 14th 2007 11:38AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Smallville, Episode Reviews

Lex and Lois(S07E09) This is the last new episode of Smallville to be broadcast this year. Actually, if the writers' strike never ends, it could be the last episode ever. So, let's get to it.

When last we left our team of intrepid twenty-somethings, Clark had just defeated his evil uncle (with help from his cousin Kara who ended up in Detroit with amnesia as a result) and then vanished in a white light. Lois had a thing going with her editor Grant Gabriel (as discovered by her cousin Chloe) who ended up being Lex Luthor's brother Julian.

Somebody saaaaaaave meeeee...

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Smallville: Wither

Posted Oct 13th 2006 6:40AM by Michael Canfield
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Smallville, The CW

Smallville cast(S06E03) It seems everyone's back to calling Jimmy Olson Jimmy again, though he tried to insist on James in the season premiere.

Chloe tells Jimmy that she wants to take any possible relationship between the two of them slowly. Fortunately for Jimmy taking it slow quickly turns out to include french kissing. Happiness is short lived, however, when a scream leads the cub reporters to a dead body that looks likes it fell into a tree after having been dropped directly out of a J-horror movie.

Despite a hoary costume-party conceit, and yet another mock crucifixion, when Kal-El gets himself vined-up in the woods, this episode was an improvement on "Sneeze" last week.

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