Both “Smallville” and “Buffy” will be actively discussed, so I’m splitting the topics right now. It’ll be interesting to see which generates more traffic.
(Spoilers)
The difference between “Buffy” and “Smallville” all season has been, in the former, you say, “Where did THAT come from?” and in the latter you say, “Wow, I didn’t see that coming.” Never more true than tonight’s season ender.
“Smallville” is mining the same sense of “teen alienation” that BtVS once did, but from a different angle. Buffy was saddled with the knowledge that she had to save the world, and cope with that, not always well. Clark’s the exact opposite: He believes he’s saddled with the knowledge that he will conquer the world, and he’s not coping with it particularly well at all.
Did he make the right move? Probably. If he’d told his parents what he was going to do, the likelihood is that one or both of them would have insisted on being with him “in case something goes wrong.” And the result? They likely wouldn’t have survived.
Am I the only person thinking that voice ain’t Jor-El at all? What if someone’s trying to hose Clark? What if he’s got an enemy he doesn’t even know about? What if it’s Zod or someone like that? Then I saw the opening credits and saw Terrance Stamp–Zod himself–was the voice of Jor-El. And now I’m going, Ahhhhh…
Not sure I understand why having the ring in his hand doesn’t turn him evil, but putting it on does. But, hey, as long as they’re consistent with it, okay.
The entire time Clark was tearing apart the office looking for the ring, I’m going, “Hello? X-Ray vision?”
I’m wondering if Pete’s going to ream out the Kents, or at least Jonathan, for making Clark feel like dirt.
And hey…I did NOT see coming the complete betrayal of Lex. Oh my God, what a sting operation. If I’m understanding this right, Lex’s wife is in cahoots with Lionel, drugged him, and then Lionel had the pilots bail, leaving his son to plunge into the drink. And Clark nowhere around to rescue him. Unless Aquaman is about to put in a guest appearance, Lex is in serious trouble. Here we’ve been wondering what sends Lex on the road to villainy. If my brand new wife was in cahoots with my father to kill me, I’d become a super villain, too. Let’s just hope he doesn’t wind up having to wear prison grays all the time like he did in the 60s.
Man, edge of the old seat until next season’s “Smallville.” Hey…maybe Clark’ll swing by “Angel.” Why not?
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As played by the delightful John Glover, Lionel Luthor is an interesting character — in many ways, SMALLVILLE’s version of John Byrne’s Lex Luthor — no tragic fall a la the Silver Age Lex, just a slimy rat bášŧárd.
However, that said, I don’t think Lionel would kill his son. In fact, have we even seen Lionel kill anyone? Again, he’s scum, but more in the corporate fashion, which is why I always imagined his being horrified by what Lex would become and even perhaps working with Clark/Superman to stop him.
Also, pragmatically, we’ve never seen that Lionel wanted Lex dead. He’s always wanted him to “come around” to his way of thinking, as he said in an earlier episode, “Lex is blood.” And really, I believe Lionel would consider it “beneath him” to have to go to such lengths (especially murderous ones) to defeat Lex. He already took the caves from him. There’s no question that Lionel considers himself the better businessman.
What’s fascinating to me, though, is what Lionel said to Pete and later Chloe about hate and love. Maybe Lex’s not inviting Lionel to his wedding made Lionel stop loving Lex (even in his own twisted way). And did anyone else get a chill during Lionel’s scene with Chloe. Next season is going to be about saving Chloe’s soul — and perhaps there’s no saving it. Perhaps she’s made that choice that will ultimately destroy her (there’s so much that can be done with this character as she’s an original creation).
While she should be granted a certain latitude for being young and hurt, she has demonstrated that she’s not the journalist she thought she was. She should have turned down Lionel’s offer because it was unethical and sinister, but she did it because of her love for Clark and once that love faded, she jumped right into something her journalistic training should have forbidden her to do. This isn’t about Clark. It’s about Chloe knowing the difference between right and wrong. Without that moral compass (nice allusion to Jonathan’s wedding gift), men like Lionel Luthor will always take advantage of her hate, of her weakest moments.
I believe that the voice Clark is hearing is Jor-El. If it were someone else, then he would just use his own name and claim to be Clark’s father (Clark wouldn’t know one way or another and it would provide nice dramatic irony and tension for the audience that would know Clark is being steered wrong).
I like the notion of Clark’s being from a truly alien culture. Jonathan and Martha have to be more than just parental seat warmers. However, I do like the nice balance. I think Clark will have to accept his alien nature in order to become Superman, to make the sacrifice to “live among humans but not be one of them.” Otherwise, he’ll just stay in Smallville, marry Lana, and have kids. He’ll live a nice normal life, helping people when they need it of course, but he’s fated for more. The Kents are like Joyce Summers in that way. No parent would want their child to be Superman or the Slayer — not when that means a life of solitude and perhaps a premature death.
The Kents will provide Clark with the humanity that will allow him to care about those around him and do what is right, but Clark’s biological father will allow him to become something greater.
Okay, I just got done watching the season finale and I even went back and watched the opening sequence again and I didn’t hear Jor-El say anything about ruling the Earth. He talked a lot about destiny and that how Clark carried the hopes and dreams of his people, but I didn’t get an evil vibe off the whole thing.
So my take is that when Clark and the linguist read the message they misheard it. I mean it is an alien language and even though Clark is Kryptonian his primary language (the one he was raised with)is English. So if they are translating Kryptonian through a human “filter” then it makes sense that something that means one thing to us means something else to Kryptonians.
What if they mistook “rule” for “guide.”
Think about it. It seemed that most of the translations they did in the episode with Chris Reeve came right from Brando’s dialogue from the first movie. “They are a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be, all they need is a light to show them the way.” (Or something like that.)
Jor-El meant for his son to guide the human race. Now it may turn out that Jor-El wanted his son to guide the people of Earth like the English (or us Americans) have “guided” less sophisticated civilzations, in which case there is a bit of a problem, but nothing Clark can’t overcome once the dust settle from the s**t storm that just went down.
All in all I am looking forward to next season, especially when it turns out the Chloe hasn’t turned to the dark side and she is just trying to get the goods on Lionel. (Her question of what his interest is led me down this path).
I also thinking that since the ship is apparently destroyed that Clark wil get more info from Swan. It’s a good way to bring Chris Reeve back.
One last thing, was anyone else freaked out about the fact that Lionel may have gotten some of the markings from the hand of the dead linguist?
Okay, I just got done watching the season finale and I even went back and watched the opening sequence again and I didn’t hear Jor-El say anything about ruling the Earth. He talked a lot about destiny and that how Clark carried the hopes and dreams of his people, but I didn’t get an evil vibe off the whole thing.
So my take is that when Clark and the linguist read the message they misheard it. I mean it is an alien language and even though Clark is Kryptonian his primary language (the one he was raised with)is English. So if they are translating Kryptonian through a human “filter” then it makes sense that something that means one thing to us means something else to Kryptonians.
What if they mistook “rule” for “guide.”
Think about it. It seemed that most of the translations they did in the episode with Chris Reeve came right from Brando’s dialogue from the first movie. “They are a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be, all they need is a light to show them the way.” (Or something like that.)
Jor-El meant for his son to guide the human race. Now it may turn out that Jor-El wanted his son to guide the people of Earth like the English (or us Americans) have “guided” less sophisticated civilzations, in which case there is a bit of a problem, but nothing Clark can’t overcome once the dust settle from the s**t storm that just went down.
All in all I am looking forward to next season, especially when it turns out the Chloe hasn’t turned to the dark side and she is just trying to get the goods on Lionel. (Her question of what his interest is led me down this path).
I also thinking that since the ship is apparently destroyed that Clark wil get more info from Swan. It’s a good way to bring Chris Reeve back.
One last thing, was anyone else freaked out about the fact that Lionel may have gotten some of the markings from the hand of the dead linguist?
the idea of clark going on a “tour” of the dc universe is cool. wish that could happen. would certainly an interesting way for him to run into a young bruce wayne and perhaps an exotic princess from a faraway island.
After reading all the comments about whether or not Clark was hearing Jor-El’s voice or an evil imposter, I’m surprised no one has mentioned that the scar is more like a figure eight, and not so much an “S”.
I’m thinking someone reprogrammed that ship for their own family and kept Jor-El’s voice. I forgot what happened to the little device Jonathan and Martha gave Clark in the pilot episode, but perhaps that has Jor-El’s true messages/memories/etc. After all, didn’t Jonathan say it was probably something Clark’s bio-dad wanted him to have and Clark would be able to use it when the time was right?
After reading all the comments about whether or not Clark was hearing Jor-El’s voice or an evil imposter, I’m surprised no one has mentioned that the scar is more like a figure eight, and not so much an “S”.
I’m thinking someone reprogrammed that ship for their own family and kept Jor-El’s voice. I forgot what happened to the little device Jonathan and Martha gave Clark in the pilot episode, but perhaps that has Jor-El’s true messages/memories/etc. After all, didn’t Jonathan say it was probably something Clark’s bio-dad wanted him to have and Clark would be able to use it when the time was right?
Wow. I need a chiropractor after that bit of whiplash.
I was pretty sure the baby wouldn’t make it, it was just to far off from established Supes continuity. He’s an only child, both for the -Els and the Kents.
But Clark’s new guilt trip is WILDLY beyond anything I expected for this show. He takes off, with Mom sobbing hysterically the last time he sees her, and with Pa Kent hardly barely able to look at him because of his anger… Wow. Red Kryptonite is Clark’s cheap high.
And I have to admit the Mrs. Luthor betrayal completely sideswiped me too. Glad I wasn’t born into THAT family. %-/
Really obscure silver-age Supes question here… Does anyone remember some 60s or 70s variation on the origin/history of Clark/Superman where Ma & Pa Kent died of some Krypton-related illness around the time Clark left Smallville for college? I seem to recall something like that, but can’t remember where I read it. If so, the little EMP blast from Clark’s destruction of the ship would be a good explanation. More “hurt everyone I love” guilt for him down the road, too.
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After reading all the comments about whether or not Clark was hearing Jor-El’s voice or an evil imposter, I’m surprised no one has mentioned that the scar is more like a figure eight, and not so much an “S”.
I’m thinking someone reprogrammed that ship for their own family and kept Jor-El’s voice. I forgot what happened to the little device Jonathan and Martha gave Clark in the pilot episode, but perhaps that has Jor-El’s true messages/memories/etc. After all, didn’t Jonathan say it was probably something Clark’s bio-dad wanted him to have and Clark would be able to use it when the time was right?
After reading all the comments about whether or not Clark was hearing Jor-El’s voice or an evil imposter, I’m surprised no one has mentioned that the scar is more like a figure eight, and not so much an “S”.
I’m thinking someone reprogrammed that ship for their own family and kept Jor-El’s voice. I forgot what happened to the little device Jonathan and Martha gave Clark in the pilot episode, but perhaps that has Jor-El’s true messages/memories/etc. After all, didn’t Jonathan say it was probably a message from Clark’s bio-dad and Clark would be able to understand it when the time was right?
i’m all ready for a bruce wayne appearance, and i’d like to see lois lane turn up at some point — whether or not clark (or “leather clark”) actually meets her.
should the wb try to catch the “smallville” lightning in a bottle again? obviously, “birds of prey” didn’t make it, but i wonder if they could go to the youth-well again…
the idea of a bruce wayne series is awfully interesting.
So was it Jor-El, Zod or–my thought–Brainiac?
Has Jor-El said anything that’s not consistent with what we know of Superman? We know that Clark will leave Smallville and that he will have an impact on the world. I think that has been the gist of Jor-El messages so far.
I thought it was a little sad when Jor-El showed him the images of Lana, Jonathan, and Martha and foretells that he will leave them behind.
A smattering of things for my first post-
Durn you Tim Drake, You beat me to the Anne joke…
In regards to the Luthercorp jet- Didn’t Lionel offer Lex a honeymoon as a gift? I would think airfare would be included in that package.
There was a Bruce Wayne series in development at the same time Smallville was being developed. WB went one way. Evidently BW was a lot darker. I would love to read that script (hint, hint)
What makes you think Helen has betrayed Lex? They both drank from the drugged champagne. It would be just like Lionel to cause a split between them. Pilot grabs her, jumps, leaving Lex to think she’s betrayed him.
For what possible reason? They’re leaving Lex to *die*. Why in the world would they care what he thinks of his fiancee if he’s expected to go to a watery death? To add insult to injury?
Obviously the purpose of the way this was staged was to make it look like an accident. If she wasn’t in on it, and she lives, she’s a loose end that could incriminate everyone involved, so they’d have to kill her anyway. That leaves one and only one reasonable explanation: She was a party to it.
PAD
Holy šhìŧ.
Is there anyone here not blown away by that teaser? Or the Pete/Lionel confrontation? Or Chloe’s decision? Or the ending?
Martha’s loss was about as unforeseen as night and day, but everything that led up to it, and everything that happened as a result of it, and which resulted from the same root causes was so perfectly logical and seamless (with the debatable exception of Clark putting on the red kryptonite ring). The writing was a thing of beauty. The parallels between Clark and Lex trying to escape their preordained futures, the reaction of Chloe to Clark and Lana’s relationship, and the path on which she now seems destined, Clark’s attempts to escape the destiny of the ship, was so understandable, and yet had such horrifying results. You just know that Martha’s baby and Lana’s relationship with Clark couldn’t go on, but the way they got rid of them was such a sensible outcome of the events in the story. Somewhat predictable, and yet tragically inevitable.
Incredible Scene:
Pete confronts Lionel Luthor at the cave. Although it’s a pretext on Pete’s part, the words exchanged had a real underlying earnestness to them:
Pete: “Nobody in this town likes you! Don’t touch me! You know you hate him.”
Lionel: “I know that. But I value their hatred, I find it useful. You see, people are always at their weakest when they’re angry. Just ask your father.”
Lionel sees the key is gone from the platform.
Lionel: “No. No! N-O-O-O!! You! Search him. Search him.”
Pete: “Search me, what’re you doing?”
Lionel: “Where is it?”
Pete: “Where’s what?”
Lionel lunges at Pete.
Pete: “Careful, Mr. Luthor. You wouldn’t want to look weak.”
I’ve wondered about Clark’s motion blur: First, even if the motion blur caused when he runs can’t be seen, and is only seen by the home audience, the disturbance it would cause in the air would be seen and heard. Second, the fact that Pete can see the motion blur as his cue that Clark has taken the key and that he should leave would indicate that it can be seen.
Shouldn’t security have stopped Pete at the entrance to the cave? Sure, Clark got through, but Pete?
Why didn’t Clark just have Pete put the key into the ship instead of risking his own sking doing it?
Why were Lex and Helen getting on a Luthercorp plane, a plane owned by Lionel’s company, rather than a plane from Lex’s company, Lexcorp? A Luthercorp plane just screams, “Trap!” to me. Duh. I guess the new groom was just too happy with his new bride to notice it?
Tom Galloway: The one problem I had with this episode was the bit where Lionel suddenly went all Bwahaha and told Clark about the Kryptonite key. Um, just why is he telling this boy who he knows is *not* on his side this critical bit of information when there’s no reason for him to do so?
Luigi Novi: Perhaps Lionel was trying to coax Clark into giving up some information. Dr. Walden had used the disk in the wall and gleaned the knowledge stored there, so perhaps Lionel was basically saying, “I’m going to learn all of this anyways, so why not just tell me what you know?”
Who has motive to kill Lex? Lionel really doesn’t. The only one who does is Helen (to inherit his money). That makes her the obvious killer and I never go for the obvious.
Clearly Lex is not going to die. Until we find out how he escapes a sure death, it isn’t unreasonable to think Lionel’s intent isn’t to kill him (though how he can save him, I don’t know) but to scare the crud out of him AND to split him away from the redemptive power of love. Lionel wants Lex to ‘fall’. He’s never shown a desire to kill him, only to “correct” him.
Lex will believe that Helen did it. We’ve been set up to believe she did it. He could never trust her again if she can’t prove she didn’t do it.
Ergo, I don’t believe she did it. (Totally prepared to be way wrong, though).
In a word, the season finale of SMALLVILLE was awesome! Emotion is the name of the game and this ep was just filled with it. I don’t easily empathasize with fictional characters but my heart was just breaking for poor Clark. The scene with Jonathan where he said “You have to be responsible for your actions. Didn’t we teach you that?”–I mean, Clark is about the most ridiculously responsible kid in history!
The genius of SMALLVILLE (and this is really underappreciated it seems) is that we all KNOW how things turn out. I mean, we know Clark becomes the greatest good guy ever and that Lex becomes a terrible scumbag and Ma and Pa Kent don’t have any kids of their own and Lana and Clark don’t end up together…we know everything yet every step of the way we know nothing. I mean, maybe I just am no good at guessing these things but I find myself constantly surprised by the turns and twists the story takes.
Assorted thoughts:
1) 5 minutes later, I too was thinking, “Gee, didn’t Buffy run away at the end of her season 2?” Of course, she ran away because her whole family, friends and lover all left her. Clark’s running because his family wants him back. Its almost like one of those adoption movies where the mother returns after 15 years and wants custody from the foster parents whom the child has grown to love.
2) They HAVE to have Clark visit Gotham City. I’m saying it now, if Batman isn’t in ep 1 or 2 next season, I will be so mad…
3) Lex’s marriage might set the record for worst in shortest period of time since JLO married Cris Judd. I mean, the guy ties the knot, sips some bubbly….then wakes up plunging to his certain death? EEK!
4) On the mysterious “Letter” that Lionel was clutching. My thought was that it was a wedding invitation. Remember earlier in the ep, Lex caught his wife and Dad talking secretively. I think she was inviting him behind his back. Color me with those not so sure she’s evil.
5) If Lex does survive (which he will, I dunno how plausibly, but hey), this kind of thing will undoubtably be used to finally cause him to kill Lionel. I’m fairly certain, like in STAR WARS, the series is building to that moment as when Lex turns truly evil.
6) About Pete yelling at Jonathan for “treating CLark like dirt”–uh, you realize that Clark basically caused his mother’s miscarriage, right? Somehow I think killing one’s own unborn sibling might, MIGHT, cause justifable rage from Jonathan.
7) Do they have to play a sappy lovesong (available at the WB STORE) every freakin’ time Clark and Lana stare longingly at each other????
8) I can’t figure out who’s doing the best acting…John Schneider (whoda thunk BO DUKE could bring the drama chops?), John Glover (one of the creepiest yet charming evildoers since JR Ewing), Mike Rosenbaum (Lex has all the best lines) or Tom Welling (I heard he used to be a male model? For an empty headed beginner he sure has developed into a very good actor).
9) Can somebody settle a bet for me. My buddy insists that Pete Ross marries Lana Lang in the Superman comics. I don’t recall ever reading that. Is this true of false?
Well, as one of my favorite shows falls (Bye bye Buffy), a new one arises. After season 1, I found SMALLVILLE an enjoyable show but not “can’t miss-it, keep thinkin’ about it”-type tv. Well, this season it sure has fired on all cylinders. Hope it keeps it up.
Best–Chris
You know…Paul Hayden’s been brought up a lot in the discussion because of his name. But what if we should be including him as a suspect in the “who’s trying to kill Lex” part of our story. Sure, it’s pretty unlikely considering it’d be pretty dámņ hard for him to get anywhere Lex and Helen, but still…anything’s possible.
Chris,
Pete Ross married Lana in the current continuity (and in maybe an imaginary story or two during the Silver Age).
Re MF’s question: There was a silver age story in which Superboy gave the Kent’s a vacation to a tropical island (for their aniversary or some such) and while on the island, Pa Kent discovered a buried treasure chest. Somehow, from opening it, he and Ma Kent caught some rare incurable disease. Superboy tried to save them, even employing a Legion time bubble, but to no avail…they died after all and SB blamed himself.
Now, on to comments on the finale: one word —- CASTAWAY.
Pete Ross and Lana Lang ARE married in current continuity. But then Pete’s also a blonde haired white guy, doesn’t know about Clark’s powers, and is currently serving as Lex Luthor’s Vice President.
Needless to say, the show may not follow all of that to the letter.
A couple of comments about the finale and show in general:
1) I really wish they had ended on the plane crash. That was so very “40’s serial cliffhanger ending” style, it would have been a perfect ending. Watching Clark ride off into the distance didn’t add anything. That being said: WOW! What a finale!
2) This show has made the Star Wars prequels that much less. Why? Everyone I know really likes Lex. We care about his character. And knowing his future, we feel a since of loss each time he does something that points towards that future in any way. We don’t want him to be bad. Anakin is a very similar character in the prequels. We know his destiny. The problem is that we don’t really care. There is no emotional connection to the character. We don’t really care that he goes evil, we just want to see how it happened. With Lex, we care.
“That leaves one and only one reasonable explanation: She was a party to it.”
I’m not sure that’s true. Lionel has as vested an interested in the Kents (Clark in particular) as Lex does, and Lionel is probably just as aware as Lex is that Helen is the Kents’ new trusted doctor.
They could have kept her alive for *that* reason.
With the added benefit that it makes *us* think that she’s betrayed Lex.
Just throwing the possibility out there.
Jason
Okay, I just got done watching the season finale and I even went back and watched the opening sequence again and I didn’t hear Jor-El say anything about ruling the Earth. He talked a lot about destiny and that how Clark carried the hopes and dreams of his people, but I didn’t get an evil vibe off the whole thing.
So my take is that when Clark and the linguist read the message they misheard it. I mean it is an alien language and even though Clark is Kryptonian his primary language (the one he was raised with)is English. So if they are translating Kryptonian through a human “filter” then it makes sense that something that means one thing to us means something else to Kryptonians.
What if they mistook “rule” for “guide.”
Think about it. It seemed that most of the translations they did in the episode with Chris Reeve came right from Brando’s dialogue from the first movie. “They are a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be, all they need is a light to show them the way.” (Or something like that.)
Jor-El meant for his son to guide the human race. Now it may turn out that Jor-El wanted his son to guide the people of Earth like the English (or us Americans) have “guided” less sophisticated civilzations, in which case there is a bit of a problem, but nothing Clark can’t overcome once the dust settle from the s**t storm that just went down.
All in all I am looking forward to next season, especially when it turns out the Chloe hasn’t turned to the dark side and she is just trying to get the goods on Lionel. (Her question of what his interest is led me down this path).
I also thinking that since the ship is apparently destroyed that Clark wil get more info from Swan. It’s a good way to bring Chris Reeve back.
One last thing, was anyone else freaked out about the fact that Lionel may have gotten some of the markings from the hand of the dead linguist?
Oops. Sorry about that.
I agree about the message from Jor-El. I haven’t heard anything said by him that contradicts Superman’s mith. I’ve heard the translators deciphering about world conquest, but never anything from Jor-El himself. While it may seem cruel at the time, we know that Clark is going to leave Smallville and his leaving will benefit all mankind.
BTW, am I the only one who thinks that Luthor killed his baby brother?
You know what? Not going to to read the other speculations first. let’s see how mine stack up:
1. Ellen acted on her own and hosed Lex all by herself – shows how pìššëd she was.
2. That was Jor-El in the chip, but Clark has something of the ship in him. Or with the meteorite ring on. Whatever.
3. Chloe is playing her own game, neither good or evil. Can’t wait to see her hose Lionel.
4. O’Toole and Schneider deserve some sort of award for the “losing the baby” scenes. I was sobbing a little.
5. RAMPANT SPECULATION: Lionel is the prime mover in the beginning of season 3. And then bites it big time, hopefully half a season later as Chloe betrays his ášš.
6. THE BIG QUESTION: What was Lionel’s wedding gift to Ellen? If it had been Lex’s death, why was he still fixated on the envelope?
Ðámņ – We all have horribly different theories!
As for Helen, I think she was willing to punish Lex by killing him. Lionel, not so much. Perhaps Helen was setting up Lionel bv using a a Luthercorp jet…
Pete Ross in the current DC continuity, besides being a white redhead married to Lana Lang, is also Vice President of the United States under Lex Luthor (a twist I enjoyed far too much).
I read in TVGuide recently that the producers had wanted bring in the Phantom Zone villains at some point in the show. But Warner Bros said not to bring in any Kryptonians besides Clark (possibly because they have plans to use General Zod and cronies in the new Superman movie, whenever that is). So it would be an interesting twist to have the “spirit” of Jor-El be the villain instead. Superman’s father–evil! Interesting.
Or maybe the ship is the Eradicator…that would explain a lot about it’s “attitude”.
I’m far too lazy to read to see if someone said this, but I have to get in on this.
I would bet that Helen is a clone.
I have to believe that the only reason they did the little girl clone episode a few weeks ago was to establish that Luthor can do it.
Otherwise there’s a “where did that come from” thing going on. Instead they establish the cloning in a moderately low key way and then when we find out we’re supposed to go “oh yeah, I knew he could do that!”
I have to believe that the only reason they did the little girl clone episode a few weeks ago was to establish that Luthor can do it.
Well, I agree with you on this part of it, but I don’t think it’s for the same reason you do. Think about the cloning thing. Add in the fact that Helen may well turn out to have been in league with Lionel. Then remember that Lex gave Helen Clark’s blood sample. Toss in the Cadmus references, and I think I know exactly what’s going to happen eventually…
Bizarro.
I don’t know if anybody answered the “as long as she doesn’t eat a frog” reference (can’t read every post, sorry) but it’s from that insipid LOIS & CLARK show from a few years back, right? I’d imagine you didn’t get many answers since Superman fans either didn’t watch that travesty of a show or, like myself, have tried very very hard to put it out of their minds.
Onto the Helen scenario. I think everybody is overcomplicating it with clone this and backstabbing that.
PAD’s premise that it doesn’t make sense to set her up as the bad guy only makes sense if you look at it from Lex’s point of view.
But think about it this way: if a plane crashes with Lex aboard, who are the police going to suspect? Lionel, right? Well, if its revealed that Helen mysteriously survived the tragic crash, wouldn’t that make her a top suspect too?
Actually, though, now that I think a minute, that “evil Helen is a clone” theory makes some sense. It would explain Lionel’s “mystery envelope.” Maybe Helen gave him an invitation as a peace offering and he used the DNA from the saliva on the envelope to create the Helen-clone.
Aaargh, my head is going to explode. Is it September yet?
Best-Chris
Lionel — when you strip love away you get to who the basic person is.
He wants Lex to barely suvive. There has to be one possibility to his surivival that Lionel “knows” that “his” Lex will discover. But he wants Lex to suffer physically and also emotionally, thinking that Helen betrayed him. The writer’s can decide later if she did or didn’t.
Also if Michael Rosenbaum wants too much money, then Lex died. (Please Michael figure out a way to get a little more without being dropped, hon. We want to see more of your shaved head and smiling face on the show.)
That’s my thoughts on the matter.
“I don’t know if anybody answered the “as long as she doesn’t eat a frog” reference (can’t read every post, sorry) but it’s from that insipid LOIS & CLARK show from a few years back, right?”
If I am recalling correctly, there was a scene in the film Invaders From Mars where a kid sees a school teacher (an alien in human form) swallow a frog.
My only nitpick with the season finale is this, if Clark’s ship can be destroyed by kryptonite, why wasn’t the ship ever destroyed by the plethora of kryptonite meteorites that accompanied the ship to earth?
Finally got around this weekend to catching up on my Smallville, including the finale.
Wish I could say that I was more impressed. Unfortunately, the plot required nearly everybody to act like an idiot:
Lex: “I’ll have someone break into my finace’s office.”
Lionel: “I’ll brag about what I’m doing to the one person I’m trying to expose.”
Lana: “I won’t tell Chloe about Clark & me.”
Pa Kent: “I’ll tell my son to control his own destiny, then lash out at him when he does because I stupidly rushed in to a dangerous situation with my pregnant wife who I should have left back at the wedding.”
Chloe: “I’ll team up with someone I know is evil to get back at my friend because he loves someone else.”
Clark: “Wearing the Red-K ring makes me reckless–I think I’ll put it on.”
Sigh.
Imagine the following commercial:
(Voice Over) “Next week, on Smallville”
(Shot of Clark sticking his hand out to shake)
Clark: “Hi, I’m Clark
(Shot of a dark haired intense teenager sticking his hand out as well)
Teenager: “My name is Bruce, Bruce Wayne”
The ratings would skyrocket!