Phil Florian
Screenwriter
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- Mar 10, 2001
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Okay, I only got into this show in the last half of Season Two but I really really am starting to enjoy it. I watched the pilot and first couple episodes and lost interest at first. It seemed, at best, castoff stand-alone episodes of Buffy Season one...monster of the week, lesson learned, blah. Then Season Two hit and it finally started to really spark. The pretty cast shows some nice acting chops and the relationship between Lex and Clark gets better and better. In fact, Lex is MUCH more of an interesting character than Clark is. We KNOW that Clark becomes Superman and fights evil and so on. Lex, on the other hand, has been re-interpreted in so many ways (in the current DCU, he is President now, for god's sake) that he really could go any which way.
Anyway, I finally caught this last season's finale that I missed out on. They have dug an amazingly big hole to get out of and I look forward to how they do it. Using Terrance "Kneel before Zod" Stamp as the voice of Jor-El was brilliant, as was the Reeve casting earlier in the season. Wonderful.
Some thoughts. Do people think they are going to stick with their original premise of not having Clark fly? They have really come close (the hostage episode came close) and they showed him flying in a dream sequence. Is there any hope that they will carry this into Metropolis as they grow up? Or is this going to end when he puts on the cape and tights and flies off into the sunset (ala Jeph Loeb's "Superman for All Seasons" that clearly inspires some of this show). What a tragic end! They have some great developing stuff here.
One prediction that I don't know if it has been discussed to death, but I feel the voice from the machine was not in any way Jor-el, but was in fact Braniac. I also think that it was responsible for the messges received, too.
If wrong, I still like the twist that Clark was sent to conquer earth and that his desire to do good and fight crime is his way of defying the father.
Just a thought. Again, if discussed to death earlier this year, I am sorry! Great stuff, though, and can't wait for October. Pairing it with Angel was great, too. One great night of television!
Phil
Anyway, I finally caught this last season's finale that I missed out on. They have dug an amazingly big hole to get out of and I look forward to how they do it. Using Terrance "Kneel before Zod" Stamp as the voice of Jor-El was brilliant, as was the Reeve casting earlier in the season. Wonderful.
Some thoughts. Do people think they are going to stick with their original premise of not having Clark fly? They have really come close (the hostage episode came close) and they showed him flying in a dream sequence. Is there any hope that they will carry this into Metropolis as they grow up? Or is this going to end when he puts on the cape and tights and flies off into the sunset (ala Jeph Loeb's "Superman for All Seasons" that clearly inspires some of this show). What a tragic end! They have some great developing stuff here.
One prediction that I don't know if it has been discussed to death, but I feel the voice from the machine was not in any way Jor-el, but was in fact Braniac. I also think that it was responsible for the messges received, too.
If wrong, I still like the twist that Clark was sent to conquer earth and that his desire to do good and fight crime is his way of defying the father.
Just a thought. Again, if discussed to death earlier this year, I am sorry! Great stuff, though, and can't wait for October. Pairing it with Angel was great, too. One great night of television!
Phil
