Smallville Season 9 - Page 4

Season 10 is now official.


I'd miss Mack, but I'm liking Welling and Durance.  I can live with whatever happens on that front.

I don't believe Mack will opt out now.  Not with being a director and being an original cast member.  Blue, on the other hand, is entirely disposable at the end of the year when the Zod storyline is over.

Or not, depending on what next year's arc is going to be.

But Lois in blue looked pretty nice.

I wonder what happened to Lois.  It turned from a possession into something else.  The way she looked and it was played, they should have had Clark say, "What do you want to do with your life?", Lois answer, "I wanna rock!", and then spin around and turn into the Silver Banshee.

The Silver Banshee?  REALLY!?

ugh...

On a different note...I'm confused - probably due to the many weeks in between episodes...

But I remember a Phantom Zone episode where Zod was in it - are they ignoring that episode or is this Zod a clone?

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All of these Kandor folk are clones. Check out
http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Kandorian_army

That was some pretty awkward writing in "Upgrade."  Zod and Clark destroy Chloe's kryptonite stockpiles..we don't see it happen.  Lois is chloraformed, I guess, with no real consequences.  Clark shows Zod the fortress; eh, doesn't matter.  Zod should be collapsed on the ground after losing that much blood.  Doesn't matter.

Seems like we're having the same conversations about trust between Clark and Chloe every single week.  More handwringing over telling Lois Clark is the Blur.  Blah blah blah.  No wonder I'm waiting a week to watch new episodes...

I hate to say it, guys, but I am growing weary of Smallville.

Yes, *I* said that, the guy who was the show's staunchest supporter even when everyone said that an episode sucked, I was there defending it.

This season just seems to be draaaagggiiinnggg and worse I don't know what the hell is going on with some of the characters, I've lost all touch with Chloe, I'm tired of Oliver, what's the deal with Tess? Is she good or bad? And why were Clark and Zod, the scourge of Kypton, getting along like old drinking buddies earlier this season?

It just feels like the show is spinning it's wheels now to get Clark to Superman and it's starting alienate me as both a fan of the show and as a Superman fan.

Tess is definitely an enigma.  Why does it serve her interests to put Zod against Clark, as she did in the previous episode?  Zod, at the time he was cloned was not the scourge of Krypton.  He was a loyal general defending it.  Clark wanted to get close to Zod because he is a link to his heritage and also because he wanted to stop him from trying to take over the Earth. 

This week's was pretty good.  I guess Max Lord won't be trusted and then seen as a betrayer like in the comics.

The last scene, I could almost see Clark thinking, "Shit!  I need to get on this whole learning to fly thing!"  The Kandorian story is meant to kind of mirror and promote a crappy story running through the comic books.  Thing is, Clark is Superman there.  Can we get back to that?  Tonight's was very momentous in terms of the season's arc, but I just don't really care.  Chloe almost going murderer was pretty poor.

At the risk of sounding cynical, it was painfully obvious who the Red Queen was going to turn out to be.  And for the record, I hate the revelation. 

 

I think one of the main problems for me with these season long arcs is that everyone talks up the "coming apocalypse" or some other nefarious event for 21 episodes and the payoff can't possibly live up to it.  We got that again in "Hostage."  Make the arc a handful of episodes and then move onto something else.  That way we don't get the filler episodes and the tension level remains high. 

 

Right now, I just don't care about the Kandorians or Zod anymore.  Give me something else to watch.

A very good season finale....And even Granny Goodness. Stinks we have to wait 4 months.

 

Just going to watch the first few minutes of the episode again!!!!

I really wish I weren't (a) so cynical and (b) in-tune with the renewal news.  This would have been one devil of a cliffhanger for the summer.  Oliver attacked by who knows what, Tess apparently dead, Knitting Woman in the hospital, Clark doing the big swan dive...  A good, well done use of slow motion throughout the episode, the JLA showing up in essentially cameos and I really dug the last Lois/Clark scene. 

 

Pretty pleased with it, outside of the infernal CW commercials.

Um, I forget... What does Blue Kryptonite do again?  Anyway, its gonna be a very long 4 months!  Overall, very good season this year!

 

Most people are assuming Ollie was attacked by Parademons.  The knitting woman is most likely Granny Goodness(From Apokalips). Regarding the JLA Cameos.  While at first I thought it was lame they weren't fighting.  After seeing the scene.  It was actually one of the best uses of superheroes on Smallville.  Its the first time we see Clark take the reigns and turn the squabbling group and make them cohesive.  He became the leader he is supposed to be.  

 

Oh and Supes makes his first real appearance on Smallville.

 

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Okay, that makes complete sense to me know.  My Superman knowledge is rather limited, but I do know about the Parademons and Darkseid.  Thanks for reminding me about the teaser, too, Todd.  I was all giddy when that popped up.

 

The only thing that really stuck out as "wrong" to me was Clark's speech about being happy to have fought with everyone.  If we had seen them do anything together of merit, I might have believed it.  But we got far too little of the JLA, especially Cyborg, Aquaman, Black Canary and Impulse.  Still, bring on Season 10.

they had darsaid on superman the animated series. I would highly recommend checking the episodes out.

 

Jacob

Good episode.  I will say a little more to prevent my first sentences from showing up in the thread preview, as I don't feel like using spoiler tags since the episode has aired.  I hope they don't pull back from Lois figuring out that the Blur is Clark.  I'm sure they will, but they've already broken from the traditional storyline, so why not?  In Clark's vision, it seems like Lois knew when she saw the chair swiveling at Clark's desk.  I'm glad to see Zod and the Kandorians on their way.  I kind of get tired of Tess yo-yoing between good and bad, but it was upsetting seeing her in that condition.  I never liked the Kirby New Gods, but my understanding is that Granny Goodness is no good.  I hope whatever she's up to involves fixing Tess up.

I really thought this was a pretty strong season finale.  Too bad they always have to end on a cliffhanger!  That beginning was such a tease!

 

So Martha made a suit for Clark?  That's what it seemed like as we saw the reflection of the "S" in his eyes.  Btw, the "S" being a reflection, should have been backwards.  Too bad we will never see him in "the suit"   As for Lois, yes, I also hope they go forward with her knowing that Clark is Superm, er.. the Blur (man, do I hate that name).  Didn't she already suspect him once of that, then they backpedaled?

 

Anyway, I guess they figure that by 2013 the show will be dead for sure, so it'll be safe to at last have Superman flying around in Metropolis.  Again, I wish I'd be able to see it.  

 

 

Superman.  If you start at the "D" in Daily Planet and follow it down along the line curve, you can just make out Superman's blue suit and the red/yellow "S"  symbol on his chest.
 

He's just to the left of the white wheel strut.  He's holding the plane up from beneath.  Did he find the outfit in his vision or for real?  If it was for real, maybe they will really pull the trigger next year.

I would love it if they ditched the "no tights, no flights" edict next season.  Somehow I think it'll just be another season long tease though.  I've even got a plausible reason on how no one would recognize him as Superman.  Just have Zatana do some kind of funky spell on him in which no one can see the similarity between Supes and glasses Clark!  

 

It's been a long wait.  As far as I know the film series is still going nowhere.  Give us Superman!   Of course, Welling may not even want to wear the suit.

Imagine how great the show could have been if they'd developed a plan from the beginning:

 

Four years of Smallville (high school)

Four years of Metropolis (college)

Seasons 9+ = Superman (adult)

 

I mean, we could have literally had a show that told the story of Superman in roughly real time, while avoiding falling into the trap of introducing every element of the Superman mythology before Superman.

I actually thought at the end when he came in to deal with Zod he might of went home to get the costume and put it on, but alas no.

I was really happy with the opening scene, which showed that Superman can be done right on an incredibly small budget. Greg Beeman, who used to be an executive producer and Vancouver showrunner on "Smallville" before leaving for "Heroes" and "Melrose Place", was the guest director on the season finale. He said he was shocked at how much the show's budget has been cut since he left.

I took it that it was for real as Clark's Mother was the one that left him the gift for him which I thought was his traditional suit. She said "In case you decide to stay." That to me meant she made the suit for Clark to wear as his symbol we all know on Earth.