Smallville 8x18 "Eternal" - Discussion and Spoilers

[Agent Richard07]

I'm gonna go on a limb and say the 2 deaths are gonna be Davis and Clark, totally far fetched, but that's my theory and I'm sticking to it, with Clark's resurrection next season of course

It'd be nice to see a Smallville version of the Superman/Doomsday showdown.

Tess is growing on me.

I've always liked her.

Her finding out about Clark seemed pretty low-key. We didn't see her get hit with a big revelation the way everyone else did.

Wow only two pages usually it's like five now.

I'm just glad I don't have to wade through 10,000 posts this week.

Tess is looking fine and cherry wine.

They did a really good job of making her hottness stand out this week. She looked especially nice sitting on the bed with Davis. Looks like she's about as well endowed as Lois too.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

One retcon that doesn't make any sense. If Lionel knew that Clark was The Traveler (God, I hate that storyline) from the beginning, he would have killed the Kents and taken Clark by force.

That's a good point.

Lionel hid the Traveller in plain sight, but not the sight of the other Veritas members. And if they had ran tests on Clark, whose to say the tests wouldn't have come back normal at that stage anyway?

 

[TGTheodore]

I just can't wait until Clark reads Chloe the riot act. She SO has it coming.

But he won't.

--Ted

 

[Guy Gardener]

He can read her whatever riot act he wants from the bottom of the hole he dug himself after he stole her patient lists from her therapy group.

Clark thinks he can walk on water, but he has not earned a millionth the gratis Superman has stocked up from doing decent things for good reasons.

Clark is an ass.

 

[Greg Cox]

So the character is made to be flawed so that things can go to hell so that we can have an exciting season finale. It sucks because they are having Chloe act totally wrong compared to who she has always been..

Gotta disagree here. We've seen more than once that Chloe will do most anything to protect Clark. (Remember what she did to that creepy telepath guy who learned Clark's secret?)

Plus, consider everything she's been through lately. She trashed her marriage, Jimmy hates her, she just "killed" Davis . . . Under the circumstances, I can readily see her giving herself to Doomsday as some sort of sacrificial act of penance--and to protect Clark once more.

It's twisted, but perfectly in character.

(Then again, I loved how messed-up everyone was BATTLESTAR GALACTICA . . . .)

 

[Guy Gardener]

She killed the teep while Brainiac was influencing her, although at that early date it was quite subtle but it made a murderer out of her, and after the fact it seems that she decided that because it felt like the decision might have as well have been her decision so can can continue to murder as disciminantly as she wishes too.

Twaddle.

I can't believe the dren I have to invent to excuse their twaddle.

last weeks episode should have been the b anc c stories for half a dozen episodes, considering some of the shit they've made us watch ober the last couple months there's no real excuse to logjam us with all this condensed developement at the 11th hour after holding back for so long for no reason.

I had so much hope at the beginning of the season.

Besides she will save the world everytime he... I never understood why the governemtn didn't sent strams and phlanaxes of whores into the desert to calm the hulk the hell down into Banner.

 

[Hermiod]

Average. This could have been so much better, but please just kill Tess off. Please.

 

[Greg Cox]

Actually, this plot twist reminds me of "Curse of the Werewolf" with Oliver Reed, in which the main character is cursed with lycanthropy at birth, but is able to resist the transformation thanks to the love of his girlfriend. Then she's taken away from him and all hell breaks loose.

I guess Davis is kind of a Kryptonian werewolf . . . .

 

[CorporalClegg]

Does he play basketball?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Actually, this plot twist reminds me of "Curse of the Werewolf" with Oliver Reed, in which the main character is cursed with lycanthropy at birth, but is able to resist the transformation thanks to the love of his girlfriend. Then she's taken away from him and all hell breaks loose.

I guess Davis is kind of a Kryptonian werewolf . . . .

Oliver Reed out of control? Say it isn't so.

 

[Greg Cox]

Actually, this plot twist reminds me of "Curse of the Werewolf" with Oliver Reed, in which the main character is cursed with lycanthropy at birth, but is able to resist the transformation thanks to the love of his girlfriend. Then she's taken away from him and all hell breaks loose.

I guess Davis is kind of a Kryptonian werewolf . . . .

Oliver Reed out of control? Say it isn't so.

Shocking, isn't it?

 

[Procutus]

I just can't wait until Clark reads Chloe the riot act. She SO has it coming.

This is probably going to shock everyone here, given my obsession with the Chlovage, but I agree. She's really not acting like herself, nor thinking clearly. I'm just trying to figure out if she's coming unhinged, or if there's still a bit of Brainiac left in her. The big question in my mind is, why DOES she seem to have some kind of soothing effect on Davis when he's hulking out? There has to be a more solid reason, other than the fact that he finds her cute as well.

I thought it was a pretty decent ep, with nice ties to the Veritas storyline. The whole origin of Davis was nicely retconned into what we've already learned.

And nice to see Ma and Pa Kent again, along with Lion-El, if only as a flashback.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Was that death slushy sprinkler supposed to be the cage Lionel kept him in when that Swan girl was hunting Clark last season? That machine was about amping the voltage on Kryptonite to make it radiate harder (bad, bad fake science.) and this looked like Davis was playing the biscuit game as the biscuit with half a dozen Kryptonite Men.

Just a mess.

 

[Brent]

I just can't wait until Clark reads Chloe the riot act. She SO has it coming.

This is probably going to shock everyone here, given my obsession with the Chlovage, but I agree. She's really not acting like herself, nor thinking clearly. I'm just trying to figure out if she's coming unhinged, or if there's still a bit of Brainiac left in her. The big question in my mind is, why DOES she seem to have some kind of soothing effect on Davis when he's hulking out? There has to be a more solid reason, other than the fact that he finds her cute as well.

I thought it was a pretty decent ep, with nice ties to the Veritas storyline. The whole origin of Davis was nicely retconned into what we've already learned.

And nice to see Ma and Pa Kent again, along with Lion-El, if only as a flashback.

I think the writers are just stupid and making her act more like Lana. I think they want us to hate Chloe for some reason.

 

[Guy Gardener]

There is no plan. They never have nay idea what they're doing.

 

[Hermiod]

There is no plan. They never have nay idea what they're doing.

Smallville is written by Cylons now ?

 

[Procutus]

I just can't wait until Clark reads Chloe the riot act. She SO has it coming.

This is probably going to shock everyone here, given my obsession with the Chlovage, but I agree. She's really not acting like herself, nor thinking clearly. I'm just trying to figure out if she's coming unhinged, or if there's still a bit of Brainiac left in her. The big question in my mind is, why DOES she seem to have some kind of soothing effect on Davis when he's hulking out? There has to be a more solid reason, other than the fact that he finds her cute as well.

I thought it was a pretty decent ep, with nice ties to the Veritas storyline. The whole origin of Davis was nicely retconned into what we've already learned.

And nice to see Ma and Pa Kent again, along with Lion-El, if only as a flashback.

I think the writers are just stupid and making her act more like Lana. I think they want us to hate Chloe for some reason.

I disagree, I think there is something definite going on with our beloved character, a reason for her to be acting so out of character. I really do, I'm just not at all certain what that is.

 

[Trekker4747]

I think the writers are just stupid and making her act more like Lana. I think they want us to hate Chloe for some reason.

The writers/producers with the bigger hard-on for Lana left at the end of last season.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I think it was more than a hard on. I firmly believe that if one was to venture into the Milfred basement, he would find the walls littered with Kristen Kreuk paraphernalia.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Hey, she doesn't look that bad, and maybe she smells better than she looks?

But there I go again, thinking with my nose. Sorry.