I loved it. Great bullet catch and I am glad Clark kissed Lois. I thought it was going to be a dream sequence or somebody was going to stop them before they actually kissed. It is about time they stop dragging stuff out.
Smallville - 9x06 "Crossfire" - Discussion and Spoilers
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You'd be better of going to kryptonsite for a description of the episode.
You'd be better of going to kryptonsite for a description of the episode.
Tess's bodyguard totally looked like Billy Zane! and Speedy looks like Kristen Bell.
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im smelling future budding relationship with chloe and tess's tech boy wonder.
I missed an episode. Can someone explain to me why Zod and his crew dont got superpowers like Clark?
Their bodies are only freshly created. So they have not stored up enough solar energy yet. So, like Clark did, they will get powers slowly over time as they get saturated.
But that tower they were talking about this episode is obviously for speeding up that process. And the company that LuthorCorp (a Queen Industries subsidiary) partnered with to create it? RAO? That's the name of Krypton's primary god figure. Rao. Sun god.
Is that a guess on your part or have you found a really good spoiler source?
If this is valid, well and good, but if it's just a guess you really shouldn't be giving out your ideas as THE answer.
How's about it? Inside info, or informed imagination?
As for the "freshly created" thing, I remember the line about 'The last thing we remember is having our blood drawn before the battle...'
I'm guessing they're some type of clone, but Zor-El's method or "replicating" (or whatever term he used) produced people who were fully powered immediately, even if they'd been non-powered and on Krypton when "patterned". Odd that Zod's method would be so different in its results.
The non saturation is a nice idea. I might go with that. I had assumed that who ever had created them had decided that they would be easier to manipulate as gamepieces sans powers, and their would only be upped into Super people if and when it was necessary to fufill the overall agenda of... Who is the big bad this year?
They were gathered by the crystal made from the elements which made the Fortress, so surely copy/grandfather AI of Jor-El from the Fortress at the heart of this, or the architect of the fortress and the element-quest which was set up hundreds of years ago alongside Veritas?
Methinks someone who can travel though time has been setting this crap up.
i like it that these kandorians have to use there superior alien general knowledge and intellect to win out the day, which is something Kara to my dissmay never bothered with because she was distracted joining up with Kasas beauty pagents like Miss Corn Husk.
I like how they're filtering the light to convey emotion.
I liked Speedy. I wonder if she has AIDS like the character in the comics? Why else keep her origin as a prostitute if they were not going to go down that road? What a time for Chloe to NOT have healing powers any more.
They were gathered by the crystal made from the elements which made the Fortress, so surely copy/grandfather AI of Jor-El from the Fortress at the heart of this, or the architect of the fortress and the element-quest which was set up hundreds of years ago alongside Veritas?
Methinks someone who can travel though time has been setting this crap up.
i like it that these kandorians have to use there superior alien general knowledge and intellect to win out the day, which is something Kara to my dissmay never bothered with because she was distracted joining up with Kasas beauty pagents like Miss Corn Husk.
I like how they're filtering the light to convey emotion.
I liked Speedy. I wonder if she has AIDS like the character in the comics? Why else keep her origin as a prostitute if they were not going to go down that road? What a time for Chloe to NOT have healing powers any more.
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This episode was extremely LAME. My old man decided to stop over as I was watching and I felt like I had to keep explaining that I wasn't gay because I was watching this shit...
Hey, is Stuart going to be Chloe's new love interest or something?
It's incredible. Lois has Clark lusting after her despite treating him like crap for five years and has a billionaire like Ollie wanting to throw himself at her. Chloe, despite being intelligent, beautiful, and loyal, is reduced to settling for criminals like Stuart, psychos like Davis (although I really did like his character) and losers like Jimmy.
It's incredible. Lois has Clark lusting after her despite treating him like crap for five years and has a billionaire like Ollie wanting to throw himself at her. Chloe, despite being intelligent, beautiful, and loyal, is reduced to settling for criminals like Stuart, psychos like Davis (although I really did like his character) and losers like Jimmy.
Pretty Woman reference overload!
Bummed out we didn't see Tess actually kill the Kandorian. Tess Murderer is so fun to watch.
What was with the blue-lighting in the end shots...it was so callum blue...
CLARK GOTZ THE SUPER TONGUE ACTION, YOU GO, SUPERBOY!
He had sex with her too, but it was too fast for us to see. Not even Lois knew until she had an earth shattering orgasm about 30 seconds later.
It is a theory I have stated since the season's first episode that the Kandorians are brand new clones. Grown from blood samples and memory recordings stored in that Orb.
That comment about giving a blood sample and then waking up here on Earth indicates a cloning process much like the Jackal used on Peter Parker back in the day, or in the movie The 6th Day with the Governator, was used to make these clones (but without needing a blank body like in that movie).
Why aren't they powered? Given that Zod is just a Major and not a General, this was an earlier attempt of that technology. Likely made by Jor-El when he first theorized that Krypton was going to explode. No one believed him, but he wanted to save his race. So he likely took these samples on the sly, back up copies of the Kandorian elite with scientists, doctors, soldiers, himself, and likely some philosophers and theologians. And at that point in time, he was not able to make them with a full solar charge.
He likely stashed it on Earth coming here via the gateway in the cave, just as Lara and Kara were shown to have done. Thinking of it as a remote back up drive, ensuring the survival of the Kryptonian race.
So for these Kandorians, they went from there to here in just a second. At least how they see it. I don't think they realize they are clones quite yet. They think they were transported here against their will. And obviously don't know of the portal the family of El have set up, or else Zod would have gone to the cave near Smallville first thing. And thereby would have found the Fortress.
While the Fortress was likely made when Kryptonians first discovered Earth. Another remote back up drive. But this time, the repository of all Kryptonian knowledge. Left on Earth centuries ago. And if that is so, how is Jor-El's mind in the Fortress? Easy. When the pieces of the crystal were brought together and assembled, the octagonal key Jor-El sent, that housed the AI, was also inserted into the table. And it downloaded the AI into the crystal as it fused together. Thus becoming part of the Fortress.
But all of these are just my educated guesses. Given that I have seen every episode as it has aired, read comics since around 1970, and done a few other things that are hard to explain, the pieces of this puzzle weren't hard to put together for me. I may have some details wrong, but I am certain of the overall theory. It makes sense.
totally disagree there, they look nothing alike
I have to watch the first half of the episode but I caught the second half and thought it was great. They finally kiss. Hopefully they go somewhere with it. From Lois's vision it seems they do. I liked Mia but also disagree that she looks like Kristen Bell...she looks more like Katie Vogele from One Tree Hill IMO. Tess and Zod's "alliance" seems to be cemented and did anyone else think that their solar towers resemble a certain future corporate headquarters? Perhaps this is the start of the Smallville version of LexCorp tower. I'm curious to see how the Tess part of Lois's vision plays out where she's shown wearing a green military tank top kneeling as someone (Zod I assume) places dog tags around her neck.
It was a quick way to shut her up at the very least.
As I mentioned earlier, I think it is a massive solar collector designed to give the Kandorians a concentrated burst of energy and unlocking their full power. But I suppose it could be modified into the Lexcorp tower, although it doesn't have that L shape to it. Or just re-envision what it looks like (like they have everything else).
^ I mentioned it when the holograms were first shown that they could be the LexCorp tower.
The structure could easily be modified to make the double L's and the holograms did seem to have a base that extended outward slightly. In reality the hologram was really a replica of the Petronas Twin Towers which (oddly) does seem to look like a double L because of the base.
The structure could easily be modified to make the double L's and the holograms did seem to have a base that extended outward slightly. In reality the hologram was really a replica of the Petronas Twin Towers which (oddly) does seem to look like a double L because of the base.
Average. Nothing important happened, nothing moved at all really, except the whole Tess/Zod bit. Some nice character stuff though and bits of the Clark/Lois banter were fun.
Smallville is still the best at casting any female speaking role with a smoking hot babe though.
Smallville is still the best at casting any female speaking role with a smoking hot babe though.
