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Smallville - 9x17 "Upgrade" Discussion and Spoilers

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Ok, the S-shield douche-tagging makes sense when he's possessed. We need him to grow a douche tag when he's mirror Clark though.

As far as the dialogues on this show.. You know, it was cute when they portrayed Chloe as a 14-year-old uber-geek who gets off on words because she reads too much.. But at this point no-one on this show talks like people, except, paradoxically, aliens and robots.
 
Was it really smart for Zod to try to empower everyone right there in the seat of Jor-El's magical land of do-whatever-he-wants-including-empowering/depowering-people-with-Kryptonian-powers?
 
Now for my two cents Red K usually makes him prone to suggestion am I right or not.




[twikivoice]biddi-biddi-biddi-biddi! What's up, Buck?[/twikivoice]


Hey Dude, to answer your question, the Red K tends to work a bit like alcohol does on a human, it lowers his inhibitions and lets the parts of his personality that he holds in check have free reign. Silver K, I believe, makes him paranoid (more than normal, that is).

As Jetfire said, next week's ep is 'Charade' featuring another character from the DCU. Should be interesting.

Sent you a PM, be sure to check it out.


:)
 
Was it really smart for Zod to try to empower everyone right there in the seat of Jor-El's magical land of do-whatever-he-wants-including-empowering/depowering-people-with-Kryptonian-powers?

Seriously. Superior powers breeds superior ambition as Spock would note. They'd be at each other's throats and at Zod's throat in a second.

I very much enjoyed this episode. Evil Clark is a hell of a lot more interesting than Good Clark and him and Zod together was fun. The return of BAG was another highlight too and I like that he was the hero. Of course, this being SV you're not going to get a big fight but the FX there was impressive. Liked the space needle scene too. Also liked Clark referring to Lex when speaking with Zod.

Didn't care for Clark having a raging boner for Zod. You want to know why Chloe is stockpiling kryptonite? Because despite knowing what Zod will become and the fact that he is a murderer and criminal out for his own power, Clark considers him a brother. Chloe has nothing to apologize for whatsoever. She's the only one thinking about the safety of the planet but Clark would rather playing hug-it-out with his "brother" Zod. The Kryptonians are dangerous and tonight's episode should have served as a notice as to how dangerous they are when they work together. Even Superman realized this, that's why he gave Batman a kryptonite ring just in case he ever turned to the dark side.

Not to mention Tess's ever-changing motivations.
 
^at least clark admitted to chloe that what she has hidden played a hugh part in saving the planet in that particular alternate future.
all hail the multiverse :bolian:
 
When is Clark gonna build his robots to gather all the Kryptonite and get it off the earth???

:lol:
 
Zod: "Didn't you ever have someone who was like your opposite yet close to you?"

Clark: "Yeah, I had a friend like that...in fact he was posessed by you once...or the real non-clone you...I think. I'm confused. BTW, we totally killed your son last year...or alternate you's son. I think. Your computer the year before, then bizarro me...too many frenemies to keep track of...there's like a legion of them...all out to doom me."
 
I have to be honest here: I think I've lost complete interest in this series and that's something that's very hard for me to say.

I'm not that interested in it that much either.

The comical episodes like Clark and Lois at a B&B and kids being Warrior angel are just putting me off.

I remember when Smallville and Enterprise premiered at nearly the exact same time.

The cinematography in how they shot the first few seasons was pretty cool. Felt like any other Vancouver based show.
 
Was pretty good. Is it me or does Zod's mouth look annoying. Everytime I see him speak I want to yell, "FIX YOUR MOUTH!!" His upper lip looks like he has no teeth behind it even though he does.
 
Man! This was a fantastic episode! The show is exciting again!








NAWWWWT!!!



My interest is waning too. Like I've been saying for weeks, I've had my fill. The show is getting stale. I'm not looking forward to slogging through another season, but I will. Please bring on Darksied, Perry, yadda... yadda... yadda... That'll keep me awake.

By the way, this thread is really long. I figured either Clark flew or all the regular commentary folk showed up the same night. Sorry to hear it was the latter. :p

I still think this sudden realization of Lo's that Clark's the one for her just feels, I don't know, contrived. Forced. Out-of-the-blue.


Something.

It's been forced since day 1
I have to admit, this is one of the things the show does well at this point. The chemistry between this Lois & Clark works.

Um, why scrub the symbol, I'd just paint over it, much easier
I spent the whole scene thinking of stuff she could use to cover the S. She could have put a computer monitor or a fridge in front of it.

Gee clark, just leave the Fortress wide open for Zod why don't ya, don't even try to protect it

Was it really smart for Zod to try to empower everyone right there in the seat of Jor-El's magical land of do-whatever-he-wants-including-empowering/depowering-people-with-Kryptonian-powers?

^ It was if Jor-El isn't answering/responding to him.

Because, clearly, that means he isn't home.

^ I don't think he is.
Don't let him fool you. He's home. He's hiding in the basement because he hates guests.

As Jetfire said, next week's ep is 'Charade' featuring another character from the DCU. Should be interesting.
Ooh! Charades? That'll be fun.
 
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