Smallville: T-2 - 10x19 "Dominion" - Discussion and Spoilers
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I don't know what people expect. Smallville is the type of show that constantly makes instant magical changes to the cores of who certain characters are with like, 3 lines of dialogue, and solves world crises with 3 second fights. I though this was a fun episode, and I for one enjoy "the filler" ones better than the useless "arc" ones about Darkseid. With this level of writing (Pacino couldn't make their being-clever dialogue sound convincing), what more can one hope for than to be slightly entertained?
Another thought, if a Kryptonian acts as a solar battery, I can get how exposure to red sun could override the yellow charge, but an absence of any sun shouldn't instantly depower him, at least until he drained whatever engergy he had stored.. So it would make more sense to say the PZ acts in some other way that alters Kryptonian physiology. Also, randomly, has there ever been a strain of Kryptonite that actually grants Superman his powers in environments he usually wouldn't have them?
Another thought, if a Kryptonian acts as a solar battery, I can get how exposure to red sun could override the yellow charge, but an absence of any sun shouldn't instantly depower him, at least until he drained whatever engergy he had stored.. So it would make more sense to say the PZ acts in some other way that alters Kryptonian physiology. Also, randomly, has there ever been a strain of Kryptonite that actually grants Superman his powers in environments he usually wouldn't have them?
You saw the finale already?
Good stuff. Lots of blood.
WTF?
I do dare say, was that Captain Cold I saw in the trailer for next week?
Anyway, I'm still perplexed with people's insistence that Darkseid is this season's primary story arc when it clearly isn't. It has squarely been about the Lois/Clark relationship coupled with the move on going public. Darkseid was clearly intended to be a sub-plot to enhance the main drive of the season.
The episode was bloody. It was awesome as if Zack Snyder directed Superman.
Wait...
(Actually, it was nothing like 300 at all, I was just making a joke. But if I have to explain it, it no longer is a joke. It becomes a sentence.)
Anyway, I'm still perplexed with people's insistence that Darkseid is this season's primary story arc when it clearly isn't. It has squarely been about the Lois/Clark relationship coupled with the move on going public. Darkseid was clearly intended to be a sub-plot to enhance the main drive of the season.
The episode was bloody. It was awesome as if Zack Snyder directed Superman.
Wait...
(Actually, it was nothing like 300 at all, I was just making a joke. But if I have to explain it, it no longer is a joke. It becomes a sentence.)
^ Oh I know it was bloody just the tone of the poster's post would suggest that is all they were interested in seeing.
There was also Black Manta, Solomon Grundy, Dark Archer and Toyman was on the screen.
So many more threads??? Like what??? The last 3 seasons if not more have been Clark standing at the precipice of becoming Superman. The only threads left are the ones in the red and blue suit he need to put on.
A few things to say...
- I was pretty tired, so I had to watch the episode in two installments over two nights.
- I agree with Brent. It was a boring filler episode. Didn't like the drab colors either.
- I couldn't figure out what movie they were imitating this week. I thought it was Thor or Gladiator. Didn't figure on 300.
- Proc is right. When the episode is bad, these threads make up for it with entertainment value.
- I was pretty tired, so I had to watch the episode in two installments over two nights.
- I agree with Brent. It was a boring filler episode. Didn't like the drab colors either.
- I couldn't figure out what movie they were imitating this week. I thought it was Thor or Gladiator. Didn't figure on 300.
- Proc is right. When the episode is bad, these threads make up for it with entertainment value.
I love how he said NOOO!!! at the end. It was more like NAAW-UHH! or someting like that. He was trying to say "Nooo!!!" wasn't he?
That gal behind Zod has a huge set of ta-tas on her!
You know, I just did a Jack Bauer-style "Dammit!" when I read Proc's post above. Missed it again.
That reminds me... Aethyr and whatshisface are probably there.
I was hoping we'd see Kalibak, but we didn't. There's still time I guess. And speaking of Darkseid, I think we'll see him. Doing him properly might have been a drain on the budget, so they had to save him until the end.
A pink kryptonite episode might have been fun.
Are they? I was nodding off.
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Missed the red cape.Atleast Clark had a red cape in this ep.
I was about to ask what that was.[edit] And I believe the black tears of the angel at the end was Darkseid.
It sounds like the show is going the VOY route by spinning its wheels with disposable episodes that pretty much could have been told in any season and saving everything for the 2 hour finale rather than choosing the DS9 route of doing an exciting arc that built up to the finale.
I lost interest in the show years ago but thought if I heard good things about the final season I would catch it--now it seems like an easy pass. I mean how could they screw up Darkseid, Desaad, Granny Goodness yet they seem to have by de-emphasizing this more interesting material and focusing on boring filler. I will check out the finale in 2 weeks out of curiosity of how they wrap it up and with the hope of seeing Tom in the Superman costume.
I lost interest in the show years ago but thought if I heard good things about the final season I would catch it--now it seems like an easy pass. I mean how could they screw up Darkseid, Desaad, Granny Goodness yet they seem to have by de-emphasizing this more interesting material and focusing on boring filler. I will check out the finale in 2 weeks out of curiosity of how they wrap it up and with the hope of seeing Tom in the Superman costume.
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Missed the red cape.Atleast Clark had a red cape in this ep.
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The fight between Oliver & Clark...Clark is wearing a red-ish cape...the lighting makes it look darker...but it is red.
I would have had Clark fly mid-season.
I've had the idiot flying by Season Six when the JL was formed and he was battling Phantoms... Ah well.
^ Honestly...I'd have him fly after graduation but oh well. I was just meaning this season
The series really started going when it started picking up more and more of the DC heroes, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow as the series progressed more and more into that and delving more into the DC/Superman mythos they should've given him flight, esp in the JLA episode.
I've had the idiot flying by Season Six when the JL was formed and he was battling Phantoms... Ah well.
Yeah, that's really the pathetic part. Even if he's got some BS mental block, or whatever, his BODY has been able to fly for the better part of the decade. Which season was it where he ripped the door off of Lex's plane while under Red K (or whatever)? Season 4? And that was just the real, hard-core flying. He had controlled flight in the first season, when he flew into the tornado to rescue lana...
I've had the idiot flying by Season Six when the JL was formed and he was battling Phantoms... Ah well.
Yeah, that's really the pathetic part. Even if he's got some BS mental block, or whatever, his BODY has been able to fly for the better part of the decade. Which season was it where he ripped the door off of Lex's plane while under Red K (or whatever)? Season 4? And that was just the real, hard-core flying. He had controlled flight in the first season, when he flew into the tornado to rescue lana...
Start of season four is when the "Kal-El" personality flew for Clark, at the end of the episode Clark loses the "ability."
End of S1 he goes into a troando and in the first episode of S2 he infers to Ma and Pa Kent that he felt like he was controlling himself within the tornado.
Second episode of the series? Clark flies on his own by hovering over his bed before waking up.
During S2 with the nonsense about the caves it's sort-of implied the Clark was "sleep flying" to the caves during the night.
So, Clark has pretty much had the ability to "fly" in some way or another for the entire series and could even make the argument that Clark's super-jumps in which he's able to control the height and distance of the jump is a form of "flying."
They really should've done it at some point in this season making it the last "Clark gains a power" episode.