Smallville 10x05 "Isis" - Discussion and Spoilers

[Admiral_Young]

Well remember that his jacket is for his public persona and he hasn't had to face a public threat and the Isis stuff took place during the night lol, but yeah he really should have been wearing it oh well, Tom probably hates it as well.

What a difference though. I was just thinking that the episode where Clark finally tells Lois in "Lois and Clark" was a HUGE event episode that everyone was talking about including my parents. I remember watching it taped at a family party and everyone kept checking in to see if Clark had told her yet. "Smallville" has no large mainstream audience following like it's predecessor did and no one gives a damn because they've taken so long to get to this point lol.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

I like Cat.

For God's sake, WHY? HOW?!? She's so...

When you get to be my age, it's amazing how much you'd be willing to pay for an hour with a really dumb blonde with a really nice rack.

but really all that should have happened was Clark punching the beautiful bald boy and then verbally qualifying the act with something like "Don't look surprised! You know exactly what you did!"

Actually I do that all the time. I never actually know what anyone has done, but everyone has done something one time or another, so all of them look up at me from the floor ashamed and apologetic.

 

[Othello]

That was bad.. really bad...

 

[Greg Cox]

Okay, I'm obviously in the minority here, but I was really looking forward to this ep. I mean, it's "Isis"--from the old tv show and "52"--how cool is that? And they even threw in a Black Adam reference. And Lois looked great as Isis.

I also find Cat entertaining. Sure, she's an annoying twit. That's the whole point. She's fun comedy relief.

So what if it's "filler"? I've never subscribed to the modern idea that an ep is a waste of time if it doesn't advance some sort of arc plot. Sometimes standalone episodes are more satisfying than one that spends half its length setting up future developments, or that gets bogged down in a show's convoluted mythology. If an episode is fun and amusing, who care is nothing "important" happens?

My one complaint: you can't mention the "Green Arrow Girls" and not show them to us!

 

[Admiral_Young]

Smallville's filler episodes tend to be...unwatchable. This was one of them. I did like the Black Adam reference though as I mentioned in one of my posts, and Erica did look hot in that dress. It was actually nice to get to see her act for once, too bad it wasn't as Lois lol. Her reaction when Clark finally tells her at the end was a nice touch as well if over doing it. I cringed when she said earlier in the episode knowing that he was the Blur only made her love her more. Again...do we have to ask the question is Lois actually in LOVE with Clark or the Blur? I wish writers didn't have to always take this road with Lois and Clark, this is an aspect of the Superman films that always has bugged me.

 

[Jetfire]

^
She was devoted to The Blur and I don't think she was that way toward Clark...but now she knows...it is hard to tell.

 

[sojourner]

It seemed pretty transparent to me that Cat Grant is being modeled after Bridget Jones, right down to a look-alike actress.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You think she's fat?

(The book says she's annoyed by her bigness and Rene gets to almost double her auditioning weight for these movies.)

I thought she was more like Lana was in the comics, constantly failing to prove that Clark Kent is really Superboy.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ This, I don't think I really see the Bridget Jones comparison except maybe in the looks and she's not fat at all.

 

[Guy Gardener]

^ This, I don't think I really see the Bridget Jones comparison except maybe in the looks and she's not fat at all.

The character from the book thought she was fat and just might have been larger than all her friends, in the movie they cast a skinny American who they let eat for a few months until she approached the usual weight of a civilian, but still half the size of the character she was supposed to be accurately depicting for the script to make any sense.

Intense investigation on my part has empirically proven that "the bigger the cushion the better the pushing" is a completely true assertion.

 

[Trekker4747]

I wouldn't call Cat "fat", though I have in these threads. She does have a bit of a pudgy face that's fairly obvious when she wears her hair up. She annoys me so while she's certainly not fat and is a girl I'd be interested in, her squeaky, annoying, voice and character are enough to make me dislike her enough to call her "fat."

It's sort of like how you see a guy with a fat, ugly, woman and you wonder why he's with such a beast and someone says, "But he loves her. So it doesn't matter."

Same idea with Cat. She annoys me and makes my ears bleed so I'm going to exaggerate her flaws and size.

 

[Roshi]

Yeah I'll agree about that...it's like they felt that they needed to have a character that was anti-hero or something. All of this being said I must say that I'm looking forward to "Abandonment". Lois's first trip to the Fortress and she meets the Julian Sands Jor-El and Helen Mirren is back as Lara. Not to mention Justin's wife Lindsay makes her Smallville debut!!!

Helen Slater, not Mirren

 

[Lt. Trull]

he was right.... helen Mirren as the geriatric super girl....

 

[sojourner]

It's funny that everyone seems to think the only character aspect of Bridget Jones is the word "fat". I was thinking more along the lines of bumbling, shrill, fish-out-of-water, silly girl.

 

[Jetfire]

I must be the only person who likes Cat Grant. If we see her again...I hope they show her character growing. I think if Clark stepped out of the shadows...like she said a hero should do in "Shield" she would have a problem with Superheroes...she seems cool with Ollie/Green Arrow.

 

[Greg Cox]

It's funny that everyone seems to think the only character aspect of Bridget Jones is the word "fat". I was thinking more along the lines of bumbling, shrill, fish-out-of-water, silly girl.

I still think she's meant to be more of an Elisabeth Hasselbeck type . . . .

 

[Jetfire]

^
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is hot!

 

[Procutus]

I must be the only person who likes Cat Grant. If we see her again...I hope they show her character growing.

If she comes back... I hope that AI Jor-El finds a way to re-open the Phantom Zone and she is banished there forever.




The show desperately needs Allison Mack to return... NOT more of Cat Grant.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Hmmm I can see the Elizabeth Hasselbeck comparisons, she'd be against "vigilante's" as well lol.

 

[Jetfire]

I don't care what anyone says...Cat Grant is awesome & saving this series...along with Tess...who we haven't seen much of. More Ollie and more Lois...it doesn't work...they aren't as interesting as they use to be...and Clark!?