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Smallville 8X08 "Bloodline"-Discuss/Grade <SPOILERS>

how would you rate tonight's episode

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He did say "modern" TV. That bar itself isn't very high. The TV writing these days is generally pretty fucking awful.

And our standards used to be much lower?

I thought I was watching J-Pod from al the fucking Hugging going on. It's not an exaggeration to claim that this episode was a hug orgy. So totally weird considering how stoic and vapid kryptonians are supposed to be.

Are Jor-El and Lara really still alive?

Was Ursa Zod's mistress?

Because Lana almost certainly almost might have been if things just went a little more apocolyptical in the beginning of season 6. They kissed a little when she was trying to bargain down Zod's itch for the defining definition of an "acceptable" body count while she could reason away that they were still just Lex's lips?

How much could the royalties on Ursa's name really be?

Zod's kid turned up in the comics recently. Lois & Clark called him "Chris" and adopted the little bugger.

Lana is only attractive when she is possessed by a witches, a phantom or a vampire or replaced by a shapechanger who recently did a few scenes topless on True Blood last week. Last week on Gossip Girl, the hero had an epiphany that he was terminally boring and had nothing to offer the world. Maybe the world someday can be as honest to Lana? It's not that we don't value what's on Lana's inside at all, it's that's what's in her inside devalues her deformatively.

Laura still hasn't eaten that cookie. but she looked interesting as Mad Max Cursed earth type tribette gal... Although, 2 seconds on earth, and she gets her powers back instantly and has a make over while Clarks getting her ass kicked because she has to look bland and wear fresh make up when she saves the day? Y'see (Thinking of Jumanji here), I expected her to be holed up in a shower for 12 days trying remove the sand shoal and shells from every nook, cranny, fold and crevice on her emaciated tiny body, then by the time she gives her goodbye speech she'd still in a bathrobe with a towel rapped around her head looking like she's months away from being in her right mind and personality...

Green Arrow uses a electric voice changer, but still this is supposed to be the man that scratches her itches. It's not like she could open her eyes any wider? i do like Tes. I have nothing against her unlike some people...

Red X was a pseudonym used by Robin in the Teen Titans cartoon.

Never mind.

That which kills makes you stronger, is totally what comics doomsday is all about and exactly how he became so powerful after being murdered thousands and thousands of times over the millennia after he left Apocolypse. I'm so waiting to see what Davis has to do to himself to have bones begin growing out of his face? Is it a coincidence that there's a medical facility in the area called the Davis Clinic in season 5?

Right up to the smallville ending which tied everything off, this episode seemed to be fantastic. Does Brainiac's (or Jor-El's?) additional programming and upgrading of Chloe's wetware made her a better more talented lover? Lois seems easily scared off by... because when I noted how data Describes his capabilities as a lover and I often wonder if he was down loaded with Soong's amazing and extraordinarily broad talents or they just downloaded everything they could into him from the ultranet, since lets face it Soong replaced his own wife with a Robot, so really it's probable that his electric lover pushed him through the glass ceiling, so to speak, constantly improving his game? you would have to wonder for how long JUST Jimmy can keep this Alien Library he calls a Finance titillated and amused?
 
And our standards used to be much lower?

Well my interpretation of "modern" is the last half decade. I think the later-half of the 90s and the first few years of this decade was TVs best era. Then it took a sharp nosedive.

Was Ursa Zod's mistress? ... ... ... How much could the royalties on Ursa's name really be?
I thought Ursa was a Donner creation, no? I don't know how that works.


Lana is only attractive when she is possessed by a witches, a phantom or a vampire or replaced by a shapechanger
Lana is never attractive.

The thing is, KK is basically a pretty woman, she just takes such bad care of herself. I don't know if it's diet or if she drinks like a fish or what. But, she's like five years younger than me and yet looks like a woman five years older than me. That's not good.


I expected her to be holed up in a shower for 12 days trying remove the sand shoal and shells from every nook, cranny, fold and crevice on her emaciated tiny body, then by the time she gives her goodbye speech she'd still in a bathrobe with a towel rapped around her head looking like she's months away from being in her right mind and personality...
Mmmm. Vanderporn.... :drool: :drool: :drool:
Red X was a pseudonym used by Robin in the Teen Titans cartoon.

Never mind.
Maybe "Red X" could be the new-wave red-Krypto drug Clark gets high on?

Never mind.

That which kills makes you stronger, is totally what comics doomsday is all about and exactly how he became so powerful after being murdered thousands and thousands of times over the millennia after he left Apocolypse. I'm so waiting to see what Davis has to do to himself to have bones begin growing out of his face?
I just had this image of him binge drinking and smashing large kegs on his forehead.

Right up to the smallville ending which tied everything off, this episode seemed to be fantastic. Does Brainiac's (or Jor-El's?) additional programming and upgrading of Chloe's wetware made her a better more talented lover? Lois seems easily scared off by... because when I noted how data Describes his capabilities as a lover and I often wonder if he was down loaded with Soong's amazing and extraordinarily broad talents or they just downloaded everything they could into him from the ultranet, since lets face it Soong replaced his own wife with a Robot, so really it's probable that his electric lover pushed him through the glass ceiling, so to speak, constantly improving his game? you would have to wonder for how long JUST Jimmy can keep this Alien Library he calls a Finance titillated and amused?
That's interesting. I'm sure "Jimmy's Pal" like it. Data-Chloe must be programmed in multiple techniques.
 
Lana had potential that was ruined by the writers worshipping the ground she walked on (and by extension the characters around her worshiped her with airheaded unconditionalness, too). They had her going down the wrong road, so what do they do? Spin her around 180 degrees and head her in the completely opposite wrong direction.

And it's too bad a lot of the fans hold that against Kristen Kreuk. While not the best actress on the show (not that it would be saying much otherwise), she's pretty damn beautiful.

Saying the Luthors are among the TV all-time greats is setting the bar awfully low. Just because they're the best characters on the show isn't saying much. The Broncos are the best team in the AFC west, but they're only 5-4 and everyone else is below .500.

My problems with the Lana character had nothing to do with the beautiful Kristen Kreuk. Just the way the writers portrayed her character and her relationship with Clark. The fact that they never had Clark drop his Lana-obsession has been a major problem for his character over the past few years.
 
It was a pretty good episode, especially the part where Lois thought they were kidnapped by aliens. She is a great gal, but not the sharpest rock in the box sometimes.

I didnt really know too much about Doomsday so I read about him on Wiki so when his mom killed him I knew what that was all about and wasnt left wondering what in the world was going on. "That which kills me makes me meaner"

I think Kara telling Clark about Lois was right, but we all know he wont tell her his secret. He should have learned from his mistakes when it came to keeping his secret from Lana.

Overall it was a good episode.
 
Lana had potential that was ruined by the writers worshipping the ground she walked on (and by extension the characters around her worshiped her with airheaded unconditionalness, too). They had her going down the wrong road, so what do they do? Spin her around 180 degrees and head her in the completely opposite wrong direction.

And it's too bad a lot of the fans hold that against Kristen Kreuk. While not the best actress on the show (not that it would be saying much otherwise), she's pretty damn beautiful.

Saying the Luthors are among the TV all-time greats is setting the bar awfully low. Just because they're the best characters on the show isn't saying much. The Broncos are the best team in the AFC west, but they're only 5-4 and everyone else is below .500.


No, I think because this a fantasy/sci fi genre show people are FAR too easily dismissive of the brilliant work those two actors have oen as well as the writers in regards to their characters. You rbing your biases of the show an the genre to these characters.

I think the writing for thsoe characters is on par with some of the best written characters on tv today. What they did with Lex and Lionel opver the years is one hell of a great storyline. Characters that could have so easily been written as cardboard cutout villians were given a great amount of depth an complexity to them.

Well written characters come in many forms. It can be a simpl as being exteremely funny or as complex a tryiong to understand why a meglomaniac/sociopath turns out he way they do. Either way that character does their job EXTREMELY well within the context of what their role on the show is.


One of the best written characters ever was on a show that lasted seven years and he wasn't even a series regular but rather a recurring character. Any time he was in an episode you knew there would be something that would really make you think about where he was coming from and why hi perspective mattered. Of course I'm talking about Elim Garak who never failed to bring about you really thinking about why he was doing what he was doing and how differently he looked at the world than Bashir and the others did.

Lex and Lionel Luthor were the ENGINES that drive that show. Not the rest of the cast, even Clark. And while I enjoy this season quite a bit, as others have said, this format wouldn't last near as long before they burned out of stuff rather quickly.
 
A lot has already been said and I don't feel like typing so I'll be brief...

I can't wait to see the bottled city of Kandor on Smallville.

There you have it.

Well, I can address a few posts I suppose...

I wonder how they would ever get Clark to be Superman without being recognized in the Smallville world since they don't even have that flimsy pretext.
I've always thought that an Eradicator outfit could work, but after last week's episode where Green Arrow dressed up in a cape, rescued Jimmy and then sat there perched on a rooftop, I have something else in mind. They could have Superman be more like Batman. They could have him lurking in partial obscurity so that no one sees him or recognizes him. Just a thought.

Are Jor-El and Lara really still alive?
Did I miss something? I heard the comment Feora made about how they never came to rescue Clark, but is there more?

By the way, every time I see that name "Feora", I think about Colm Feore.

Carry on. :o
 
Did I miss something? I heard the comment Feora made about how they never came to rescue Clark, but is there more?

I doubt it that there is more to it. Raya escaped to the Phantom Zone - there were many Kryptonians who supposedly did that - but she didn't say that she encountered Jor-El or Lara so I don't think that they survived. Technically Lara did come to check on her son, but she was a clone.
 
Good episode. When they first indicated, then revealed that Davis was Zod's son, I rolled my eyes a bit. Then, after thinking about it, I warmed up to the idea. I am curious to see where this will go.

wow, they are going right with Doomsday's origin from the comics. this is great

Well, not exactly. They took the idea that he was a genetic experiment from the comics, but Doomsday was never related to Zod nor was he from the Phantom Zone (at least not since I last read the comics). This seems to be the Smallville twist with the character.
 
indiantrekker probably means that Doomsday can't be killed twice the same way. Adapting during each reboot, like from the comics.

I'm just curious how weepy moany"Claire Bennet" he's going get dealing with his invulnerability among other gifts?
 
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