Smallville 9x07 - "Kandor" - Discussion and Spoilers

[CorporalClegg]

How busy was Terrance Stamp?

I think the issue was monetary, not one of availability. The "standard wage" they pay him for a VO is significantly less than what'd they'd have to pay him for actually appearing on screen. For someone like him, I bet it'd cost more than the entire budget of an episode.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Sigh.

You'd think he'd be invested emotionally?

I mean it's common knowledge he primarily took the part on Smallville because Marlon Brando pantsed him once in front of the rest of the cast during lunch between shooting scenes on the set of Superman I.

 

[Checkmate]

Uh, why exactly would he be able to demand such a fee?

Other than the first two Superman movies, what exactly has he done where he was a major figure? Looking at his filmography, it's not exactly that impressive. And certainly not to the degree that he can demand massive fees and expect to get them.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Hugo Weaving and Guy Pierce walked out of the desert with massive careers.

Dude does movies.

Small pay for movies is huge pay for TV.

Economies of scale.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Well it isn't so much what he demands as what he's "alloted" per union rules. Sometimes, people find work-arounds and loop-holes if they really want to do something (See: Whoopi/Guinan) but those aren't always available/applicable per the wording of contracts.

 

[dru]

Oh yes, and what's so wrong about Oliver/Justin taking his shirt off?

We're not into dudes.

Some are.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Having started this, I'm not into dudes, but I'd rather watch Justin walk around with no shirt than an ugly women with an ugly body walk around with no shirt... Not that they let "ugly" people onto the set of Smallville.

Here's a score card:

Pretty shirtless women = plus.
Pretty shirtless man = neutral.
Ugly naked women = minus
ugly naked man = double minus.

Justin can walk around as shirtless as he wants in my book.

Besides, its like no onehere has ever gone fishing?

Groundbait.

If you want to catch fish, first you pour a bucket of guts and blood over the side of your dingy to get all the fishes attention.

So gentlemen, if you want to see pretty TV woman walk around shirtless, then TV Justin shirtless is your bucket of guts and blood.

Savvy?

 

[Trekker4747]

Pretty shirtless man, in all honesty, I can deal with. Justin is nice to look at I'm secure enough in my heterosexuality to admit that.

But I'd much rather there'd be pretty semi-nude attractive women.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I was watching Lexx yesterday, and there was this scene with the original Zev, when she's talking to Stanley about something and her boobs are completely exposed. I'm not a prude, but I am oblivious, because I do remember the scene from 10 years earlier and the dialogue, which was poignant but i don't remember seeing her rack before. I didn't think the boobies turned up till season three. So I had to ask myself, was the words coming out of her mouth more entertaining than the dumplings balanced on her ribcage? And then I had my answer to that question changed in the last ten years because I am a different person?

There's two ways to get boobs on camera.

Poor quality late night soft porn crap.

High quality cable Soprano's-like ultradrama.

Smallville is stuck in the middle, and I'm not sure that the show could survive getting that much better or that mush worse.

Besides it's the taboo that's sexy, more so than the melons.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I havent watched smallville in five years....and I have to say, this past episode Kandor, was probably the best episode I have ever seen. Tight writing, and really well performed. The dude playing ZOD looks like a young Liam Neeson and really did a great job. Cant wait to see where they take this...

But I have to ask? Who is Lexxy and how is she connected to Lionel/Lex, aside from being a daughter/sister to them.

Rob

 

[Guy Gardener]

They assure us that Tess "Mercy" Mercer's "creation" was not an attempt to capitalize on Sarah Palin's then relative celebrity: Obscure well dressed woman pulled to power for no discernible reason, but after the fact it seemed quite coincidental, y'know except that Tess is competent.

It was a year before Oliver called her Mercy.

Mercy is of course the name of Comics Luthor's amazonlike Chauffeur/Body Guard.

She's retroactively been spliced into green Arrows untold desert island origin. They are on and off again lovers.

Lex Luthor trusted her so much to run his little empire that he secretly surgically implanted CTV camers into her eye sockets without her knowledge.

Lex and Lionel had a terminal "falling out" well before her first appearance.

Netflix is your friend.

 

[Akiraprise]

I meant to grade this episode earlier, but this was by far the best episode of Smallville I have seen in a long time.

Excellent!

 

[Lt. Trull]

Pretty shirtless man, in all honesty, I can deal with. Justin is nice to look at I'm secure enough in my heterosexuality to admit that.

But I'd much rather there'd be pretty semi-nude attractive women.

Ditto... muchly liked those lake episodes from earlier....

 

[Guy Gardener]

With Aquaman?