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SMALLVILLE |Episode #9-19| "Charade"

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Checkmate is set up like a Chess board. There are certain pieces on the board that act as agents within the organization but they're guided by an upper class ...the Kings and Queens. There are divisions in philosophy and ideology which have pretty much been explain to a certain extent by Amanda Waller and Maxwell Lord. There are always plans within plans within plans in Checkmate though.

Forgive me if I'm wrong but Max's statement regarding metahumans...is that the first time that particular term has been used on the show? For some reason I think that it was and they've been referred to as people with abilities and prior to that "meteor freaks"
 
Nice appearance of Franklin Stern. I wonder if he'll be coming back.

And does anyone else have a feeling that White will get the job at the Planet and be able to hire Lois and Clark back?
 
^ That's my feeling as soon as Franklin was it...fired them...I think Perry will be installed as the new editor in chief in the finale or the end of "Hostage" which is the episode that he and Martha are appearing in.
 
Icemizer said:
The CW posted a full episode desrciption and it sounds like we will be disapointed again with this years ending. Way to much for a one hour episode to handle. Unless of course Lex walks out at the end.
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I agree, I just read the full description and that is indeed a lot to shove into one hour.

It'll either be the most jaw-dropping, ass-kicking Smallville finale ever, or it will suck donkey-dicks. I really don't know what to expect at this point.
 
I just read it too. On paper, it sounds great but this show has consistently disappointed when it comes to season finales.
 
Icemizer said:
Actually in the original Byrne revamp of the character Superman did blur his face so noone could get a good picture of him.
I really wont buy Martha as the Red Queen. Her personality just doesnt shout out secret organization leader. That said I have no idea who I would want to be the Red Queen.
The CW posted a full episode desrciption and it sounds like we will be disapointed again with this years ending. Way to much for a one hour episode to handle. Unless of course Lex walks out at the end.
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Remember how Martha's pappy described marrying "Kent" and raising chickens was a waste of her potential, and remember how Lionel was so impressed with her resume up to the point she married "kent" and began raising chickens when she was interviewing to be under him?

She was always supposed to be elite, possibly the red queen or something far more sinister that she could have been sitting at the table with the rest of veritas if she hadn't been sidetracked by a lover with dirty fingernails.

It's like those movies where the farmer, or town drunk turns out to be ronin/gunfighter/old fallen king Napoleon/Hitler/Kennedy who had been hiding in plain sight for the first half of the story.

Is finding a man with ink under his finger nails trading up or down from soil? Better than stained with Bourbon however.
 
^ Well there is the matter of the gift that someone brings Clark (which really could mean anything knowing these writers) along with the interesting word association game that Brian Peterson played on TV Guide Online with Natalie Abrams that I mentioned before. I lost the link to the article but two of them had to deal with Superman type deals including the supersuit.

Martha has always been a very strong character in Smallville and I wouldn't be surprised if she was the Red Queen but the episode synopsis suggests that she and Perry are in Metropolis for the reason of investigating the Red Queen (where they first learned of her in the first place is probably a more interesting question) unless Martha has been keeping secrets from Perry (we know this runs through the Kent family as well).

As for the episode synopsis for "Salvation" hold on here folks...we know that Smallville loves cliffhanger Season finales and we know that there is a season ten and they usually resolve anything lingering from the previous season in the season premirer so just because it seems like there is a ton of stuff in the finale to cover remember we are getting another season. I have had a feeling that this season would end on a cliffhanger anyway...pretty much since the announcement came down about a tenth season.
 
OK, wait, Martha keeping secrets from Perry?

I know the actors are married in RL...

I don't make a connection between Martha and Perry though, unless I've forgotten something major.

If Martha is in town from Washington, and Perry is in town looking for the Red Queen, that could actually make a lot of sense.
 
Martha. The only senator who never returns to her home state. I know they wrote her off the show but members of Congress do not stay in Washington 24/7. Though if Clark was my son, I would probably stay in Washington 24/7 too.
 
^^ Lax check out the spoiler in my thread called Martha's Surprise Revealed and take a look at Kryptonsite they have a very interesting picture of the two of them.
 
Below Average. Another disappointing episode that doesn't really do anything to move the plot forward.
 
^ I don't think it was meant to be a big episode in the arc...except for the Max Lord introduction and his place within Checkmate. This was mainly a Lois and Clark shipper.
 
Admiral_Young said:
^ I don't think it was meant to be a big episode in the arc...except for the Max Lord introduction and his place within Checkmate. This was mainly a Lois and Clark shipper.
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It's getting a bit late in the day to start wasting episodes on such things. There's an army of Kryptonians with powers out there.
 
^ Which we'll be dealing with on a pretty damned large basis in "Salvation". They need some way of building things up and making us want to actually see that confrontation.
 
Herimod "Charade" introduced Maxwell Lord and touched on further Checkmate machinations and basically allowed Lord to explain the differing factions within the organization with regards to their agenda for metahumans. Essentially though this episode was a filler episode with very minor purpose. It also served to reveal to Clark that Zod has been posing as him and using Lois for his own purpose as well so if you were paying attention to the episode they touched upon the arc in this episode. It also once more tells us that there is a character that calls herself the Red Queen and she plays an important part in the Checkmate arc. I'm not going to get into an argument with you about silly stuff because I agree with you somewhat I'm just trying to point out that the episode wasn't totally irrelevant. I've not even mentioned Clark and Lois and the Blur severing ties with her to protect her and Lois realizing this...clearly a set up for Clark becoming Superman later on.
 
Can you imagine, in a couple more years time, since there are supposed to be a couple more seasons, he'll be 35 and Clark still won't be Superman
 
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