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Smallville Summer Hiatus Discussion Thread

And everyone knows that Superman can be hurt by nearly anything from Kyptron. Frakking Kyptronians and their frelling Kyptronite
 
Guy Gardener said:
And magic.

but I've never heard of a magic sword before.

it's a completely new spin.
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I assume you are being sarcastic about never having heard of a magic sword.

its also possible that its an episode where Clark is without his powers, for some reason.
 
Dorian Thompson said:
Huh. I'll be darned. That took some imagination, but doesn't that mean that the only reason Clark is with Lois is because he can't have Lana? What is it with the writers and that chick?
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nx1701g said:
^ Actually they'd already started toward Clark and Lois getting together at the beginning of the season.
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Which makes it even worse. Lois is supposed to be the actual love of his life, and Lana is the juvenile crush he grew out of.

So Clark finally starts growing into a mature attraction to Lois, which is mutual. Then Lana walks in, Clark dumps Lois like a sack of rotting shit, and he can't even think of anything but Lana while shes around.

Then Lana is physically as toxic as she always has been emotionally, Clark still loves her more than the sack of rotting shit that is Lois, but he can't go near her, so he holds his nose and starts flirting with Lois again.

Lois, like the spineless doormat, doesn't kick Clark in the balls, they just pick up where they left off. Some day they will marry, and of course if Lana ever lost her kryptonite it is now hardwired into the story that Clark would dump Lois like a sack of rotting shit again.

The only way I can keep watching the show now, and everyone here knows I was an actual fan of it, is to pretend that Lana arc never happened, it was some producer's masterbation fantasy about Kreuk that accidently got aired and no one in charge noticed.

From what Gough and Miller were doing with Lana prior to their abrupt exit from the show, it looked to me like Clark would witness Lana's dark side, realize she was human and not an adolescent perfect sex fantasy, and see that she had flaws and that his feeling were for a fantasy, not a person. He would then grow up and have a relationship start with Lois. But Gough and Miller never got to tell that story, they just had all pieces in place.

I'd love to hear the actual story they were forbidden to write that seemed to lead them to exiting from the show. It couldn't be worse than the tripe that was written into that last Lana arc.
 
Oh. You didn't hear? As Clark's super sense of smell is developing, he's going down on Lana, he says "Great Scott! Your front bum still smells like Lex Luthor!"

Apparently the aside was to classy and blue sky thinking for Smallville.

wandue responds
its also possible that its an episode where Clark is without his powers, for some reason.
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O! The sword is made form Gold Kryptonite?! Losing his powers three times a season is hardly a treat to see the farm boy overcome adversity like a pleb just because it's not brave to be invincible, but generally speaking Clark losing his powers means that he's lost his vulnerability and he can go back to playing hide the space pickle with Lana in her pickled space.
 
Odd though that he would be able to telepathically commune with humans? Different meat, different density, different voltage and ampage and different chemistry... I mean if any non kryptonian animal is fair game for his head listening, then he'd likely go mad like Buffy almost did from the excessive noise
 
Like Professor X?

Seriously though, Superman had a telepathic girlfriend in the comics who couldn't "walk" if I must bring up every "lame" telepath I can think of?
 
The telepathy doesn't bug me as much, providing they don't over use it. Although I always did like Con'El Superboy's "tactile telekinesis" which basically let him fuck up things with a touch.
 
wamdue said:
its also possible that its an episode where Clark is without his powers, for some reason.
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Again.

Scenes/cliches that need to not happen anymore on Smallville.

1) Clark tries to stop the villain of the week, usually about 15 minutes in to the episode, and gets thrown back through a wall or the ceiling in his barn. Villain escapes. (The best one was when Doomsday did it and he just happened to knock over a box with kryptonite in it! :lol: )

2) Clark superspeeds in to a situation to rescue someone and runs straight in to a room full of kryptonite meaning he needs to be saved himself. ("Justice" is the best example, ruins an otherwise great episode)

3) Villain of the week is an ordinary human who happens to have some sort of kryptonite-related thing going on (like kryptonite counterfeit money or kryptonite jewelry).

4) Or - Villain of the week is no match for Clark but becomes aware of both his abilities and how to stop them (usually by overhearing Chloe talking about it) and leads Clark in to a trap.

5) Villain of the week is defeated 30 minutes in to the episode leaving us with a 15 minute long musical montage with various shots of Clark pining over Lana/Lois.

6) Not-Quite-a-Villain (i.e. a "hero" with a generally less well developed sense of morality) disagrees with Clark and uses kryptonite/magic on him to get their own way. See Queen, Oliver; Zatara, Zatanna.

7) Clark loses his powers and is, for some reason, turned in to a normal human. Important point here - Clark is not human. His ability to store energy from a yellow sun is a natural ability just like humans have the natural ability to breathe and eat food. If anything, he should keel over and die without it.

7a) Clark loses his powers and ACCEPTS the situation, ignoring all the good that he is now unable to do.

8) Character who doesn't know Clark's secret becomes suspicious only for Clark to be briefly exposed to kryptonite or lose his powers and then get beaten up by the villain of the week right in front of said character.
 
I think they have Clarkie boy lose his powers far too often. I've read Superman comics since I was like 11 years old and only rarely did I ever see him defeated often with just Kryptonite. And Smallville is practically littered with the shit. I'm shocked that his own family farm didn't have at least a quarter ton of green K.

And Lana - good frakking riddance. I mean other than in the 70s and late 60s was Lana Lang even a "main" character let alone the one he treats like gold even when she screws him over again and again and again. I watched that ep from season 7 where she gets his powers and then turns into uber-bitch and he's still all hung up on her. She's showing her true colors ya dumbkopf its not the powers its HER!

Chloe used to be the sane one, now she's kinda goofy in her own way, but I still find her infinitely more attractive than Lana. Even Lois is kinda growing on me when she's not being an utter twat. But they need to seriously limit the Lana and GreenK in this show.

And about frelling time he's gotten a costume... now can we get it to introducing more of the League and then close this show out?
 
aside from introducing "Atom" (Ray Palmer) to the league and replacing Aquaman with an actually useful water based hero, there is not much to be done to the Smallville justice league. Im not keen on stocking it with aliens like HawkGirl, meanwhile WonderWoman is no longer relevant to the 2009 and beyond.

theLeague should be

Leader: Green Arrow
Watchtower: Chloe
Flash aka Impulse
Black Canary
Cyborg
new water based hero (ability to turn into water, even drown someone by jumping inside them and turning to water, or using water pipes to gain access to otherwise unreachable areas.
Atom

recurring heroes:
Aquaman
Superman
Martain Manhunter
Katma Tui
 
I was hoping they'd intro Green Lantern, or at least the CONCEPT of the Green Lantern. Although knowin' Smallville writers they'd BS and say the GL rings are kryptonite :rolleyes:

But I wouldn't mind seeing like Guy Gardner in the mix. He'd be awesome. Especially if they do the "bump his head - nice guy. bump his head again - total ass/badass!" thing they did during the 80s/90s. Guy would totally put the moves on Chloe.
 
NickRyder said:
I was hoping they'd intro Green Lantern, or at least the CONCEPT of the Green Lantern. Although knowin' Smallville writers they'd BS and say the GL rings are kryptonite :rolleyes:
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I can already see the snarky comments

Clark- I'm not a big fan of green.

Guy- When I was young we use to carry a lantern to guide us home.

Clark would be at odds with Guy then team up and then part ways at the end.
 
I'd think that green lanterns would either be completely off the table or completely fast tracked because of the movie?

If they could get the same guy to play Abin Sur, the bloke who gave Hal Jordan his magic ring with his last dying breaths... I understand other busniess places believe in Synergy?

You say Chloe temporarily gets Ice Maiden Powers for the duration of Guy Gardner's visit? Now that does sound interesting. :)
 
Brian Peterson and Kelly Sounders have stated that they have plans to introduce more DCU characters down the road this season other than the ones that have already been discussed to this point so Green Lantern is a possibilty. TV Guide has the season nine trailer which I assume is a cleaned up trailer shown from comic con. It seems that at the start of the season at least Clark will be in his Kal-El persona but by choice. Much like the awful Kryptonian Man storyline from the John Bryne era books and that this costume as I have theorized is a modernized version of a Kryptonian robe with the crest of the House of El on it. Keep in mind this is just a theory of mine and will probably be explained differently in the show. I can't believe we have one more month left to go before Season Nine premires.

Also I haven't been following this thread for a while so I missed if NX stated if he would be doing the weekly episode threads? I'm not sure I will be able to do it.
 
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