Anyone else watch this tonight?

It went about as expected with Clark, I think. Nice to see him finally starting to be more like Superman. But what a horrible costuming decision. And I still want to rip my ears off every time someone calls him the red/blue blur. Ugh.

As for the season arc, connecting to something in the future, again, ugh. I intentionally didn't watch Flashforward because I think this is a really hard story conceit to do properly, and I trust the Smallville team to pull it off even less than I did the Heroes team for the past two years. I can think of two occasions it went well - Heroes' first season, and Babylon 5 - and in both of those cases there were still significant issues with it. No way do I picture this being an effective device this year.

Brian Austin Green as Metallo is cool though (by John Corbin in this ep, more clearly in the ad). I guess his other show he was supposed to be on after Terminator must not have gotten picked up. But at least there's one new character who I think will be at least somewhat entertaining.

Then the Zod stuff. Clearly this whole episode was written around "kneel before Zod," and it actually worked. This story I actually think is interesting. It's a younger version. Is it time travel? Is it cloning? Is it something else? More mention of Kandor and the bottle, and pretty much this seems like the only genuinely original and interesting plot to be introduced.

The writers even gave themselves an out with the horrible Jimmy Olson thing from last year, and didn't take it. I'm starting to hope for a Dallas thing where this is like a completely branched timeline and that somehow things eventually get reset. Because otherwise, just...too many stupid ideas piling up on top of each other.

Last year gave me a glimmer of hope that maybe the show could be better again (at least the first half of last year), but this premier says they're going to do more of the bland and dull this year. Shame.

Mason is Zod... WEEE!

okay that was very unmanly of me...

But I've greatly missed the cast of Dead like me.

also Nightscream left NBSG to run Starlabs... lets hope he gets to work on a powergirl

Copied my post from the other thread...thanks for doing this Galenraff....


A great start to the season and possibly the best season opener since the fifth IMO. It would seem that the showrunners actually have a plan for this season so we'll have to watch and see if they do. Lots of stuff happened in this episode, sowing the seeds for the rest of the season and potentially setting up a colossal finale come May. I loved Zod, read a theory on another board that these Kryptonians are actually clones produced from blood samples contained in the Orb as a failsafe Jor-El planned should Clark not have survived the trip from Krypton. It actually explains their behavior and Major Zod. Remember the real Zod and the rest of his followers are still trapped in the Phanton Zone and this Zod seems to have no memory of being on Earth two years ago. The ninja assasin who atttacked Lois but was really after Clark is interesting, she seemed to have intimate knowledge of him and be romantically involved somehow since she had Jonathon's watch...unless she stole it from him or something. Her name is credited as being Alia by the way. John Corben is interesting. The next episode's title is Metallo so it would seem we will be seeing his alter ego quick. Lois's vision at the end is very interesting....indeed.

I was disappointed by the preview showing that they're going straight to Corbin becoming Metallo so soon, I was hoping for a few more episodes of him just as himself.

I had assumed Zod and his troops had somehow been pulled out of the past, since he's still Major Zod and not yet a general, but the idea of them being clones also works with the mention one of them made of having blood taken.

The writers already gave themselves an out with "Jimmy" Olson. They led us to believe he was *the* Jimmy Olson, only to kill him off and yell, "Sike! Nevermind!" at the funeral when they made it pretty clear that his younger brother is actually the Jimmy that comes to befriend Superman and Clark Kent. Pretty lame. They keep writing themselves into corners and coming up with contrived runarounds. I hope they hugging wrap things up this season and finally put the show out of its misery.

Well if the raitings continue to take a nose dive...we won't have to worry about a season ten. For some reason I think we'll finally see Superman appear at the end of this season. The events shown in Lois's dream are a precursor to setting Clark up to becoming Superman finally I think.

Dark Destroyer

Well that's what happens when you put a tv show in a Friday night death slot.

I'm willing to lay down money that this will be the most geek central season of them all.
That being said I'll be pissed if the show gets axed before they can finished the season, as it will more than likely be the last

That seems likely, as a whole bunch more DC characters are apparently going to be appearing. Including:

HIGHLIGHT to view:

The Wonder Twins
Roulette
Justice Society of America
Speedy (Mia Dearden)

But when are we going to see Batteen, or bat boy, or whatever you want to call young batman!

That would be never. They're not allowed to use him.

Why? I know, the Bat embargo, or whatever it's called. But it still makes absolutely no sense!

I'm going to be superannoyed (heh) if they don't give us a few episodes of a full-suited Superman before Smallville finally goes off the air. I really think the show has floundered exactly because they flat-out refuse to make a Superman show. Instead we get drama reminiscent of the worst soap opera cliches. Snooze.

We're never going to see Bruce Wayne or Batman. The closest we got was the abandoned arc that turned into the character of Adam Knight. As for getting a Superman payoff..they seem to be finally laying the seeds over the past season and into this season so if this summer is the series finale I hope we get to see Superman. There also could be more DC characters making appearances, those above are just the ones we know about.

Dark Destroyer