RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media I watched Smallville last night.....

.... Can someone please kill me now? This was the worst piece of shit ever put on TV. And I'm including Cop Rock. What a load of horse shit! Did a fucking six year-old write that trash? Oh.... wait.... it was probably Jeph Loeb. And, like all Jeph Loeb stories, I knew the ending pretty much from the very beginning.

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So Kal's pappa was on Earth 42 years ago and met the parent, grandparent, or aunt of ever major player in the current show. For some reason that is completely unknown and not even attempted to be explained, Lex's granddad shows up in 1961 Smallville and tries to commit an armed mugging IN BROAD DAYLIGHT ON THE TOWN'S BUSY MAIN STREET! And it gets even more retarded from there.

The shitty psuedo-science they used to explain Clark's flashbacks almost made me vomit. Apparently, grandpa Kent was such a good judge of character that he had absolutely no problem helping a suspected murder escape to a mysterious rendevous with his friends. Grandpa Kent, you're a fucking tool.

There's more, much more, shit in this episode. I just don't have the strength or sanity left to go list them.

Why would they have Jor-El on Earth?...oy...

So we can have this crap-ass episode.

i liked it. first time they showed flight. The murder of Lex's grandpa was great.

Ok. I can explain the reasons why I didn't like it. Can you tell me why you did?

Smallville can be pretty up and down. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's terrible. This looked like one of the episodes I wanted to avoid. I hate those stories that show some "past history" where in some contrived way the characters all met each other beforehand. I hate that predestination/fate crap.

I completely forgot to watch or tape this show last night, but it sounds kinda hokey. In fact, it reminds me of an old Silver Age story from 1963 called "The Babies of Smallville" which told a flashback story in which Baby Clark, Baby Lana, and even Baby Lex foiled a bunch of crooks. It was bad, but in the context of the Silver Age it was fun. I'm not saying that this episode is on par with that silly story (since I haven't seen it), but it's not the first time that I've been ticked off at the improbability of the events in the show.

Some of the stunts they pull would work better in the context of a sitcom like the Simpsons or Futurama (where the status quo is always restored by the end of the episode), but not in a pseudo-drama sci-fi show like Smallville. Clark Kent should long ago have been exposed to the world many times over for the stunts he's pulled in the context of the show. It doesn't do much to hold up the suspense of disbelief necessary for any sci-fi show.

yeah, ok. it was corny and silly.

y'sorta havta check all that at the door when tuning into watch smallville. its comes with the territory.

"doctor who" wasn't exactly shakespeare.

the one universal characteristic of comic book / sci fi (etc) fans is they'll always see something else within the field and comment on it negatively, without realizing that someone could provide similar nitpicks about anything else in the genre, even something they like. ... the other universal characteristic is that they'll one day point that out to someone else.

just as mufasa told simba, its the circle of life.

that said, yeah, ill concede, this episode was towards the lower end of the spectrum for the most part.

im also notta big fan of the "hey, i look just like my grandfather, and you look just like your grandmother" type things, so the characters can play themselves in the flashbacks. silly. and, ok, the fact that all major stars in the current-day scenes have relatives that all interacted in exactly the same several-day span is also a lil too coincidental.

we could nitpick that to death, or just accept it as a "lets not pay too much attention" aspect that all comic/sci fi fans should adopt.

if you can allow yerself to get past it...

the episode had its moments. for one thing, lana is pretty frickin hot, especially portraying her apparently-slutty aunt. bonus.

the flying scene was actually pretty cool. it was a way for "clark" to reveal he's superman to "lana" (to the fans) without it actually happening, and thus, killing all suspense and build up the show offers to the superman story. like dreaming of christmas morning the night before the actual day.

the idea of having jor-el actually scope out places around the universe also had its merrits. instead of the classic "we love our son and want to save him... lets shoot him into space!" storyline, which never made much sense to me... we have a father figure who, in an effort to save his son, sends him to a place he's already A-OK'd. he interviewed the babysitter, got the references, and signed his approval. "smallville will protect my son."

its a twist on the superman mythos that, good or bad, at least gives the opportunity of telling a new story (rather than just replaying the 1977 superman film)

then, there's the developing luthor storylines... the rift/bond growing between lex and his father -- how lex seemingly wants to act like both clark, but the lex luthor we've all known for years is still inside. the fact that lionel is so our-lex-luthor-like that he (possibly) murdered his own family out of shame of their lack-of-power.

so there was good.

and, the modern lesson is that you take the good. you take the bad. you take them both? ... you know.

The way I saw it, they were having fun with the show. That deserves some merit. Smallville tends to be too melodramatic which can get damn depressing.

Any episode with Lionel's shady past is a good one to me. Next week's seems a little lame, so I hope there's enough with Luthor to balance out the 'freak of the week'.

as long as marlon brando didn't play jor-el, it has some redeming value then.

Rob said: "its a twist on the superman mythos that, good or bad, at least gives the opportunity of telling a new story (rather than just replaying the 1977 superman film"

Caught ya, Robbie!!! A gaffe!

The SUPERMAN film was released in 1978....

-Jim

You embarrass even me, sir.

What I personally like most about Smallville is that my city -- Vancouver -- is Metropolis, and that I used to go to the school that is now Smallville High on the small screen. That's too cool.

And yes, Vancouver IS that beautiful.

I like Smallville, it's entertaining and it's not on Fox or NBC.

The one thing that killed me about the mentioned episode, was that Clark saw Jor-El fly in his flashback.

Yet, Clark is still clueless that he can fly. If I was him, I'd be jumping off the barn roof from that moment on.

Every other flashback in that episode was summed up the moment he came back into "reality" and he reported what he saw to the other characters.

Not the goddamn flying thing.

Clark is just a dumbshit.

And with last night's/tonight's episode, he becomes a creepy dumbshit.

Smallville is a piece of shit....The end.

Did they show the Bat-Cave as well?

The power was out all night at my place last night!

I need someone to give me all the details because I don't know when I'll be able to catch this episode again. Spoil me with details people! Please!!!!

I had a similar experience. Goths and Star Wars characters. Occasionally both.