Smallville - Homecoming
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daibhidcWow! That was awesome.
It looks like Season 10 is Year of Returning Characters (quite understadably, since they're wrapping things up). First Jonathan, then Kara and now Brainiac. Or rather Brainiac 5. Although in an interesting twist from the comics, this version of Brainiac 5 is the same person as Brainiac 1, just with a morality chip added.
The triple fakeout of the episode's villian was fun: first it looks like it's going to be the guidance counselor, then Brainy, then another returner, the very first Meteor Freak. And as it turns out, there isn't really a villain at all.
Instead we learn that the darkness in Clark's soul that Darkseid can feed on is his blaming himself for the past and worrying about the future. Which is the cue for Brainy to play Ghost of Christmas, and take him on a tour of time.
Clark having taken care of most of the past himself by reliving Season One all though the reunion (the blank wall in the Torch office, with the light patches where Chloe's cuttings had once been, was a nice touch), we just get another look at Jonathan's death. The present consists of Ollie and Lois, two people Clark refuses to get close to out of fear of what might happen.
And the future. Ah, the future. It's 2017, and Clark is a mild-mannered, bespectacled top reporter, in a committed relationship with Lois, who knows his secret, and a very public costumed crimefighter. (We don't see the costume, but we do see a newspaper headline calling him "Superman"; I think that's the first time that word has been used to refer to the Blur in Smallville.) Erica Durance's future Lois was brilliant (a bit of Kidder, a bit of Hatcher, and maybe a bit of Delaney for good measure) and Tom Welling was surprisingly convincing as a Reeves-style future Clark, although with past-Clark the "magic-glasses effect" is in full swing[1].
I'd have liked to have seen more of the future, the casual way in which Lois reveals she knows Clark's secret (since she doesn't know it's a revelation) worked well. Although honestly, if I was dating (or possibly married to) a superhero, and they turned up acting oddly and said "I'm from another time", I think the first thing I'd think of is that they meant it literally.
I almost fell off my exercise bike when I realised Clark had to rescue Lois from a Daily Planet chopper which was falling off the building!
Okay, this is the second appearance of the Kon-El style Blur jacket. Is he ever going to do any actual crimefighting in it?
[1]Reeves played Clark as notably different from Superman, most obviously in one scene in the first movie when, just for a second, he shifts to being Superman-in-glasses-and-a-suit. Present-Clark in Smallville doesn't even know he's meant to be acting differently as Clark, but just wearing the glasses with his Red-Blue ensemble still manages to fool two Daily Planet staffmembers.
It looks like Season 10 is Year of Returning Characters (quite understadably, since they're wrapping things up). First Jonathan, then Kara and now Brainiac. Or rather Brainiac 5. Although in an interesting twist from the comics, this version of Brainiac 5 is the same person as Brainiac 1, just with a morality chip added.
The triple fakeout of the episode's villian was fun: first it looks like it's going to be the guidance counselor, then Brainy, then another returner, the very first Meteor Freak. And as it turns out, there isn't really a villain at all.
Instead we learn that the darkness in Clark's soul that Darkseid can feed on is his blaming himself for the past and worrying about the future. Which is the cue for Brainy to play Ghost of Christmas, and take him on a tour of time.
Clark having taken care of most of the past himself by reliving Season One all though the reunion (the blank wall in the Torch office, with the light patches where Chloe's cuttings had once been, was a nice touch), we just get another look at Jonathan's death. The present consists of Ollie and Lois, two people Clark refuses to get close to out of fear of what might happen.
And the future. Ah, the future. It's 2017, and Clark is a mild-mannered, bespectacled top reporter, in a committed relationship with Lois, who knows his secret, and a very public costumed crimefighter. (We don't see the costume, but we do see a newspaper headline calling him "Superman"; I think that's the first time that word has been used to refer to the Blur in Smallville.) Erica Durance's future Lois was brilliant (a bit of Kidder, a bit of Hatcher, and maybe a bit of Delaney for good measure) and Tom Welling was surprisingly convincing as a Reeves-style future Clark, although with past-Clark the "magic-glasses effect" is in full swing[1].
I'd have liked to have seen more of the future, the casual way in which Lois reveals she knows Clark's secret (since she doesn't know it's a revelation) worked well. Although honestly, if I was dating (or possibly married to) a superhero, and they turned up acting oddly and said "I'm from another time", I think the first thing I'd think of is that they meant it literally.
I almost fell off my exercise bike when I realised Clark had to rescue Lois from a Daily Planet chopper which was falling off the building!
Okay, this is the second appearance of the Kon-El style Blur jacket. Is he ever going to do any actual crimefighting in it?
[1]Reeves played Clark as notably different from Superman, most obviously in one scene in the first movie when, just for a second, he shifts to being Superman-in-glasses-and-a-suit. Present-Clark in Smallville doesn't even know he's meant to be acting differently as Clark, but just wearing the glasses with his Red-Blue ensemble still manages to fool two Daily Planet staffmembers.
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Date: 2011-06-29 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-29 03:43 pm (UTC)I remember liking this one very much. It foreshadows a scene later in the season, too.
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Date: 2011-07-01 03:01 am (UTC)