Smallville - Dominion

[daibhidc]

Another returning guest star!

Did Callum Blue always look that much like Terrance Stamp's Zod, or is it just the goatee? Anyway, the idea that he's now both Zods, the one he played before and the one who possessed Lex, is interesting (if very confusing).

The Zod-ruled Phantom Zone, centred on the arena where a powerless Clark is forced to fight gladitorial battles, reminded me more of Mongul's Warworld than anything else.

Wouldn't it have made sense for Oliver to take a bow and arrows with him? Anyway, it turns out his being marked by Darkseid isn't being completely ignored, as I suspected when he and Chloe got written out a couple of weeks ago. This encourages Zod to think he can turn him, when in fact, it's all part of Clark's Batman Gambit.

I have never figured out how the comics-style "Phantom Zone is an extradimensional place" is supposed to connect to the movie-style "Phantom Zone is being stuck in a 2D frame", so Zod's final(?) fate baffled me completely.

And Orion gets namechecked as the last person to defeat Darkseid, marking the first mention of the good New Gods in Smallville.

Comments

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

What got me was the "moral" of it's okay to do something bloody stupid because true love means you'll get away with it.

While Clark and Tess's deadline of a couple of hours is on the really tight side, it was the right thing to do given the stakes involved. Being pure of heart, and true of love, is not an excuse to abandon a plan that might have saved the world. They got lucky that delaying worked. The heroes of a piece should not have hoping for dumb luck as part of their masterplan.

Has this time-distortion ever shown up with the Phantom Zone before, or was it something that popped up in this ep just so Lois can deliver her moral of the story? It would have so much more sense (and being more emotionally powerful) if Lois had realised Tess was right and Clark and Ollie had zapped back in with Tess just about to destroy the mcguffin and Lois looking on tearfully, after realising that great sacrifices may need to be made and that she's got to bear the burden of them as much, or even moreso, as the active Super-dudes, but she will as she truts Clark and knows the right thing is sometimes the painful thing.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Has this time-distortion ever shown up with the Phantom Zone before, or was it something that popped up in this ep just so Lois can deliver her moral of the story?

It was "explained" as a side-effect of destroying the crystal.