Smallville
Mar. 24th, 2009 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcThe "Legion" episode was awesome!
It was written by comic book scribe Geoff Johns, who did Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes and Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds, so it's full on nice moments, starting with Persuader, who looks exactly like he does in the comics, and turns out to work for the Earth-chauvinism movement from Johns' LOSH books. The idea that the Legion's idea of upholding Clark's legacy is more pragmatic, and they have to learn the idealism from actually meeting him, is a nice one. And their outfits straddle the line between "true to the comics" and "not looking completely ridiculous" quite nicely. Lightning Lad even said "Sprock!" And I LOLed at Cosmic Boy's line "Garth, you're acting like a Sub."
As far as other comic-book refs go, Doomsday looks impressive, and I liked the "Brainiac logo" that appeared on the computer screens, which originally came from Superman: The Animated Series, but has been adopted by the comics' Brainiac 5. (On that note, when the Legion discuss their plans for Brainiac did the number "5" actually come from anywhere, in-story?)
Downside: Well, I hated Chloe's easy amnesia, but casually undoing it already makes me wonder what the point was. And it's a bit ridiculous that the series' reluctance to use the S word extends to characters who know all about Clark's life talking about his future amongst themselves.
It was written by comic book scribe Geoff Johns, who did Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes and Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds, so it's full on nice moments, starting with Persuader, who looks exactly like he does in the comics, and turns out to work for the Earth-chauvinism movement from Johns' LOSH books. The idea that the Legion's idea of upholding Clark's legacy is more pragmatic, and they have to learn the idealism from actually meeting him, is a nice one. And their outfits straddle the line between "true to the comics" and "not looking completely ridiculous" quite nicely. Lightning Lad even said "Sprock!" And I LOLed at Cosmic Boy's line "Garth, you're acting like a Sub."
As far as other comic-book refs go, Doomsday looks impressive, and I liked the "Brainiac logo" that appeared on the computer screens, which originally came from Superman: The Animated Series, but has been adopted by the comics' Brainiac 5. (On that note, when the Legion discuss their plans for Brainiac did the number "5" actually come from anywhere, in-story?)
Downside: Well, I hated Chloe's easy amnesia, but casually undoing it already makes me wonder what the point was. And it's a bit ridiculous that the series' reluctance to use the S word extends to characters who know all about Clark's life talking about his future amongst themselves.
