Smallville - Injustice
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daibhidcAnother intriguing one.
First off, yes; the Eva-is-a-shapeshifter thing had me completely. Even when "Chloe" was talking to the other members of Tess's team, I was thinking "Are they seriously trying to tell us Chloe's been involved in this since she was at Black Creek?" Even after the reveal, it still took me a couple of minutes to realise Chloe had never been in the episode. I'm a bit slow today.
Despite the title (and the team's presence on Wikipedia's Injustice Gang page), they felt a lot more like the Suicide Squad to me. The rationale of getting supervillains to perform morally questionable acts for the greater good, the presence of Plastique, and most especially the explosive implants all add up to one thing, and the continuing mention of Belle Reve (yes, I know it's been established already) just confirms it. (Parasite was also a member of the Suicide Squad at one point. Livewire and Neutron, to the best of my knowledge, weren't, but they're the sort of moderately-obscure characters you can introduce just to kill off.)
This means that, in addition to being the Smallville version of Miss Tessmacher and Mercy Graves, Tess is also this universe's Amanda Waller. She doesn't exactly look the part.
Ollie having a kryptonite ring continues his role of standing in for the Caped Production-Rights-Nightmare, even if the Dark Knight would have been on Clark's side in this. (So would the comicbook Green Arrow if it comes to that, of course).
And the final scene opened up Tess's obsession from the general Veritas-looniness we've seen before into ... I'm not sure what exactly, but I think this is the first time Kandor's been mentioned in the series. (EDIT: Of course it isn't; it's where Kara's from. But I think it's the first implication it's still around in some City-In-A-Bottle/Argo-City-Dome sort of way).
First off, yes; the Eva-is-a-shapeshifter thing had me completely. Even when "Chloe" was talking to the other members of Tess's team, I was thinking "Are they seriously trying to tell us Chloe's been involved in this since she was at Black Creek?" Even after the reveal, it still took me a couple of minutes to realise Chloe had never been in the episode. I'm a bit slow today.
Despite the title (and the team's presence on Wikipedia's Injustice Gang page), they felt a lot more like the Suicide Squad to me. The rationale of getting supervillains to perform morally questionable acts for the greater good, the presence of Plastique, and most especially the explosive implants all add up to one thing, and the continuing mention of Belle Reve (yes, I know it's been established already) just confirms it. (Parasite was also a member of the Suicide Squad at one point. Livewire and Neutron, to the best of my knowledge, weren't, but they're the sort of moderately-obscure characters you can introduce just to kill off.)
This means that, in addition to being the Smallville version of Miss Tessmacher and Mercy Graves, Tess is also this universe's Amanda Waller. She doesn't exactly look the part.
Ollie having a kryptonite ring continues his role of standing in for the Caped Production-Rights-Nightmare, even if the Dark Knight would have been on Clark's side in this. (So would the comicbook Green Arrow if it comes to that, of course).
And the final scene opened up Tess's obsession from the general Veritas-looniness we've seen before into ... I'm not sure what exactly, but I think this is the first time Kandor's been mentioned in the series. (EDIT: Of course it isn't; it's where Kara's from. But I think it's the first implication it's still around in some City-In-A-Bottle/Argo-City-Dome sort of way).
