Smallville - Crossfire
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daibhidcAnother comics-y one, but possibly less than the sum of its parts.
The first comics thing was the idea of Lois & Clark as TV presenters, a nod to the Bronze Age comics where Clark was an anchor on Galaxy Broadcasting. (I'm at a loss as to why the station here isn't called WGBS, especially since Clark's blind date, Catherine, gets the job and turns out to be Cat Grant, who worked at Galaxy for a while in Modern Age comics).
The main thing however is the introduction of Mia Dearden, who in the comics is Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy II. Surprisingly, they stuck to the idea that she was a teenage prostitute before Ollie took her in, while adding a Fight Club element to justify her combat skills. It remains to be seen if she's HIV+ in this continuity.
And yet ... my overwhelming feeling about this episode is that nothing actually happened. Which is weird, because lots of things happened. Mia gets introduced, the Clark/Lois/Oliver triangle gets resolved, we learn more about what Colonel Zod is up to (another nice touch; his company's called R.A.O.) But it felt like a whole bunch of subplots with no main story.
The first comics thing was the idea of Lois & Clark as TV presenters, a nod to the Bronze Age comics where Clark was an anchor on Galaxy Broadcasting. (I'm at a loss as to why the station here isn't called WGBS, especially since Clark's blind date, Catherine, gets the job and turns out to be Cat Grant, who worked at Galaxy for a while in Modern Age comics).
The main thing however is the introduction of Mia Dearden, who in the comics is Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy II. Surprisingly, they stuck to the idea that she was a teenage prostitute before Ollie took her in, while adding a Fight Club element to justify her combat skills. It remains to be seen if she's HIV+ in this continuity.
And yet ... my overwhelming feeling about this episode is that nothing actually happened. Which is weird, because lots of things happened. Mia gets introduced, the Clark/Lois/Oliver triangle gets resolved, we learn more about what Colonel Zod is up to (another nice touch; his company's called R.A.O.) But it felt like a whole bunch of subplots with no main story.
