So where would a girl, who will shamelessly admit that she watches Smallville for nothing but the Lex, get the last minute of the show?

And Eric Kripke is evil.

TOTALLY.

But by this point, isn't it pretty ridiculously clear that the Big Secret involves Sam being part-demon somehow?

I was watching SPN and going, "Well, this is clearly a Night of the Living Dead homage." Then Dean mentioned the freakin' movie by name.

Then I thought, "well, at least the heroic black man didn't die," then... err. Ooops. Sometimes, I kind of love this show for its lack of subtlety.

I rather enjoyed that, and am pleasantly surprised because John Shiban, he of the Killer Kitties episode and the mastermind behind Butt Genie, has actually been turning in watchable episodes in SPN.

That scene with Sam and Dean where Dean refused to leave had me going, "oh, COME ON! Talk about shameless emotional pandering!", except for the part of me that was going, "aww, Dean loves his little brother! (but not in an icky way!)"

John Shiban, he of the Killer Kitties episode

The what now? I must not have gotten to this one yet. I'm only through "Home" in my S1 watch.

The what now? I must not have gotten to this one yet. I'm only through "Home" in my S1 watch.

Sorry, P-C. I was talking about Shiban's *snort* illustrious The X-Files career. (And was confused when you mentioned "Home", because I was all, "Home? That's not until season 4!" as TXF also had an episode by that name. A hell of an episode that was, too. Ahhh, Mrs. Peacock.) Shiban's been writing much better MotW eppies on SPN than he did on TXF.

And was confused when you mentioned "Home", because I was all, "Home? That's not until season 4!"

Will someone explaine the Killer Kitties to me? I think I watched all the X-Files episodes at one time or another, but perhaps hysterical amnesia has blocked it from easy recall.

Yes, most likely I'm asking to be horrified all over again, and not in the good way.

The episode was called Teso do Bichos. It was about a mummy from South America (Peru?) that was dug up and shipped to the US. (You know, I think it was Boston.) Said mummy had an association with a jaguar spirit.

Totally coincidentally, members of the expedition/scientists working on the mummy started being torn to pieces. Examinations of the crime scenes proved, among other things, that a jaguar could not have got in to do the deed. But housecats would fit nicely!

Yes, housecats possessed by the spirit of an irritated jaguar. THe real funny came when Our Heroes were attacked by same, because the woman who plays Scully is allergic to cats so they basically took a Boxing Nun puppet and covered it with rabbit fur. There is a great outtake in that season's blooper reel where Mulder is boxing with the Furry Boxing Nun.

So. Ridiculous story line, ridiculously implemented. Those were the good old days, when we had no idea the butt genies to come.

What Lex did you miss?

He was in that blue-light room with a minion and that meteor rock crazed farmer/slave-driver. Then he walks, the power walk of evil down a hallway of cells. There is a greenish tinge now and then and hands reaching out between the bars to Lex - but he just keeps walking, then he goes through the door. What is the door? It's 331.

Then the promo was excellent. Lots of scenes from recent Smallvilles and then Clark, "Lex is creating an army" and scenes of GA, Aquaman (new?), a speedster or possibly MM and then a power walk of the Young Justice League (in their costumes.)

It seems like Smallville could save a whole bunch of money on writers if they just made episodes consisting of nothing but power-walks.