As usual, what ruined Sville for me last night was TW. Good lord. I haven't had enough coffee to snark efficiently at that boy's lack of talent.

But I thought the story was OK. I am totally into the Superman mythology eps of Smallville, and not so much the FreakoftheWeek eps - and since I'm gonna watch the show anyway - I take the mythology eps where I can get them.

I thought them using the song IOHEFY was a shout-out (maybe? with Greenberg on the writing team - it had to be right?) at least that's how I'm going to take it.

And Jeff - I don't know if Grandpa Kent is part of the Superman comicverse, but I just read somewhere that they are adding Chloe into the comics very soon because she is so popular w/the kids. That's the first time they have added a character to the comics from a TV or movie version of Superman (or so this article said).

And by the way, as much as I don't care for the actress, I agree that the Chloe and Lex scenes were great. And somebody has been doing some serious crunches - AM looked all kinds of in shape.

Trudy, splainy?

In The Dukes of Hazard Bo and Luke always wore these big drawing-eye-crotchward belt buckles on their oh-so-tight jeans.

When Jonathan was going through his Father's trunk he picked up a belt with just such an enormous buckle and said his father "always wore this thing". Since it wasn't what Clark connected to (you know, Jor-El wasn't touching Grampa Kent's belt...) I took it as a shout out.

Wow. I thought that this was a fairly good episode. . . that KK did much better than normal and you could tell that TW was trying.

Honestly, I thought TW was trying to pass a difficult bowel movement. His tortured looks kept pulling me out of the damn thing. He did much better last week.

I actually thought that if KK had scenes with a good actor with more regularity she might improve more quickly . . . you know in a different series or something.

I've thought that since S1. I think if she was on a show with a: good writing for female characters (always the Smallville weak point) and b: more scenes with the more experienced members of the crew, she'd be decent.

She's young, and while inexperienced, she's not completely without talent. I think on say, a JW show, we'd all be marvelling at how much she's improved. I think she was good in Perry, and good in that one the week before Perry, because I'm not keeping track of episode titles other than Perry, it seems.

And she was very pretty all dolled up like that last night.

The smoking man,

Em, yes, it would have been the cigarette smoking man who was mayor of Smallville. It was funky.

Honestly, I thought TW was trying to pass a difficult bowel movement.

Me too. I also felt (I think because of his facial expressions) that he looked a lot like a black-haired Carey Elwes in the 1961 scenes. This also may have been affected by the fact that I'd just watched The Pentagon Wars (a fantastic Made for HBO movie about the development of the Bradley fighting vehicle, starring Elwes, Kelsey Grammer, and Richard Schiff (Toby from West Wing)).

Em, yes, it would have been the cigarette smoking man who was mayor of Smallville. It was funky.

I was thrown for a loop because I'm SO used to seeing William B. Davis's younger self played by Chris Owens.

The Pentagon Wars

Possibly the best thing Elwes has been involved with since TPB.

I agree, Ken. It's a damn fine movie. I've seen it several times, and always enjoy it.

I took it as a shout out.

Oh, I thought it was just a country boy thing. (psst - I have a Luke Duke doll, MIB, 1 of 12,000) (It was a gift)

Maybe it is just a country boy thing.

But I do remember the buckles being available at the Mall during the Duke Boys heyday.

Mmm... Luke doll. I always loved Bo though.

I'm from Oklahoma and I can assure you that the belt buckles were the real deal and if you watch closely can still see members of the species gigantus bucklus foraging in their natural habitat (i.e. WalMart).