I think Smallville needs to break from the kryptonite->evil formula. They could have done this episode without Seth really doing anything wrong at first, other than the minor stuff like turn on the Ferris Wheel. And Clark would have been all paranoid and stalkery, and that would result in the two of them taking off together.
Oh, and if Seth can move metal with his mind, why couldn't he move the car when it was stuck? Plus, how much money does a coffee shop keep in the till? Unless Lana is secretly selling vials of crack in the muffins, odds are it'd be a couple hundred dollars, tops. And if Seth could influence people through touch, why would they even need store money? He could convince others to give him whatever he wanted. They could just walk the streets of Metropolis getting cash from everyone Seth shook hands with.
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It would've been very easy to leave the MoTW plot as it was, and rewrite only the intrigue plot to catch it up to the current season.
Hmm. Interesting theory, and it may be exactly right. I know I liked the Lex/Chloe blackmail conversation much better than the rest of the ep.
I haven't finished the Smallville ep, and it looks like the last half hour is more interesting than the first.
Doesn't Clark know what stalking looks like?
And Chloe has rocked. She's saucy.
On Lana and Pete and the comicverse from what I recall Pete and Lana don't end up together until way later into their adult life - so it makes sense that there is no chemistry between them.
Chloe is totally growing on me. Which is a 100% surprise because I loved her in the scripts and hated her on the show (I got into Smallville buy reading shooting srcripts - not actually watching).
I noticed this was a freelance writer - and yes - it felt totally like a S1 ep. Except the Lex and Chloe bits.
Wait wait wait. You guys are saying that last week's mutant of the week could manipulate metal and influence people's minds? Huh. Somebody didn't calibrate the FreakPower scale correctly. That's, like, archvillain power.
Somebody didn't calibrate the FreakPower scale correctly.
They did some magnetism conflation, I fear.
That's, like, archvillain power.
There was much speculation on Kryptonsite that Seth magnetic mutant boy was supposed to be Magneto and I have read spoilers that indicate that another Xmen character will be on this season. I am now not recalling which one - I think the power is voice related - Syren? And Clark spoiler that the episode with the voice mutant will be the one where Clark realizes he has super hearing. (Oh how dull that is to write much less to watch.)
It is not clear that these characters are supposed to be nods to comicverse characters or the actual characters themselves like Perry and Morgan Edge. Or just super blatant rip offs.
eta: I got my birth year post #. And I am super fuzzy on these spoilers. I read them months ago - I should go double check. And I will.
Go team memory!
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* "Whisper," eh? How much do you want to bet this is the "Clark gets super hearing" episode?
* The episode's FOTW, Nathan Dean, has the power to emit a loud shriek/scream, much like Siryn or Banshee of the X-Men.
They make a point of naming the Marvel Comics characters that sounds similar to, but DC's Black Canary got there first .
Yes, Black Canary was first.
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So, this remake of Battlestar Gallactica they're running on Sci Fi next month?
They've decided to make Starbuck female, so there can be sexual tension between her and Apollo. Obviously these people haven't been watching Smallville. They didn't need to turn Starbuck female to accomplish that...