Smallville: Series Finale

Smallville: Finale Part 1 & Finale Part 2

Darkseid's defeat is just a distraction although he is supposed to be a god-like villain. Lex Luthor is brought back in a cool way then quickly loses his memory. Poor Tess, my favorite character, gets killed. We finally see Clark become Superman.

What I found odd is that Chloe is reading the Smallville comic 7 years in the future to her arrow friendly son. Does that mean the world knows? It pushed the show out of reality more than any other storyline.

It was kind of disappointing because they used too many iconic images even the show tried so hard to stand out from other Superman adaptations.

Source: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/smallville/episodes/1022

The show was about Lex as much as Clark and more of that relationship would have elevated the finale. At least this show which was thought to last 5 season made to 10 and it is over. Once less thing to record.

They should cancel more

Heroes was just canceled yet Smallville keeps going.
Not that I want either to fail but when they just stretching episodes just for ratings sake then might as well cancel them.


Lost is getting better every episode.

Mercy For The Writers

Smallville: Mercy
Some psycho is after Lionel Luther and as usual on of the Kents gets snatched up. Typical episode with Clark saving the day. The one twist is that Linoel saw Clark using his powers even though he already new about Clarks unearthly origins.
One thing that caught my critical eye was when the elevator came hurdling down Clark stepped under it and stopped it. Now if they would've died when it hit bottom wouldn't they still die just 6 feet higher when the elevator smashed into Clark's hands?

Supernatural: Dead Man's Blood
What is the complete opposite of Charmed? This show.
Today the guys used the power of three to partially defeat some vampires and get a real strong gun.

Yes kids NBC canceled Celebrity Cooking Showdown and replaced it with Will & Grace and My Name Is Earl repeats. I saw parts of the last episode and thought it was another fake reality crapfest.

On another side note I caught the end of The O.C. and while I hate that show it was nice to see Amber Barretto, a former child actress. She is Hispanic and it was kinda sad to see her play a lowly babysitter with a hint of an accent, she should have her own show.

Whoops, I Guessed Wrong

Smallville: Reckoning
I guessed Chloe would die but instead they killed off Jonathan Kent. I was wrong but still it was a good episode. I still believe Chloe won't make it out of this series alive.


Lost: Fire Plus Water
In my humble opinion I think Charlie is infected with the virus that Danielle Rousseau mentioned.
Also it may have got Michael and Locke?

Could Libby be a patient or really a doctor who worked where Hurley was a patient? Either way she noticed like I did that the washer and dryers were ultra-modern the ones that came out last year or so.

While I did notice the polar bears in the crib when Drive Shaft was singing, the crashing plane in one of Charlie's visions was only visible for those with HDTV.
This is a recent trend in TV shows that I don't like because they're putting up content that is part of the storyline when not everyone, hell not even 10% of TV viewers on HD or wide screen TVs.

No Joey = Better TV

First of all that freakin' transit strike before Christmas resulted in nothing. The members rejected the contract and the will lose most of their gains in binding arbitration. Good!

Smallville: Lockdown
After surviving the Kryptonian attack earlier this season a rogue cop and his fiancee go to Lex to find the spaceship. They kill yet another black guy after Lex locks himself in a panic room.
The cop killers then get Lana but lose her to Lex and once again Lex is mortally wounded.
Of course everything goes well at the end when Clark comes to the rescue.
While watching the show someone pointed out that it looked like Tom Welling was wearing a hearing aid, but I thought it was shadow I've posted a picture. So is there something in his ear?

My Name Is Earl: Stole P's H D cart
Earl tries to help an old man after he stole the man's Hot Dog cart as a two hundred dollar heist for another hot dog vendor. Giavonni Ribisi also stars in this episode. The old gang must infiltrate an office to steal at least $10,000 of office supplies to make right what has now gone wrong with the old man's hot dog cart.
It was a dang funny episode and the best part was Darnell. In an obvious joke he reprised his role as Rubberband-Man from those OfficeMax commercials.

Here is a blog dedicated to Eddie Steeples(Darnell)
http://www.steeplechaser.blogspot.com/
Here are two of those famos Rubberband-Man ads. They are on an endless loop but here's the link and the other link.

Thursday Shows

Smallville: Lexmas
Lex Luther goes to the big city to meet with a guy who will fix the election against Mr. Kent. While not deciding what to do with Kent Lex gets shot by those crazy-gun-totting-Asian-chicks that plague most major cities.
Lex is on the verge of dying and his mother visits him and shows him the great life he will have with Lana as his wife when he wakes up from surgery and turns his back on his father. At the end of the dream Lana dies and Lex could not save her but he did have many years of love and two kids.
When he wakes up he decides to go to the darkside and give up his happy future so that Lana can live.
Now the big problem I had was if his mom didn't show him the death of Lana or just didn't visit him at all he would've went on to have this great life. So the dead mother was actually a bad influence. Yes I understand that he was supposed to learn that love is greater then pain but still if his mom was good she'd leave him with the nice future and come back after Lana died.
I did like the fact that it's not about the good Lex vs. the bad Lex, just the Lex who wants to control everything.

Joey: Joey and The High School Friend
Joey's old high school friend comes back and although he's Adam Goldberg from the THREE episode arc on Friends about psycho roomie Eddie Menuek no one notices. Instead he is the father of Michael Tribbiani.
They explained Pheobe and her twin from Mad About You so I think they should of explained this also.
ER: All About Christmas Eve
Eve punches a bad Santa and gets fired and also gets dumped, she vows revenge on the other nurses. The rest of the story was just filler until the end when Abby announces to Kovac that she's pregnant.

Thursday Shows

Night Stalker was not given today so everyone waiting for part two will have to wait a while for the DVD or mid-season reruns. Instead they gave a cool Primetime about college crimes.

Smallville: Solitude
Mrs. Kent becomes sick and Milton Fine tells Clark it’s Jor-El’s fault. Clark goes to destroy the Fortress of Solitude and finds out Fine is not who he claimed to be and instead is working with General Zod to free Zod from prison.
Chloe comes to rescue Clark and Clark seemingly kills Fine.
Either way Jor-El still tells Clark someone close to him will die. Cough…Chloe…Cough.

ER: Two Ships
Abby makes an old mistake by sleeping with Dr. Kovac.
While Dr. Pratt is on the roof saying goodbye to someone we see two planes behind him crashing into each other while the pieces rain down over the city. The nurse who was fired a few weeks back is rehired for the plane emergency. When an Italian guy, played by Paolo Seganti of As The World Turns and a recent Freddie episode, is mortally wounded Pratt must keep him alive until his family gets there. He does and the guy tells Pratt to give up pumping his heart for him.
The final scene has a depressed Neela coming home to see Dr. Gallant coming in a taxi as the embrace in the middle of the street. Next week is their wedding.

Gilmore Girls: The Prodigal Daughter Returns
The Gilmores are in chaos because Rory and Emily are missing. Rory is in a newspaper office being super annoying to get a job, which she does. Rory now gets her life together and returns home to Lorelai, while Emily is found but spiritually lost.
Luke finds out he’s the father of a nerdy girl and doesn’t tell Lorelai.

TV is Getting Complicated.

Trading Spouses:Meet Your New Mommy : Perrin/Fisher Pt.:1 of 2
While I’ve stopped watching all the reality shows this one caught my eye, rather my ear. A psycho I set my TiVo to record and saw it was a two-parter.
The show is about putting spouses in households completely different then their own and hopefully sparks will fly. In this case a neo-hippie trades lives with a psychotic religious tyrant.
The best parts with the hippie are that she has a new husband and they are not communicating well but her family is nice. The church zealot on the other hand has a devoted husband but one daughter who sinned and has a five-year old at the age of 20, while the other daughter is like dad a virtual slave.
While the hippie meets the church group they do the un-Christian thing and treat her like the devil, I mean come on if you see a sinner help them or convert them don’t shun them.
While the nut other mom talks to god and starts to have a mental breakdown because she saw a Christian-psychic.
Next week they reveal what the other mothers have allotted the $1000 prize and crazy mom is going to tear up the check and her sanity with it.

Smallville: Exposed
I’ve lost partial interest in this show when Clark refused to tell Lana the truth after giving some flimsy excuse. In this episode the gang goes to a strip club to get a pervert killer and no freak of week.
The cool part was Tom Wopat as an old friend turned Senator of Jonathan Kent, strangely no mention of Mrs. Kent…hmmmm.

Joey: Joey and the Poker
A bit funnier than usually thanks to plenty of guest stars including crowd favorite Alan Thicke.

ER: Dream House
They fired a nurse working their since day one yet spent more time on a damn monkey. Ridiculous.

Law & Order:SVU : Raw (Parental Advisory)
This was a great episode involving Nazis, a crowd of shot children, a pervert and evil adopted parents who are not racist. This was a complicated episode but great and everything comes together. Oh also there was a court room shooting, an Oscar winner and lots of twist.
Thrilling.

Halloween: Coming Soon

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love scary movies especially on TV at 3:00 AM and during a storm. Everytime there is an unexplained noise in my apartment I turn off the lights and go to investigate, but nothing no monsters, no adventures through a mysterious portal only a damn mouse trying to crawl under the door.

But first regular TV.

South Park: Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow
Cartman and Stan break a damn and the Katrina jokes come flooding in. Nothing over the top and offensive except the constant Jew gold references. This tenth season opener was better then recent years but lost some of its punch.

Drawn Together: The One Wherein There's A Big Twist Part 2
After last seasons very offensive and sexual season these animated roommates took off in a helicopter that was about to crash. When we rejoin them they do crash in the style of Lost and lose two roommates.
Their new roommate is a Strawberry Shortcake Nazi and she is the least offensive thing in the episode. While all the dead characters come back Strawberry gets eaten.
This show is funnier then south Park and more offensive I love it. Everyone is back on this cartoon reality show and getting ready to disgust the masses.

Gilmore Girls: Welcome To the Doll House
Rory is still wondering and getting dumber by the second. While this episode is just a bridge for next week big birthday celebration it was still funny and smart, especially compared to the two previous shows I just reviewed.
The main plot in this episode was the Birkin, a Hermes bag that sells from $10,000 to $64,000( at a recent New York City auction of a black crocodile version). Everyone around Rory gets the meaning of the bag except for the twit herself. It's like an engagement ring.

Smallville: Aqua
Aquaman, AC, or Alan Ritchson whatever he calls himself makes an appearance trying to stop the further evilness of Lex.
One cool part was having Lois coming out the water like Pheobe Cates in her now famous Fastimes scene.
The other cool part was the little in joke at the end...
AC:"Maybe we should start a Junior Lifeguard Association or something."
Clark:"I don't think I'm ready for the JLA yet."

Quick Updates

Prison break won't be back fo three weeks, same with most FOX shows.

Lost: Orientation
Still in the same day, we meet Locke's ex played by Katey Sagal.
We find The Hanso Foundation and Dharma Initiative....cough....Alias....cough.
Books we see were The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien.
James' novel is a ghost/bargaining with the devil story. O'Brien's novel is about murder/bikes/an undergound chamber power by the imagination.

Invasion: Watershed
Still crap and now has a Lost type opening.

Smallville: Mortal
There was a funny FEMA joke and once again Mr. Kent gets thrown against a wall, he has a head of steel.

Wonderfalls: Lying Pig and Cocktail Bunny
Two damn funny linking episodes with a stalker and lots of loving between all the charcters and a monkey statue saying "save him from her".
LOGO has only one more episode scheduled and there are two left they will not show the last episode for some reason.

Related: Moving Out, Moving In, Moving On
Four hot New York women have life changing problems and are hot. Not edgy, a cross between Gilmor Girls and Sex and The City.

Once on Sci-fi, Always on Sci-fI

Smallville: Arrival
Grand season premiere and weak CGI (again computer effects look bad). Clark and Chloe are off to the newly created Fortress of Solitude while 2/3 of the evil Kryptonians cause havoc in search of Kal-el.
The Kents once again get knocked around like volleyballs and Clark saves the day.
The banishment of the bad guys into the phantom zone was right out of The Superman Movies with the same spinning black diamond also the chamber where Superman’s power can be removed was similar to today’s storyline.
One of the coolest parts was Leonard Roberts (Forrest Gates) of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as bad guy #2 and James Marsters (Spike) of Angel as Brainiac.
Yesterday Amy Acker of Angel was on Supernatural.
There should be three bad guys but I think the main bad Kryptonian is in the movie Superman Returns and they don’t do crossovers.
Coming soon Dean Cain is in talks to do an appearance and they already filmed the scenes with Aquaman (some Ambercrombie & Fitch model)
Back to the episode Clark loses all his powers again and Chloe is at Lex’s mercy again.

Alias: Prophet Five
After the great season finale last year where a truck hit Vaughn and Sydney. We see it was just a plot by a rogue agent to find out that Vaughn really is and some other implausible storyline. Back to the interesting part...Vaughn is dead three times over. We then catch up to a now pregnant Sydney four months later trying to find out the truth about her dead man.
By the way the funniest part of this episode was watching them trying to cover up Garners huge belly. They try everything, the big purse, the wrap, the towel, an all black outfit and they even used a freight train to cover up the belly.
I usually only watch the first and last episode of Alias, but it is so much like Lost that it is funny.

Night Stalker: Pilot
Another no show monster show, I miss Darren McGavin.

ER: Nobody’s Baby
Danny Glover is playing nice and low key as one of the doc’s estranged father.

I missed Joey and Everybody Hates Chris, I’ll catch up on repeats I did catch a bit of the live Will & Grace it was kinda sucky…cough…Baldwin…cough.