Smallville - S07E15
66 Posted on Mar 27, 2008 in articles by Conor Kilpatrick |
Tonight's episode - Veritas
Apparently, the producers are putting their sacred "No Tights, No Flights" edict to the test tonight as Kara attempts to teach Clark to fly. Now, they have shown Clark fly before but only when he was in his red kryptonite "Kal" persona, which was a bit of deft loopholery.
We're gearing up for a big showdown with Brainiac, which I'm assuming is the big finale of this weird strike truncated season. That should be a lot of fun, James Marsters has been playing an interesting Brainiac and the show is almost always better when he shows up.
Last week it was suggested that I write up an Official iFanboy Smallville Drinking Game. It's an interesting proposition. This week, in the comments, I'll take suggestions.
Comments
My commentary might be sporadic in the beginning of this one - I need food!
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 07:59 PM
Owls are bad ju-ju.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:01 PM
This is kinda TWIN PEAKS-esque.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:02 PM
Oh it's go time.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:04 PM
Why is it that when people get thrown around, they always hit a water pipe?
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:04 PM
Somebody saaa-aaave meeeee... Food time!
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:04 PM
@Conor - Or something that explodes in a shower of sparks. Like electric water pipes.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:05 PM
Everytime the theme song starts I am annoyed by it, but then halfway through I am singing it. Every time.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:06 PM
This episode is going to be awesome. :)
Posted by chelsea on 03/27/08 at 08:06 PM
"Why didn't you tell me there was another Kryptonian on Earth?" Sometimes I feel like there are more Kryptonians than Earthlings.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:09 PM
Flight training!!!!
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:10 PM
Everytime a character does that "I've just heard something important so I'm going to raise my head a couple degrees" move, take a drink.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:10 PM
Hey! It's Lois! She needs to start picking on Jimmy more. Also, it's about time for Perry White to be the Editor-in-Chief at the Daily Planet. He needs to be a grizzled vetern by the time Clark gets there. Too bad he is played by Michael McKean (who was AWESOME), who probably has better things to do. And too bad they basically wrote his wife off the show.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:12 PM
Every time a character who has worked for Lex for years, but we've never seen before, walks into Lex's office, take a drink.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:13 PM
@Conor - Last I heard, McKean was doing a play or something in England or something. :(
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:13 PM
Hahaha - Young Oliver with the bow and arrows!
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:14 PM
Don't go in there Lil'Lex!
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:14 PM
WHERE IS MY CHINESE FOOD?!?
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:14 PM
Refresh my memory, was Swan the guy Chris Reeve pla...nevermind, he just wheeled past.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:17 PM
This is an intense episode, and I don't have my laptop. :( not cool.
Posted by chelsea on 03/27/08 at 08:19 PM
You know, I *thought* the girl watering the plant seemed especially shapely...
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:23 PM
I'm still bummed she's dead after one episode. I liked her.
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:25 PM
Kara's not much of a teacher. That's like me driving my car around the block and then handing my keys to my sister and saying "just that easy - now you try!"
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:26 PM
Clark is scared of flying!
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:27 PM
Stabby stabby!
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:28 PM
WTF? We didn't even get to see him fall on his face... Was that Kara training Clark to fly???? If so, I'm declaring shenanigans on that episode description the CW provided.
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:28 PM
That's... gotta hurt, right? Or at least leave a big scar on her forehead? Right?
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:29 PM
Can she be okay after that? Also Clark is a baby. Geeze.
Posted by chelsea on 03/27/08 at 08:30 PM
Well, we already saw it kill Dax-Ur. How will Lana not die this time??
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:31 PM
No, seriously - where's my food?
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:33 PM
Im in ur building, intercepting ur takeout.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:35 PM
There is no Lana only Zul.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:36 PM
LOL, good call! Are you the gatekeeper?
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:37 PM
Only one drinking game nomination so far, people!
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:42 PM
A comic based on a TV show based on a comic. Worlds collide!
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:43 PM
We really just can't escape Pete Ross and his gum, can we?
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:43 PM
Take a drink everytime se see an exterior establishing shot of the Daily Planet.
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:45 PM
Two keys are needed? Sounds like someone needs Richard Pryor and his case of booze. Break out the Singapore Slings!
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:46 PM
Two keys are needed? Sounds like someone needs Richard Pryor and his case of booze. Break out the Singapore Slings!
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:46 PM
Lex has fantastic childhood recall.
I fell like Lionel was the kind of father that would never allow a clip-on tie.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:49 PM
Now or never Clark! Fly after them!
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:49 PM
Fly CLARK! DAMMIT FLY!!
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:50 PM
I have a feeling he's not going to fly.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:51 PM
But that could just be hunger.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:51 PM
Clark didn't really try that hard to stop Kara.
Posted by chelsea on 03/27/08 at 08:52 PM
Ya, vanished off the map, causing a sonic boom in space.
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 08:56 PM
And "No Flights, No Tights" stays intact as I suspected it would!
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 08:59 PM
Well, that was the ep where Kara teaches Clark to fly.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 08:59 PM
Next Episode Lex finally does what we have been waiting for him to do since season 1
Posted by Vincent86 on 03/27/08 at 09:00 PM
Ok, that was a pretty good episoded, but TOTALLY did not live up to the descriptions or my expectations of what we were going to see.
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 09:01 PM
@HBD - Well, to be fair, I just checked the episode summary and it says "Kara decides to teach clark to fly..." which is exaclty what happened. She decided to do it, it just didn't happen.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 09:02 PM
I'll give that one a 4 our of 5. Very good, but I guess I was really hoping for an attempt at flying. I kind of figured Clark wouldn't actually learn, but I thought he would at least give it a try. Last week's Traveler was a nice build into this one though. Like Vincent86 said, it looks like Lex is finally going to do it. I would have preferred they didn't actually "show it" in the teaser, but oh well.
How many weeks til "Descent"? That one should be a good ol' fashioned barn burner!
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 09:16 PM
The fact that they showed Lex... doing it in the teaser makes me think it's not actually going to happen
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 09:21 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... good point! Judging by last week's teaser, or their teaser's in general, we don't see half the stuff they show.
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 09:25 PM
Well, I try to stay away from spoilers these days, but I did hear that this Veritas was the episode that would split up Clark and Lex for good on their respective paths. That definitely didn't happen tonight. I guess next week.
As for Clark flying, does anyone think this will ever happen before the final episode?
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 09:29 PM
@Supervan - I don't think it will happen, no.
Posted by conor on 03/27/08 at 09:40 PM
To me it's obvious where Kara/Brainiac went. In a past episode where they featured Lara/Kara on Earth, they went through a 'portal'.
Tonight Brainiac offered Kara to see her family again and for her to be back on Krypton. In other words, that sonic boom we saw in space was actually a portal back to Krypton (in the past).
Here's hoping for a season finale of Clark being 'stuck' on Krypton with a Terrance Stamp guest appearance! :)
Posted by aleks on 03/27/08 at 09:42 PM
@ aleks - Stuck on Krypton sounds possible, but I don't think we'll ever see Terrance Stamp. Heck, we didn't even get to hear him last week when Kara got her powers back.
Posted by Superyan on 03/27/08 at 09:48 PM
I doubt Terrance Stamp will make an actual appearance as well. Haven't they made the point several times that Jor-el looks exactly like Clark?
Posted by Vincent86 on 03/27/08 at 09:56 PM
Man, they really are making Clark to be pretty useless in this episode. Afraid to fly, doesn't stop Kara, doesn't help Lana.
The preview for Descent looks awesome though.
Posted by adrian on 03/28/08 at 02:34 AM
That sonic boom you saw was brainiac and kara flying backwards and rebuilding krypton.
Posted by bigyanks on 03/28/08 at 02:31 PM
Thank god the Marsters is back (although ever since Buffy and Angel and his almost perfect Brit accent, his real Amercican accent just sounds a little fake to me. I know it's not, but it sounds it)! Loved this one, really got down and dirty into what I imagine is this season's final arc.
They actually put Lois in an episode! And teamed her up with Jimmy! Great move, as individually these characters have had nearly zero to do for ages.
Is it just me, or was that ending supposed to imply that Lana's dead?
Posted by Eyun on 03/29/08 at 08:32 AM
Also, I'm with Superyan about the drinking game, every time they show an establishing shot of The Daily Planet. Only drawback is you'd be wasted by halfway through because, boy, they show those a LOT!
Posted by Eyun on 03/29/08 at 08:37 AM
I've been out of touch with this shown since the end of season 5 beginning of season 6. How's it coming this year in comparison to it's earlier seasons. Worth me catching up on? I need to spend some money on something.
Posted by jstump on 03/31/08 at 02:07 AM
Anyone else notice the awkward moment when Jimmy gets busted by Lois for staring at her rack?
Take a drink after the follwing establishing shots:
The Kent Farm
The Daily Planet (as mentioned above)
Smallville Medical Center
LexCorp exterior
Chloe speaks in ongoing thematic metaphors ala "Clark, I don't want to flood you with information but this download is raining data that will make all of us wet and I don't want to drown."
Lex gets knocked unconscious
Clark and Lana address a "trust" issue
Clark shows up at The Planet
Woot.
Posted by HBD on 03/27/08 at 07:58 PM