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Smallville: Random, Awesome and WTF?! - S8E14: Requiem

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Clark and Lana begin their Mr. and Mrs. Smith action tour while Winslow Schott, the Toymaker, makes his debut with an army of Kryptonite powered automatons aimed right at LuthorCorp.

Naturally, this means Ollie and Tess’ Queen Industries/LuthorCorp merger is off to less than stable results…

The Random:
1. Oh, sweet mother of mercy, Clark and Lana are having super sex again, breaking beds and shaking our poor old planet…and my faith in humanity.

2. It’s great that they’re trying to keep Lex still around in the mythos of the show, but at some point we’re going to need more than a generic bald guy seen from the back or wired to machines.  Oh, and one that doesn’t sound like a bad imitation of Jigsaw from Saw.

3. One kiss from KryptoLana is enough to almost kill Clark.  Now he knows how we’ve felt listening to her for the better part of eight years…

Gotta dig the Kryptonite ring he’s totally sporting…


The Awesome:
1. Not for nothing, but the Toymaker is portrayed as genuinely creepy and is actually a bit uncomfortable to watch, a testament to the acting this time around.

2. Clark’s whole scene with Chloe about the morality of killing Lex just because he knows everything about him really gets to the core of the character, as maddening as it may be at times, as Clark refuses to support Ollie’s vendetta against Lex.  It’s just too bad he needs Lana to remind him of the same later on.

3. Not being on the show anymore isn’t going to stop Lex from keeping things interesting as he puts Clark and Lana into a Catch-22 and winds ups pulling strings from all over the place and turning Lana into a giant Kryptonite emitting tool, meaning she and Clark can’t get close.  Well played, Mr. Luthor.

Pictured: One creepy ass bastard…

The WTF?!:
1. It’s always convenient how an entire room explodes and the only one to survive is a main character.  Really?  It wouldn’t have killed the writers to at least let a secretary or something live through the bomb?

2. Now why exactly doesn’t the CEO of one company, and co-CEO of another—both major companies, mind you—have some sort of security details while he lies recovering in the hospital?  Nah, that’s silly talk.  Instead, Toymaker is able to just ask the receptionist where Ollie is and waltz on in.  But, hey, he had balloons he had to be a good guy, right?  Um, do we all float down here..?

3. Is Chloe seriously getting on Ollie for “killing” Lex and blaming it on Toymaker?  Make up your mind, lady.  You were on the Kill Lex Murder Train like five minutes ago, and as Ollie just reminded you, I’m pretty sure Sebastian Kane didn’t die of natural causes a few episodes back, now did he?  No.  He did not.

“OK, folks, good news for those of you not happy with this merger thing:
In about 20 seconds, you’ll all be dead.”




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