John Corben goes from reporter to cyborg with a Kryptonite heart named Metallo after an accident nearly kills him. So naturally he decides his best course of action is to take out the Blur, as we learn more on why he’s got a thing against vigilantes.
It’s too bad he wasn’t around when Tori Spelling was for a little Cyborg Beatdown 90210.
The Random:
1. We’re totally not supposed to laugh, but watching Brian Austin Green being hit by a truck out of nowhere was absolutely giggle inducing.
2. Dr. Hamilton sure is handy to have around and is clearly the only halfway competent doctor on staff at the hospital, which kind of sucks for those who get stuck with the other doctors, but still.
3. Is there sexual tension between Tess and Lois or is it just me projecting? I’m really pulling for the former.
It’s too bad he wasn’t around when Tori Spelling was for a little Cyborg Beatdown 90210.
The Random:
1. We’re totally not supposed to laugh, but watching Brian Austin Green being hit by a truck out of nowhere was absolutely giggle inducing.
2. Dr. Hamilton sure is handy to have around and is clearly the only halfway competent doctor on staff at the hospital, which kind of sucks for those who get stuck with the other doctors, but still.
3. Is there sexual tension between Tess and Lois or is it just me projecting? I’m really pulling for the former.
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I mean, I’m REALLY pulling for the former. |
The Awesome:
1. Metallo isn’t necessarily an easy character to pull off, but give Smallville props for making him look the part, especially after the cop out they did with Victor Stone. He looks pretty good and quite formidable.
2. Now, normally we’d blame LuthorCorp for the creation of Metallo, but that’s only halfway true this time around, as it turns out Zod’s people were responsible for putting him together as a way of testing how to get their own powers back.
3. Clark sure is getting better at thinking on his feet these days, quickly figuring out after his EMP attack on Metallo failed that he can cover up the Kryptonite heart by super heating a lead plate and fusing it to his chest.
1. Metallo isn’t necessarily an easy character to pull off, but give Smallville props for making him look the part, especially after the cop out they did with Victor Stone. He looks pretty good and quite formidable.
2. Now, normally we’d blame LuthorCorp for the creation of Metallo, but that’s only halfway true this time around, as it turns out Zod’s people were responsible for putting him together as a way of testing how to get their own powers back.
3. Clark sure is getting better at thinking on his feet these days, quickly figuring out after his EMP attack on Metallo failed that he can cover up the Kryptonite heart by super heating a lead plate and fusing it to his chest.
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This would have made 90210 so much better. |
The WTF?!:
1. You’d think that the EMTs bringing John Corben into the ER would have made a bigger deal about the fact they were bringing in a guy with a frikkin’ bionic matrix sticking out his chest that’s glowing and pulsing. Instead, they just wheel him in like he needs to be treated for a stomach ache.
2. We know Corben now has superstrength and a Kryptonite heart but he doesn’t have speed. So how exactly does he just take Lois and disappear? Because he kidnaps her from a phonebooth that Lois and Clark have been using in their little Blur/Reporter dance and Clark superspeeds there near instantaneously and completely loses the trail.
3. Maybe it’s just the Kryptonite talking, but John Corben’s whole anti-vigilante deal is really hard to buy into, and he comes off as yet another, “Wah, you saved a million people but not my sister, boo hoo hoo,” nutball. He blames Clark because a bus he saved had a criminal on it that killed his sister. Pretty weak.
1. You’d think that the EMTs bringing John Corben into the ER would have made a bigger deal about the fact they were bringing in a guy with a frikkin’ bionic matrix sticking out his chest that’s glowing and pulsing. Instead, they just wheel him in like he needs to be treated for a stomach ache.
2. We know Corben now has superstrength and a Kryptonite heart but he doesn’t have speed. So how exactly does he just take Lois and disappear? Because he kidnaps her from a phonebooth that Lois and Clark have been using in their little Blur/Reporter dance and Clark superspeeds there near instantaneously and completely loses the trail.
3. Maybe it’s just the Kryptonite talking, but John Corben’s whole anti-vigilante deal is really hard to buy into, and he comes off as yet another, “Wah, you saved a million people but not my sister, boo hoo hoo,” nutball. He blames Clark because a bus he saved had a criminal on it that killed his sister. Pretty weak.
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Who needs real motivation when you’ve got smoldering good looks? |
