Jor-El arrives on Earth and Clark is anxious to hang out with dear old dad…but so is Zod because he believes that he has somehow stolen the Kandorians abilities for himself and that he’s really the Blur he’s heard so much about.
He’s wrong on quite a few levels, now isn’t he?
The Random:
1. Julian Sands, famed British actor I loved to death as the title role in Warlock, takes up the portrayal of Jor-El and he’s wonderfully brilliant throughout.
2. Well, it’s been a while since we’ve seen Clark use his super breath, so it’s nice that when we see it this time it’s to uncover his own family crest emblazoned in the desert. How’s that for a mindscrew, Kal?
3. Clark is going to start getting a complex if people keep dying in his arms, especially fathers and girlfriends. Just stop touching people, dude.
He’s wrong on quite a few levels, now isn’t he?
The Random:
1. Julian Sands, famed British actor I loved to death as the title role in Warlock, takes up the portrayal of Jor-El and he’s wonderfully brilliant throughout.
2. Well, it’s been a while since we’ve seen Clark use his super breath, so it’s nice that when we see it this time it’s to uncover his own family crest emblazoned in the desert. How’s that for a mindscrew, Kal?
3. Clark is going to start getting a complex if people keep dying in his arms, especially fathers and girlfriends. Just stop touching people, dude.
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Oh, jeez. Not again, Clark… |
The Awesome:
1. We get treated to a great scene set twenty years before Krypton’s destruction with Kandor meeting its final fate during a battle with Black Zero and Zod and Jor-El on the same side. Turns out they’ve been saved due to an experiment that collected the DNA from Krypton’s best and brightest and placed into the orb.
2. Tess is certainly getting better at playing her little games, covering all the angles with Jor-El and Zod while trying to stay two steps ahead of everyone. She’s channeling Lex something fierce these days. But she may want to dial it back because Clark is hella pissed.
3. The scenes with Jor-El and Zod are perfect with both men coming to terms that they are clones of their original forms and their memories are pre Krypton’s destruction. Zod’s falling out with Jor-El stems not from pettiness but because Jor-El refused to take DNA samples from Zod’s dead son and that Jor-El used blue Kryptonite to take their powers away in the orb so they’d never be able to rule Earth. Oh, and Zod just put it together that the Blur is not who he thought he was. Uh oh.
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1. We get treated to a great scene set twenty years before Krypton’s destruction with Kandor meeting its final fate during a battle with Black Zero and Zod and Jor-El on the same side. Turns out they’ve been saved due to an experiment that collected the DNA from Krypton’s best and brightest and placed into the orb.
2. Tess is certainly getting better at playing her little games, covering all the angles with Jor-El and Zod while trying to stay two steps ahead of everyone. She’s channeling Lex something fierce these days. But she may want to dial it back because Clark is hella pissed.
3. The scenes with Jor-El and Zod are perfect with both men coming to terms that they are clones of their original forms and their memories are pre Krypton’s destruction. Zod’s falling out with Jor-El stems not from pettiness but because Jor-El refused to take DNA samples from Zod’s dead son and that Jor-El used blue Kryptonite to take their powers away in the orb so they’d never be able to rule Earth. Oh, and Zod just put it together that the Blur is not who he thought he was. Uh oh.
“For the last time, Jor El. It’s ‘less filling,’ that’s what makes it so good.”
The WTF?!:
1. Ok, so now Chloe is all about Lois and Clark? She really needs to make up her mind on this whole relationship. I’m starting to think that Brainiac did a lot more damage than we thought.
2. In any other episode, characters get across the globe during a commercial break, but here Clark and Ollie’s jet seems to take his sweet old time getting back to the Kent Farm to reunite with Jor El. This is the same jet, mind you, that got back and forth from Canada to Smallville like six times in an hour last season.
3. Kryptonite supposedly works on Kryptonians because it comes from the irradiated refuse of Krypton, so why does it work on a pre-destroyed Krypton? Jor-El uses blue Kryptonite to remove the Kandorians’ powers, but they don’t have any powers because there’s no yellow sun. He basically found a way to preemptively sabotage the orb, but I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t work that way.
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“So you want to know where you came from, Kal? OK, so say this blue crystal is me and this purple orb is your mom…” |
