David Uzumeri and I are back for another round of our weekly recap of Smallville’s final season! This time around, it’s an episode all about family, and by family, I mean Granny Goodness.
So thrill to the low-budget live-action Female Furies, chill to a parade of Superman franchise guest stars (and the Warlock), and chill as the worst moment in the history of the show appears right before your eyes!
And on the off chance that the weekly recaps aren’t enough to satisfy your desire for hearing me shoot my mouth off about Smallville — and I have a very hard time imagining a scenario where this is the case — check out Television Zombies Episode 143, where I chat with pal (and Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. artist) Chris Piers about the experience of coming to the show as late as I am. It’s a good time!
Since you never said who played Norman Osborn on those WRA episodes, I always mentally pictured John Oxendine on skype talking to you guys.
Of course, I don’t know what Chris Piers looks like, so I’ll have to keep thinking of Oxendine, but at least I now know who that voice was.
“Played” Norman Osborn?
On Smallville not doing any movie riffs this week: Star Trek V: the Final Frontier? The bit where Sean Connery’s stunt double plays Spock’s brother and absorbs people’s bad memories so they obey him and he’s all like “Share your pain with me, and gain strength for the sharing!”
So yeah, Smallville aiming as high as ever with this one.
That bit where Clark walks in and they’re just throwing Kryptonite around the room reminded me of something that was never really addressed in the show: Johnathan and Martha love their kid, right? They’d do anything for their kid, right? Then why, knowing full well that he’s allergic to it, do they live in THE ONLY TOWN IN ALL OF AMERICA THAT IS MADE OF KRYPTONITE?
Seriously: fucking move, already.
Wait, so the worst moment of the entire series is Wee Tess turning out to carve “Somebody Save Me” in a table, and that’s supposed to be related to the theme song?
Chris . . . while I did like the episode and feel it might be the peak of this season (“above average” is this show’s series), I think you should watch the other nine seasons before you make a decision about that.
To show you that I’m still a fan, I agree with you on Ed Asner as Granny Goodness. Seeing Mrs. Garrett’s evil twin in there just wasn’t the same.
“Then why, knowing full well that he’s allergic to it, do they live in THE ONLY TOWN IN ALL OF AMERICA THAT IS MADE OF KRYPTONITE?”
They started off as poor farm folk, so it’s not like they had many options. But if memory serves, there WASN’T that much Kryptonite around at the start – Lana wore some as a pendant (Clark has it on in the crucifixion shot that I think is still in the opening credits), but that was about it.
“But if memory serves, there WASN’T that much Kryptonite around at the start – Lana wore some as a pendant (Clark has it on in the crucifixion shot that I think is still in the opening credits), but that was about it.”
The town was fucking loaded with the stuff in that first season. Maybe it didn’t become APPARENT to the Kents BEFORE the Meteor Freaks started showing up, but it was still there in every single damn episode of the first season, right down to Clark having to find a sample of it for a geology class in one episode.
But yeah. Poor farm-family. No money. Plus, Clark was probably happy enough living around the stuff that might be able to kill him if he spends too long around it, if it meant getting to live around his friends. The whole point of those first couple of seasons was Clark trying to live a normal youth in the place he grew up in, without having to run away and hide in fear of being captured or exposed. Having to leave Smallville would have been the ultimate defeat (hence the impact when he did leave in shame at the end of the second season).
As for “Somebody Save Me” scrawled into the wall…it was silly, but cute (a la Spider-Man leaping in front of the stars and stripes in SM3). I’ve seen worse on this show and in other superhero movies/TV shows.
I’m . . . I’m going to have to tap out. I know I said I’d watch this if they had Barda, but I somehow didn’t count on Barda ALSO being Lena Thorul and Mercy and Tessmacher and Oracle and like ten other characters.
I love Clark’s incredibly secure hiding place for his super-secret cave-key to the Fortress of Solitude: on a ledge behind his sparsely populated bookcase.
“there WASN’T that much Kryptonite around at the start”
I’m sorry, WHAT?