Innovator

Renowned
  • Posts

    807
  • Joined

  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    Darkseid's lackey is saying that vigilantes are evil. He'd say that...what's the problem?

    Or Cat who has experienced a traumatic event and is lashing out against those she feels is at fault, seduced by Darkseid's Lackey...
    Plus it's a tactic Darkseid also tried to pull in the comics through Gordon Godfrey.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cyber_naut View Post
    Great episode. I know this show gets a lot of **** from some people, probably the comic book purists (and that's fine), but I think they've done a pretty damn good job, especially when you compare it to some of the movies. The ending was nicely done and just about had me chucking the controller through a wall. I'd love to see this show continue on as a Superman show.
    I'm a huge comic fan. I got a closet filled with only comics plus some more around the house in the garage to attest to that. That said, I don't mind at all some of the stuff that comes out of Smallville. I've read a lot worse. The one thing that makes me feel bad about Smallville ending is that this was probably the one chance we had in another long span that we get to see a shared DC univervse in live-action, certainly not while Geoff Johns has a stick up his butt about it.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    On this show, which should be the context we are speaking, not everyone knows the BLUR and Lois have a relationship.
    Everyone knows the Blur and Lois have some kind of relationship. She outed herself a few seasons ago on national television.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LegionAlpha View Post
    I was really hoping Black Adam would show up and help Isis. I am bummed now.
    It will have to wait till Adrianna Tomaz gets the necklace herself. Anyone else noticed what they finally named Lex's assistant?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal View Post
    Eventually, I'd love it for Lucas to apologize to those of us who DID see it in theaters. It WAS there, when I saw the movie for the first time it made *sense*. When I saw it again, back home in San Diego (I'd been in Wisconsin when first seen) we got to the end of the movie and I was like.... wait. There was... something... else? Of course I was only ten, and I didn't know they changed things around like that. No idea how movies were made.

    Lucasfilms claims that those of us (and I know personally at least half a dozen including myself, and many more online) that we "hallucinated" or saw something else on TV a year later, or it was from the book or... whatever, dude. I know what I saw. I know what I DIDN'T see later.

    And it's absolutely true, those scenes were very powerful if badly acted. They really should have been left intact, I can only guess that they didn't feel like crediting or paying the other actors? or that it cut down theater time enough for one more showing. :/ But whatever they did, it was stupid. It lent far more background and credibility to Luke and Biggs' relationship when they're reunited later, and when Biggs is killed it actually tears me up. It makes me sad, though, knowing that there are whole generations of people who have no idea why Luke even cares why this other guy dies... :/
    I saw the movie the first day it was released, and I remember seeing this scene then. There was more to it as well, I remember Luke looking up with his Binoculars and seeing the battle between the Empire Star Cruiser Leiah's ship as well, and telling Biggs about it. Years later, I told friends about this scene, and they didn't believe me that it ever existed, until it appeared on a DVD. They were like wow, you really did see that, WTH Lucas!
  5. Innovator

    This is side six

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Heraclea View Post
    niĝdara
    Hey, what'cu call me!? That's our word, only we can use it.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by sleestack View Post
    I also voted for Phantom Girl, and for the same reason. My vote was NOT cast because she's cute and has huge...leadership skills. I would never be that shallow.
    I would and am.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BlackArachnia View Post
    Al Bundy was often the same. He really did love his wife and kids, and protected them when he needed to.

    First season had AL and Peg being dysfunctional, but loving. After that, he cringed everytime she made the mention of whoopie and acted as if prison would be better than spending time with his wife.
    Al also did do what he could for his kids when he could, he only took the don't care attitude when he couldn't do anything to help. Peg did the same, but she was hella sketchy and was pretty much the screwy one in that relationship, most of the bad traits the kids picked up came from her as she was doing them long before they were. Al tried to at least not do bad things because he knew it would fail and get back at him as he was cursed to always fail at his schemes, he didn't usually do them until some goading from his wife or friends.

    I do agree that Peter Griffin beats the Bundy's (an pretty much most the parents listed on this thread) in Parenthood fail hands down, considering how he's pretty much self involved, how badly he treats Meg, how often he forgets his kids names or even their existence.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr. DJ View Post
    news to me, didn't know they owned ESPN ;o
    Well, Disney owns ABC which owns 80% of ESPN, the Hearst Corporation owns the other 20%. They both also co-own A&E and Lifetime Entertainment Services. Oh yeah, I should also remind all of you that Disney is owned by Steve Jobs...dun dun DUN!
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    Am I not pointing out very specific things that show I did watch the episode? Am I not using rational character-based reasons why certain things are being handled poorly? I don't doubt you're watching the show and seeing everything say you are, but if you're watching the same show with a critical eye, then you'd be asking these tough questions, too.
    I never watch with a critical eye just repeatedly (cause I end up having to). I don't try to let tv shows bother me, nor am I an armchair critic, and really what would be the point, as I said I'm not a fan of the show.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    This assumes that Meteor Freaks remained prevalent after Clark graduated, which we have nothing to base this on.
    I'm basing it on the comments by the councelor before Brainiac-5 put the kibosh on her plans, that Meteor Freaks were still very prevalent in Smallville.



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    I'd really hope Chloe was more busy with where ever she's suppose to have disappeared to.
    Chloe probably knew Clark and Lois were gonna be there too.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    I know you're probably joking, but there is a serious issue with Clark disappearing in front of a crowd that has their undivided attention on him. There's a serious writing issue when it goes without comment for the rest of the episode.
    The whole Future thing and events in previous episodes shows that Lois is adamant to do everything she can to cover up anything related to Clark.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    I understand fans wanting to defend everything that's brought up. If it was one or two things an episode, I wouldn't bring them up. But when you have to fan-wank a grocery list of complaints from each episode, you have to stop and ask yourself what the hell these writers are doing.
    The only thing I ever ask myself when these question list pops-up, did this person see what I saw? I dvr Smallville (it's on my lists of shows I watch each weak), and most episodes I seen more than once as I end up seeing it with different people so I get to see a lot of things most people don't notice. Doesn't mean I'm a fan, thoug I am a general fan of comic books and their characters in the books, tv, and movies.

    For instance there was a thread on Doctor Who a little while back, I was able to spout out lots of things about many episodes cause I've seen every one of them many many times. I am not a big fan of Doctor Who, but I have a friend who is and he's made me sit and watch all the shows with him, and even quizzed me a lot about them cause that's what he likes to talk about. The same goes with Star Trek and Dragon Ball, the latter of which I'm not a fan of in no way shape or form, but I can tell you how Goku met Chi-Chi, or where Majin Boo came from, or who created Android 18.
  11. Definately Pianist/Keyboardist Cori Jacobs, who's generally unknown to most people, but who's credit is listed with many many big name artists and associated with many top chart songs. We used to be great friends in Junior High School, but have since lost touch except on Facebook.

    Also, less obscure, Grace Park and Katharine Isabelle cause they're the hotness, and I have a huge crush on them.

    As well as porn stars Nautica Thorn and Sasha Gray cause they come off as fun to hang with...not in a sexual way....more like we could totally be friends.

    Not at all obscure, but Kevin Bacon...cause I really want to do this with him
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -Brainiac mind-wiping a Freak-of-the-Week that most of us have completely forgotten who she is. I know I didn't recognize her. Is there even a point to having her in the episode?
    None other than set up a red-herring to make it look like Braniac was a bad guy still.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -People acting like Clark was the high school Cpt. Popular. Which he wasn't.
    He became more popular near the end of and after high school. He was best friend to the richest guy in Smallville, helped get the Crows to the playoffs, dated the most popular girl in high school, was in the newspapers a lot for heroics, and according to the school councelor was spoken of much by the meteor freaks that remained in school.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -New students acting like they give a **** about alumni they'd never met, let alone hero-worshiping them.
    Pevelance of meteor freaks and Cloe exposing them on her wall of weird, which kinda became her legacy.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -A FIVE YEAR REUNION. In September. In an episode called Homecoming! It would have made more sense to base it around the actual homecoming game. And being season 10, does this 5 year reunion mean that Clark went through 5 years of high school?

    -An uninspired Christmas Carol rip off.
    I got nothing.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -More Green Arrow drama. Admittedly, I don't know much about GA in the comics. Does he even "come out" about his secret identity. And his reliance on support from Clark seems out-of-character since he's usually criticizing Clark.
    I don't know if it's common knowledge, but he was never much on hiding his indentity, what with his lack of mask and retro gotee he got going. He's also married to Black Canary who's identity is no longer secret, and is well known to be the wife of Green Arrow.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -Chloe sending a text to a couple of kids who shouldn't even be showing up on her radar.
    Probably why she sent it. Plus Chloe knew about the reunion, and was likely keeping tabs on it.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -No one noticing that Clark just up and disappears in a crowded room like a fart in the wind. A crowd of people CELEBRATING CLARK!!! I mean, really? No one stopped to ask "WTF just happened?"
    Lois, she will be the explanation for all WTFs.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rylas View Post
    -Clark standing in a public cemetery with his Blur Jacket on. Sure, he's yet to use it in a situation we've seen, but come, dude. It's got the FRIGGIN' S-SHIELD ON IT! And why are you wearing it to your dad's grave anyway??
    No one was there. Have you ever been to a cemetary? I've been to lots of them, and I grew up surrounded by them in Colma, California, otherwise known as the city of the dead. Except for the odd funeral now and then, they don't have much in foot traffic. No one really likes hanging around them, except for us Colma kids who used them as parks, and played in them untill late in the night....much to our parents chagrin.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    So that's the big fuss over why he hasn't come back as Lex?
    Yup, pretty much.
  14. I've been pretty much under the assumption that they're trying to line up with all the timelines by taking what they want here and there from comics, tv, movies, etc., and ultimately end up with a Superman story that is familiar to all generations watching.

    For instance, take Lex. Michael Rosenbaum has stated that he doesn't want to do Smallville again unless they find a compromise that will allow him to keep his hair. The producers came up with a compromise, and I'm guessing it will have something to do with the kid Lex clone growing up quickly to become Michael Rosenbaum with hair and no memory of Clark as an Alien. This new Lex will try to befriend the Blur or be indifferent to him but end up in an accident that is partially Clark's fault that causes him to lose his hair (and very likely kill Mercy), which burn makeup will be used to hide Rosenbaum's bald cap. Hence...



    Afterwards, Lex will take back his company from out-of-the-closet hero, Oliver Queen, making Ollie broke in the process or consider going into politics or grow a beard (to put him in line with one of the timelines in the comics)...

    As long as some group nods in recognition of the plot, the producers will feel a job well done, and probably rightfully so. We shall see if I'm right or wrong, but seriosuly at a time like this, it's positively indecent that you don't need a glass of port.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    And looking at a DCU history... this is clearly going off a different time line than DCU's timeline, official and cobbled together by fans... So consider that let's just saying the Smallville has no chance of matching with continuity cuz if did...
    I think he's got it! By George! He's got it! Now once again, where does it rain? And where's that soggy plane?
  16. Its about time Disney does something with their acquisition of Marvel. People feared it without the realization Disney itself is a huge DOW company with its hands on a lot of pots, including ownership of ABC. The WB/DC likes to talk big, but they're not even in the same league as The Walt Disney Company.

    That said, I'm still hoping for a Power Pack TV series on Disney's more kid oriented channels.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    Wasn't the first one Andrea and the second Adrianna?
    Only after DC retconed Andrea out of existence. I keep hearing people complain how Smallville changes the comics, when DC changes things all the time, saying Oh yeah, the previous one was a different Earth dimension. Fans accept it, but yet can't accept that Smallville is one too. I'm a big comic fan, but seriously other fans wierd me out.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    Adrianna shouldn't appear unless she time travels from the future during the year she had powers at all...
    What year is that, the 70's? It's when Isis first appeared in Shazam #25. Oh, you must mean after the retcon!
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    Er yes I know who Isis is. I just don't know why they would make Lois Isis when I saw on IMDB that they would have some other actress playing Adrianna Tomaz/Isis, other than to, again, use that groan-worthy Charmed formula of "let's see who goes evil this week" and fulfill their quota of Lois in a skimpy outfit.

    Also, I thought they would have had an Isis episode while Lois was still in Africa. The only good thing I can see about this so far is maybe it will lead to an appearance by Black Adam.
    From what I've read outside of IMDB, Erica Cerra is still playing Adrianna Tomaz in the episode. She's already appeared twice on Smallville as nameless characters, as Lex's Aid in "Lucy", as vampiric Tri-Psi girl in "Thirst".
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    What sucks is episodes like this show us that the writers are aware of the kind of crap they pull and yet they continue to pull it. Also, next week looks like it will be a quality drop as they dip into the Charmed formula of "let's see who goes bad this week."
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cyber_naut View Post
    Best episode of the series, by far. This is how they should move forward, and this type of work could make for a great Superman series after Smallville is over. But then they show the previews for next week, and I bet they go back to the same old nonsense and lois will get amnesia after becoming egyptian lass.
    Do you guys really not know who Isis is?

    I hope to hear Lois do the Isis encantations...
    Oh zephir winds which blows on high, lift me now so I can fly!
  21. Innovator

    Dr.Who news....

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    • Learning The Master could "steal" regenerations.
    • The Time Lords promised The Master a new SET of regenerations.
    Le-sigh.
    I don't think the Master could ever "steal" regenerations just bodies. The bodies he took weren't Time Lords so they couldn't regenerate, though he did attempt a few times to give those bodies the power to regenerate by trying to take it from the Doctor, as well as attempted to take the Doctor's body. He used to do it mentally, and he once took the body of an Alien Symbiotic Parasite, which he used to take over the body of Eric Roberts. From what I gather from what the Master said to the Doctor, during the Time War, the Time Lords didn't promise to give The Master a new set of regenerations, but instead they offered him a new Time Lord body with a full set of regenerations.

    Before the Time War, there was only one Time Lord that could regenerate an unlimited number of times, and that was Rassilon, and he took the secret to his tomb...well, actually sleeping chamber since he wasn't dead. Then they woke him for the Time War.
  22. Innovator

    Dr.Who news....

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mandu View Post
    I don't believe it is a physical limitation so much as a law. It's a rule put in place by Rassilon. No more time lords = no more time lord rules = no more limit on regenerations.
    I don't think its a rule placed by Rassilon. If it was just a law, the Master would have just kept regenerating as he doesn't really care about Time Lord laws anyway. Rassilon himself was immortal with unlimited regenerations, it was a secret the Master was trying to get back in the 5 Doctors. I'm still going with the theory, that during the Time War the Time Lords were all granted unlimited regenerations by Rassilon (who was woken) to fight the Daleks. How else can you go win a Time War with the Daleks who are easily manufactured/cloned at tremendous speeds. I remember accounts by the Tenant talking about the Time War seeing Time Lords die over and over again during the war (I think the episode was the Doctor's Daughter, I can't be sure).

    I expect the glib line in Sarah Jane was just Russell T. Davies leaving something for Moffat to handle..a sorta playful FU.
  23. Innovator

    Dr.Who news....

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zikar View Post
    That doesn't count.
    If that doesn't count then the "Renewal" from Hartnell into Troughton shouldn't count either, as it was stated by Doctor Who writers Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood in the Doctor Who Monthly column "Matrix Data-Bank" in 1982, that that change was a "Rejuvination" and wasn't the same as the Regenerations of later Doctors, which kinda brings him to now the 10th "Regeneration".
  24. Innovator

    Dr.Who news....

    The Doctor is already on his 12th regeneration. He regenerated twice during David Tennant's run. There was a comment that the Master's regenerations were reset during the Time War, I just assumed the Doctor's was reset as well. The Doctor's might have been made unlimited considering he was a leader during the Time War.