Smallville and Angel

[sisabet]

Okay - no idea what tonight's episode of Smallville was called. Angel was "Unleashed" - and I'm a-cutting


Smallville: I was highly entertained by tonight's episode. And someone killed the kid that plays Hunter on QaF! Cool! Although, after the "You fucked a murderer!" scene, the little fellow grew on me. But I spent several episodes wishing him dead, so it was kinda fulfilling tonight.

So Clark took off his shirt, saved Lex's life, took off his shirt again and we got crazy-buff-killer-dude doing shirtless situps with a rifle. What was there not to like? And Chloe's hair is improving - I was having severe Chloe-hair dissonance after the premiere. All good.

Now Lex can't get sick? Has he been watching "Unbreakable"? Cause that was almost word-for-word. Also, didn't he have a really bad case of malaria last week? Did I miss something. See - I didn't realize that Dawn only watched part of the Premiere and skipped last week entirely. I watched last week but only remember a few things cause I was all high on OTC cold medicine. But Dawn started making cracks tonight about Lex wandering away from his resort and hallucinating on the beach about his psycho buddy Louis. And I realized she had no idea about the plane crash, she just thought Lex was all wacky, and freaks out easily when lost. And that has nothing to do with anything about tonight's episode, except I thought it was pretty funny. Oh, and maybe I missed the malaria part - so he wasn't sick? Huh?

Angel: My boy is killing humans, making deals with evil, and drawing blondes. This cannot end well.

I thought Spike was playing Fred when he became solid again. Then I saw the previews and realized he wasn't. I will quit trying to predict what happens with him from now on. I don't read Spike well. I will hazard a guess that he is naked next week, although I have no idea where I am getting that from! Geez - why didn't they just take out a banner or something. Not that I am complaining. I'm just saying - Angel has that nice big shower...Wes is already there...

Speaking of Wes - how cute was that little look he have Angel when Angel said the werewolf girl gave him a look. So fucking cute.

And I don't hate werewolf girl. I hope she goes evil or does something to Angel if she stays - but I don't mind her presence onscreen at all.

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"...I don't mind her presence onscreen at all..."

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

My God, Woman! Did you completely miss it?

Let me see...

We have an attractive young woman with a vivid and occasionally violent imagination who occasionally appears to have suffered minor injuries but has no memory as to the cause of them. She lives with her sister, a doctor, with whom she has loud arguements and her sister's child. Okay, the gender of the child is incorrect but this could be the new and improved Battlestar Gallactica version of this person's life.

Can you guess who it might be?

Re: "...I don't mind her presence onscreen at all..."

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

OMIGOD! Hee!

Yes - I am werewolf girl!! LMAO!

Re: "...I don't mind her presence onscreen at all..."

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Now that you are Angel's new girlfriend, it is your sacred duty to make him miserable.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Also, didn't he have a really bad case of malaria last week?

...

How did I freakin' miss that?? Argh. Okay, maybe he's only immune to run o' the mill stuff.. but.. okay, no. I got nothin'.

Massive continuity gap there, guys. *facepalm*

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Well, he thought he had malaria and that was his explanation for going crazy. Did anyone else say that he had malaria? I don't remember.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I don't remember either. So he had malaria like I have meningitis - without a medical diagnosis, just a hunch? Cause my neck hurts and that must be meningitis.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

All of that switching back and forth to wolf form must have pulled a muscle.

Smallville was titled Extinction- & I was disconcerted to see Hunter-

[viola69.livejournal.com]

& to see him become another in a LONG string of Mutant Stalkers of Lana.
So- Three episodes in on Smallville- & Clark has gotten shirtless multiple times each episode- & next week he goes skinny dipping??!!! Wheeee!!! Although I wish is was skinny dipping with Lex.
As far as Lex & his statement of Non-Illness when he was delirious/sun-stroked/fevered Just 2 episodes- *shakes head* I give up. Maybe illness suffered after plane crashes onto semi-deserted islands doesn't count??
Next week- Nekkid Tormented Spike!! WooHoooo!! He hurts purty.
Wolf-Girl was nice. She was no Gwen-electric girl- but didn't mind her & wouldn't object to her returning- & yes- Wes' reaction to Angel's quiet "She gave me a look"- was just ... precious. ;-)

[jennifus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when Wes said that to Angel, me and my friend Jenn shrieked, "Like THAT look? That look that you are giving him NOW?"
:-)

[eliade.livejournal.com]

Now Lex can't get sick? ... Also, didn't he have a really bad case of malaria last week?

You're far more on the ball than me. I totally missed that, but now that you've brought it to my attention I marvel at their lameness.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well maybe he didn't have malaria. Maybe he just *assumed* it was malaria and really and truly he was never physically sick - just really bored. In his boredom he hallucinated a buddy. And then, since he is Lex, he got bored with his buddy and had to make him go all psycho, just so he would have something to do. Once he was rescued, he got to go back to bing center-stage and entertaining but there is still the nagging spector of his Ise O'Delusions so he attributes everything to malaria. Kind of like when I have West Nile or SARS, I'm sick -so it must be because of that, but I really don't have time to see a real doctor (my sister doesn't count). Lex is a very busy man.

Als - perhaps Lex is a frustrated drama queen?

Lex: "Maybe I am a freak, and need to get my freak on."

[(Anonymous)]

Undercover Brother here. As usual, I have no comment on "Angel," other than to say DB ages 5 years every time he appears on screen.

But "Smallville." Oh man. Probably the best non-mythological episode thus far, only because they make a point of listing all the (repetitive) villains and (lame) subplots of episodes past. It's like, I'm rolling my eyes, and they're rolling along with me!

We should have foreseen an "Unbreakable" plot in last week's episode, where Lex reappears with his bald head covered in a hooded sweatshirt. His malaria from the island affected him, but never really debilitated him. Plus, it seems that medically he is abnormal.

Speculation runs rampant here, not so much on the Joey/Pacey-ish next episode, but the future of the show. Truthseekersara believes the deaths will align as follows: Pete, Lionel, Jonathan. I'm thinking Chloe may precede (predecease?) all of them. I mean, how else is it that she's not a part of Clark's Daily Planet adult life, where he falls in love with someone exactly like her?

My prediction: Chloe dies the very day her hair returns to peak condition.

UB

Re: Lex: "Maybe I am a freak, and need to get my freak on."

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - Chloe is sooo dead. But then, so is Pete.

So is Clark a Junior? When does Chloe kick, ya think? I'm betting senior year. In the grand tradition of all of our other TV shows is there a Smallville University? University of Kansas at Smallville?

Re: Lex: "Maybe I am a freak, and need to get my freak on."

[(Anonymous)]

Undercover Brother here, twice in one thread.

I don't know how closely the show will follow the comic mythology of Superman. In the comics, as I've been told, Pete makes it to adulthood. To say more (his political allegiances, his family) may spoil too much.

Remember the episode where Lana is in that explosion that gives her the ability to see what the villain sees? Chloe is abducted by the villain, but what's important is that she was on her way to spending time with her cousin in college in Metropolis. To say more, again, may spoil too much.

UB

Re: Lex: "Maybe I am a freak, and need to get my freak on."

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Oh - I can be spoiled for Smallville - that is my one spoiler indulgence.

Re: Lex: "Maybe I am a freak, and need to get my freak on."

[(Anonymous)]

Undercover Brother here, thrice.

Okay, but for those (Truthseekersara and others) who don't want to know
SPOILERS of SMALLVILLE, read no further!














According to the comics and TPTB of the show:

1. Chloe Sullivan's (older) cousin is Lois Lane.

2. Lex Luthor gets in the political arena, with running mate Pete Ross and Pete's wife, Lana Lang. I believe Pete is VP.

3. Michael McKean (Annette O'Toole's husband, among other things) joins the cast in a few weeks as recurring character Perry White. Jimmy Olsen may also be introduced this season.

4. Some creative interpretation of future episodes leads me to believe Jor-El has visited Earth, specifically Smallville, in the distant past.

Personally, I'm not sure where the show is going mythologically. I assumed that at the end of last season Clark would develop his fortress of solitude like in the movie (where Superman claims that the green kryptonite crystal called to him). This Kal stuff is edgier, but iffy.

At some point you'll have to teach me how to hide spoiler text on LJ so that the reader must highlight the blank space to read it.

UB

Re: Lex: "Maybe I am a freak, and need to get my freak on."

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how to hide spoiler text - but since this is my LJ and not a forum or message board - I'm totally comfortable with what you did - putting up a warning an a bit of space.

Lana -n- Pete. Who knew?

Re: Lex: "Maybe I am a freak, and need to get my freak on."

[rliz.livejournal.com]

Y'want <font color="white">[spoiler]</font>, like



that.

Or to be even safer, if the background if the page you're on isn't white (if someone's set a custom LJ style): <font color="white" style="background-color:white">[spoiler]</font>, like

[jainieg.livejournal.com]

>>Smallville: I was highly entertained by tonight's episode. And someone killed the kid that plays Hunter on QaF! Cool! Although, after the "You fucked a murderer!" scene, the little fellow grew on me. But I spent several episodes wishing him dead, so it was kinda fulfilling tonight.<<

LMAO - The minute I saw him, I was like, "Holy shit! It's HUNTER! I hate Hunter." Hunter still gets on my tits big time (something about his face just bothers me - I think it's the teeth - he reminds me of a rat), so imagine how gleeful I was over him getting cacked!

>>And Chloe's hair is improving - I was having severe Chloe-hair dissonance after the premiere. All good. <<

I know! Her hair from the first episode gave me major trauma. I want The Flippy back, dammit! They still show it in the opening credits and I have Flippy missage and that's bad. Give me my Flippy back, you bastards!

Oh, and - Lex was sounding more like himself and not all kooky-like. I'm still concerned about him getting cozy with the Magnificent Bastard, but hopefully, it's just Lex going undercover so he can find out who was really behind the plane crash so he can kick their asses.

>>Now Lex can't get sick? Has he been watching "Unbreakable"? Cause that was almost word-for-word. Also, didn't he have a really bad case of malaria last week? Did I miss something.<<

Rotfl - Ummmmm... maybe it was heatstroke? Sunstroke? Yes! Sunstroke. Yes.

>>And I realized she had no idea about the plane crash, she just thought Lex was all wacky, and freaks out easily when lost.<<

*snort* *snirt* WAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

>>I will quit trying to predict what happens with him from now on. I don't read Spike well.<<

Well, speaking simply as a Spike fan and not a Spike fan who is spoiled out the wazoo, I really don't think Spike was playing Fred. He doesn't have control over when he fades in or fades out and doesn't even have any idea that it's happening until it's too late, so the perfectly-timed fade-back-in after Fred promises him she'll help, I think, was nothing more than a coincidence.

And, as far as Spike in general this ep - he's so terrified of what's happening to him, I picked up on that in the first two eps. Spike didn't have any idea he'd even gone anywhere, at first, in the first episode, but then, the more often he disappeared, the longer it lasted, and the longer it lasted, the more of a chance he had to possibly explore and see where the hell he actually was (if you'll pardon the pun), since he obviously wasn't at W&H (though, maybe W&H's underground car parks look different, who's to say? ;)). And so for him to be conscious when this all happens, and for him to be disappearing and staying in hell for longer and longer periods of time - realizing that it's getting worse, whatever 'it' is, and that it could very well get to the point where he just goes away and stays away - has got to be both frustrating and frightening for him.

It's like he's hanging on to the edge of this cliff and he falls and falls but he stops just short of landing on the jagged rocks... they're right there, up in his face, so he gets to see the fate that awaits him. And then, wham, next thing you know, he's back on solid ground, looking down over the edge of the cliff, wondering how he got back up again...

Just my thoughts, of course :)

Oh! And!

[jainieg.livejournal.com]

In the midst of all my Spike blather, I forgot to mention about Lex: in the first season, I do remember very clearly him talking to one of his father's doctors during a routine checkup. The doc said that Lex's white blood-cell count was high and, in a line of standard questioning, the doc asked if Lex had been sick after the meteors fell and Lex said he'd had asthma as a kid, but hadn't been sick since. So, there is history, there, for it :D