Everything Old Is New Again On Smallville

Last dark ’s Smallville managed the impressive exploit of simultaneously feel like an instalment of the first few seasons of the show with their “ meteoroid freak of the workweek ” data format while also manifest how far ( some ) fiber have come in the last few years of the series . They also introduced the hunky new medick who ’s may just terminate up killing the near - gentleman’s gentleman of Steel and got our fanboy - sentience tingle with the ( admittedly unlikely ) possibility offer up if a particular spoiler turns out to be on-key . Has the CW ’s superhero liquid ecstasy opera house somehow become good when we were n’t make up attention ?

While I was n’t too impressed by the generic main plot of the installment – double-decker explodes even though there was no bomb calorimeter onboard ( Well , at least it did n’t get filled with some tight - go down deception muck ) , fille turns out to be capable to make things explode – it was economize by the ostensible new condition quo of the show , the freshest part of which is definitely Clark being pro - active and actually seeming to be on his elbow room to becoming Superman for a change : It ’s not just that he saved the masses on the bus and stuck around afterwards to avail without open it any thought alternatively of running away at superspeed to feel upturned about his powers , but much moreso his attempt at inspirational speak at the death of the episode to Bette , The Bomb - Girl – For the first sentence ever on the show , you got the intuitive feeling that he just might grow up to become the Superman that we recognise and love . If anything , the familiarity of the game helped land home how different the show and character have become since its start , eight years ago . It was n’t only Clark ’s new assertiveness , but also the way that the show ’s Lois has start to settle into a go - get newsman role closer to her laughable book counterpart ( but with added awkward comedy from her not being as good at her job as she ’d like ) , Chloe nonplus a B - plot to herself ( although , seriously , have n’t we done the “ female jumper cable falls for high-risk guy wire ” plot many times before on this show ? For shame , the great unwashed ) , and the complete lack of emo angst – or death of the villain , for that topic . It ’s like a whole new show that ’s ripping off previous Smallville but doing it better .

Two finicky thing reinforced the “ better ” idea this week . Firstly , the founding of new villain Doomsday was … well , not as terrible as it could ’ve been , really . Sure , in theory I ’m still entirely against Doomsday being a human translate into an unstoppable lusus naturae thanks to Kryptonite meteoroid , but anathemise if Sam Witwer did n’t make entrant Davis Bloome into an unexpectedly charming figure that even managed to extract off the “ daze ” final prospect of his bare , transforming , body . Much more squee - worthy was the by - now - traditional scene of newLex , Tess Mercer – not as barefaced , but just as evil – recruiting the villain for nefarious ends , although the reason for my exhilaration is more potential than not completely in my head . allow me explicate . We ’ve heard – thanks to Charlie – that evil New God Darkseid may be on top to come out this season . Well , watching Tess recruit Bette to her “ team ” made me wonder / hope : What if Tess is n’t Tess ? What if she ’s a masked version of Darkseid ’s hencholdwoman , Granny Goodness , raise supervillains to a new televisual team of Female Furies ? It ’ll belike never materialize , but such an idea is 100 % Smallville : engage an idea from the laughable books and making it shape on television involving attractive young people wearing signifier - fit dress . If anyone from the show ’s authorship staff is reading this : You know what to do to make me happy . But even the fact that I ’m fanboy excited about the theory of something like that happening go to demonstrate that Smallville is continuing to deform itself around and quietly become one of the more gratifying ( guilty ) pleasance on TV justly now . Will admiration never cease ?

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