Hm... first time I've been on these boards in a while... I'd just like to comment that I was a bit annoyed that Emily's father said that her lack of conscience and not knowing the difference between right and wrong is due to 'chromosomal damage'.
LOCK TROUBLE OF THE WEEK, PART 1: Emily goes roaming around Smallville without the knowledge of her father in an attempt to find Lana. Later we discover that the Emilies are being kept in a secret lair with a large metal door as the only access. Just how did Emily get out of this room? They never mention that Emily has super strength.
LOCK TROUBLE OF THE WEEK, PART 2: Speaking of this large metal door, Clark finds it and there's a very complicated looking combination lock on it; however, Clark just opens the door without keying in a combination. If he needed to use his super strength to open the door, why didn't he open it before calling Lana over in order to avoid suspision?
STALKER OF THE WEEK: Does it strike anyone else as odd that Clark ALWAYS happens to be at just the right place at just the right time? I know this has always been a Superman staple, but I just found it a bit odd this week.
PETE NEGLECT OF THE WEEK: At the beginning, the four friends are watching a movie. The order in the row goes Pete, Clark, Lana, and Chloe. Does Pete have some kind of bizarre personality problem that keeps Chloe from even considering Pete as a date for a movie? If I recall correctly (and my memory is sketchy since it was almost 2 years ago), but in the pilot, I think Pete asks Chloe to go to some kind of dance and she accepts his offer.
STRANGE OFFHAND COMMENT OF THE WEEK: Clark casually says to Chloe that it's not that uncommon for people to come back from the dead in Smallville. They say it in such an offhand way that it makes it seem like they're not the least bit freaked out by this. Where's Mulder and Scully when you need them?
OPEN END OF THE WEEK: The ending is very open-ended regarding Emily's fate. We see her getting somewhat chummy with Lionel Luthor at the end with Lionel telling her father that she is now the property of LuthorCorp. (Two people without a moral compass, now that sounds interesting.)
HARBINGER OF DOOM OF THE WEEK: Clark is sure in Lana's good graces lately. As was often true of my dearly departed Farscape, whenever the romance starts to look good, we're about ready for things to go horribly wrong.
DISTANCE PROBLEM OF THE WEEK: Lex and Lionel both talk as if it's a big deal to travel from Metropolis to Smallville; however, a season one episode shows Clark and Lana atop a windmill and they can see the lights of Metropolis in the distance. This implies that Metropolis is actually pretty close. It can't really be much more than an hour away.
NEEDED SWIMMING LESSONS OF THE WEEK: Whenever Emily pushes Lana off of the bridge, she sinks right to the bottom. It looks like the water was deep enough that she wouldn't have hit her head on anything. And besides, presumably Emily jumped in and was able to rescue Lana at the age of 9. What's Lana's excuse?
NEEDED THERAPY OF THE WEEK: What is keeping Lana from having a nervous breakdown? She witnessed her parents' deaths, Mrs. Small blames her for coming between Henry and her, and now we discover that she's plagued with guilt over not rescuing Emily those many years ago. No wonder she's up until 3 in the morning crying.
OVERALL OPINION OF THE WEEK: Not excellent, but still very good. From the previews I thought this was going to be a standalone freak of the week episode but it turned out to be a very important part of the Smallville story. Next week looks good too.
TUE
About the Pete neglect: Maybe Pete knows Chloe currently has the hots for Clark? Anyways, I thought the neglect was much worse when Clark and Pete went ghost hunting in the graveyard, they both see the "ghost," and then Clark immediatly disappears on him. Granted, Pete knows (or should have been able to guess) that Clark just ran off at super speed, but still, wouldn't you be terrified in that situation?
So, Lionel is into cloning. Why do I think that Clark's blood sample from a few months back is going to mysteriously disappear from Helen's office?
I liked this episode.
Especially the graveyard superspeed scene was great. But this leads to some other things.
Some time ago, Clark smashed a bowl or vase at home! He couldn't catch it???
Is his super speed and percieving the world some kind of focused way of looking at things he has to switch on?
So, if this cloning thing is somewhat very recent
(Clark mentions something about Emily being this old already) will she age faster and be grown up soon? No doubt she will return!
-> DISTANCE PROBLEM OF THE WEEK:
That Metropolis beeing so close in Season 1 was "changed" in Season 2. It was a small mistake.
I've read that somewhere around here.
They never mention that Emily has super strength.-TUE
In last weeks episode, and I think at one point last season, they establish that when a human uses green kryptonite on themselves, they get super-strength.
Was anyone paying attention in the beginning? They have Lionel coming to visit Emily's dad in the hospital, but I don't recall Emily doing something to her father to put him there (or anything else for that matter).
When Clark enters the lab, there is liquid kryptonite in glass beakers, yet they don't affect him until the beakers break. I was under the impression that only lead could protect Superman from kryptonite, not glass.
Marc
There was a scene in which Emily Dad told her it was time to come home. She accused him of wanting to keep her away from Lana, it built up, she said, "You can't make me!" or something equally six year oldish, and then threw some object at him that had a sharpened stake on one end.
It looked like she impaled him with a windmill, but I didn't quite catch what it was.
And then Emily Dad wound up in the hospital.
TUE: They never mention that Emily has super strength.
Luigi Novi: She has Kryptonian super speed. We can infer that she also has the strength.
Little girls of normal strength probably couldn't impale their fathers like Emily does, so I would assume super strength, too.
Is his super speed and percieving the world some kind of focused way of looking at things he has to switch on?- Elwood
I've often wondered about this myself- anytime they show Clark in "bullet time" , I wonder if he actually sees everything this way, or if this is some sort of defense mechanism, or other ability that he can activate when needed. I can't imagine how Clark would function if he perceived the world at hyperspeed all the time, so I assume that Clark has an ability to focus his eyesight to accomodate his super-speed.
Wall-of-Weird Addition of the Week: Does Lana have ANY employees at the Talon? I've never been in a restaraunt that only had 1 person closing up. She sweeps the trash from the theater, she's always locking the front door alone before putting up chairs, picking up empty cups, etc. Where are the dishwashers? Where are the waitresses counting tips and closing the till? Is the whole town giving Lana wide berth so Clark can make his move?
When Clark enters the lab, there is liquid kryptonite in glass beakers, yet they don't affect him until the beakers break. I was under the impression that only lead could protect Superman from kryptonite, not glass.
Maybe the liquified (and possibly diluted, if it's been mixed with anything) kryptonite is weak enough that glass can stop it.
But I've got a feeling that given the rapid development of Emily and her clones at some point there's going to be some new girl(s) at the high school who happen to be capable of taking Clark in a fight. Given that we don't know the exact rate of growth of the clones, they have some time to play around with the idea. And naturally, all of this is assuming that Clark goes back to school at some point.
Concerning Lana's status as employer: There's a local coffeehouse that often operates with just one employee doing anything (although every now and then an employee on their night off will answer the phone or something). It's not as physically big as the Talon, but I've seen it handle roughly the same number of customers before. And all that with just one employee.
Yeah, but is that employee a high school student?
And one who nearly dies almost every other week at that?
Okay, never thought to catch back up on this thread... but since you folks asked...
Yeah, but is that employee a high school student?
College student, actually. It's not always the same single employee (there's a married couple in their 20's that runs the place, and then they just have the one employee, and generally it's one of the three of them working the counter and kitchen), but the place often operates with just one employee at a time.
And one who nearly dies almost every other week at that?
Okay, you got me there.