Judging from the previews, Clark's supposed to meet Flash in this one.

I think a friend of mine mentioned he'd heard that, specifically, it was going to be Bart Allen. Which is odd. But oh well.

Okay, so he's meeting Kid Flash. Let's hope neither of them does anything impulsive.

I haven't been watching this show on a regular basis, but that sounds like something I really would like to see.

I like the convention of one-word episode titles. I'm sure more thought goes into each one of those than in any of the seven seasons of Voyager's titles.

Yup, it was Bart Allen... who's also gone by the names "Jay Garrett," "Wally West," and "Barry Allen."

I loved this episode. I'll let someone write the synopsis but there were some really choice moments... like Bart saying that he needs to find more people like himself and Clark so they can "form a club or a league or something."

Okay, so Bart Allen is now a pickpocket and a fence? And he’s not Barry Allen’s descendant from the future who inherited his powers, but is a resident of Clark’s time who got them from an accident like Barry and Wally? (I assume his line to Chloe that he’s from the future was just a joke.) Oh no, that’s not a violation of the character at all! What next? Green Lantern is a drunk driver?

I liked how the yellowish energy signature of Bart’s speeding is not only close to how it’s depicted in the comics, but a nice contrast to the blue-like signature seen with Clark’s.

Lana’s statement to Jason in Act 1 that she would never hurt him, but that there are some things that she’s just not comfortable sharing with him yet was an interesting echo of how Clark has continuously failed to open up to her.

Among Bart’s aliases on his false ID’s was Jay Garrett (The Golden Age Flash), Barry Allen (the Silver Age Flash, the first to wear the famous red and yellow costume, now deceased), and Wally West (the first Kid Flash, and now current Flash). Interestingly, Barry Allen was one of Frank Abagnale’s aliases in Catch Me If You Can (as was Hal Jordan, IIRC), which is what alerted his pursuer, Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) to the fact that he was a comic book reader, and therefore, a juvenile.

When Clark showed up to save Bart and Lex, he threw Bart’s contact up threw the ceiling window, sending him flying onto the top of a trailer. That could’ve killed him. When is Clark going to learn to use subtler methods of incapacitation, like giving a mild karate chop to the solar plexus or tapping him on the forehead, or something?

This episode answered the whole "have they or haven't they" debate for me concerning Lana and Jason. Seems to me he should have noticed the tattoo long before now.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

I liked Bart's character. He had the arrogance and fun I'd expect from a young Flash, especially one only a couple of years after gaining his powers.

Yay! Lionel's back next week! I can't wait.

Luigi Novi: Oh no, that’s not a violation of the character at all! What next? Green Lantern is a drunk driver?
This isn't the comic book. They haven't exactly been faithful to it before, why start now?

They've been mostly faithful to it up until Perry White and Lois. Making Bart an arrogant jerk is just one more bad example of it.

The end sequance was cool when Bart just accelerates and Clark seems to be at his top speed. But I am sure he will get faster.

Isn't Flash supposed to be faster than Supes though?

This wasn't Flash. This was Impulse/Kid Flash.

That doesn't really answer the question.

Maybe it wasn't really Impulse, but that evil Impulse imposter... What was his name? Inertia? The one who secretly took over Bart's life for a while...

Yes, Flash is faster than Superman.

Seeing all the fun TPTB have inserting in-jokes about actor's other works, especially when they're superhero related, I was dissapointed that we didn't get any gags about the fact that Michael Rosenbaum does the voice of The Flash on Justice League (at least, none that were obvious enough for me to notice)

Again, I say that the writers obviously aren't sticking strictly to the official comic backstory, nor are they obligated to.

That is, unless it's official in DC Comics' Superman backstory that half of Smallville has received powers from exposure to Kryptonite and Clark spent his high school years dealing with it on a weekly basis or so.

I agree. In fact, I was never a huge fan of the comic to begin with, so very little of these changes bother me as much as they bother Luigi or my step-father.

This wasn't Flash. This was Impulse/Kid Flash.
I get the impression that given the fact that we see Bart using the names of the comics' various Flash as aliases, the creators of Smallville intended Bart to be the future (and lone) Flash.

Blitz- Yeah, I was kind of disappointed by that too.

I did not mean that Clark will become faster than flash (which ever)
but faster than he currently is.

I remember an animated where the Flash (which ever) and Sup try to find out whos faster
and the speed around the world (Sup flies though)
but they don't find out in the end.

The Superman/Flash races always seem to end in a draw for one reason or another (even in the comics). I could accept that The Flash is faster, because that's his only power. Superman has all these other powers, he doesn't need to be the "fastest", too.

Flash can vibrate fast enough to walk through walls. Superman can't. Who's faster now?

JJtheF: Didn't they eventually get rid of that beucase, quite frankly, it was dumb? Granted, I'm a little behind on the comics (except Green Arrow; could we maybe see a young Oliver Queen show up in Smallville?), but my step-father is a HUGE dork (in my family that's something to aspire to) and he says they did.

Bart Allen isn't Flash. He's Impulse (now known as Kid Flash), and I don't believe it's been established that he has the same exact abilities as Wally West.