Spirit

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Smallville: Season Four: Spirit

By Duke of Earl Grey on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:06 pm:

OK, Chloe should be dead or in serious condition after Dawn punched her using Clark's body, because obviously she wouldn't have restrained herself. I mean, if she can knock Mr. Kent down the stairs using Chloe's body, she's really hauling back, I would think.

After Dawn is forced out of Clark's body by the kryptonite, what's to stop her from going back into Chloe's body, or someone else's for that matter? Maybe because she got her body inhabiting powers from it, the kryptonite took them away again?

Again, when Dawn leaves Clark's body, this time it seems her spirit is visible, but earlier in the episode, Mrs. Kent couldn't see her.

So, Bridget Crosby's dead, huh? I don't have any nits about that, just saying, well, that's something. And Jason Teague is shaping up into a bad dude of some kind.


By Triggins (Triggins) on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:23 pm:

Lets see another episode with an outside force inhabiting a character or several characters bodies. A meteor freak deciding to kill people who hurt her. A tender moment between Lana and Clark while Chloe watches from the sidelines. Someone should tell the writers that it is okay to stray a little away from the formula.


By Biggy on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 5:29 am:

Ok, so who was Prom King?


By LUIGI NOVI on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 1:25 pm:

ANOTHER body-switching story? Oh well. At least it was better than the week before.

The fact that Clark's secret is not exposed to Dawn by her possession of Martha (which is confirmed by her surprise at witnessing Clark's super speed at the end of the episode when grabbing the mop) would indicate that she doesn't have access to her hosts' memories. But when she possesses the doctor to kill her own former (and now comatose) body, how did she know which substances to use, or where to find the hypodermic?

The Kents have often been indicated to be financially strapped, but Martha rents a tux for Clark that by all appearances, he has no intentino of using, "just in case" he changes his mind?

The lack of realistic setting and detail that one expects to find in certain settings and among certain groups in fiction really shows when Dawn-in-Chloe is crowned Prom Queen. Not only is there no mentino at all of the tragic death of a student that just happened a day or two ago, but when "Chloe" offers a tribute to that dead student, people are actually surprised. I'd expect this reaction from them if Dawn hadn't died (or even been in the accident), since it wouldn't be surprising for even a social nemesis to say something nice about someone who passed away. But for them to be so shocked under the circumstances is really odd to me.

Wouldn't Dawn, inhabiting Clark, have killed Chloe with the way she slapped her and threw her across the room at the climax of the episode?

Where'd Jonathan get that kryptonite from in just a few minutes? Clark told him to turn and get it for him. But where did Jonathan run to? 7-Eleven?

How did Clark and Jonathan know that Dawn wouldn't simply go from Clark back to Chloe? I know she needed physical contact during the episode to make the jumps from host to host, but wasn't the first jump done without it?

So next week's the cliched amnesia episode. What's next? The one where someone is shrunk down in size?


By Josh M on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 4:30 pm:

Well, this one could have been better. A lot better. Figures that they'd find a way to get Lois to the Prom. And a Krypto-FOTW. No thanks. And you cannot make me believe that Chloe couldn't get a date to Prom. Then again, I guess she did mention going stag, right?

How long ago was the last (much better) episode? Because didn't Pa Kent get shot in the knee? Don't the effects of that tend to last a bit longer?

Speaking of Krypto (sorry, Shelby), nice to see he's begun a personal mission to torture Lois. What a good dog.

Billy shared a scene with Dualla. Hee! Ah, never mind.

Ok, so who was Prom King?

That's a good point. I didn't even think of that one. I guess they could have announced it after Dawn/Chloe ran off the stage. Seems a little odd though.

Luigi Novi: But when she possesses the doctor to kill her own former (and now comatose) body, how did she know which substances to use, or where to find the hypodermic?
We don't know how much Dawn knows about such things. She seemed like a ditz, but that doesn't mean that she was. Locating a drug and a needle would be a little tougher, though not impossible.

Luigi Novi: Where'd Jonathan get that kryptonite from in just a few minutes? Clark told him to turn and get it for him. But where did Jonathan run to? 7-Eleven?
No. The truck's glove box. Obviously. :)

Well, next week's episode looks like a rerun. He has to destroy an asteroid, right? And Pa Kent's going to break a baseball bat over is body to prove his identity to him.


By The Undesirable Element on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 8:34 pm:

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR:

Chloe (posessed by Dawn) encounters Pa Kent at the top of the staircase. Chloe is holding a massive axe and then she clocks Pa Kent in the face. He comes to at the bottom of the stairs and says to Clark that Chloe is acting a little odd.

My reaction would be something like: "Holy S***! That b**** was hauling around an axe and she punched me in the face! WTF??"

TUE

"This must be Thursday... I never could get the hang of Thursdays."


By anon on Friday, April 22, 2005 - 12:41 am:

Where'd Jonathan get that kryptonite from in just a few minutes? Clark told him to turn and get it for him. But where did Jonathan run to? 7-Eleven?

Well, 7-Eleven did used to have Kryptonite Slurpees. Granted, they were more lime than meteor, but there ya go. (And you really have to ask where he had to go to get Kryptonite in Smallville? Aren't there chunks of it just lying around all over the place?)


By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, April 22, 2005 - 12:26 pm:

JoshM: Locating a drug and a needle would be a little tougher, though not impossible.
Luigi Novi: But how would she know which drug to use?


By John-Boy on Friday, April 22, 2005 - 4:49 pm:

Maybe she is smarter than she lets on. She was in a hospial after all! It wouldn't be that hard to get ahold of a deadly drug.


By anon on Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 12:01 am:

Does it really matter what drug she used? Couldn't she just grab whatever's handy, look at the dosage, then use a hell of a lot more than it says to?

Not that it was particularly bright of her to kill her body in the first place. For all she knew that could have finished her conciousness or spirit or whatever it was off even in the other bodies.

Kind of like how last week EviLex didn't want to risk offing the other Lex because he didn't know how it would affect him. This girl had no idea that killing her body would do nothing to her until being forced out of whoever she was possessing.

Plus there's always the possibility that if she hadn't done that, then she might have returned to her body rather than just dissipating.

Bottom line, the girl was pretty dumb, but it doesn't take much brainpower to kill someone in a coma.


By Blitz - Digimon Moderator (Sladd) on Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 5:11 pm:

Why does Lois encourage Clark to dance with Lana AS CHLOE WATCHES? Isn't this the same Lois who warned Clark not to hurt Chloe back in "Devoted"? What does she think this'll do?

To say something good about this episode, I have to confess that I totally didn't see the twist involving Jason comming. Also, everyone who got possessed by Dawn did a good job pulling off the dumb teen blond impersonation


By Uno-man on Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 12:55 am:

Just sw this in re-run and noticed something;

A) Clark, noticing that Chloe had been posessed told his dad - I'm paraphrasing- "I need you to get something.."
now what he says is almost a whisper, but I'm betting he thought HE (Clark) might end up needing help or get posessed himself.and sure-enough the Kryptonite appeared.

B) I agree as far as Dawns death goes, but wasn't too surprised, no one during the entire ep. seemed to give two figs about what happened, so either
1) Smallville High is the most heartless school in the mid-west or
2) Dawn was the most hated student in the ENTIRE CITY!!

Lets recap: Martha sees a broken part of the siderail on the road - did she call 911?, no.
(granted she was posessed but really..)
At school, AND the hospital are there any PARENTS asking where Dawn was?.. no.
When it was reveiled that she died did ANYONE shed a tear?.. no.
granted she was supposed to be the "villian if the week" but geez.


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