Tomb
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Smallville:
Season Five:
Tomb
By LUIGI NOVI on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 9:50 pm: Why is it that everyone--Clark, Lana, Lex,---assumes that something is wrong with Chloe mentally until Clark finds the girl's corpse in the wall? After all the paranormal/supernatural stuff they've seen in Smallville, shouldn't it pretty much be S.O.P. for at least her closest friends to investigate the idea that she did experience what she claims she did? I mean, HELLO? Clark is a friggin' EXTRATERRESTRIAL!
By J on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:05 am: It's simple, Luigi. Every character on Smallville is an idiot. That's the only way for 90% of the plots to work, anyway.
By Blitz - Digimon Moderator (Sladd) on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 7:51 pm: And now we have Kryptonite use #567,932,589: spirit swaper.
By anon on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:42 pm: I misread that as "spit swapper" at first!
By uno-man on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 3:09 pm: Who else was expecting Dr.Fate to show up and attempt to help out?
I'm getting a little tired of
"If its something weird--it's KRYPTONITE!" I'm getting the feeling TPTB are running out of ideas for the show. Anyone else think that way?
By LUIGI NOVI on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 9:05 pm:It has more uses than Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and Star Trek's anaprovaline combined!
By Mr. Crusher on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 10:34 pm: Well when your show is based on the Superman comics, what do you expect?
And no uno-man, i don't think that way. in fact, ive been really enjoying the show this year.
By uno-man on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 8:08 pm: No offense, Mr. Crusher I was just hoping it was going to be a "ghost story" without the help of any green rocks.
Outside of that it was good, and entertaining. I still want to scream at the t.v. when Clark WANTS to tell Lana his "secret" but can't ... or won't.
By anon on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 11:49 am:
Quote:I'm getting a little tired of
"If its something weird--it's KRYPTONITE!" I'm getting the feeling TPTB are running out of ideas for the show. Anyone else think that way?
Well, that's been pretty much the MO since day one on this show. I think only the "Flash" and Aquaman have been non-krypto related. Every other super powered being seems to have either come from kryptonite exposure, or ancient kryptonian artifacts, or coming directly from krypton.
It will be interesting to see tonight if kryptonite plays any part in Cyborg's sure to be butchered origin. Not that I have the slightest clue what his actual origin is. Sheesh, he's not even a b-list hero, more like d-list. Who's next, Ma Hunkle?
Oh, and just before I hit the send button, in fairness, I do remember one more non-krypto powered character, at least I think he was non-krypto. That bogus, not anything like they real Mxyzpltkajhkfha however the hell it's spelled. IIRC, he was powered by something else.
By LUIGI NOVI on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 10:25 pm:Anon: I think only the "Flash" and Aquaman have been non-krypto related.
Luigi Novi: And Cyborg. In general, when they adapt super-powered characters from the comics, they tend to keep the same power origins.
As for whether his origin was "butchered," they did change the nature of who gave him his enhancements and why (see his comic origin here, but for the most part, I think they stayed true to the character. I especially liked how, even though his armor was endoskeletal instead of exoskeletal, they kept the same shape of his cranial, and chin armor, and the oil-like lubricant that serves as his blood. 
I don't see how he's D-list. He's a long-standing member of the Teen Titans, appeared in the old Super Friends cartoon, etc.