Damn you! Why must your season finales be such good cliffhangers! You make me care so much and then laugh in my face because I can’t see the resolution until September.
This definately beats out last year’s.
So what’d you guys think?
It was great. All those people who say that the worst Buffy episode still beats anything else on TV obviously don’t watch Smallville.
I can’t believe I have to wait (at least) 4 months to find out what happens. The only possible way I’ll survive is if I have myself cryogenically frozen until the premiere. This was a heck of a season I loved every episode (I loved last year too but this season even more so).
I fell especially bad for Lana, the men in her life always leave her…but I woulnd’t, oh no!
Could someone fill me in on the ring Clark slipped on at the end? I must have missed that episode.
I also must have missed the part where the spaceship “neutralized” Lana’s necklace? Little help.
This is an amazing show. It has definately evolved beyond Dawson’s Creek with superpowers.
I don’t suppose these are spoilers, since they are in episodes past … but just in case, SPOILERS!
Anyway, the ring has red kryptonite in it. Earlier this season, Clark bought a class ring with the red kryptonite - and red kryptonite has the opposite effect that green kryptonite has. It turned him into Bad Clark - showing off his powers and the like. Jonathon and Pete broke Clark’s, but Chloe apparently kept one after she found out it was “red meteor rock.”
The necklace - Tina (the freaky shapeshifting girl) came back as Whitney to pursue a relationship with Lana. Tine realized that Lana wanted to be with Clark, and she tied him up in the storm cellar with Lana’s necklace around his neck so she could become him. The ship then did its glowy-floaty thing, and somehow neutralized the kryptonite in the necklace.
I’m not sure I can wait until fall - not like I have a choice, but as I have always been a Lex kinda girl the cliffhanger is killing me!
Thanks, Winkie. I hate to bug you guys, but where did the red kryptonite come from. How did a jeweler get a hold of it?
The red and green kryptonite on the show is all fragments of the meteorites that accompanied Clark’s crashing to Earth as a toddler in 1989. They’re called “meteor rocks” by most characters on the show, since they don’t know about the planet Krypton. The “meteor rock” fragments can be found all around Smallville.
In the comics, I don’t remember kryptonite having an effect on anybody but Superman; however, one of the original touches in “Smallville” is that the “meteor rocks” can create odd powers and attributes in ordinary people, especially with long exposure. (They did this mostly in the first season; in fact it was getting formulaic. Fortunately they broke out of that rut and started opening up the storylines.)
I really have no idea, as I have never read a Superman comic, but I vaguely remember hearing somewhere that the original Lex Luthor got powers from the Power Stone, which was green kryptonite.
Of course, this might’ve been some weird dream I had.
The episode rocked. I can’t wait until fall.
Uhhh, any speculation on what the silver envelope was? I have a feeling that Lex’s bride-to-be felt so betrayed that she sold him out to Lionel.
Good question. Maybe they are trying to make us believe Helen betrayed Lex just like that other chick from last season, kinda leading Lex into a downward spiral of hatred and eventually as a cartoon super villain.
I hope we get to see more of Helen. She’s smoking HOT.
Kryptonite does affect humans the same way any radioactive substance would, it kills you. In the comics Lex always wore a ring made out of green Kryptonite to keep Superman from messing with him. After years of wearing the rock Lex developed cancer from it and died. Then he was replaced by his son who turned out to be a clone of Luthor with all his memories downloaded into his new body.
I saw the series finale of Buffy, then the season finale of Smallville right after.
It was amazing how pitiful Buffy’s finale was in comparison to just the season finale of Smallville. And I had been a huge fan of Buffy. Smallville is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows.
I think Lex’s fiance/wife was playing him all along. The look on her face while toasting on the airplane, and the fact that she didn’t repeat his toast…
Lex is an awesome character.
Yes, great cliffhanger of an episode. I also really like the way they’re doing the whole Lex Luthor thing. Much more interesting than the one dimension villan he was originally. I thought that Clarks parents shouldn’t have placed the blame squarely on his shoulders though. He didn’t make them race back in the truck at breakneck speed. And I think after showing them the brand on his chest, they’d agree that the ship was too dangerous.
Did anyone catch what the voice at the end said? It sounded like it said “Clark…” and then something else.
I beleive it said something about, “You will obey me.”
Can some one spoil the episode for me? I was busy changing the mother in laws tires at the request of Mrs. Mudpupper.
I was watching 24. Apparently I should have sprung for the TiVo last Christmas…
Here’s a speculative question: is Jor El (and his intentions for Clark) good or bad? Does he really want Clark to conquer the earth, or is the whole “the last son will rule the third planet”/“they (humans) are weak, etc.” talk about him becoming the highly moral and upstanding Superman we know and love–it’ll be his job to save people from themselves, and he has to leave Smallville b/c, otherwise, all those people he cares about will become natural targets for his enemies?
I actually wish that they hadn’t stated in the credits that it was Jor-El, that way they could have some question as to who it actually is who is telling him all this. Is it his dad? Brainiac? The Eradicator? I’m still annoyed that Zod can’t show up, though it would throw all the continuity for a huge loop.
Depends how you look at Zod. Reading the recent Superman comics, they’re obviously doing… SOmething… Weird with the general’s history, but it hasn’t all played out yet. Who knows? Maybe it’s to coordinate something with the show…
Continuity, schmontinuity. I saw an episode of this show a couple of weeks ago (channel surfing on a Sunday afternoon, I stopped at American Graffiti, and I stuck around for Smallville), and I don’t even recognize this conception of the last Kryptonian.
Lex Luthor is a good guy. Dennis Miller (well, he looks like Dennis Miller) is his father and is the real bad guy. Superboy is around in the era of computers, and the Internet, and people knowing about cloning – am I supposed to accept that the whole Clark Kent working for the Daily Planet with Perry White and Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen is supposed to have taken place in the Future? Don’t talk to me about continuity.
Is there a thread that some kind soul can link to, where I can get some idea of what the hell is going on?
So who voiced Jor-El…They said something about him being someone from the movies?