Lionel Luthor is offically the evilest man on TV. I mean (last week’s 24 spoiler) Saunders cracked when they threatened to infect his daughter. Lionel poisoned Lex.
Let’s get a body count.
-Mrs. Kent is looking at a flaming Kryptonian letter in the fields.
-Mr. Kent is probably still alive after Jor-El went Balrog on his neck.
-Pete is out of town.
-Lana is probably on a plane to Paris, but we didn’t see her get on.
-Lex is poisoned.
-Chloe and her dad got The Godfather explosion treatment, but we haven’t seen corpses.
-Lionel is shaven and in jail.
-Clark is in the Kryptonian matrix.
What now? I’m happy that after a year we’ll finally see just what Jor-El’s (or possibly, as one poster speculated, Brainiac’s) plans are.
-This is the second time this season that Lex has been poisoned through his scotch. The man either needs to vary his liquor a bit, or keep it far more secure than he does, since everyone seems to be able to break into that mansion at will.
Nice use of Mozart’s requiem in the final scenes. It might have been nice if the “this episode featured music from” bit included Mozart. Do we seriously believe that there is no branch of the Warner empire that puts out classical music?
I’m still a might confused about Jor-El. He’s dead, right? Along with every other Kryptonian. Is he communicating through a time warp to Jonathan and Clark? Or a pre-recording ala Green Crystals in Superman The Movie? What’s behind that wall if it’s not Krypton?
I’m thinking it goes something like this–behind that wall is (as Wolfian put it) the Kryptonian Matrix, a la the Eradicator. Jor-El’s (and maybe Lara’s) consciousness is somehow embedded in it (unless, of course, it’s Braniac, but never mind that now ).
So, the day of the meteor shower, Jor-El stole Lindsey/Kara’s body somehow, hid it in the cave, inside the matrix, in preparation for taking Clark back. I think that Clark is now getting his Kryptonian education, in the same fashion as the green crystal/Fortress of Solitude/Marlon Brando solution.
On another note, I’m very happy that Lana’s gone. The Clark/Lana thing had really gone as far as it could go, and all it’s really done this season is piss me off. I was kinda sorry to see Pete go, but he’s been pretty useless this year, as well. Chloe got far too stereotypical this year, I thought, but I didn’t want her to die for it. I thought the Chloe/Lois connection was going to be important down the line …
So, is Clark going to have to make new friends next year, or what? The poor kid had four friends, total. One’s in Paris, one’s in Wichita, one’s a dishonest bastard who needs to put a lock on his liquor cabinet, and the last got blowed up. As if Clark didn’t have enough of a complex.
My personal theory is that it isn’t Jor-El at all. It is Brainiac. The message received by the satellites on the day of the meteor shower, the flashback to when Jor-El was on earth and met Grandpa Kent, those reveal parts of Jor-El’s character which don’t mesh with the “send Kal-El as a conqueror” theme. We know that Brainiac survived Krypton’s destruction and that he was pretty much omnipresent in Kryptonian technology so he would probably have some presence in the cave(seems to be a Kryptonian outpost) and maybe have been able to overwrite the message in the ship. My guess is that Jor-El is dead and some other intelligence is acting like him to gain influence over Kal-El.
Just a pet theory, we’ll have to wait and see what the writers did.
I haven’t seen much of this season…has Brainiac been discussed in the show?
Overall, I thought this was a pretty interesting episode. Watching Chloe bite it at the end like that…DAMN! I really didn’t expect that. I thought the final shot was a little tacky, though, with Clark forming the S in the little emblam thingy flying threw space. Still, when he comes out, I wonder if he’s going to have the ability to fly. They’ve hinted at it before, Jor-El didn’t seem to be on Earth that long before he mastered the art, and now that Kara (right?) has shown him that flight is another aspect of his abilities, I think it’s rather silly to still have him running around everywhere.
I think Clark handled the discovery of Lex’s little research facility rather well. If I were him, I’d like to know exactly what it is that Lex knows about me, then destroy that thing at the first possible moment. I think it’s rather funny that Lex has that huge computerized animated display running CONSTANTLY for the past three years.
Maybe it only turns on when it senses a human presence in the room? I was just hoping that when Clark found out, Lex would say: “Clark, I know it’s not what it seems. I’m gay. And I love you.”
Maybe it is Lex who got rid of his competition - Lana, Chloe, Pete, and even maybe Clark’s father. Who encouraged Lana to go to France, even meeting her at the airport? Who got Chloe to risk her life by testifying? Who saved Pete from having to reveal his secret? (Do you sometimes wonder exactly what Lex thinks the secret is?) What do you think Jonathan would have said about a gay relationship? Without Kristen Kreuk, it may as well become “Queer Eye to the Superhero.”
I’ve heard the slang term “brainiac” used on the show. It seemed like a cute in-joke, but I also thought it meant they’d never the actual character on the show.
I’m not betting on Chloe actually being dead. She’s already used “Lois Lane” as a pseudonym, so I thought that was the direction they were going.
It’s a shame the entire mythology requires Clark and Lex to end up as enemies (though I liked the scene where Lex muses about the Indian myth, and how the “bad guy” might actually be the hero because he has the courage to oppose the near-omnipotent being therein prophesied). If he just came clean with Lex, and they joined forces… well, that might be a bigger departure from tradition than they’re willing to take.
I’m not as virtuous as Clark; if it’d been me, Lionel Luthor would have been takin’ a dirt nap for some time now. (It’s a common failing of superheroes that they won’t simply kill an evil villain, even when the villain seems to be beyond the reach of the regular authorities, and killing him would save innocent lives down the line.)
Zod. It seems to me that the “Kryptonian Matrix” is actually the Phantom Zone (an extradimensional Kryptonian Prison, y’know that square thing from the movies). Zod’s only pretending to be Jor-El from the Phantom Zone using the tech in the cave (and the ship). He can bring folks in and out of the PZ (or empower humans, like Lindsey and Jonathan), but can’t leave himself. He hopes to use his greatest enemy’s son to free himself and/or conquer the earth.
That’s mostly because I don’t like the “Jor-El’s an bastard and everyone’s better off with Krypton gone” line of thought. The loss of his homeworld and his parents should be tragic for Superman, dammit.
Clark is truly the prototypical pure-hearted boyscout. Gorgeous babe (reminded me of a teenage Jeri Ryan) shows up totally nude on the porch, and after looking her over just once (just to check if she’s got proper footwear, I"m sure), he looks her square in the eyes the rest of the time.
It was clear from the beginning that Kara was not actually Supergirl, so my first thought was that she was a Phantom Zone escapee. At the end, I’m not sure if the cave portal leads to the Zone or to some version of the Fortress of Solitude.
I think I looked away at the wrong point or something. Can anyone tell me why Clark didn’t drive Lana to the airport? I don’t think there was a ‘this is a job for…’ moment just before the scene with Lex meeting her. Clark’s reaction to seeing that was so totally teenager, though. His emotional dealings annoy me sometimes, but they are in character for an immature superhero.
I thought Chloe said Lois was a friend of her’s, not just some random name pulled out of a hat. Plus, it doesn’t fit with they mythos, either. Chloe’s got a huge crush on Clark, whereas it took years for Lois to ever feel anything for the chump, and even then, it was only after she learned his secret identity. I know that this show is making things up as it goes along and giving the mythos a big spin, but I think that’s a big no-no change, much like having Lex and Clark remain “Best Friends 4-Ever!”
Plus, with the way they showed the explosion…I can’t think of a single possible way they could get away with saying “No, no, I’m okay!” She’s toast.
I do like the idea of Jor-El really being Zod, though. That would be pretty interesting.
It would violate movie canon in a bunch of interesting ways to say the least. Remember that Zod, in Superman II, had no idea that there were other Kryptonians on Earth. “Superman? Who is this Superman?” Of course having it be Brainiac violates comic book canon in a lot of interesting ways too, but I think it would be a lot easier to get away with than having it be either a truly evil Jor-El(boo!) or Zod.
