So I have a few nitpicks for Whisper...

First, has Lana gained superspeed? Cuz suddenly she's everywhere really fast and it makes no sense.

Why did the Fotw aim the blowtorch in Clark's eyes? He was already blind! Why not do damage elsewhere?

Why did the older robber guy pull on the pantyhose after he got into the store? Those two villians aren't very smart.

"Damn your luxuriant eyelashes, farmboy!"

In Asylum, after Eric steals Clark's powers and gives him the 30-foot toss, I thought TW should've acted a lot more busted up after a landing like that one...

I can only wank it to say Clark still had a vestige of his invulnerability left. How else could he have crushed that metal casing with his butt anyway? Or stayed conscious after Eric bowled him for a strike...?

Well, I can't answer your actual question of character motivation, but I have this theory the person who wrote this was thinking:
"Clark gets his powers from the sun. A blowtorch is kinda like the sun. I'll have guy stick a blowtorch in Clark's face and then his vision will come back!! I'm a genius!!"

So you're saying his ass is always super?

Bwah! Cyb, you crack me up.

In Asylum, in the electroshock scene the doctor takes the gag out of Lex's mouth and in the next closeup it's back in. This was noticed by others before me. Maybe the editor or director thought Lex looked sexy with a ball in his mouth ;).

Oh, Cyb, my stomach hurts now.


It was good to see Smallville's continuity back to normal.

The poor as dirt Kents can afford to buy Clark a laptop?

ETA: I guess this wouldn't bug me so much if the Kent's financial situation wasn't such a prominent part of the story.

I just figured it was a gift from Lex. That's what a sugar daddy's good for!

If I understood the barn fight in Delete correctly, Clark didn't feel the kryptonite till Bo was hitting him with it. The same sort of meteor rock that he usually can tell from 5+ feet away. What's up with that?

Whitney's T-shirt also once prevented Clark from feeling the effects of kryptonite. We all know it can't penetrate lead but maybe cotton, the fabric of our lives, is stronger than any of us ever realized.

I posted this elsewhere too, but in Whisper, when Clark finds out about Chloe's deal with the Devil Off Brimstone, he asks when it happened and she replies "the day after Lex's wedding."

Then Clark says "when you saw me with Lana."

But in actual fact, the Clana slobbering took place well before the day after Lex's wedding, by which time Clark had dumped Lana's pink ass and run off to Metropolis.

Perhaps Clark meant to say "when you told me you saw me with Lana and I shoved you and you went off elsewhere, oh, no, wait a second, that was on the day of the wedding, I'm confused, you'll have to excuse me I'm blind now."

Or Chloe meant to say "the day *of* Lex's wedding; it was a decision we made *after* neither of us got invited to the event of the year. Lionel wanted to go to that wedding, Clark! He had a suit picked out and everything! But your friend didn't invite him, nooo, he invited *you*. And I just got pissed after Lana flaunted her new pretty dress at me."

(OT: I initially typed MEtropolis there. How apt. The place where Clark goes and says "it's all about me! Me! MEEE!"

That bugged me a lot too, suzycat. Even though I'm mostly satisfied with the Chlark resolution in Delete, I still wish they'd brought this up.

Where in the hell does Lana find time to be a part of the cross country team??

She has plenty of free time! All she does is run her own coffeeshop/apartment building, tutor new kids, compete in equestrian events, date Adam, swim, personally deliver muffins, take karate lessons, go to school, volunteer for charities, and insinuate herself into every plot on the show.

Okay, so Jordan "wasn't breathing" after the fire. And Clark? Clark thumps him several times on the chest. What good is that supposed to do? If he's not breathing, he's going to need you to breathe *for* him. I mean, I suppose they didn't want TW to have to kiss any more boys onscreen (just Lex is good enough), but really, do they have to make things *so* unrealistic? I mean, couldn't Jordan just have passed out? Would that have been too hard?

Not as hard as TW mouth-to-mouth might have made him...

Thanks, amandajane! That was bugging the crap out of me last night. The other nitpick I have is regarding the fire -- a house can burn all the way to the ground without ever exploding like a Shell tanker.

I thought I saw several large 5-gal. gas jugs in addition to the one that the Coach doused the shrine with. Once they blew, that house should have been blown right off it's foundations.

Yea, the CPR was sad. And there was a sign in the SHS hallway that said something about learning CPR. Lana and/or Megan should've helped. I mean, Jordan saved Megan's life, she could at least do mouth-to-mouth for him.

When we first see Molly at Luthorcorp, there's a closeup of her hands as she's looking for the anti-virus CD, and she appears to be wearing a wedding band.

In the next moment, the ring has switched hands and stays on the right hand for the rest of the episode.

I suppose they either flipped the shot in editing, or they filmed that insert shot later and someone wore the ring on the wrong hand.

Hah, c'mon, she's Head Cheerleader. She was all "ew, icky-icky!"

And earlier, back at school, she actually started blubbering when he tried to warn her that she was in serious danger...! I thought that was a bit extreme.

But when does she fit in shopping for Pink Things? Or does she make, I mean, graciously allow, Gabe and Chloe to do her shopping for her?

People bring her offerings.

"Fair princess, please accept this headband and fluffy sweater as a token of your subjects' love!"

Funny, that's my sister's nickname....at least when she's not present.

There is no way in hell that Lana would be on the cross country team such a short time after she had her leg broken in four places. It's just not possible. The complete lack of follow-up on Lana's "injuries" is really, in my opinion, a glaring hole in continuity. I know I shouldn't expect any better, but still...

And this is the same Lana who recently broke her leg in three places, and spent a good amount of time in physical therapy learning how to STAND UP. Yeah. Running for miles at a time without a doctor's supervision on mountainous "Kansas" terrain is exactly the kind of rehabilitation she needs.

Finding the time to do it is the least of my concern.

Dang. Sneaky beat me to the punch of calling Smallville on its shit.

I have a terrible memory for episode titles, and I'm trying to remember which ep featured Lana and Clark sitting on top of the water tower, and whether there was a subsequent ep in which Clark inexpicably mentions being afraid of heights.

Can anyone help?

Did you mean the one where Clark and Lana are at the top of the windmill and Metropolis looks like it's 2 blocks over? That ep is Nicodemus.

I can't answer the latter part of your question though.

I wonder if Jonathan does the family's body and fender work. Clark's red Dodge looked pretty good thios week, considering it was rammed into a van last week over Chloe's not-dead-yet body.

I and my business ethics haven't seen this mentioned in the "Hereafter" thread, but it was a big WTF for me and is summed up in this line of Lex's:

"I know how to read an invoice..."

So Lana openly bills Adam's Talon property damage back to Lex? And then acts all pissed off when he notices it and "jumps to conclusions"? WTF??

First, this is stupider and less ethical than charging the fruit baskets to the business. And second, DIE LANA.

lol, Word. And that last part I can always get behind :)

Ah, we now have discovered the real problem with the luthors, Lana thinks that she works for Lionel. She'd fit right in the other ethically-challenged LuthorCorp minions.

So I could be wrong, but did anybody think it was funny that Adam was waiting for Lex in his office? The usual mansion security issues and HoYay aside.

Why? Should he have been waiting for Lex in his bedroom?

No, seriously, I didn't think anything was off. Because Lex conducts most of his business out of his office, and that's where Adam would have been led if he was going to be meeting with Lex.

I also figure the staff just took one look at IS, thought the Kent boy had lost a little weight, and showed him right in.

You'd think Lana would be a little more wary of mysterious new geeky boys at school, what with the number of them who have stalked/tried to kill her, but nooo. She's all over Jordan like a rash. I suppose this is an example of how she, like Bo, prefers only to see the good in people. Another saintly act from the girl who subsequently brings you "Save Megan" (yes, Clark. Let Lana die. It's what she *wants*.)

Lana *still* has long hair at ninety? Does she still wear Alice bands, too?

Lana wants FoTWs to attack her. That's why she sleeps in graveyards, swims in deserted school pools at night, and pals around with obviously freak/mutant boys. She views herself as a victim, ever since the Parent Pancake Meteor Incident, and she needs an endless supply of weirdos to try to kill her so she can maintain that image in her mind. That's why she took up with Adam, there's clearly something off about him. After all the time and effort she's put into him, if he doesn't freak out and try and kill her, it'll be a huge blow to her ego.

So, when Clark heat-visioned the can of paint, why didn't the metal can melt instead of explode?

From Crisis:


Can anyone tell me if it's possible to have hepatic disease affecting anything *other* than the liver? My friends with hepatitis are anxious to learn.

No, I don't think so. Hey, maybe they meant Hep-cat-ic disease affecting Lionel from his young beatnik days as a high-liver.

Okay. Sorry. My new Loyal Viewer status has me giddy.

Yes! I want flashback Beatnik!Lionel! Lionel, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs eat the insides of inhalers while trying to score with Neal Cassady (who, however, is too busy chasing Lana's mother's second cousin, Nancy) in early 40s Smallville. Oh. Wait. He's not old enough. Damn.

Next up: the Kents receive confirmation that Jonathan is suffering from cardiac disease of the heart.

I know, they have to do it to clarify for the teens who don't know medical terminology, but honestly. Hepatic disease of the liver. Bah.

Maybe it's Wandering Liver disease. "Mr. Luthor we're sorry to tell you your liver has migrated into your brain!"

I just watched the scene in the Pilot when Bo shows Clark the ship for the first time. It's been in the storm cellar all these years covered by a tarp. Is Clark the least curious person/alien who ever lived? I would have been looking under that thing years ago.

It's amazing how the shift morphs from an artichoke in S1 to the current lit up metal ravioli. Maybe it was the presence of kryptonite?

*sniff* I miss the S1 pinecone. It reminds me of the Bundle.

I loved how organic it was; the new design was groovy, but too obviously space-shippy for my tastes.

-:Possible SHOUTOUT, or maybe just re edit?:-

Did anyone watch tonight's rebroadcast of the Pilot episode?

I can't BELIEVE they edited out Clark's revenge prank with the trucks!! Wasn't the truck stack prank in the first showing of the pilot?

..or, did this scene get added to my DVD of the pilot? Does anyone have the pilot on tape from the previous broadcasts? Archive dudes/dudettes? I am so curious as to why, on tonight's showing, the show cut directly from Clark watching Whitney and Lana dancing WHAM to Clark in the Barnitude without any shot of him leaving the gym, walking past the trucks, nothing...not even the shot of Whitney finding the trucks stacked up!!

Could this be a shoutout to TWOP and us fans, who wondered how the HECK Clark got the trucks on top of each other without flying?

They cut the truck stacking out in previous airings of the Pilot too. I *think* it only aired in the original showing. I don't know if they cut it for time (more commercials maybe) or if they thought stacking the trucks made Clark look too "vengeful". I loved it, personally.

I'm pretty sure that the truck scene was only cut for the sake of time... if I remember correctly, when the pilot originally aired, it was five, maybe ten minutes longer than your usual hour-long drama... Everytime the pilot was broadcasted after that, not only was the truck scene (unfortunately) cut out, but the transitions from one scene to the other are just plain WEIRD, because they had to trim some of them to make the pilot fit in the standard 45 minutes episode format.

I have the Pilot/Metamorphosis movie length combo on video, and the truck stacking is most definitely there.

If kryptonite kills Clark's blood (Resurrection), then why wasn't his blood killed when he used a chunk of kryptonite (Phoenix) to get a new sample for Edge?