Hmmm. So, after the slaughter of the suitors, I believe Odisseus reclaimed his Penelope, right? Always good to see the underlying theme playing out. They set it up nicely in the premiere with the title and the "I've been waiting for you!" line, that will only continue with the Fever letter reapearance ("Worth the wait") and development throughout the season.

This wedding is Penelope giving up the waiting and settling for the silver medal guy. Of course it's going to be a massacre. YMMV.

I'm pretty sure GA and BC voted against the mind wipe. Well, I'm not sure about BC, but GA deffinitely voted against it. Flash voted for it, but it was Barry, not Bart. This show needs Hawkman. That'd tip the scale in favor of mind wipes, and add another hot, shirtless guy to the mix.

I thought GA & BC voted against mind wiping Bats while wiping the villain was a unanimous decision.

I didn't recall them even voting on Batman, just him busting in and them mindwiping him. Damn. Now I have to go look it up and get blatant comics misogeny cooties all over myself.

The show still needs Hawkman though. He's shirtless and angry and a reincarnated alien police officer, so there are plenty of ways to tie him to Krypton or whatever. And did I mention he does not wear a shirt? Now I am really disappointed that Geoff Johns is writing a Legion episode instead of a Hawkman episode.

ETA: OK, without getting out my copies of IC, Wikipedia says GA and BC voted against the mindwipe and personality alteration of Dr. Light.

You got me. All I remembered was one vote was evenly split and one was unanimous and that GA decked Hawkman before the Bats vote. That didn't seem to square with GA then voting to mind wipe Bruce.

But you're right they need to bring in Hawkman.

Shouldn't we have pictures for Instinct soon?

They were supposed to come out yesterday. Not sure why they didn't. The CW Press Site is apparently too busy releasing promotional photography for GG episode 6, while SV is still on 3.

I was reviewing our "non-spoilery" spoilers for ep titles and stumbled upon this jewel from early July:

Coupled with his "Lois and Clark will kiss" fiasco Matt's building quite a track record this year since as near as I can tell Chloe isn't going to have any 'splaining to do. In fact maybe Matt is the one who has some 'splaining to do.

I always thought it was a cutesy little line about her being arrested and not a real spoiler about her future at the DP.

Hey, guys, there's a TVGuide preview of season 8 with some new footage. I think they're filming Identity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUD3_8n78So

Cassidy Freeman should marry me immediately. Every interview, even brief ones like that, make her sound so fun, cool and enthusiastic.

It doesn't hurt that she's a good actress too.

I think so too.

But it's good to know that the deathmatch as to who gets to marry Cassidy Freeman is still on. Because she remains awesome.

It seems like he was just guessing on that one. Maybe he just really wanted a chance to impersonate Ricky Ricardo.

Identity has been dunzo for a while. Abyss is shooting right now.

Based on the clothes the actors are wearing, these interviews were done on the same day BuddyTV did their interviews and according to that website they visited the set the first week in September, so they probably were shooting Identity at that time and are now onto Abyss.

I guess this goes here. Apparently these are legitimate, despite looking like the bad photoshopping of an 8 year old.

Season 8 Marketing poster

I guess they couldn't be bothered taking any new season 8 publicity pictures after all. Not even of Cassidy and Sam, which I find mind boggling.

I mean, they obviously did them up for their credits shots. How hard is it to snap a few photos of them then?

That's such a terrible photo of Welling. Why they keep using it is beyond me. It makes his face look bloated or something.

I'm just amused they went through all the trouble of photoshopping that originally black jacket red. Though, if our usual HRJ looked like that, I wouldn't complain half as much. The upturned collar thing is pretty hot.

Thanks for the poster Teen Titan. SMALLVILLE is starting to look "White" again. PLEASE casting depo don't forget Metropolis is a big city and we need people of Color too!

Is that real? It makes no sense. Aqua and BC were only in one episode and if they got shots taken of them, why not Tess/Davis? What world is in turmoil?

However, I do like the brightness of it compared to the old posters which were grey on black featuring the same two head shots of Clark.

The shots of Aquaman, Green Arrow and Black Canary they're using were all taken during the filming of Odyssey. They were released with the Odyssey stills. They weren't promotional photos per se.

I'm not sure I follow the logic of including those characters on a season 8 poster however, since they were only in the premiere, and the CW didn't see fit to release the poster before the premiere...

Why? Why Smallville, must you deny me new promo pictures? What have I done to you besides bad mouth you every chance I get?



Oh.


Hey, I love Smallville. Don't you love Smallville? It's the only show I watch.

[beg]Please give me new promo pictures.[/beg]

The lousy photo shopping of the poster has confirmed(for me anyway)it's authentic. These promo people are some of the laziest motherfuckers on the planet. It doesn't surprise me one bit that they'd use shots of Aquaman and Black Canary, two characters who may not appear in any other episodes of season eight as a way to advertise the season. These people have never had a good nor accurate grasp on how to advertise this show. This poster only continues the trend.

We should be thankful that AM is on it. Maybe someone there reads TV guide or something.

Also GA and BC, a comics couple, are lined up with Chlark (as in all four of them are on the same line). I'm not saying it's a Chlois hint but sometimes you have to grasp at straws to find something to hang onto in this zany mess of a show.

I suppose we should take the small victories wherever they are found.

Actually if you look at the Poster, it looks like Chlark at the Center, Lollie Behind them, and AC/BC last. If you want to grasp at straws then say Chlark are the ones leading the group.

Yep, my thoughts exactly. Not only that, but I'm surprised to see that Chloe isn't stuck in the back with S6 mom hair and a turtleneck. That shot is from the S4 promos, right (or was it 5)? It's one of the sexiest that they ever came up with for AM and I'm pretty stoked that they yanked it from way back when. Of course, now that Chloe's the show's leading lady, I suppose they need to up the sex appeal.

GA looks like he needs some Correctol, stat.

It is kind of funny that AM is shown to be the one with the cleavage while ED is covered up LOL.

Lois is on his right hand side though.

IMHO, Lois is there because that side featured the Daily Planet.

Why are Lois and Chloe even in that poster? I guess I can get Chloe since she's worked with the JL before and has "powers" and all, but Lois? If they're going to paste in JLers who'll only appear in one ep into a rip off of the Justice glamor shot IMO they should have nixed Lois and Chloe all together and swapped MM/BC in for Impulse and Cyborg.

I don't know. It seems kind of weird to have Lois there.

I guess I shouldn't complain too much. The Luthorcorp building is inexplicably cut off at the top so it's not as if I should expect much thought went into it.

I think they shortened Lois in the legs. She and Chloe are the same hight and at first I thought they did it just by making Chloe a little bigger, but now I think they actually did it by taking out a few inches in Lois' legs. Her legs look oddly short to me.

Either Lois's head looks big or her necks short too.

Instinct stills are out.

Only two.

Is that a crappy wig on Maxima?

And is Lois still working on that damn transit story?

Where can I see them
ETA: never mind. Teen Titan already answered. Thanks!

It's interesting, they are dressing Lois in Chloe's clothes now! That shirt looks like Chloe's green shirt in "Persona".

CW Source interview with Allison Mack.

She confirms that her healing powers will be back.

Which of course only means she'll be able to heal Clark by the season finale and die in the process and leaving her as this great martyr who died for a noble cause while Nois lives out the life Chloe and her supporters wanted so desperately for her. Fuck that. She was fired unfairly from the Planet, engaged to a insecure idiot, flirts with a psychopath, and watches as her cousin stakes her sudden claims at a guy she looked to as her annoying brother. Why? Someone tell me what benefit would that serve Chlark supporters? Do they even want us to watch? And they are only in the second episode. Jesus. And people are already Noiscotting. Sign me up.

I think Chloe healing Clark is almost a given at this point.

Whether she stays dead or not probably depends on if they can squeeze out a season 9.

A Justin Hartley interview (the second link) in once he again demonstrates how awesome he is.

There's also a very brief Toxic clip.

If this has already been posted, I apologize. Posted to DTS by Gottara, the official CW description of "Committed":

CHLOE TELLS JIMMY HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT CLARK — After they leave their engagement party, Chloe (Allison Mack) and Jimmy (Aaron Ashmore) are abducted by a psychotic jeweler (guest star David Lewis) who was emotionally scarred by his wife's infidelity and is now kidnapping couples and subjecting them to a kryptonite-enhanced lie detector that shocks them if they lie. The abductor asks Chloe if she is in love with anyone else- Meanwhile, in an effort to find Chloe and Jimmy, Clark (Tom Welling) and Lois (Erica Durance) pose as a couple and are kidnapped themselves then, asked how they feel about each other. Allison Mack and Erica Durance also star. Glen Winter directed the episode written by Bryan Q. Miller

CWTV has a trailer up titled A Hero's Passion

-Warning: This may cause you to smash your computer screen.

Ew. Vomit-inducing as it is, though, it just comes off as more anvilicious drivel to me. Wasn't it Dawn that wanted Lois Lane added to the canvas in the first place? Doesn't surprise me at all that they'd make something like that.

Even so, it does make you wonder how much influence the network has on the outcome of the show, and I also wonder if it has anything to do Goughlar peacing the fuck out for not wanting to take it there.

Where did that line about the soulmate come from? Is that new? It sounds familiar.

You know, IF Clark really does fall for Nois and step over Chloe to get to her, they may very well deserve one another and I may applaud it. Fuck them both if that's how he goes. I just hope Chloe gets to go off with Lex or something juicy. Or you know, die. And at this point, death is the only thing that I can see them going for because after last night, it's clear that Chloe still loves Clark and I'll never be convinced that she'd be okay with a Clois relationship. There's not enough good writing in the entire history of pens that will convince me of that fact.

I want to, but how it's edited is weird.

"What if my soulmate comes around and I'm too blind to even see it" Wouldn't this be perfect leeway for the fever letter... god, please don't tell me this is what the fever letter causes. And opens the door for Clois.

From the first take of the filming of Fever:

Chloe: My Dad says there are two kinds of girls: the ones you grow out of and the ones you grow into.
So I'm going to let you go now and hope that someday you fly back to...my cousin? Al? Miles? Are you kidding me with this? Who wrote this crap? Honestly!

Al: Hmm. She's right, maybe we should re-work that last bit.

Ok , I don't want to look but can someone give me the gist.

It looks like Clakr's comment could be from Instinct considering Maxima is looking for her soulmate in the episode. And then Lois's comment seems from Toxic and she could be describing Ollie!

Like with most things in life, I'm going to refer to The Simpsons.

In the episode where Lisa becomes a vegetarian, the centerpiece of Homer's BBBQ (the Extra B is for BYOBB, that extra B is a typo) is a whole pig. Lisa pushes it down the hill and Bart and Homer go chasing it. Homer, never giving up hope, after each catastrophe keeps going "it's a little [dirty, slimy, airborne], it's still good! It's still good!" Bart had to let him know "It's Gone" before Homer finally gives up.

This show is that pig. That promo is Bart.

D'oh.

I can't see it. Anyone up for doing a transcript?

I want to know why the CW is doing shipper videos. Do they really have such a burning desire to run off Chlarkers?? Are we offending them with our body odor, or something?

It's basically the trailer to the Clois relationship.

Hero needs more then superpowers, Heroes need passion.

And has Clark in the barn face shot saying

What if my soulmate comes around and I'm too blind to even see it" with a cut to Lois heading down the steps of the loft, stopping and turning around.

Then bunch of Crimson shots of Clois then Lois at a the Ace of Hearts Club

"I'm destined to be with a man who flies a lot and wears tights" and then the Clois make out scene from Crimson and other shots.

That's the gist

Thanks Iconic. Wow, just wow.

IIRC they did the same thing for Clois and Clana in Hydro.

Here's a transcript for you:

Clark: Bla blah SOULMATE?
Nois: Blah blah DESTINY?
[/retching noise]

That's pretty much it.