Last night’s premiere of Smallville started out with a recap of various scenes from season 8 to help catch up viewers to the big events that concluded last season’s storylines.
It has felt like forever since we’ve seen Clark take down Doomsday, watched Jimmy die and saw Clark walk away from Chloe. So, it was quite a rush to watch the teaser lead into the 9th season of Smallville as we were treated to several details for the upcoming season.
Join us to recap and discuss the premiere of Season 9 of Smallville.
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*** SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT***
It’s been 3 weeks since the events of last season’s finale when Lois (Erica Durance) returns to the present, showing up in a flash of light on a moving train. An unidentified female assassin who is pursuing her also shows up on the train in a similar flash of light. The train derails just after that and Clark shows up and catches it.
Clark (Tom Welling) has gone from the red-blue blur to just a blur in his new dark outfit. He’s also become compelled to burn his chest symbol into things when he makes a save, to leave his mark.
In these last 3 weeks, Clark has committed himself to training with Jor-El in the fortress of solitude. I found his conversation with Jor-El about his inability to fly interesting. Speaking of flying, did I miss it, or did they not show what happened after Clark jumped off the Statue of Liberty?
Meanwhile, it seems that Major Zod (Callum Blue) has been holed up in the Luthor mansion, having taken Tess Mercer (Cassidy Freeman) hostage, believing she has information he needs. He also has a number of soldiers from Kandor with him, but none of them have any powers under the yellow sun.
We’re also introduced to John Corben, the street reporter. It’s good to see Brian Austin Green on TV again, but John is a critic of “the blur’s” methods, questioning why he has to burn symbols at his rescue scenes. He openly calls him a vigilante.
Even though the female assassin who was pursuing Lois is never identified, she has the same powers as Clark and she brings some power-neutralizing blue kryptonite with her. It seems she wasn’t after Lois at all, but was just using her to lure Clark out since he is her true target. When she and Clark do deck it out, it seems to me that Clark’s training with Jor-El pays off as he stands his ground with her surprisingly well.
There were some interesting moments however, like the assassin telling Clark the world will end in a year and that she’s here to stop him, Chloe (Allison Mack) getting ticked at Clark for refusing her request to use the time-ring to save Jimmy, and the army of powerless Kryptonians at Zod’s command. That’s really befuddling me.
Lois hunting down Oliver/Green Arrow (Justin Hartley) and finding him in cage matches was interesting but dang, how quickly he sank to this new lifestyle. Jimmy’s death is having quite the impact on everyone, being as how everyone seems to be blaming themselves for it.
Was it me, or was Lois running around in tank tops in this episode more than usual? That wasn’t a complaint at all, just wondering out loud.
We also got to hear a new term for time travel: “Temporal Aperture Continuum” and I thought it was a nice cameo for the Statue of Liberty.
I’ve got to chime in about Oliver and the similarities between himself and Bruce Wayne / Batman has in his own mythos. Since we’ll never see Bats in Smallville, I find the parallels interesting. My final “ah-ha” moment pondering Oliver being the replacement Bats came when Oliver Queen’s money helped set up Chloe’s Watchtower. “Oliver may be AWOL, but his funds aren’t.” In the source material for this reimagination, Watchtower was funded by Bruce Wayne.
How’d We Feel About The New Episode?
This episode started out with the momentum from last season and different aspects of the upcoming season were introduced to us. I came away from the episode pleased but I have to wonder if they will be able to keep this up? They had a lot to feed us right away so they had material for us. Though the producers have said that this wasn’t going to be a dark season, there are a lot of story threads laced with overshadowing darkness to the characters.
If they can manage this momentum, it will be a good season but I think many of us are gun-shy after last seasons’ Doomsday buildup. Plus, if the show gets another season, will this affect what material they’ll deliver to us?
My thought is that if they feel that this is the last season, I presume they’ll be wrapping up a lot of things for us. But if they get another season, will the production team pull back and pace themselves, saving some of the plot points and issues for next season?
I have to admit; at the end of the episode when Lois laid down to go to sleep, she sure had one heck of a recall/dream sequence from her alternate time trip… I mean her temporal aperture continuum trip!
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@ssf:
Personally, I think Tess got off lucky that all Clark did was pick her up. I certainly saw the subtle fear in her eyes. After all, regardless of the up and down feelings Clark may have had for his Birth Father, Tess was keeping his Father from him.
What would you have done. I can’t think of anyone that would just turn the other cheek in that situation regarding a Family member.
@Tricia: I was disappointed with Rabid, because it just took a movie plot (Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later… take your pick) and garbled some nonsense about the virus being released in order to reveal that there was already a Kryptonian on earth. Ummm…. yes…. wait… wait for it… UTTER NONSENSE!!!! Compare this episode to the previous Smallville plot episodes, granted that there were some dooooozers in the previous seasons, but nothing as ridiculous as this *crap*. The previous seasons had a lot more depth to them. Eurgh.. PVR’d Friday’s episode, still contemplating whether or not I should watch it though. Perhaps I should go get a bottle of whiskey and attempt it. Jeeez, this show is driving me to drink… BAAAAAD BAAAAAAAD Smallville.
So Smallville can’t take a popular theme (Zombies) and use that to try to entertain people? I mean no other show’s done that before? Really?!? I mean REALLY!
Tricia, thanks for watching the show to enjoy the ride. I like talking to people about the show who don’t shoot down every flaw.
You want to talk about flaw, how about the inconsistency in Kandor episode. Where jorel prepares the orb and then puts it next to the crystal of Knowledge. In the beginning it says 20 years or so before the explosion of Krypton. Yet when the crystal where being uncovered in Earth they were buried inside ancient artifacts of ancient civilizations. Not to mention the evil witch who possess lana. was searching it in her own time line, how can they exist in Earth if they weren’t even made or hidden yet?
Jorel also mentioned he did his rite of passage as a young man in Smallville in which we saw a young Jorel in earlier Smallville episode. Yet the person making the orb and crystal was an older one. So he made after many years of his first visit to earth. Again the orb was hidden before Jorel’s rite of passage, in the castle as well as the crystal. How can be both true??
Plus they do not know how to do a proper advance civilization. I mean trench warfare for Kryptonians?? Where are the ships??? Nuclear mushroom cloud??
Limited imagination.
Foopher: Problem is. Smallville was A LOT better than the trash that’s being fed to us at the moment.
Peter, “time travel” (it’s knida been a big thing in this, and past seasons. I’m not arguing i’m just saying
GuyverXT9, ok
oops forgot a “)” in there
@foopher
Its seems to be a escape hatch to the unexplained to be explained. Its more likely the writer’s lack of keeping continuity with their fellow smallville writers. Too many cooks spoils the soup.
While the idea of introducing a cloned Jor-el is a great idea, but poorly exploited only to be killed right at the end. The emotional reconnection to his son should have been extended, to make his loss even more effective on Clark.
While we need to see Zod do something Machiavelli, dark and insane. Instead of the continuous posturing which I dread every episode.
We need innocents in jeopardy, dying, and then see them saved by Clark. Instead of the repetive self-indulging soap drama focused on the characters.
Great and awsome.just cnt get enough.little and unnoticeable flaws.9 is great.
@John: You lie… tssssssk tsssssk. I’m proud to say, I’ve actually stopped watching!!!!
^ no no. YOU lie
What?? Me… Lie?? NEVER!!! I’m Smallville free. Was a bit painful as it passed through my urinary tract, but all’s good now!!!
I have to comment on “Idol” – can’t help myself. Best episode in a long time. Tom is shirtless. Making out wih Lois. Clark and I miss Lana but I’m glad he’s back in the game. (Well, maybe he isn’t missing Lana so much, but the scene in bed with Lois hasn’t really happened yet). Clark in almost every scene. Clark gets to smile more and enjoy life once in a while. And when he saved Lois and Ollie on the roof in “Crossfire” – awesome. Loving season 9.
@Tricia: you lie!!!!
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