Hi. My name is Tom Welling. I played Clark Ken on Smallville and
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by from Always hold On to Star Wars. Chris hughs what's up, Chris?
Hello there, Ah, star Wars? When did that become a thing?
Because obviously, obviously Obi one says that it's first line in a New
Hope, right, he pulls back the hood, he's like, I know
that, And then Ian McGregor does it in episode three when he jumps down
the general grievous and that was a callback. But I feel like at some
point over the last because when that was not a thing, whenever the three
came out, it was like, oh, that's a fun thing. But
over the last few years the internet has made it like his thing. But
did he say on the Clone Wars a lot or something or yeah, now
I'm sure it's I'm sure it's a whole huge thing. Because of meme culture.
Yeah, and Jeff's I couldn't tell you when, but I'm I'm enjoying
it. Oh, I love it. I that's my what. I have
nothing else to say. I say, hello there, I need I needed
something to be my thing when we introduced on the shows. Now, so
it's right, all right, well we are talking about Bulletproof. I am
not going to sing the song though you care enough, that's all right,
Bulletproof. This episode, man, I had not much memory of it.
I remember that Dan Turpin was in it. I remember that Dan Turpin was
well, the actor was in Small Ofville before as a different character several years
before. And I remember Clark Go's undercover as a cop. And I remember
Marshama Hunter getting shot and Doctor Hamilton the second Doctor Hampton's showing up. And
that was really the extent of my memory. And boy, oh boy,
there's there are some things in this episode that either they date extremely poorly or
they are extremely relevant, and I'm not sure where they fall on that spectrum.
But man, rewatching this, I had to like whoa like? You
probably saw the tweet I made back when I was watching it. What did
you experience a similar feeling? Rewatching this episode definitely since seeing your your tweet.
But from I try to these shows are an escape for me, so
when they when they correlate to the real world, I try to take myself
out of it a little bit. But you know, we can only do
that so much, especially with how relevant some of these things have come in
Smallville based on certain characters and their real life exposure. But uh, you
know, I try to take things for what they are in the show,
and clearly they can mean a lot of other different things, but for what
it was for this episode, I enjoyed it. Yeah, you know,
art is what you bring to it obviously, so it's you know, it's
it's the roy shock test of your experiences and what's going on with you.
I just like to me, and this is what I said that in that
tweet a while back as it is recording, because because I tweeted that,
like the night I watched this episode, I was like, you know,
subterranean and this so far like the two most like we're gonna try and talk
about important and I'm like, maybe you shouldn't have in that way, Like
I think I think the idea of this episode is solid, right, It's
like Clark's undercover as a cop, and and and and there's just you know,
obviously their story potential there. I just just just some of the some
of the things that they like, the lines that they say, in the
way they say. I'm like, oh, but but well, we'll talk
about that as we go anyway. No, this is an escape, right,
and that's what this is all about. We're here to have fun.
We have a good time. Um. But sometimes you just can't ignore it
when it's so blatantly interfacing, because you know, they're not all bad Chris.
For me, it was more the memory of the episode for what it
was when I saw the first time, is Superman learning from real life people
who sacrifice himself, who aren't bulletproof like him, and the difference that they
can make and the sacrifices that they can make compared to the sacrifices he's making.
So learning about protecting the people around you, You're brothers, as they
say frequently in this episode, having a family to go home to, and
wondering like how do you how do you do it to them? And I
think that was a lesson that Smallville Clark really had to learn and tried to
apply to Lana. But yeah, that's the conclusion that they kept. No,
I didn't remember. I do remember the end of the decisions he makes,
and I was like, oh, it's because we're in We're in the
second half of the season eight now, Chris, and this whole first half
I've been like, well, you know, the first half of the season
eight, the first the first first half season, they're pretty good, and
you know, we're in this stretch of there's no Lois, there's no Jimmy,
there's one Davis. That's like a big percentage of your regular cast members.
And it's like, I don't know, it's the rules they put on
Smallville, right, like you can only have er gard rants for xcellent episodes
or even Aaron Ashmore, right, same deal, because these were these are
quote unquote that's a new buzz word, right, legacy characters, right,
Star wars as, you know, that's the buzzword over. I think that's
where I first heard that term, and people, well, you know how
Disney handle's legacy characters like leg as we talking about legs and character. But
I think we all understand what the meaning is and it's like the the and
we continue to see it no matter regimes come and go and want her brothers.
But this strange approach to like you can use these characters here but not
there, and only so much here and then and you know all that stuff.
It's strange and so run this. We had such a great run of
Lois and Clark and their vibe and like the like setting up like what we've
all been working towards, you know, for them on this show. They
had won me over finally with Lois because they let her be Lois, as
I've said many times. And then she's gone. I guess who's back as
Lana And that's another huge factor of this episode. And this is like I
didn't look Bride and even Legion. I was like, Okay, Lana's back.
We needed to bring her back, like we needed to address her a
dear John video was not going to cut it to write her off the show,
right, because she was the depending on you know where people's fandom lies,
the second or third most imp character on the show. I would put
him third after Lex. Yes, I agree, but you can't just do
that. And you know she came back and Christian creaking back and they addressed
in this way, and I was I was cool with it up till about
now, and we'll then we'll hash some of that out as we go,
because I think what's funny is Clark he has the right idea, but but
he keeps like he knows he knows better, right, but unfortunately he chooses
to learn the wrong lessons. It kind of falls back right and this is
where we start doing her. You know, you went five steps forward with
season eight, but I've gone ten steps back to the point there's even a
lining here. We're like, oh, you look like you're feel like we're
fourteen again. I'm like, no, it's not what we want, Clark,
That's not what we want this season. So because you were, you
were digging season eight up to this point, I assume, Yeah, No,
I was, and I still am. I'm gonna say it. The
thing about Lana for me is I'm my fandom is I like, I like
what they did in the in the eighties reboot with John Byrne, where like
they were high school sweethearts. He had to go away and do his things.
She understood, she knew the secret and was support for him, but
they were never It was never romantic after that again. And small Belle she
was the love of his life early on, that's fine, but now she's
been gone for what they does she say in the episode like seven months or
something like that, something like that. Yeah, I'm okay with her coming
back, and I actually enjoyed it because we can get these closure pieces that
Clark wants. I just wish it didn't turn into romantic because even in this
episode that calls out Clark and Lois are heading in that direction. You know
that that's well we know, as Superman fans should be endgame. But back
in the day, maybe Smallville was gonna do something different. But for me,
I was happy with her. I like her character in this episode other
than what it means in relationship to Clark. Fair to wish, I wish
she was just like a friend, just pass well, like like they have
Lana and Clark on Supermanilois. Yes, yes, absolutely, Yeah, so
an unfair comparison because that's like, you know, it's twenty years later,
they figured it out on the CW. But yeah, so so there's there's
a lot going on here, right, There's a lot going on here,
and let's get into it. Bulletproof. I sacrifice everything I love for the
greater good. But if the rest of the world didn't have to come first.
We're talking about killing man. Life is so impressions. To be able
to protect that is an amazing gift. Both of us are driven to do
this, even if we can't do it together. Smallville All new episode next
Thursday, eight seventh Central on the CW Bulletproof. It's the twelfth episode of
Smallville's eighth season and aired on January twenty second, two thousand and nine.
Was written by Brian Q Miller and directed by Morgan Beggs. Bryan hum Miller
this is his second writing credit on the show. He had written Committed earlier
this season, and he goes on to be a prolific writer for the rest
of the series and goes on to write the Smallville comic book, which which
you're pointing at. You're collected smallvel comics behind you, Yes, your show
and Bryan hum Miller, you know, he's a combook writer as well,
So like he was like this perfect like in between the foot in one world,
one foot and the other, which the show hadn't had for a while,
like they had Jeff Loebe in the earlier seasons, they had Jeff John's
coming, you know, once a season and ride an episode and in this
last phase of the show. But but someone who had a solid foot on
each side of things like the TV Smallville side and the comic book side,
and I think that helps. You can definitely see that in this episode when
you have deep Superman lower characters like Dan Turpin and Emil Hamilton and then hints
at the future Justice League in their conversations together with John Jones and Oliver Yeah,
you know, let's let's talk about Dan Turpin real quick now in Smallville
the official magazine number thirty two, available wherever books are sold. There's an
interview with David pat Caw, who played Dan Turpin in this episode, and
we'll talk a little bit more about him when his character appears in the episode.
But I had an inserting fact to wait here. I did not know
when Dan Turpin first appeared in the combooks. He appeared in Detective Comics number
forty two in nineteen forty two. Is that when he was named Brooklyn?
Yes, yes, yes, Danny Turpin originally introduced as Brooklyn and then he
came back as Daniel Turpin in New God's number five in nineteen seventy one.
And that's the that's the version that we know from Superman the Animated series,
for example, that's probably his most iconic iteration, Terrible Turpin. Yea,
and yeah, that's a whole what a what an arc he had on that
show. Right. I can't wait to see Dan Turpin and small will come
back when they have dark Side in season ten, right, Chris, because
clearly he'll come back right, well, looking at it as we watched it,
when the show happened the show, this episode creates a nice introduction.
They have a relationship. At the end of the episode. You could first
see maybe down the line when Clark is Superman and he has his relationship with
the Metropolis PD that he's got somebody knows he can trust. Right But but
but not the next two years though, No, No, Maggie Sawyer either
because because they to me, I would introduced through these characters through Superman the
Animated series. So to me, it was like Dan Turpin, Maggie Say.
And when Maggie Sawyer showed up on Smallville, it was like, oh
cool, that is an excellent reference. And then she was in sprinkled in
you know, throughout seasons two through seven, and ironically you get to season
eight, whether're in Metropolis and she's not on the show anymore. It's just
the timing of things on small them. Right. You have the right idea,
but it just didn't quite a line, right, you know what I
mean? Yeah? Mentally from the comics, I associate them together too.
I think some of the storylines that they have are great comic runs. All
right. And during the ratings, watch here in season eight, Chris for
a little context. The previous episode, Legion got four point two nine million
viewers. In the season premiere, Odyssey got four point three four million viewers.
So one week later, Bulletproof, what do you think the ratings were
for this episode? Following up an episode like the Legion. I would think
it maybe went up a little bit. I'm gonna say four point three one.
You would think, so, all right, that would make sense,
wouldn't it, wouldn't it? Yeah, But that wouldn't be the case.
Three point eight five. Wow. I guess people specifically tuned in for the
Legion and they were like, okay, cool, and then tune back out
the next week because that that's you know, that's a drop. That's a
drop. That's that's that's a drop. So three point eight five million,
and there was no break or anything was the next week so interesting. Maybe
they just maybe that whole cop story you didn't appeal to people who are here
for all their superhero action. But there you have. It's a three point
eighty five million viewers for this episode. So we get our previously on Smallville?
Which which did you watch these? When you watch these episodes? So
the DVDs have the option, the Blue Races include it, the Hulu includes
it, So did you watch these previously ons when you watch the show?
I do because I like to see when they point out things that happened in
you know, like maybe three four seasons ago, so then you know this
is coming up. Well, I really like this one because it's narrated by
by Phil Morris. Begin he's like previously on small but it's like, oh
it's Filmris, right, and it establishes how he gave up his powers to
restore Clark's powers and kind of what's going on there and how he's a detective
now. And so so you're you're watching, you're like, this is going
to to be a Martian man Hunter episode. I can't wait. Like,
but it's he he's you know, he's he bookends the episode, but it
is like, oh, man, and this kind of should not not that
this was ever discussed, Like, I don't know if it was ever discussed,
because I know for a fact the Flash, Supergirl, and Alkaman were
all discussed in various forms, not not even necessarily, you know, as
Alkaman proved, not even necessarily the iterations from small vel. But it was
all like, oh, well, these are characters have potential that we can
maybe spin off. I don't know if that was ever discussed about Martian Man
Hunter. But and I don't think the CW in two thousand and eight or
nine was like the best place to have a Phil Morris led Detective John Jones
show, right, But I would have wrote a law in Order Metropolis with
with Phil Morris, right, Phil Morris and Danny Turpin. This is your
backdoor pilot there you go. This is your cops that you break in,
Maggie Slawy. You're like, it's all right there for you. It's just
you look at it now, like and what we've seen happened in the arrow
verse. You're like, you would you would circle this like, oh,
this is where they spun off the thing and and it's you know, it's
fine. They weren't thinking that way. That doesn't make it bad or anything.
It's just like I really loved Marsha man Hunter, and during my rewatch
of this show, I've discovered that he was a much smaller part than I
ever I ever thought, because he's there for some major stuff, but he
pops in and out. Yeah. I don't think this is the first episode
of his where he's been a main character, but not in most of the
episode either. It's even pray earlier this season, right, I mean he
was in Odyssey, so we're you know, we're twelve episodes in. He's
been in three, right, He's been in the fourth of the episode so
far. So I'm like, this is his best ratio yet. But even
yeah, and honestly, he shows up the very end and Pray, he
kind of shows up to kind of like meet Clark at the crime scene.
He's got a couple of scenes, then he's like gone until the very end.
But I just I love Phil Morris. I love him from some Seinfelds.
When I first saw him in this Jackie Childs, the Johnny Cochran parody
character. It's just so good, right, and you know, he's a
characracker. He's been a star trek as well. Uh so he's he's he's
a good actor, like he's legit. And this guy could have anchored a
show, I think, and I can put it again, I don't.
I don't think the CW in two thousand and nine would have been the place
for that kind of show. So that rule is really no place for it,
you know what I mean. Could have someday maybe, but we uh,
we cut our first action scene and Detective Jones he's he's in his car
and a in a chase with a with a perp and we see his little
uh Rivery marrs in a little Martian huh, a little green alien. That
was I like that. People might hear him what I talk about on the
show him and be like Zach probably hated that. No, I actually thought
that was charming stuff like that. It was cute. It was cute.
Right. So we get this police chase and it's it's it's pretty cool.
I mean, they're they're shoot everything real tight, and I you know,
I you relate, don't really need the scope, but it's sure, it's
the streets in Metropolis. It's the backstreets of Metropolis. Sure, but this
guy gets out of his car, he's running to the streets and John Jones
slams him up against the fans and then on the ground, he says,
you're on the arrest for three counts of murder. Like this guy's serious,
let's say no like shoplifting, right, this guy's a serious, serious criminal.
Yeah, and John's taking him on by himself, which kind of goes
to the whole lone Wolf discussion they have later about him. But detective taken
him three time killer down by himself. What was really weird to me,
Chris, I don't know if you noticed this, but like you know,
after he arrests the guy, there's just there's just random like three establishing shots
of Metropolis like stock footage, and then we cut back and it's like the
rest of the cops are there. I'm like, why was that needed?
Like I didn't passage of time, But all you had to do was I
think we'd understand, you know, yeah, with the cops the other cops
show. It was just very Someone was watching this and probably felt, you
know, what we need to when you show some time right, like you
said, you want to jump right into the action sequence, So you're not
going to do the establishing chats before that. I gotta throw them in somewhere.
I guess that must be what it is, right, Um, but
the uh suspaccino, he's been put in the in the back of a cop
car and and they seem to have this real weird attitude, Like these cops
have a real weird attitude towards John Jones. Don't think Chris foreshadowing. So
you're like, Okay, what what's going on here? I'm sure this will
pay off, And it immediately does because marshat Manner he gets shot like immediately
after this, like straight to the heart. Yeah, like they were shooting
to kill. And uh, there's a there's a reveal you can pull back,
and it's the reveal of the guy with a rifle and then a Metropolis
PD badge and that Superman shield. See that's that's the thing, right,
Like you're being too cute Smallville, Like he didn't Metropolis speed. He didn't
even have a Superman you know, it's it's a common shape. No,
No, the octagon, this is a common shape. They're all common you
know. I laugh about the octagon being a common shape. Just side,
don't um. My kid when he was like two or three, knew what
an octagon was and it shocked me. And then come to find out it
was from like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. But the first time he said octagon,
and I'm like, how do you know what an octagon is? My first
thought in my head is small, but it's a common shape, all that
small. But you're watching when he was a kid, just osmosis into his
brain. It's my own fault. But you think, you know, you're
you're watching this and you're like, oh, you see John Jones and leading
on the street, all right, and then you see the reveal of the
Metropolis Pedi badge. You're like, oh, we're gonna do some modest set.
You're waiting, But no, I thought so it's so interesting to rewatch
these episodes. They don't remember that well and like anticipate that and then they're
like, whoa, we're not We're still going. It just seems like such
an obvious place, But no, that's not what we do. We cut
from there to the hospital, so we got a hospital visit plus one and
I'll take I'll take a screenshot of these of these files that Clark and Launa
are talking about. But she's there to bring him coffee after work, and
he's like, after work, he's lost all track of time. Right,
but this is what did you think of this? Uh? This meet up
at the hospital between them goes to show he's even Lana can't break his uh
focus on work right now. I guess Uh. In the past, Lana
would have been everything. Now he's got something. It's a little more important
that she's gonna move back into the to its focus again soon, but right
now work is important. Well, Martia Manhunter even said it in his previous
episode I'm Pretty He's like, you're obsessed. You need to find a better
balance here, and that's true. But Clark, I can hate this Clark
as a guy of extremes, so he's like, eiy're all doing this or
he's all focused on alta. There's no one between for this guy. We'll
get there at the end. But he says he's been sacrificing everything for the
greater good up into this point. Everything a lot is a fan of the
new look for Clark. Yeah, I was about to go there, you
must be turning heads left and right. Well he didn't notice. Yeah,
it's like a lot. You can't be saying that, like to your meeting
up with your axe. So you were in love with and you had a
horrible set of circumstances to lead to you being ripped apart from each other,
and you're gonna come back in here with this kind of dialogue. M You
wonder what her motivations are right now, Well, we know what her motivations
are. She wants to she wants to be him and uh, take LEAs
down and that's priority number one. But she's kind of she's kind of getting
pulled back into it. She's staying longer than she planned on, she's having
coffee meetups, so clearly she's a little bit conflicted herself. Well, she's
sticking around to it to maybe see what happened to do the creature that took
Chloe, because even though there's no Doomsday or day was boom for a while,
a lot is going to remind us of that plot line and Clark does
miss Yeah, that's that must be right. But he mentioned the night Watchman
and two Amuless ambulance drivers. Uh, we're murdered the night of Chloe and
Jimmie's wedding, So that that you know, we saw that happen. Unfortunately
we didn't know about the two ambulance drivers, Like damn Davis. He was
on quite quieter. I guess there was the two bodies in those trash bags
that he took to the dumpster. But a lot of was like, I
should probably leave you to it, and uh, next rounds on Clark and
then it says this is a little contrived because Clark is just in the lobby
of the hospital as they happened to be wheeling in John Jones, what do
you think of this? Yeah, you're getting you're getting corner. Well maybe
because it was hot. It was an ambulance driver he was looking at records.
Sure, contrived for sure, but not the worst that some moth has
ever done. Well, it just to me was talking about the structure of
the episode, like, if I were to re edit this episode, I
would have cut the opening credits with the reveal of the badge, right because
like we there's no new stakes. The only new stakes now are like,
oh, now Clark knows about it. So we cut the opening credits.
We come back and we're the same location. Clark's like still in the same
spot looking through the window. You know, it's like, dude, I
don't I don't know why they structured it that way, you know what I
mean. Yeah, they wanted they wanted an early Clark and Lana scene and
they had to find a way to give it to you. Well, but
it would have been fine, like after the opening credits, I think,
true, you know what I mean, like that, that's my deal.
But but we say, hey, we got our first appearance of doctor Emil
Hamilton Chris, the second doctor Hamilton's on the show. Does he have any
lines in this episode? I can't remember. He does have a smattering of
why throughout this episode, but it's not it's not like a strong character introduction
here for him. He's just kind of in the background. And Wendy cast
got like Alessandro Giuliani, who is in bast You ever watch BSG, Chris?
I have not. Oh, it's so good, it's not my list
to go back. He is one of the many, many, many Baustar
Galactica alumni. He were on smallvill He played at mister Gata for several years
on the show before this. Yeah, and so it was funny like,
oh, it's Gaeta's on He's on Smallville, and of course he's the second
Doctor Hamlim because we had Doctor Stephen Hamilton in the first couple of seasons and
at that time we thought, oh, this is their version of that guy.
But as Smallville continues on and on and they're like, oh, we
already did that character like Supergirl, let's do her again, but with a
more accurate version ish, And that's what we're getting with with Doctor Hamilton here.
You know, Oliver comes in just to kind of check out what's going
on, and of course like, oh, we gotta get him out of
there, that they're not gonna what they're doing, and Oliver was like,
oh, because he's Marshall, Like when when was this information shared? I
think that's the point. It wasn't because Clark shocked that they're working together,
that he knows of him. Maybe after maybe after John Jones saw that he
was close with Clark, he took advantage, well he did. Oliver does
mentioned that that Marja Manhunters got him out of a few tight straits of the
police, which is interesting. And then some good kind of duty here because
Oliver's like, you know, I figured after I got poisoned, I figure
we guys like us should have a specialist on call, which which is a
smart thing, and that's ultimately what Doctor Hamilton is. Well, he's got
that tech guy in the plane on call too, now right Fi fi bro,
He's expanding the team that's smart and create me if I'm wrong? Is
there ever a Star Labs in Smallville? If there is, it's a passing
comment, But I can't think of anything. I remember they mentioned Cadmus Labs,
like they mentioned that in season one, and then it comes back in
a big way in season ten obviously with the Clones. But like star It's
funny how like Star Labs and the comics like that's where Doctor Hamilton is.
And then you know, I believe in the in the DCAU that's Star Labs
as well, and he's like Superman's like scientist guy. And then you know,
Lewis and Clark was a huge state Doctor Klein the last couple of years
of the show. Um, but but Star Labs just it's kind of more
become a flash thing because not only the not only the the Arrow Verse star
Labs obviously, but even in the nineteen ninety the Flash Show there was Star
Labs, and so it's it's it's cool how it's like this DC comic thing.
But it's just I would have I'm kind of shocked that Smallville never had
a star Labs. Yeah, me too, I I want to I'm sure
I would guess that they probably made a passing comment at some point. Well,
you have to keep an eye out. We'll keep an eye out,
and if we missed it already, I'm sorry, and please leave it in
the comments. But but Clark Clark, he mention. She's like, oh,
yeah, John Jones, he want to meet with me after shift to
talk about something. And it's like, was he gonna meet you at the
hospital, because that's that's kind of gidiot. Did they ever get to what
he wanted to talk to about? Oh? I believe. I believe it
was this this whole situation probably, But I do like this is where we
see like kind of the the clashing ideologies of Clark and Oliver. He's like,
if he'd never get sacrifices powers to for me to save me, then
he wouldn't be in the situation. Oliver's like, yeah, now you're guilty,
and I'll that your whole thing. But you know, let's let's move
past that and let's actually get to work here, So I like that by
between them. Yeah, I'd like especially when Oliver does that, when he
puts him in check about things like that, because he can relate himself.
I'm sure he's done things as the Green Arrow that have put himself in similar
situations, but understanding that you need to rise above that. You can't blame
yourself, can't retreat back and say this is my fault. Just go do
something about it. It's your point about this being kind of proto Justice League
forming discussion. Oliver's like, you know what, let's face a teamwork has
never really been our thing. So you go follow your leads. I'll go
follow my leads and then we'll just meet up later and like, come on,
y'all, like you were stronger together, okay, and yet you're you're
just doing your own thing. But that shows you that the fractured nature of
whatever he's left with the Justice League at this point of the show. Yeah,
it wasn't it just earlier this season they were supposed to go off into
hiding on their own, and then Oliver stays in Metropolis. Yeah. I
think that was their way of saying, Okay, this is not a Jois
League show. So we have to find a way. We got to get
rid of the others, but we're gonna keep three narrow because he's a series
regular. That was also so funny, like, well, no, no,
the Lex and Tests and always people know our identities. We have to
disperse. I'm like Lex knew who Aquaman was since day one, you know,
all three of them. He knew who Aquaman, he knew Cyborg.
Yeah, Flash Impulse, that's right, I'm gonna call him Flash. But
yeah, we um. We cut to uh Luther mansion and a great shot
of that very TODs window by the way, and the first shot of the
scene, and we have Um Tests doing some karate with with an instructor Akida
or something like that. Yes, yes, as Lana is intimately familiar with
based off for hung Lee Journey she's been on when she's off screen. I
say that because that's what she left a small vel to go do, so
it does apply. I've been joking about that for years. We'll talk about
more in detail than our in our next episode on Power. But you know,
Lex had fencing right in pool, and Test has martial arts. But
it's so good, like I'm glad it's Tests, not there fencing someone or
playing on the pool table, Like she needs to have her own angle,
and they've been doing a great job making her a new shade of Lex.
Yeah, but I think she needs to put an upgrade into the mansion.
I mean, like Lex used like to use his fight scenes and his study
is library. They kind of have like a little gym section right in a
mansion doing this a couple of times, and in season one, I feel
like they used to redress the mansion more often, Like there would be different
rooms. The one they think of a shimmer right where it's like all his
paint and all that stuff's like the war room, and like it was clearly
this set, but it was redressed a little bit where it looked like a
different room. And you know what, it's a mansion. It's the same
house. I buy that a lot of the rooms look the same. So
that's fine, but like, at least to your point, makes some attempt
that there is some other room in this one, the library or or the
hallway. That's the only two rooms that we've seen Chris, or in the
bedroom. We do see the bedroom quite frequently now, but at least at
least they did an effort early honest. Even even so the room where he
kept the Porsche and had all recorded, like the whole room was dark so
he couldn't see walls or if there was an actual room or not. But
they made an attempt to show they had another larger room and that became his
secret clerk room. You know. Yeah, that could have been then the
gin. Yeah, you know what there is um zero in season one,
he's out there with like a punching bag, right this sre ends up being
hung upside down and all that was like it's just more scope, but they
had more of a budget then, you know. So that's the season eight
and we get this, you know, we get one one square block of
entrop list, we get one room in the mansion. Everyone has to still
live with the talent, you know. So this this is what we're dealing
with here. But this is a meaning of of Tess and Latna here Lata
Lange in the flesh right, the enigmatic. Yeah, and uh you're everything
Lex said you'd be right, So so Ted, it's so funny when she
meets these characters, like, you know, Lex told me all about you
might come on. That's like she says, the Clark she says at the
Latta you know what I mean. Well, that's gonna really come to a
head this episode later on. It is uh she you know, she says,
like you tame a Luther, high marks from the woman and trusted with
the Luther legacy. And that's the thing, right, Like, I don't
think they needed to make tests his sister. But it does make a lot
of this make a little more sense, yes, and also makes it a
little more interesting for how she views Lex right now, especially in this episode.
This is the thing I've been talking about this scene this whole show.
We'll get to it. But she didn't know. No, I think more
so being a Luther was for a relationship with Lionel with on Earth two or
when they get to Ultraman, those type of situations. Yeah, now Lana
is there to uh kind of call tests out on on the the Prometheus project.
It's funny we'recovering season eight of Small right now, as as the guys
and all this on the Arrow are covering season five. I'm talking about talking
about Prometheus. Hey, I think I think Arrow did Prometheus better than Small
VI. I'm just gonna throw that out there. Yet, you should have
kept that to yourself. Don't give them more credit. I'll go to their
heads. But she she's there to told test that she knows that Lex is
alive and she's siphoning money into this Prometheus project, and uh, she wants
to know where where Lex is, right, because then this is this is
the thing, like even though she's you know, she's back, and this
is like the new Lana, this is very similar. And they bring it
up like in you know, the next couple episodes, Clark brings it up.
Good on you, Clark for remembering this and the show for him and
kinda like, you know, a Lana last time she got powers, she
kind of went after Lex for revenge. She's kind of still it's kind of
still her thing, right, That's what she's here. The only reason she
is here is to find her whe Lex is in order to you know,
I don't know what she's gonna kill him. I don't know what she's gonna
do him, but it's not gonna be positive. Well, and you find
out as soon as she walks out that she also had an ulterior motive for
this meeting. Yes, so what is she doing here? She is she
fishing for information hoping, hey, maybe Tess will just actually tell me where
Alex is while I also steal this Prometheus information. You know what's funny is
you know what Test jobs on Lana. She says, you don't know lex
like I do. It's like, are you that's the last honestly, that's
the last. First thing. E sail that too. La La Lang Lex
with them more than any on this show, right, And if she knew
of Lana as much as she apparently did from Lex, she would know that
Lana probably does know Les better than you. Maybe you might not want to
admit it, but Lexus told Tests a lot about Lana, So I've read
all about you, yeah, and a lot like she even tells like,
look, I was you, I've been you, I've seen I've used to
Finlax all the time, and she's so yeah. To your point, I
think two maybe three motivations. One she's like, maybe Tests will just tell
me, maybe she won't. Maybe I can turn this woman around because obviously
she's on the wrong path. Right, I've been on that path. I
can relate. And the other is to use these magic Wi Fi powers from
that that Oliver's guy on the plane had just to just steal their files and
corrupt them. That's not how the force works, Chris, and I think
it just essentially turns into tests. Wants to make it a pissing contest,
and Lana's taking a high ground here because she has an i'll take your motive.
Yeah, but we get to Chloes one scene this episode, because yeah,
clothes in this. Alison mack Is is prep to direct the next episode
of Power. So usually when when actors direct the next episodes, they have
no scenes or very limited scenes the previous episodes, so they have more time
to time to prepare. And that's fair. She doesn't a lot of time,
all right, because she's gonna, you know, get get back to
get back to taking care of Jimmy in Star City with Lois, with with
Lois who who? Okay, Like I mentioned at the top right, but
it's like, okay, so Lois left to be with Jimmy because obviously Chloe
was gone, right, fair, fun fair, Right now Chloe is back,
there is no Lois, and then Lois is still gone. Obviously she's
upset about Clark and Latta. You know, welcome to Chloe's life, Lois.
Listen, this is this is how she does things. Last time she
ran off to like what a monster Chuck Rally in Houston or something El Paso
and think but yes and xes. Then she goes to Africa in season ten,
so this is I guess that's how she copes. She just runs away.
Oh man, she plays a pulls a Luke Skywalker Chris, but it
was um. It is disappointing because in some episodes there are deleted scenes when
like characters think they're dead, are missing and they reunite, like like in
Gone in season four, like there's a whole scene where you know, Choe
Lanna get back together, and there's whole and there's another scene in the beginning
of the season seven. I think they're deleted scenes. I'm like, well,
you should have put these in here. They're kind of important. This
They don't even make an attempt of like I wonder what Lois thought about Chloe
coming back? Right, this is like come on, y'all, like that
you're supposed to be handling Lowe's better and you were, but now she's gone
again. Even even the writers get blinded by Lana being back. They're like,
well, I guess I don't know what to do. Uh, Chloe
just dropped an eye rolling our favorite Martian reference, like who who is that?
For? Like, I know what my favorite Martian is because like I
kind of happen to like old TV and it was like on you know,
these black and white runs of channels. But I'm like, who knows what
that is anymore? Right? More adults watching the show That Can two thousand,
early two thousands, why would you reference that really bad early two thousands
a movie with Christopher Lloyd Because Small has to pump every pop culture reference into
Chloe and Jimmy's language. It's exhausting, and I don't, look, we
love this show, right, but yeah we when you know, when I
watched this show and like are taking notes and analyzing it, and then I
like, I just go watch other shows just for fun, and I'm like,
it's so refreshing to not hear people try to squeeze in some sort of
pop culture for reference every other line. You know, there should be one
one character like the Cisco on The Flash. I think him and Felicity early
early Felicity Narrow, they were like the perfect versions of that because you contain
it like, okay, but that's this character's thing. But sometimes it's just
too much Chris. They would do it in situations that applied, like if
you had a meta that had something that sounded like out of a comic book
and they referenced a comic book or whatever like that, Right, it wasn't
just an everyday conversation talking about normal things, which is maybe why it stands
out a little bit more because a pop culture reference in a perfect situation,
you want to give that Captain America meme. I understood that reference. That
kind of stuff is cool, but when it's when it's in a full sentence
that should just be basic conversation, it stands out a little more. And
I don't believe for a second to Chloe and Clark ever watched My Favorite Martian
But yeah, especially not Clark. I do like how she is, like,
man, I miss being bradyac like as far as like the computer speed,
because that's that would be a logical like feeling for her a half after
being so like super powerful and when as far as computer goes and then having
to like it's like having high speed internet and then being reduced to dial up.
Right, yeah, and Clark gives her a little look and she's like,
I know, I know, but like you would miss that. Anybody
would miss that. It's like you not having your powers anymore, Clark,
think about that, right, Skippy had a little here and looking at her.
Chloe and Lana are just sharing Isis and the Talon. Though Lana has
money, right, Lana has her settlement from the one of the richest men
in the world. She can afford a hotel room. That is true because
yeah, because Lana it seems to be staying at the Talent again, ah,
which which is okay because Chloe's not there right now. But this is
all this is not very well there either right now. But she's in Stars
City taking care of Jimmy. And then Lois got her own apartment because you
got that raise, which we never see that place by the way, Um,
so yeah, yeah, they're just okay, there's an open room,
take advantage. There should be an apartment above the Isis Foundation. And that's
the thing, right because Isis was Lanast thing and Lana was gone. I'm
like, well, we don't. And then and then they made lowest Chloe's
like they they took Chloe's daily Planet thing away from her and gave it to
us, like, well, what do we do with Chloe wa Lana had
the slishest thing. She's gone, we have the set. I guess we'll
have Chloe do that. But now Lana's back, and it is weird how
they're both like because there's multiple scenes of them and all these episodes of them
both in the secret room doing the thing that it's Interchangers. The Small Raiders
got together and said, we're gonna bring Lata back. So she's gonna take
this from Lois and this from Chloe. Then she's gonna take take She's gonna
be the Superhero's gonna get the powers, taking everything. She took Clark from
Lois, she took ices from Chloe, and she took all the powers from
Clark. It's crazy. Oh man, well, you know, speaking of
all this, Chloe's like, so how are things now that Lana is back
in your orbit and Clarks that I think this is so strange to me because
she's very aware. She's like, yeah, you know, when you were
the triangle here, it sucks. I've been in that third point on y'all's
triangle and uh, don't hurt my cousin. Right, I'm like, this
is it's very messy, isn't it. Yeah, I get Clark's point like
how do you just stop loving someone? And he never really had the closure
too, But Chloe makes a good point like he's gonna he's gonna hurt Lois
and all this because they were getting close and you can't deny that they weren't.
Even Clark can't say that they weren't. They were. They were right
about the kiss. But you don't seeing Lena come back, Chris, It's
like she never left. So it makes it okay again, that makes out
of sight out of mind, right, because Lois isn't even around, Like
if he had to go to work every day and sit across from Lois and
he's still doing this and be a much worse look on him, right,
but it's still not it's still not a great look. Like if these are
your real friends in the real world, right, think about this and you
saw you saw like you've seen this the re vibe happening. You saw them
about the kiss of this wedding, and then immediately like his ex comes back
in town. He's taking over thy like Clark, you're an ass. Yeah,
so, and they would call him out a little more harshly than chloeus,
especially considering it's her cousin. This is your your best friend in the
world. But I guess Lana is your other best friend in the world,
so you're you're in a tough spot too, you know. But you know
what, She's married now, so maybe she's not as invested into this as
she as she used to be, right, not invested personally, but she
should. You think she'd be a little more. She's like saying, don't
don't say him Lois in the door. You think she'd be a little more
defensive of Lois than Lana because she knows how Clark sees Laana. Well,
that's that's the problem. The show needs us to root for this even though
it's the wrong thing. That's that's the issue. Right If anyone in here
was like, you know, McCart, maybe you shouldn't do this, and
the audience would be like, you know what, they're right, maybe he
shouldn't be doing this, and then they would derail what they're trying to do
with with Lana him here. But give him credit for addressing that it is
a thing and acknowledging that there's something there rather than just denying it all.
Yeah, at least they addressed it, right, I mean, you my
other rant would have been like, I can't believe they did even mentioned that,
Sully, I are mentioning it, but yeah, that's where we are.
But you know, during this conversation, you know, chloes are running
all this data on what happened to John Jones and they find there's an armor
piercing bullet and it's missing for evidence, So must be an inside job.
Chris, what do you think about that? I think it's funny that they
mentioned it's an armor piercing bullet when later on there's a lot of talk about
make sure you wear your vest, because that's great. If you're wearing your
vest, armor piercing would go through it. Well, the thing is,
these guys protect their own, so it's not going to be easy to get
past that thin blue line, you get it. That's why it stands out
because it's it's another reference that didn't need it to be at it. Like,
look, I use a lot of pop culture references in my life,
but I know there's a time in a place. All right, I'm not
I'm not quoting Star Wars and we're talking about like, so how did your
chemotherapy go? Right? You know, you know what I'm saying this is
like there's a time in a place. Yeah, anyway, but uh it's
it's the forty fourth preseat, right, and uh, hey good on them.
It's that they put some signage up, you know, and it's it's
a I can't immediately identify what location this is. I'm sure it's just somewhere
on the back lot when we see all these cops and we see inter Detective
Dan or officer at this point, Dan Turban because he's a young guy,
Dan Turbin. Yeah, I liked I liked the reveal. Here he walks
out and he's meeting a new partner, and I mean essentially you don't really
know what was going to happen, but then you get the pan to the
the badge and then it's Clark turns around Clark, he's Joe Joe Fordman.
Yeah, Joe Forman. Do you like that as a as a pseudonym?
Here? Sure? Why not? I mean Joe was the name his dad
used when he was walking around Earth. Yeah, and uh, Lana's back,
so thinking of all things, Lana her ex boyfriend's last name. You
think that's where he got that, That's why Forman was on his mind.
I like, where else are you gonna get form? Well, that is
like he's paying tribute to like his fallen friend, right. Um. And
then Joe for you know, the the the americanization of Jarrell. I don't
know if that's what he was thinking there. Maybe he just picked a common
name, but we see it as that because I like that. I like
that. I liked that he picked that, you know, as a pseudo
him. I thought that was cool. He should have gone, uh,
if you want to go full lat xss, he should have been Jason Ford
Whitney Tigue the newest officer. Um. But it's a cool reveal, right
because obviously, like you said, it's it's a slow reveal, like the
guys are walking on, Hey, ready meet your partner and ready to go
save the world. Right Uh. And then it's Clark. Now this is
cool. But he needed glasses here, Chris, didn't he? Right,
Well, he needed glasses when he's working in the daily pocket. That's beside
the point. I'm just looking for anything at this point for him to wear
some glasses on. Maybe some sunglasses here. It's difficult. Cough, look
at the sunglasses. I just thought, like, man, like, if
Clark's going undercover right, an in disguise, that's a perfect time to bring
out some glasses. And I thought it was a missed opportunity. But again,
I I wonder what it's gonna be like when they get to this place
and talk feel off. I remember on an episode this late in the show,
I'm definitely gonna ask Tom like so the glasses because I have a feeling
that like he just didn't want to wear them, like he thought they weren't
cool or something like. That's my vibe on the whole fare. Or maybe
it was a higher up state. We can't have we can't have our sex
sible star war glasses. Right, there's a different world back than in two
thousand and nine. Yeah, my bet would be more on. He probably
didn't want to wear them, just speaking from I mean, I work contact
lens all the time because I don't want to wear glasses. But just speaking
from Halloween costumes, when you have to wear glasses and you don't need them,
it's kind of kind of a pain. I guess. Listen, Clark
is sacrificing everything for this Chris, for the greater good. So let's talk
about our guest star, David pat Cow. Now he was in Hothead all
the way back in season one and in Smallville the official magazine number three two.
As A said earlier, he is an interview and he says, quote,
I tested for the Whitney Fordman role and Hothead was e zone three,
so maybe they remembered me. I have a couple of distinct memories because some
of that was filmed on nine to eleven. It was an interesting day on
set, to say the least. Everyone was concerned about what was going on,
so it was a really bad day for everyone. Suddenly the show wasn't
that important. And that's interesting because you hear them talking about that. I
don't talk through a lot, especially in season one. John Scheider brings it
up, and Rosama and Welling, you're always talking about how like hot Heavens
from the nine eleven that was that was a big thing. And that makes
sense that he was, you know, in the running for Whitney and like,
okay, we didn't get that. Well, hey, well we'll threw
you a guest star part of a member of the football team. That makes
a lot of sense. Yeah, And that's one of those events that happened
in this world that if you live in this country It's one of those you
always remember where you were, oh yeah when that happened. So I could
just imagine if you're a working actor, and he's probably had tons of roles
on other shows, but you remember this one guests his parents. Because of
the significance of that event, I could see that I could see him testing
for Whitney. He's got the look he could. He could have done a
good job there too. Eric Johnson's gone on to do much bigger things now
too. Yeah, yeah, fifty, says A Gray. Did you ever
watch Alcatraz? Now, I haven't seen that. That was a fun show.
It was like a half season show. It didntr mc cliffhanger and they
got canceled because it was a sci fi shown Fox Shocker. But he was
an episode of that. It was pretty good. And then uh, he's
a flash Gordon on the si Fide channel, so he's he's continued to work.
So and we know this actor here who played Dan Turpins continue to work
because we see him later on in uh nice little movie called Man of Steel.
We do is he the one says Superman? Inte yes, that that's
the alien. That's what they're calling him Superman. So he essentially gives him
the name Superman. Right, I've been Marshaman a hundred for forty years on
this planet. No one's given me a cool name anyway. Then we'll talk
about that. We didn't even mention, you know, uh, doctor Alton.
We talked about him more later, but like he's on the scenes with
Doctor Hamilton. Sobody then is steel. It's just an insane amount of you
wonder if they had any conversations Alessandro Giuliani and I'm sorry, Dan Turpin's actor
name is David David Pacow. They were in the same episode of Smallville,
but they probably never interacted. They were probably on set different days just because
they didn't have any scenes together. Yeah, so maybe they're on Manisteel talk
ends like, hey, we're together, him and I can't kind of came
in front of tam Hill Pikett, who was Hilo Wombastarro Bactica. He was
on Arrow. He's the guy that killed Hunters's fiancee. Um. He was
in two episodes of Smallble as two different characters as this guy was as well.
He was in Prototype and then he was in season three in Resurrection.
Same deal. He was an army guy in Man of Steel he puts Lewis
in that like closet. Well, what's the rule? We've heard it talked
about somewhere. There's a rule like it has to be a certain amount of
seasons between your character when you can you know, I've heard that, but
I don't think that's just I think that's the general role. But I've there's
people that have appeared like much closer together on Smallville as well. So,
but basically, like if you're if you're, I'm shocked. The guy who
played the chief on Batstocolatica was not in the Man of Steel or at least
BBS because he was he was in BSG. He works up there. He
was in two episodes of smavel as two different characters many years apart, much
like these guys. So, but I don't have like the complete list or
anything. I think I think at some point when Rosama was reading off some
some stats, like he's like thirty one people were small, but were something
like something like some absurd highly high number. Because it's not just I mean
we're talking about you know, actress with dialogue that kind of stuff, Like
I'm sure there were so many background actors who was who shared in the production
as well. Well, it just gives us u able to give all these
fan theories, like when we talk about Star Wars, for example, you
see Andy Serkis he played, Well, he's totally that's not even a joke
anymore. I think I was messaging you about that, you guys, and
I was like in Mandalorian, like, well, we have our volunteered test
subject, but we know who that is. It's Keno Lloy and they're gonna
combine it with a gro grou blood. He's gonna become snoke. Hey,
it's all there. So Anyway, his his interview Small with the magazine,
he says, quote, I went in and read for it, but I
wasn't sure how small it would look at my resume since I'd already been on
the show. What I didn't realize about Danny Turpin is that he's established in
the DC universe. I had no idea that he was his grizzled gruff cop
and his character was established about thirty years ago. I didn't know that until
the fourth day of shooting. So I guess the writers are putting all these
DC characters in. Yes, on the fourth day shooting, he probably realized
with characters thought, hey I'll be back again. Yeah, I can't wait
to be a regretting character. But this is what he had to say about
working on an episode. Quote, Smallville is a great set. The crew
gets along so well, and Tom is an amazing guy. Everyone is nice,
loose and relaxed. They're confident. As for Justin and Tom, those
guys are tall, they're fun and have a nice rapport. Justin has a
lot of energy, and Tom is clearly the leader of that show. So
to quote Talkville again, like John Scheiner says, be the horse, Be
the horse Tom. Anyway, that's cool though, Well, he's a good
experience on the show bringing people back. You know, I think that that
is schooling. It's fun for us. And you know, maybe this guy
changed his name and he really was the same guy from from season one.
He just did because had Clark been wearing the glasses, he wouldn't have recognized
him. Chris, there you go. It all tied together. Anyway.
It just fits when they first get in the car and they start driving through
the streets in Metropolis, they come around a corner and I don't know if
it's just they were trying to give an edgy. Look. I swear there's
a street worker, like a girl about one hundred percent. She's wearing like
a miniskirt with boots. Right, they did that in small Ville on the
CW. Well it was very subtle, but sure show you how bad things
have gotten. I guess they have the conversation in the car and you think
he was describing Gotham City. This is this is very bad man mcginns.
Right where Rachel's driving Bruce around. That's the vibe I got. I mean
they're in a car, but maybe that's not really they the talk is essentially
throughout the episode the justice system doesn't always work, but we do. We
get the streets. Yeah, they control the courts, but we control the
streets. We'll get to that in a minute. But you know, Clark's
from Cose City allegedly, which is a cool green Lander reference. Yeah,
more comic book lore. He should have gone by like this is Detective hald
Jordan's I don't know what what the captions were thinking. Every time when I
watched with the captures are up, it said Cove City. Really, I
think it's just uh, you know, trying to the algorithm could not hear
no people need to proofree those algorithms. Okay for the clothes, for the
clothes captions, but like Clark's like, who's a nice car? He's like,
ah, I guess it's a humor. That's good because there's no one
else to say. But but what is cool about this, Dan Turbin is
it's something that tracks from the combat. Dan turban is he doesn't trust the
superheroes. He's like these costume Visionlandi's went around, We've got this green arrow
and this red blue blur and like he's not, I love that light,
thanks Joe. So but it's interesting to get get Clark's perspective on this.
He's like, so you think they do more harm the good And Turbin's like,
well, what I know is cop sever rules and they don't, right,
So he has some sense of morality which gets tested surely in this episode.
So it's always nice when you see superheroes being able to learn lessons like
that, when they're getting a different perspective because they people don't realize they're talking
to them. So yeah, Clark, Clark can learn a lesson here and
see a perspective that he couldn't get before. That's why secreted news are important,
Chris. I also like how they keep calling they keep calling the superheroes
capes, but green arrows work and a cape once and uh, Clark says,
I'll never wear a cape, right, that is true, not in
this lifetime. Calling him capes, that's a good that's a good point.
Which which heroes are referring to Akaman Black Canary. No, I mean of
the For all they know, the red Bullebler could wear a cape. Maybe
that's what you're seeing. But yeah, maybe that's what they think, right,
But you know, the junkies are hitting up the pharmacy again, right,
so it's just another day in Metropolis, broad daylight. You're right,
this guy's he's running. This is actually something else that David Pacal talks about
in his interview h that this chase scene. He says, quote one of
the stunt guys and the camera rehearsal was doing the run and he felt pretty
hard because it was slippery. It was a nervous time. The least thing
you want to do is slip falling the camera, look like an idiot and
you get hurt. So as a camera guy myself, I could relate to
this, like you never want to fall when you're doing this job. I
was, Um, I was shooting this this uh pilot like this this spec
pilot for like a BMX biking thing. This is like right out of college,
and I was just doing kind of any contract work I could have.
And this is BMX biking like course, right, it's a big thing,
right, It's Olympic sport and all this stuff. Right. The guy who
was doing it and was leading it was like he had won in the Olympics
in previous years. And you know, it's just these mounds of mud and
all this stuff, right, and so you gotta run and like follow these
bike guys. And so I ran and I slipped and I got mud all
over me. And then about then I picked up the camera and still to
keep working, and it was it was crave. It was embarrassing, but
I mean, what you got, you gotta it's a live thing. You
gotta keep going, right, and which I just remember was covered in mud
after that it was awful. Um, But I had some friends working on
it as well, so they didn't give me that Harvard time about it.
But it's just like just just just thinking about that. And unfortunately, the
camera's fine because that's your number one objective. Let's protect the camp. But
that's what people like is is camera king. That's the main thing people want
to know. That's pretty scary. And because you know, it's kind of
a rainy day in the scene, right, you got guys running, you
don't think about that. But not only do you have the actors Rinning mich
got camera guys came up with him. That's that's a real thing. So
anyway, they chase him in in this alley and it's uh not for if
Joe Forbin had not been Dan Turbin's partner this day, he'd be dead.
Yeah, like you said, broad daylight stealing something from a pharmacy, it's
worth killing a cop over. Well, it's it's a what's it's a uh
come up? So it's back. Lois tells uh that that Sebastian Cane memory.
Guys, She's like, well, you know, next to hell.
This is the worst place ever, Like what this is? This is not
Yeah, we're in Gotham City city, right, but anyway, what it
is it's Superman isn't there yet? And Superman is what makes it a pristine
good city. Right there, you go two more years, but no,
Clark, uh, Clark saves him from this junkie. You know, it's
kind of like a Superman the movie esque right where he saves Lois from the
bullet and he catches it. You know, it's the same kind of because
it's in an alley, kind of giving those kinds of yeah, yeah,
I thought so. Anyway, that's cool. It's a continuity too. You
could see when he turns around and Clark standing next to the guy just on
the ground, his fist is clenched and like it kind of highlights that his
fist is clenched and he opens the hand and he has the bullet. Right,
so let me cut the isis And oh my god, they're gonna do
the Lex Luthor battle suit. I'm so excited. Version one. It is
the Lex Luthor battle suit from the comic books of the Prometheus suit, which
is which is a look Prometheus. Of course that's a name that Lex Uthor
would use. That's so cool and you think, oh wow, Lex is
gonna come back, and this is gonna be the different vibe of Lex we
did. We're gonna get like battle suit Justice League a limited Lex. It's
gonna be so awesome. I can't wait and then we get version two and
it's like, oh, subdermal, you know, don't don't even tease us
with that le You're gonna go through with it, you know what I mean?
Typical? Come well, I say typical, But it's a comic book
writer giving you something that if you're a comic book reader, it'll it'll ring
out to you, even if they're not necessarily going to have the budget to
create a big actual lex with her warsuit, which we kind of actually get
on Supergirls. So I give them credit for that, even though what's the
classic like extremist style stuff that appears that or nothing? You know, they
give it, they give it a little bit to us. But you know,
Lana is uploading the stuff that she stole from Tests, and she's talking
to someone on the phone who we turn turns out to be doctor Grohl was
we found on the next episode the gar from season six, So good conduitor
there. But as she's doing this, there's an alert message. It says
data stream record from unknown Wi Fi device. It's like what, And that's
just to show that Test has kind of figured out what's going on, and
that's that's setting up there confrontation later in the episode. Huh, I'd forgotten
that that was how she found out about it. I thought that Lana had
just in my head watching the episode, waiting for this to happen, knowing
that that comes at some point in the episode. I thought Lana had figured
that out in her time away doing her research about Lax. But I guess
it's kind of cool that they show it. She's stumbled upon it by accident.
Let me come from that to uh barbecue at Dan Turban's place, and
hey, do you call continuity? He's running around. He's got a blue
shirt and we'll red cape, red sweater tied round his neck. And Clark's
say, hey, who are you supposed to be? Were Angel? He
says, no, I'm the red blue Blur. Pretty cool, Huh.
I like this and what the kid dresses up as later. I like this
better than when you're watching the crossover of arrowin the Flash, and the kid
already has full action figures of superheroes that aren't necessarily established as common is the
guys we have action figures for, So I like that he's making his own
costume for whatever to be. We know he early wear a mask and that's
not necessarily his outfit, but it's what a kid would put together. I
thought it was cool. I thought it was cute. Yeah, no,
no, that that's that's a good point. Like who is making these green
Arrow and Flash uh DC direct you know action figures in the arrow verse or
Williams? Like I like the Flash that's pretty. That's a good point.
Um, Like I can see him having a Flash action figure, but he
has a green Arrow one too, doesn't he? Yeah? And and like
have villains. Yeah, it's like, hey, do you have your Alsama
Bin Laden action figure? You know? I don't know, Like I'm trying
to think of an equivalent, right, oh man, But anyway, uh,
that is that is cool to like In Terman, he's like not too
hot on the on the capes, but his son is a family that's classic
rights. And then Clark Stark starts talking to Dan Turpin's wife, the actress
Sarah Smith, and she is in Supergirl in five. So it's just a
character called Lydia Lockwood. Do you know who her husband in that show is?
Oh? Is it Sam Whimber? It? Oh? Because I okay,
I looked at this. I haven't watched almost any of that Supergirl right
like that those seasons. But I was like, oh, she's in season
four with Sam Whimber, so is it? It's incredible connected Smallville is the
blueprint. Okay, that's pretty cool anyway. She's also looks like she's in
some Hallmark Christmas movie, so you might hear someone somewhere and talk about those
uh Christmas getaway a Mistletoe promise, And she's in Wynn Calls the Heart,
which is a favorite of everyone in there. Overs. I think there's a
lot of actors who show up on that as well, So that's funny.
I I, of course I will watch Supergirl and entirety one day, and
so this will be fun for me to see all these people pop back up.
But uh, you know, I think, um that that's cool because
she you know, she's like, hey, you know, thanks for having
his back and a little The important thing is this is Clark seeing that family
life as you discussed, like having that balance to having the family life,
being the hero putting your life on the line, and then the other generic
cops coming in. He's like, hey, man, rookie really or just
keep today man? You know, yeah, humanizes Turpin a little more than
the others because you see Turpin's family even though there are other families are there
too, right, Like it's not just it's such as his family and his
other wives. Oh yeah, there are there are other people. There seemed
to be other people around the head guy. Officer Talbert is his name.
The actor will grow familiar and he's in the Planet of the Apes movies,
The New Ones. He's in the Chronicles of Riddick. He's an X two
X Men United character called Mitchell Lario, who I have no idea who that
is. He's in Man of the High Castle. He's in Supernatural, He's
in Project Blue Book. Like this guy's a hardworking actor because he's just he
isn't one of those faces. I'm like, this guy's in stuff, you
know. He said his character was Lauria. Yeah, Mitchell Laurio in X
two X Men United everything Laura, and I thought you were gonna say,
like maybe it's related to like Dan Lauria. No, no, no,
no, he's Oh he's of course he is. He's in voss Archolactica,
Blood and Chrome. Oh, here it is. He plays Martin Summers on
Era one episode the second episode of season one, Honor. They father.
And who does he play in Man of Steel? Is he Man of Steel?
No, I don't let me let me see. I don't see how
he's He was too busy being on Volensar Elastica, Blood and Chrome. New
appearance on Man of Steel. He's in the Tomorrow People with Peyton List this
Man the Sky. So he's a Vancouver actor. Yeah, yeah, big
time. He's an alien versus predator requiem as is um Dan Turban here.
So anyway, he also placed Drulie on Crypto the Superdog. It's good on
you man. A hardworking actor if there ever was one. But anyway,
that seemed to be like after work that day for them. They had the
day shift. Yeah, and then first day on the job and invite the
new guy over the house. That's cool. I like that. You know,
they're all bonding and stuff. The way they were talking, it seemed
like this is a regular occurrence, but use every day. And they were
having conversations about like hopefully were this lucky tomorrow and well, yeah, that's
something, you know, that's something the dan Terman's wife says. You know,
his last partner, Mike, you know, you know, he always
though he was bulletproof episode title set an episode plus one. But these you
know, these guys, these guys are they're shady, you know, they're
like, oh man, you know, rookie, you know, put your
neck out for somebody you don't know. H it's pretty it's pretty tough.
And Clark's like, isn't that what police officers are supposed to to do?
This guy? But that shows you, like the uh, that kind of
shows you that they're not quite in the right space mentally to to be police
officers. So that was I think that's that was subtle. That was well,
that was fine, right. A couple of lines later, I'm like,
who but anyway, that that was subtle. That was good. Um.
And then all their their phones start going off and the like have another
call, and like I thought to myself, well, that's strange. Their
shift is over, so what are the game called away for? But all
these looks they were changing with each other and be like, it's it's not
real work, right right, it's something else and undercover Clark didn't get the
call. No. I thought it was a little I thought it was at
odd the thing included him right away. But I guess if you want to
bring him into how things should be well and it would be kind of obvious
if they if he didn't, right, and also he did, he did
just save Dan Turpin's life. So they're probably thinking, I don't know,
but yeah, it's that is that's a big that's a big leap of faith,
like, hey, let's let's bring you out on this, on this
vigilante justice that we're having. Even ironically, even though they hate capes,
right, they're the ones doing vigilanting justice. Well, they have rules and
yeah, the Capes don't, even though they're not following their rules that they're
supposed to be following. I think it goes to show more there how cocky
they are, how confident they are and what they're doing, because they're gonna
bring the new guy in here and they're not worried about him ratting him out
or anything like that. And even later on, like they're so confident like,
oh, we're gonna kill the green Arrow, so like they clearly don't
think they can be touched. Gonna kill the greener good lug with that.
Oh they already tried for the Martianman Hunter. Yeah, but they didn't know
they arrested Superman. They don't even they don't even know these things, right,
but we we cut the isis and uh, you know, I noticed
sometimes when they want to make tests like more evil, they had a little
more eyeshadow to her. And that's what they kind of do in this scene.
Right. It's it's the Teslana confrontation because you you corrupted Prometheus files and
Alex is going to die and now I'm gonna shoot you. Yeah, I'm
like, whoa, Okay, so this is a this is confirming that Tess
knows that Lex is alive and is working for him, right, and like,
because that had been unclear. I don't know when. I don't think
it's ever made clear on the show, honestly, because when she shows up
at the ending of season eight, she doesn't know where Alex is, and
I think for several episodes she really does trying to find it. But apparently
some time between her last appearance and here, because she hasn't been in a
couple of episodes. Now, I don't know, I don't I don't know
if she necessarily knows where he is, but she knows he's alive and she's
helping him. Yeah, she's helping him. Clearly, this project is important
for him. Maybe she got more messages from X that we didn't see my
head cannon for that. As I've said on the podcast now, is that's
brainiac working inside Chloe because as soon as she found out that the thing existed,
he took over her mind us in those emails to will think. Anyway,
that's my makes way more sense than lex reprogramming it. What are you
talking about, man? Yeah? Anyway, Tests has some low blows against
Lana here she's mentions the miscarriage. Well, Laana says she can't be controlled.
And this is a good scene between them though. Yeah, it shows
they're pretty evenly matched. It does, you know, and you know Tests
trained by checkmate is you found out next season? But but Rick Flag because
who Lana was trained by? As you find out and not see that's the
thing. Okay we were just talking about and this is a conversation for power
the next episode, Chris. But like the guy who trains Lana the Rise
of Chung Lee, all right, yep, he goes on in season ten
to play Rick Flag. Yes, a very very similar character by the same
actor a season and a half apart. Uh why not just make that guy?
Replied yea, and they should have said like, oh, yeah,
you know, I trade lone like under my code name of whatever. You
know what I'm saying, Like it's strange, but um, anyway, they're
pretty good to fight here, much better than the Clark Doomsday fight right at
the end of the season. Definitely more production value here, like I would
have I would have taken something like this, like find a way to because
Doomsday is so powerful and Clark prob you don't have to have be like a
super knockdown throw off fight like you see Clark having against himself and other seasons
and the case. Have it be like some hand to hand combat like this.
No, I mean this is probably the best fight since Lona versus Chloe
and Delete back in season like a season three. But how to make the
girls fight better than the superheroes. No, you're absolutely right, And they
didn't. I think that was their restact, Like they thought they were gonna
have like a straw all these city blocks. I just get these two guys
like in a warehouse, a guy that I mean you had a very impressive
James. They suit and have him and Tom Willing grapple, you know,
and do something like just anything more of them. We got but that's that's
a conversation for another day. And uh yeah. So so a lot of
it gets the jump on Tests gets the gun and then and then pointing the
gun at her, and then we cut the commercial and I'm like, are
we gonna get another lot of kills? No, we're not a lot of
it's not going to kill tests. Uh. But then we'll come back from
commercial and it's revealed what is going on here with the cops. That's forty
fourth precincts. So when when Clark was in the car with Dan in turbine
earlier and he like kisses the picture of his wife and kid before he goes,
you know, on a call, and there there's another picture behind that
picture that Clark kind of take notice of and fell off the the the review
mirror there, and it's of some criminal or get some mug shot, right,
and you're like, hmm, this will definitely come into play later.
And they arrive at this warehoul. The cops arrive at this warehouse here and
that guy is there right like, hey, we got a present for you,
Danny. He's the guy that killed his partner, right yeah, and
this is or we get some of that, uh, the problematic dialogue.
So like Dan Jefferin's going in there to h to beat up this guy because
he got off on a technicality, right, and he's like giving any of
what you did to me and my partner's family and is really wailing on him,
right. Uh. And then you know Clark, Like Clark's seeing this
and he's about to like kind of move in, and Talbert, the head,
the ringleader of this whole operation, he stops Clark. He says,
we may not control the system, but we control the streets. I was
like, like, I know what you're trying to say, Small will fine
line that you have a thin blue line. It's a thin there's a thin
blue line. You're absolutely right, so that it just it just can't help
but stick out in these days. You get you get what Small those trying
to do here. They're trying to show that how far do you go to
get justice? What what's right and what's wrong compared to capes doing what they
do without their rules or what the cops do. The system fails, right,
But well there's no argument that, like the justice system has flaws and
people get through the cracks all the time. And I guess the question is
like, what is the correct response to that, right, not beating him
up in a warehouse and killing him? Right. And that's that's the angle
they're going through with Smallville story here, Like that's what they're like approaching,
not like the whole like cops are just out there doing whatever they want,
Like, I mean, they're doing that in this context, but you know,
it's a different Uh, it's it's a different shade of that than than
kind of the what's so much in the in the in the conversation today?
But but yeah, I mean you take some of the dialogue like damn,
the more things change, the more things stay the same, unfortunately. Yeah,
And essentially Clark gets saved by Oliver show up. Like what was Clark
gonna do? Like literally, they throw him a crowbar. They're like,
hey, you're just gonna stay in there, fordman or you're gonna man up,
give your partner a hand. And Clark's He's looking at this like you
know, tire iron and uh, I assume if if Oliver had not shown
up, then Clark would have done something with superpowers and got out of there.
I didn't I didn't remember this episode, so I'm like, what is
I was really on the edge of my seat wondering what Clark was gonna do.
Right, So green Arrow showing up, fantastic timing. Huh yeah,
And at what point does he realize that that's Clark? Because he shoots everybody
and Clark catches it. You think he would have pegged by it then that
it was Clark from looking from the rafters or whatnot, because he really seems
surprised when Lark Clark, when Clark pulls the arrow at of him and pulls
the arrow at him and kind of gets in his way, what the hell
are you doing here? Right? And speaking of it being cold, I
mean this might have played a factor in why they re slieves on the green
Arrow costume this time. Because David Packow and Small of The Fishing Magazine number
thirty two had this to say about these action scenes. Quote, there were
some stunts that were done at four a m. We use squibs and the
whole works. But justin Harley headed worse than me. He was wearing his
leather green arrow outfit, which is harder to move in, and it was
cold outside too. I was the victim in most of the scenes, so
I just had to run around and try not to get shot. So I
feel that that's what it was. They're like, it's too cold justin putting
the sleeves back, because I assume they either have like an alternate version of
this costume with the sleeves or they can just like put the sleeves on and
then he puts the vest on over the over that kind of like wet suit
or whatever they have going on there. So but no, this was this
was cool to see him take that on these guys, because this is stuff
I wanted to see more of, kind of when Green Arrow being a main
character on the show, like Clark is operating and then he just runs in
the Green Arrow during his thing, because that rarely I feel like that rarely
happened on the show. Yeah, postseason six, you don't see as much
Oliver as Green Arrow being Green Arrow anymore. So it's nice that you get
moments like this, and you also get Dan Turpin seeing Clark talked to the
Green Arrow. Yeah, everyone else gets electrocuted and goes unconscious to keep Clark's
secret and not Turpid. Nope, he's a little bit stronger. Yeah.
Yeah. So then we come back to ices and a lot of it has
tested gun points, but it's not going to kill her, and we get
a big info dump on like Lex's backstory. She asked tests like were you
this loyal before or after your accident? And there was an explosion in South
America three years ago for disease samples and I think I think this is during
season five when Lex was collecting all those diseases for brainiac said two years ago,
well you know your give or take. Well. It also goes into
Testa's backstory where she knows that there is somewhere down in South America's when Clarke
Heady go get the antidote. Yeah yeah, and being a you know,
oceanographer with all that stuff, like it's it kind of attracts. I mean,
this is what they're having to make all this stuff up now because I
think they finally realized that Michael Rosamum is not coming back, so they're like,
well, I guess we'll just write all this stuff in next position.
Because what's what's interesting here is like Lana activates this you know signal through all
the ISIS cameras in the computer room there, and it shows that everything Tests
sees in here is being transmitted to lex La says. Lata says, I'm
opening your eyes and quite literally literally yeah, quite literally, and it's the
whole like you know, infinitude. Look because she's hold her hands up from
the TV. It's really cool. It's like whenever we have like a cam
quorter tod TV, what do we do? We pointed out the TV and
we divide by zero and it's you know, it's bringing it back to Star
Wars when Ray goes into her dark side on Octo and but you can tell
that Tess like oh, because she's she didn't know what's going on. She's
pretty shocked by this and let lex never trusted her. That's what Lana.
This point is with all this, Definitely I loved you use something a bitch
roma was here, but I I would argue that I'm thinking at this point
they probably still hope they were going to get Michael Rosimhan back, because we
see later where they use a photo of him. They're establishing him is an
active character wanting to get a suit to make himself better. And this episode
is essentially the turning point for Tests where she's no longer like she starts on
her trend to not necessarily be the villain, right, because I see what
you mean. Yeah, she wants to merge with Oliver at the end,
and there's I think that this was more of a Test turning point than necessarily
closing the door on Lex. Yeah, that's true, because now there's no
one to be that nefarious, you know, just serving that role the Legs
had through Through or Lionel right for all the previous seasons, and she wouldn't
make What makes Test dangerous is you think she is essentially Lex two point zero.
She's in and in bed with Lex and not literally, but she's in
his league and running his company, and how much does she know? How
much does she not know? And essentially this kind of turns her against Lex.
Well, but I think this is a very comm book lex Uther thing
to do. Like someone under his control had some accident, so he's,
as LNA says, he saved you, but he don't trust you, right,
So he saved her, but he put this neurotransmitter, right, nano
transmitter inside of her optic nerve or whatever. How many more people does he
have this? Who knows? But this is I mean, this is what
Lex does in the comics with like people like my Talo right. I mean,
that's that's very on brand for Lex Luthor. So like that's he sees
people his resources to be used instead of people for people's sake. One of
my favorite Lex with her stories, and I couldn't tell you what comic it's
from. He goes into some random diner and he sits down and he talks
to this woman and basically offers her all this money to like just run away
with him right now, leave everything behind and leave her family, leave everything
and come be with him. And then he just she goes in the back
and then he just disappears and leaves her there. And then he's talking to
somebody about it and said, basically he ruined her life because she's always gonna
wonder if she should have done it or not. Yeah, you know that
Roca told me that story on a podcast I think it was. I think
it was on Fracture. He was telling me about that story too. I
haven't heard I haven't read that comment. I think he's probably talking to Mercy
Graves or somebody, right, But it's just he's just a sociopath man.
And yeah, that's that's that's what's so interesting. Like he doesn't he doesn't
care what kind of damage he leaves in his wake. And that's and now
that you know, Lex has passed the pointing overturn, as far as Smallvill
goes, he can get away with him doing stuff like that. I mean
he was gonna use the cyborg on this show, right, Yeah, wipe
his memory and then use him as a tool and all those um super soldiers
and all that stuff. So probably what we would have seen if Rosenbaum had
say that, we would have had Nefarius Lex doing much more evil face.
Well, let's well, I gotta I gotta question, but we'll say it.
We'll say WI to the end though, up for for that. But
we cut to the hospital and Clark is there and Dan Turpin is there.
How I don't know why they're both there? How did how did Turpin know
that Clark would go there? Yeah, that's I have no idea. Well,
he knows that he was asking these questions about John Jones. I guess
that's that's that's how he knows. So because because Clark is there, he's
watching, you know, John Jones. He talks to Hamilton. Hamilton has
some dialogue here, like he has like two lines, which is clearly like
good on them for setting up Hamilton here and then making you more later,
because I was like, dude, is that is that it for Doctor Hamilton?
I would have been pissed if that was especial. You cast a guy
like like that and then have him have four lines. It doesn't I know,
you're kind of figgy on the later season you don't remember him like singing
out this and no, no, no, no, I remember all that.
I'm just saying like at the time, like I'm like, oh cool,
we have a new Doctor Hamilton. Oh wait, he had four lines?
Is he ever gonna be back? Did they waste mister Gaina from BSG
No? I remember him very much so in nine and ten, you know,
but not so much in an eight. Well, I think setting the
lineup, we need somebody on the payroll, and then having it the Emil
Hamilton, you kind of gotta you would guess that it's somebody that's going to
be coming back. So Dan Turbine, he confronts Clark here, He's like,
what are you, Joe? You fed AIB right, And I think
he connected The doctor just said, like you ask him out, some detective
and then I see you because he had asked about John Jones earlier to the
guys just kind of put some feelers out to try and get to the bottom
of stuff and h and if he finds them checking up on him at at
the at the hospital, and Clark's like he Clark tells him that, hey,
I know the guy who shot him. It's part of your squad,
you know. And it's not the first time they've gone after you know,
just your justice, you know, vigilante justice, right street justice. And
then he confronts Me's like, who you're protecting? Right? You don't roll
over on a badge, Chris not Ever, That's how I learned from this
episode of Smallville. These guys have my back. Ben Well he ever tuned
over one of your own sounds bad now, but we still have more episode
that I do. Like what Clark says. He says, this is not
justice, and again that is the point of this episode. It's it's trying
to say the right thing right, and it's it's some of the phrases they
use are kind of lightning Rod phrases perhaps these days, but like it's heart
is in the right, it's hard is always in the rice plates, right,
even with Subterranean, which is like the everl equivalent episode. I compare
this to where it's like, well, and if he's in this country illegally,
then he needs to be deported. I'm like, whoa says says the
Hispanic chariff. He's like, well, he should have done it like my
parents did the right way, like God. But again, they were trying
to make an analogy, right between Clark being in this country, like as
an illegal immigrant for lack of a better term, right, they were trying
to do something with that, and this episode they're trying to do something the
fact of like, you know what, you have cops who are also acting
like vigilantes, but they hate vigilantes, So where's the line there, right,
And Clark is trying to juggle all these things and ultimately, again this
is not justice, That's the point. Yeah, Heart's in the right place.
Could have done a little bit better. There's also a noticeable lack of
diversity in the police squad. Well, they do shoot the one black detective.
I was like, I didn't even realize that they even worse, God's
sake. And then following up this scene, we get Oliver confronting Clark at
the Kent Farm about you know, he throws he throws that, like,
you know, one of those Green Arrow darts at him and he's like,
oh, the funk looks good on you. And he's like, they're not
all bad, Oliver, like, you're not all bad, like you guys.
It's the barrage of all these statements and phrases like all in in a
short amount of time that I'm like getting overwhelmed by, honestly, but this
is you take a step back and you'rek at it. Just in the small
universe. These characters. I like how they have the different points of view
on this, Like Oliver's very hard line about this. Superman's little more open
minded. Oliver's like, these guys are doing bad. They need to be
punished, right, Uh, we found a guy in the river the other
day. Probably your your buddies, did the guy that the guy that John
Jones arrested in the beginning, Yeah, that's who they found in the river.
And Superman is like, you know what, they were on the wrong
path. We need to give him a chance. Like so this is a
very you know, Green Arrow is you know what he can't have Batman,
You've Green Arrow. He's the Batman circuit. This is a Superman and Batman
clash of ideologies of like how you deal with criminals. I think so on
that front. From that angle, the scene works. But again they throw
these probably in those lasts, and you're like, like, hey, Ken,
it takes me out of it. So what ends up happening is is
Oliver's defending the situation and Clark is basically accusing Oliver being in that same situation
and doing the same thing the police officer has done before, and he goes
so far that Oliver basically asked him like, are you saying this is right?
I thought I thought you, of all people would understand. I think
larger drops one of those, right. What I really like about these confrontations,
specifically between Oliver and Clark, is they feel so strongly individually and from
their own viewpoints, and they go at each other, and they always end
up ending the scene with them still at odds, like they'll walk away without
resolution. But as we'll see later in the episode, they both take what
the other person said to heart. They actually they actually listen to each other,
even if it doesn't look like it here in these confrontation scenes. It's
hard as a viewer because they're they're strap for time. It's a full TV
show. They got to get these arguments in. They can't actually sit here
and have full conversations. I always feel when these ends, like I would
have said something more, like you just let Oliver walk away after he gets
that. Last year, I would have said something more. He kept it
going. But I get that they can't always do that. Yeah, I
mean that's the thing, Like, this is a an action adventure, young
adult romance show, right, and it's not it's not breaking bad or something.
They can't sit down. They can't. I mean on a show like
that, you would have a twenty minute scene of these guys hashing this up,
you know what I'm saying, like hashing these out. Clark stands on
this is like, look, justice is not throwing people in a dark room.
It's about helping them find their way back to the light, you know,
I think, And that's the difference between a superman and a batman,
for example, their points of view on justice. So when you look at
it from that termament, From that standpoint, I think it was a pretty
good scene. That's the strength of this episode too, is Clark helping people
not necessarily just by using its powers, like helping them to come to the
right conclusion, helping them to learn the right lesson and inspire hope, and
you know, not necessarily as catching a bullet. Well, Oliver's the one
as he does, he's like calling Clark in action, like how many more
people you don't let die? You? It's funny that he's the one that
says, you sit here and play detective. You know, I'm gonna make
sure your boys don't put another person in the hospital. So's they're they're kind
of mixing up perhaps what what what the generic you know, Superman response would
be in the generic Batman response would be in this situation. But Oliver and
he's pretty pissed about the whole thing. He storms off, and you can
tell that they're like, it's it's very unresolved, as you said, and
I like that. Well, they're both they're both strong willed, prideful.
They need to take a step back before they can start to really listen to
each other. But then, what do you think about Dan Turpin's selling out
Clark to uh to Talbert here it fits in line with that how he was
early, I mean, his brotherhood. He knows he's not one of them,
so he's got to protect his own I mean, he looks pretty upset
about him, and he's upset about the whole situation. He's not like happy
about having to sell him out. But he makes a couple of calls and
he easily finds out, Like, like, what do you think like the
Chloe just invents some fake resume, Right, this is easily and he knows
that he is Clark Kent, reporter from the Daily Planet. If only he
had glasses, glad they would never recognize him. Chris, but hey,
blue shirt, red jacket plus one because clarkson Superman mode. He's at Simmons.
There's no setup for this, right, because you're like what, it's
kind of like out of context. You're like, what is going on here?
You find out later Clark made a comment earlier on that he had it
narrowed down to either Tilber or Simmons. Okay, so he's checking out Simmons's
place, but this is something something were like, this was a trap they
set for him, gus in the trunk, but now his fingerprints are all
over it. Right, Ah, you're under you're under arrest for the attempted
murder of John Jones. Right, and he looks at Uh, he looks
at Turpin. He's like, you set me up. So what do they
do, like just stake out all of the other cops houses a certain the
off chance that the reporters in the show up. Well, No, what
I'm saying is Turpin probably called him like, hey, you're right, I
got to the bottom of it. It was Simmons go to his house,
and then they're all in waiting there. That wasn't clear. No, it
was not there at all. No, maybe just like a tax message or
something like. They try to like they probably thought it would be too obvious,
right, Well, honestly, what they should have done they should have
taken out the scene where Turpin confesses to Talbert like, hey, I found
out who he is, right, you should have Instead of that, you
have Turpin called Clark like, hey Clark, I thought about what you said.
Uh did a little digging. It's Simmons, here's his address, meet
me there, we'll take him down together. Clark shows up, finds the
gun, they all move in, and then it's obvious and then he has
the conversation because he because because Talbert even says to Turpin like you're the right
thing, you know, yeah, it could have been that reveal. It's
it's not clear, like they made him show up in a pseudo Superman suit,
exploring using his actually a vision to look around. I don't think he
was expecting to meet Turpin there, Yeah, because you because he would have.
He would have been the cop he would anyway, even as even when
he goes to see him later at the end, he's not wearing You're hey,
you're just like the red blue blur, just like my son. We'll
get we'll get to that later. But oh man, but this is where
he, uh, Talbot tills Turban like your hands have been too clean for
too long, anny boy. Because so that's important because it establishes that Turbin
has not crossed the line like some of these other guys have. So that's
important. But he says, you're gonna be the man who killed the green
arrow Dot dot. Don't cut the commercial, So go to commercial. We
come back and they have taken that the junkie they arrested earlier, check offs
junkie. They set him up, they're paying him off here. They'll pull
him out on the street. They're gonna like brutalize him to get the attention
of the Green Arrow so they can draw him in and kill him. They're
using him his bait. It's a good thing. The Green Arrow was in
the neighborhood and he calls him the arrow. He's like, how do you
know the Arrow is gonna show him? Like, oh, they called him
the arrow like the first instance of its mumble always did it first. So
the guy's like hell, but he's like it starts beating him up, and
somebody helped me. And then he pulls, you know, one of the
dudes pulls a gun out all on him, shoots it, and then they're
waiting for for Oliver, who, as you said, they're lucky that he
was kind of in the area, you know, because Patropolis is a big
city enough to hear the gunshot. I think the gunshot was what's supposed to
draw him in. Right. Well, you know, you say, people
don't need a savior, but every day I hear people crying for one,
okay, And so of all the crimes the Green Arrow heard that night,
he chose to stop this one. And it's funny how like he stops it
and the guy runs off and he's like, you're wool, Well, we
know we know why he was really there because he was actually exploring. He
was actually looking into those officers. Oh you think you think he was just
following them, tagging them. Oh yeah, he told Clark he was gonna
go do something about it so they couldn't kill somebody else. I'm sure he
was. So they were both trying to you know, he was after them.
They were after him fair enough, fair enough. I think that's why
in reality it makes sense that he was there. But when you think about
their plan to draw him in, their playing sucks. If he wasn't looking
into them, Well they're playing, they're playing really sucks. They're gonna have
Danny Hyde in the in the stairwell and shoot the green air when he shows
up. But mean while, you got a guy on the roof with who's
not going to pull the trigger until it's very clear at the end that nothing's
going to happen. Well, I think it's the redundancy, like he wanted
Turpin to like cross the line, because that's the thing, right, It's
kind of like you knows Batman begins right, Like Gordon doesn't take them,
he's not on the take, so that he makes them uncomfortable, like Danny
hasn't got his hands there like the rest of them, so that makes them
feel uncomfortable. Right, so they're like, Okay, we gotta make this
guy a cross the line so then he'll be in the same boat as we
are, right So, but then the redundancy rights him with the sniper up
top. Right. But then, hey, to Oliver's credit, even though
him and Clark were at OZZ, he takes the harper Clark said and tries
to talk this guy down. He's like, it's not too late for you.
You don't have to do this, and you know this is a no
kill finale, if you will. He talks Turping down and he's like,
I got a sounder home. He's like, yeah, when you're ask your
boy what you did tonight, you tell him he killed him man in cold
blood. I'm like, oh, you got him green arrow. Yeah.
I like that. I like what Oliver did there, and because sometimes that's
what you need. You need that perspective, right Yeah, And it came
from a guy that he didn't trust and didn't expect to be a good guy
that would that would do that for him. He probably thought, this guy's
gonna I need to shoot him, Quaker, he's gonna take me down.
He's like, pull the trigger and prove Clark row right, because he named
drops Clark and be a real hero man. He's like, man, if
this is what you need to do to find yourself, just just do it
right. And he can't do it to their credit, right, I mean
obviously it's Dan Turpin's compact character. I would hope they wouldn't make him up.
Like what they could have done was him shoot him and like he had
he had his vest on right, his dear point. This whole episode,
they've been talking about bullproof vest. Right, are you telling me the Green
Arrow to have bullproof vest? Well, you would assume the suit is bulletproof,
right, Yeah, but no, we've seen him get shot through it,
haven't we. I think you're right. Oh my goodness. Anyway,
but then you know Turpin a size not to shoot Green Arrow. But then
we see the red sniper dot on Turpin and and uh, Talvert's gonna shoot
him. So Oliver has to tackle him into to the ground. And then
and then Talbert calls in. He's like, dispatch the Green Arrow assaulting officers.
So he's gonna call everybody and to hopefully kill kill the Green Arrow.
But because he calls us in. It goes over the APB and Clark hears
this when he's in like the back of the last car, so he just
speeds off. I like that. I like a little bit of dialogue you
hear from the police officers that have him to show that there's still it's still
people that are also in on it took him. I mean, well they
were, they were on the scene. But oh I knew Danny couldn't do
it. Well, No, that that's that's good to see. Also that
establishes for Clark that like whatever like they wanted Turpin to do, he didn't
do right. So when Clark shows up on the scene not knowing what's going
on, he has that information. So I think that's that's an important piece
uh there as well. But it turns out there like like Talbert actually just
shoots he actually when shoots like Turbin, like in the leg or something or
no, in the arms, shoulder arm Okay, yeah, he's wearing the
guy's arm in a sing. Later and when he's stupidly just runs out into
the open, he gets hit. He gets hit in the shoulder and falls.
But I like this where like we see through the scope. Right,
we see like, you know, the sniper in the scope, and then
we just see the blue you know, and it's Clark in the way.
I'm like that. It's such a Superman moment right there. Right, Yeah,
talk about red blue blur that everyone's talking about. You show up in
red and blue and you show the guy that you could take a bullet because
you're wearing your vest. You said, always wear a vest, right,
because he shoots some like point blank range, and that's not exactly how little
proves work. Like you still feel some impact, like he would you get
knocked down, especially being in point blank that you're so I didn't even think
about Deckers. You're so right about it. He should have just kept in
the cop outfit the whole time because they're aware of the red blue blur.
When you see this guy show up like it's it's episodes like this that makes
it so much more obvious because he hasn't worn it the entire episode. He's
been undercover and he's working. Even when he's at home, he's wearing the
gray shirt, white sleeves, and then later on he's wearing a suit just
like he was wearing a suit with Lana. He puts on the blue shirt,
red jacket just for these moments. Yeah, which would make sense if
he's out, you know, saving people and doing his thing. But this
is specifically to explore these cops that he is hiding from. Yeah, Like,
if this sort never so to Lowis and Clark, Clark Kent would be
the undercover cop and then Superman would show up and do these things right,
right, But there's just Clark Kent here with no disguise. I mean we've
even seen it Lois and Clark. You've seen him dress up and not Superman
too, like he's worn like a ski mask or uh oh yeah, that's
good point. Yeah when what when he had to break into like a jewelry
store or something that's funny, but they had that you know, presence of
mine, he'd be like, people are going to see who I am?
So anyway, um, we get one last it's a you know, it's
heart's in the right place, but it just like struck me. When Turfing
like has the other cop you know, arrested and all the cops show up,
He's like, whoa hold your fire? Good guys, all right,
we understand what you're saying, Smallville, But Clark sees this fro far away
and he has a smile. He's like, okay, turp into the right
thing, and and there we go. Right, So then we cut to
commercial and we come back and Metropolis General Hospital again and Phil Morris gets something
to do again. The episode's back. This is a good final scene.
It kind of a it's Marsha, Man, Hunter, Oliver, and Clark
all talking and this is kind of you mentioned earlier, kind of subtly reinforces
like maybe we should be more of a team because we've kind of lost our
way. We need it. We're stronger together, right, Yeah, And
this would have been a good final scene. Unfortunately it's not the final scene.
But now the conversation between them talking about the contrast of what they said
before, like well, we do better on our own, let's go do
it. Clearly that didn't work. If they'd work together, and maybe it
would have been resolved a little sooner, or maybe if they'd work together instead
of like John Jones working on his own not bringing Clark in early enough.
Well, I like who he says that he Clarks, why didn't you tell
us about this? And he's like the same reason, why, I you
know, you let your guard down last night, or or why you know
I had to wait till last minute to save you Pride, And I'm like,
that's a good that's a good answer because you always ask like, why
don't these heroes help each other out all the time? And that's a good
answer. I buy it. He sells it so and he says too,
he's so used to he's had the power, he's had all these powers before.
He thought he was kind of untouchable, thought his bulletproof. But it's
hard to hard to not accept that to live a normal life after you haven't
before. That sounds like such a great concept for TV show, Chris,
did you okay? In season eight? Right, he has lost his powers.
We have no indication that he's gonna get him back, did you?
I mean, did you assume the Marha manhover when they get his powers back
on Small Miller trying to place myself where I was back then thinking about it.
Because he was the main character. I thought maybe it would come back
somehow, Yeah, or at least a recurring character. Well yeah, recurring.
Well, I think that the problem is, I mean, they running
the same problem on Supergirl, where it's like, well, we have Marshian
Manhunter around and he's like one of the most powerful, you know, beings
anywhere. That's I love that on h I love that line from Supergirl where
it's like one of the most powerful beings on this planet. You know who
said that Superman is talking about Martian man Hunter and that really places because he
is, I mean, he's his weakness is fire, which is like,
you know, I love what DC new Frontier is, like, your weakness
costs a penny, so watch out, my Batman tells him. But he's
he's Superman, but he's even more powerful because he can phase through things,
he can shape shift, he can read minds. So I understand why they
wanted to remove him off get him off the board for small Ville because he's
not even Superman yet. So I think that this was a clever loophole to
do that. Supergirl never solved that problem. I remembered David Harrd was on
Inside of You with micro wasn't mom. He's always talking about, yeah,
this has had me in some like necklace or taking away that fires all the
time. It was so true because like you can't have him outshine Supergirl,
right, that was Superman problem. Super Bowl they can't have. And I
understand it because it's she's the title character, and that painted him in a
corner a lot of time. So anyway, I understand why they took his
powers away. I mean, at this point, we thought some of them
might end this season, so I'm like, Okay, well, I guess
one day we'll just assume he gets his powers back. But I didn't know,
and I never I never thought we would see a comic book accurate full
of Martian Castle either, even if it was for like two seconds. Two
seconds, Yeah, get lem over with that, Smallville. But you know
what all that to say, season nine is a good season for Marsha Man
Hunter rights. You know, for all all my like that cemented him as
being like in my memory of being like man, he was an integral part
of this show because he does. There's a lot of the absolute justice checkmate,
lots of awesome stuff for him in season nine. But like, uh,
yeah, I think I don't or off the check But this might be
the last time we see him before season nine. Chris, I'll be anxious
to listen along and we'll find out together. I could look it up right
now, but I'm gonna choose not to so Um, but they tied him
so together the hair. Clark's talking about how like you know that that brotherhood
they can make you feel like you can do anything, you know from the
cops, and he's like, I that's a good feeling, you know.
And this is them talking about like maybe we should get back to that.
Let me cut to uh Luther Corp. Test giving her a goodbye notice to
Lex, this is the scene I've been talking about for so long. It's
like, I'd love to use of a bitch. See this would be a
good final scene. Also, well, do you like you prefer all these
before the other finals? Yeah? Well, the the actual final scene needed
just to not exist, you know, like that would have been fine.
But Tests looking in a mirror Um talking to Lex knowing that he's been watching
everything she says, and does that you know, then he seems some interesting
things, hasn't he? As hinted on by what happens when as soon as
she finishes giving the speech, because that's where my mind first goes to,
when do you think about all the things that Lex might have seen? I
like how they have this necklace right that she has this kind of like it's
a switch to kind of interrupts the signal, and I was like, oh
cool, she's got to wear this necklace. And I know she does for
at least one more episode, but then they probably drop it, much like
Lanta's Kryptonite necklace. Right, we gotta pay attention for a throwaway line where
she had it removed or something. Yeah, let's pay attention. But she
she you know, she says like, you're going to see your company fade
away and resources dry up and be cut off from the world and goodbye Lex
and she hits the buttons like signal jammed, right, And then it's after
that she says, I love you, you son of a bitch, And
I'm like, wouldn't she say that to him? No, you don't want
to give him the satisfaction now when she says that. When she says that,
Chris in two thousand and nine, when you're watching this episode, what
were you thinking the same thing I was thinking? In uh, Empire strikes
back that they're playing it for romantic Like she's crying and it's like I loved
you and she idolized him. Right, they had a close relationship. I
wasn't as tied into the message board it's early on watching the show. I
don't know if there was already speculation that she might be related to him right
now because she was a miss test Maker. Mercy Graves comment, right,
that's the tests Mercer Hello, Right, So, uh, Mercy Graves.
Very very interesting character who has been underserved and a lot of versions of Superman
unfortunately, and I would love to see whatever the new Lex Luther is.
I hope she he has a Mercy Graves by his side and doesn't blow her
up immediately saws nearly. I was like, oh cool, Takamoto from The
Wolverine is Racy Graves. I can't wait to see her in this new Superman
franchise. Oh never mind, but she's a very interesting character who I would
like to see like a proper version of her as opposed to small vel,
which is like amalgamation. Um. She has his loyalty to Lex. I
don't think it's necessarily romantic or anything, but they had that obviously Miss test
Mocker like devoted to Alex in the Christal Reef films. That's who this character
was. So there was no like contributor or trust to Latona Luther. No.
That's the season ten total invention well and this one. Essentially she she
is murder scret is just with the name tests because she's for all intentsive purposes,
she's the the She could be his bodyguard, like like Mercy is like
well trained, handles all his dirty business, knows all that's going on.
That's how I saw it. A great timing. Oliver shows up right and
uh says Mercy. Yeah. She she quickly collects herself because she's been growing,
like Cassie Freeman is so good, Like she is so good in this
role on this show, Like I say it every time, but it's like,
I like, this could have gone so wrong. Job parallels to our
friends and Arrow talking about the actor playing Prometheus about how he carries the show
because he's so good. He carries a role that could have failed. Yeah,
this role here as a replacement for Michael Rose, Momlex Luther. You've
talked about this on your podcast a lot already. She knocks it out of
the park. So Oliver comes in. She's like, we're when her dinner,
we're going to discuss a merger. And he's like, oh, a
merger, And then she turns around. She kind of has this wicked smile.
She's like any kind you want, and I'm like, oh, is
this business or pleasure or both? Maybe maybe you take the necklace off or
that don't keep me waiting. I'm like, Yeah, they're gonna merge companies
and merge bodies before this night is over, I believe, right, And
that works because of the history they have, right, Like so I I
that's the thing I realized on the shoe. I ship Oliver with everybody.
I think he's great with Lois. I think he's great with Tess. Ironically,
you think he's like Chloe and him is probably the least of those three
fairings. Right. This is where we tend to disagree a lot is on
what we think should happen to Chloe. You and I. I was never
I was never a Clark Hlly whatever, Chloe and Clark shipper. Yeah.
I liked her with this version of Jimmy and Persue. I don't know if
I see. I don't think she fit well with all of her. It
didn't matter for me. Well, no, that's what That's what I'm saying
of the ones I just listed off, like Oliver and Tess, Yes,
Oliver and Lewis, Yes, Oliver and Chloe I mean, I like you
from Chloe's and like being a Chloe family. Good she did just getting like
Chloe getting a happy ending. But yes, with the equivalent of Batman in
this universe, which is like the next best thing to Superman um because she
is like integral to everything in this universe. Right, but I never did
come out of nowhere, you know. But and then but you see all
this, like I love that. I just love the chemistry he has with
Erica Rantz and Cassidy Freeman and anyway, it just it works with either one
of them. Fast forward to season ten. Who's all around? Still?
You have Lois, you have Tests, you have ye Canary, all them
Oliver, we we just we got almost no interactions between them, right,
maybe we good had something that well obviously justin Harleian his chemistry with everybody,
So I'm sure if they had pursued the Black Canary, course, well they
had less than plutonic messaging those emails ver just pot But anyway, my point
is, like I love like the I love the double entendree. We're gonna
have a merger any kind you want. And they go off on their night
and good for y'all. And then we pan down to test his desk and
his Lex Luthor declared dead. We get the picture, rosa mom will take
a screenshot of that tragic finale to a turbulent life. That's that's for sure,
and that's where the episode ends. That's supposed to be damaging for him.
But being declared dead wouldn't that kind of give him a little bit of
freedom? I don't know. Maybe she can use that to claim all of
his money and assets. Well, I don't know. And this is what
I wanted to ask you, So, like you're a Lewis and Clark fan,
Yes, how do you think Wilson Clark did with the death and return
of le Xuther versus Smallville? Which time? Okay? Well, I think
Lewis and Clark did it better because John Shay came back as Lex for a
handful of episodes and they carried on that story. It wasn't like a last
minute I'm here for a day. Let's tack this on right, right.
And I believe that I believe that that Lex would be enticed to give up
everything to have the woman he couldn't have Like this, Lex, I don't
I don't see him necessarily foregoing a life of luxury and power and all that
just just to have well Lois Lane like and Lewis and Clark so that in
this reality. So yeah, so that that wouldn't fit a lot better for
me. I think they him in the lat better. But also maybe they
didn't have to worry about how are we going to get the actor backer?
Now? Yes, I mean they had an understanding clearly like hey, I'll
come back once or twice a season, and that was fantastic and uh the
only thing. I mean, I love the Lewis and Clark like. So
he's my second favorite after John She's my second favorite after Michael Rosamom. I
just his plans devolved into like well, I just want to marry Lewis.
Like it's that's that's it, Like, you know, to your point,
I'm gonna give up all this stuff just to you know, I guess that's
all he had left at the end. But it's like, come on,
man, I was hoping for like higher aspirations, Like well, I get
it. I mean, who wouldn't want to, you know, be with
Wes Lane. But it's like, look, man, like your Superman's arch
nemesis. But still like when he came back like he found out Clark's identity,
right, he went after the Kins, right, did all kinds of
stuff. I've been on Lois and Clark's the new podcast of Superman with our
friend Matt Trucks, and we talked about that, and so I really enjoyed
whenever he came back on the show. And Yeah, ultimately, just having
the actor willing and able to come back allows you to do so much more
in these because it's like, oh, look, he's his body's in that
frozen case over there, right, or he's in jail right now. Like
that allows you to kind of keep Luther. Network news is around Luther Corby,
his ex wives and sons coming out of woolwork right. Even though he
wasn't around, his presence repels on the show, and it never felt like
a cheat because he would come back and right out and then right this in
retrospect, this is all of cheat because he was never coming back and they
just they went full speed ahead acting like he was. I think I almost
think it would have been better. Everything would have been paid off by and
having a bald head with wires hooked up to it talking picture of me if
they didn't have the death that they end up having for him spoiler alert,
Yeah, that'll be that'll be interesting discussion. But but I see that's what
I'm saying. I'm thinking that, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm
saying earlier about like they're flushing out this test backstory to kind of fill in
some stuff because they're never gonna get that explanation they want because I feel like,
you know, Requim just a couple episodes away, and Rosamond was the
idea was he was going to be the voice at least in that and then
that fell through too, So I think at that point they were like,
you know what, he's never coming back. We just gotta wrap this up.
Like they probably figured, like it's it's untenable, Like we can't just
having these headless Superman cameos forever in our movies, TV shows, you know
what I mean. Like it's the same thing. Like they were like they
decided they had to do something definitive and move on from it. And I've
said this before on record, and we'll see how it holds up. But
of like season nine, maybe my favorit season is so good and ironically that's
the one, one hundred percent Luther free season also free of another person that
we're gonna talk about more in this episode. Uh yeah, unfortunately we've one
more scene. Um and let me I've I've been I've been kind of trashing
this a little bit today. I was all about Clark and Lana up until
probably season seven, like the seasons, having having it wrap up there,
having them actually get to be their relationship and know the secret and interact some
great scenes there. I liked that. I just don't like that it came
back romantically. I would have been fine with I said it earlier. I
would have been fine with her coming back if it was as a friend,
as someone who knows you can trust, just not the romantic derailment of Lewis
and Clark. You know, Chris, you were talking so hard about how
this could have been the last scene, or this could in the last scene,
or this could be the last scene. We almost skipped a scene.
The wrap up with Dan Turpin his family actually all right, the whole point
of this episode, right, So Clark, he's back at Dan Turpin's place.
His son is running around dressed up and Clark's like, well, you're
the Green Arrow. He's like, no, I'm Robin hood. I thought
it was a joke, but it was actually serious. Yeah, he's like
he's a bad People think he's a bad guy, but he isn't. Right
ties together with what's going on there? Um, they're doing an inquest,
right, Dan Turmin is going to be cleared. Um, but he you
know, he asked him. But see, and this leads to the law
of scene right, this scene right, because he asked him about like your
home life balance, right, and that's kind of the thing you were getting
at, right, Yeah, how do you do what you do knowing that
you're putting your wife and kids through this like that they might never have you
come home to them. Do you have someone like that Clark, someone who
makes it all worth it? Yeah, she's in Star City right now looking
up for her brother in law, her cousin in law. Right, Nope,
not her, somebody else. Um. But this is much like much
like Maxima earlier in the season, like, oh, this is a character
that you bring back the Dan Turpin, Like, these are combat characters you're
introducing, great, bring it back later. I mean Maximo if he doesn't
come back, okay whatever, right, but he kind of the door was
open there, you kid, do something else. Dan Turpin absolutely shud come
back. Like how many crime scenes were they at? Right? Oh,
I have a I have a contact in the police department, my buddy Dan
Turpin, Like, how many times could that have been mentioned? I don't
think this guy's mentioned at all the rist of the show. Chris and I'll
have to keep our ears open, but I don't think he is. I
don't think so either. What a waste this that can blow me away?
Like I wasn't like, oh God, we gotta see more of this guy
or whatever. Like the story was cool. I understand the point of it.
The actor was fine, Like, but there's nothing like begging to revisit
this guy. But knowing that he's a character in the comic books in the
future, I was like, well, absolutely, you would bring it back.
And it's just so odd that he was never even mentioned. Same with
Maggie Sawyer, Like if next time John Jones shows up, right, have
Dan turpret with him their partners now, right, Yeah, it falls in
line perfectly the way this episode set up. And definitely get Maggie story back
to your point too, like get all these people back. I don't I
don't understand it, but but see. So this is why through this conversation
with Dan Turf and Clark decides that, you know what, maybe he can't
have it all after all. Yeah, just like when he was fourteen.
Yeah, he goes to the Tallenge, she's working the coffee machine there.
He's like, oh, it's slack for fourteen again. I'd do like your
line where he's like, oh, I couldn't sleep, so you thought you'd
get some coffee. That's funny. Yeah, a lot of a lot of
a lot of dialogue. This episode is very witty with with tests with Clark
because Chloe's on all the way. They've just they've switched, They've they've crossed
Chloe out, and they've broke culture references. That's the key. How is
a lot of have better dialogue than Chloe this episode? Chris, I'm like
that, you know that's what it was. Chloe was just in the one
scene. Yeah, oh but this is this is you know the remember the
season ten trailer for Smallville. We're like with the song from I called the
song from Mulant Rouge. But you know there was a boy right all that
this dialogue is in there, right, She's like, Clark, the world
needs you he's like, what about what we need? Right, And that's
this scene where they're just like, you know what, forget all that,
let's get back together and they kiss and it's like, what am I in
season two now Smallville? I like that? Why did you do this show?
That's what I like a lot about a lot about Lois Lane is she
needs Clark, like she needs him, but she also does it need him
as much in a way not making sense here, but she needs him in
a way that they that they make each other better and like she can go
off and do her own thing and not be dependent on him, but also
she internally is dependent on they have that relationship. Lana has always been I
need everything for me, like like secrets, and you can't keep secrets to
me. I deserve to know as much as you, be involved in as
much as you But then to that point, she doesn't support when they're together.
She's not supportive of Clark. She's kind of toxic and reality for it.
And then here he's trying to give up his sacrifice for the greater goods
so he can have a little bit with Lana, but she knows it's never
going to be what she needs out of it, and let's not forget her
objective here is to get a superpowered suit so they can be equals. That
this is, this is this next episode of Power goes way into that territory
about like what her motivations are, but her thinking the me equals like,
oh, we're both super heroes, and like, no, you can be
equals and not be that. I mean, Lois and Clark are equals,
but they're different, right, and that's fine, that's good actually that they're
not exactly the same, and that a lot of us understands that she thinks
that all the reason all this stuff didn't working for is that we weren't we
both didn't have superpowers. Like, no, that's not the reason, and
that's what I was hoping for, And that's what so disappointing about season eight
bringing her back. Let's have a mature conversation and understanding of why we didn't
work and we were young love, but we're not those people anymore unless we
move on with our lives and you know, we can still be supportive of
each other. But whatever. That's that should be the lesson of a show
about coming of age and growing up, right, But they totally mofft on
that, and then of course we get what we get where she becomes scriptinite
at the end, and that's the only reason they're not together, and we'll
get there. But it's like they missounded her on every parcel away in these
these last two or three episodes she was in, unfortunately, and all it
does is add detriment to Clark's character for the pushing up of her. She
becomes a superhero from this, as we see in season eleven comics, she's,
uh, well, I don't even remember she has She's in like Africa,
and she has a name, like a superhero esque name. No,
I don't think it's that. I think it's like the I thought she's like
like the Angel of the Knight or something like that. I think that.
I mean the title of that comic book miniseries was Valkyrie, so that's why
I think that's what her name is. But anyways, but everything is to
make Lana better and more powerful and stronger, but it essentially takes away from
Clark's character because he the only reason he's not with her is krypton Ite,
not Lois, which they've they've they've already gotten to that point in this season
a couple episodes ago. But you know, I never thought then we'll be
back here in the town and have Clark and Lanna kids saying like halfway through
the season name of smavel right, never say never. A lot of even
says you see that, like it's a good thing that they're fourteen. I'm
like, yeah, I agree with that sentiment, right, and he right,
Clark does say here He's like, all I've done the last year sacrifice
myself and everything. I love him, Like the last year, maybe like
six months. I think are rounding up Clark to make your point, But
I don't know. He has shown so much maturity. But he's also not
really sacrificing everything. He's got a job, he's dedicated to the job,
and we know from side commentary and stuff he's doing a lot with Lois,
a lot of reporter work. That's not sacrificing yourself for the greater good.
He used to sit across from this woman, their love with each other,
everything be real, Clark. He's sacrificed Chloe's knowledge of his secret. I
don't think Chloe ever knows that Clark had he remember you raised well, like
Lana said, and Bride's probably for the best, because she'd be mad.
I would never forgive you for that, but you know, you know what's
well, I never forgive you for this, for getting Clark and Latta back
together at the end of this episode, and the worst is yet to come.
Jones's fighting for his life. I'm not gonna let who ever did this
hide behind the badge Clark can you're under a rescue attempt to murder the check
of Joe This Thursday at eight seventh Central. Bulletproof got a seven point eight
out of ten on IMDb and Neil Billy from the Superman homepage, you give
a day one out of five lava having to do with Lana of course.
But Chris on the letter Great Scale, what would you give Bulletproof? Well,
uh, I had this on the list of my top ten favorite episodes
a while back when you asked for some input on that. Okay, okay.
I thoroughly enjoyed the comic book references, Turpin Hamilton, just all of
it. Um. I enjoyed Clark doing things not necessarily with his powers,
but of course everyone likes to see some super saves too. I think the
test storyline is great too. I love the idea that Lex would do this
to her and being a faious that she finds out this way, and it's
kind of a turning point. I'm gonna give it a B plus. I
think I enjoyed it a lot of stuff. Trying not to judge on what's
going to come just based on this episode alone, that's fair. I'm gonna
even be minus so probably Bulletproof gets an average of a B from the duo
of us. You know, there's some good stuff in here. Again,
him to tackle a real world issue is admirable, but the execution is flawed,
especially just some of the terminology they have chose to use back then and
what it especially means today. He can't help but have your intended out for
that sort of thing. But overall, enjoyable episode. Again the comic book
factors. I mean, you're bringing in Dan Turpin, you're bringing in doctor
Hamilton's like, thank god, doctor Hamilton gets more play than Dan Turpin here
because doctor Hampton he's, like I said, he's got like four lines or
something right, and then he's gone. But I think, god they bring
it back longer. What a waste he would have been. There must be
two I mean, I still like the first Doctor Hamilton, because I love
Joe Morton. I mean, who doesn't Silas Stone from Justice League fantastic playing
the same guy, always building cyborgs and dabbling in technology he shouldn't be.
But but no, some good stuff there. And yeah, the test stuff
is good. Uh, they're doing the best they can with it. They
had to work with. They don't have access to Michaelrosam, I don't have
access to Lex Luthor, so they're the best they can. Her stuff as
Lana is actually pretty interesting, I think, and then a lot of being,
you know, seeing herself in tests and kind of setting her on a
better path. That's great. An episode like this, I guess would somewhat
be. I don't want to use the word filler, because there are some
main story lines that get driven through, but it's not like the a plot
of the series of the season with Doomsday. You're missing a lot of your
main characters like Jimmy and Lois and Doomsday. But for what it does,
it's it's not egregious and that it's filler. Yeah, And as I said
off the top, John Jones is here, Phil Morris love him, criminally
underused over the course of this series so there you go. A B minds
for me, a B plus from you. Let's go to the tally board.
We have a plus one for a blue shirt red jacket that brings us
day three, a plus one for episode titles said an episode bulletproof that brings
us to sixty six, and we have a plus one for hospital visit for
Detective John Jones that brings us to one hundred and twenty three. Bechtel tests.
We have some great dialogue scenes here between tests and lineup, but they're
all about lex so Bechtel tals fail there, all right, Chris Well,
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