Smallville 11/13/08

[Crobinzine]

So, we just took another step towards Clark's acceptance of his destiny.

[cheesesteak]

I said it before and I'll say it again. It's a shame that this show wasted so many years on the Clarke-Lana-Lex triangle. This season has been pretty good so far.

[Graymalkin]

This got preempted in favor of the Jets-Patriots game. It was a great game, but phooey.

[marrone]

Definitely a good episode. Been thinking that a lot this season. Lana going was definitely the best thing for the series.

So the fortress is now run by BRAINIAC? Cool! Clark just can't catch a break, huh?


-Mike

[cruton]

So the fortress is now run by BRAINIAC? Cool! Clark just can't catch a break, huh?

If only Clark had a bowl to put under Chloe's ear when the BRAINIAC juice spilled out...

[AJRitz]

If only Clark had a bowl to put under Chloe's ear when the BRAINIAC juice spilled out...

Mmmmmmmm BRAINIAC juice. It's not just for breakfast anymore!

[alpacaboy]

So, we just took another step towards Clark's acceptance of his destiny.

Do you consider these normal steps, or more like a Zeno's paradox type of step? :P

[n548gxg]

This got preempted in favor of the Jets-Patriots game. It was a great game, but phooey.


It is on Saturday at 6PM on WPIX.

[EvilMidniteBombr]

I really liked Chloe knowing Clark's secret. I am going to miss that. I was hoping to see her as Watch Tower for the rest of the season. Then again, maybe they are going to write her off as leaving town for a job in Gotham or something.

Does she still know who The Green Arrow is?

BRAINIAC juice! Brilliant!

Lana's back next week. Can't say that I have missed her at all.

[Rob Helmerichs]

I really liked Chloe knowing Clark's secret. I am going to miss that. I was hoping to see her as Watch Tower for the rest of the season. Then again, maybe they are going to write her off as leaving town for a job in Gotham or something.
Well, if this really is the last season, then Chloe is definitely a loose end that needs to be tied off. Which they've just taken a giant step towards doing.

Of course she can't go through with marrying Jimmy, and I can't see many ways THAT can end well...

[JYoung]

Well, Chloe could wind up getting killed by Kryptonian Doomsday stalker Davis.

[EvilMidniteBombr]

Well, if this really is the last season, then Chloe is definitely a loose end that needs to be tied off. Which they've just taken a giant step towards doing.

Of course she can't go through with marrying Jimmy, and I can't see many ways THAT can end well...
Yeah. That's why I am not upset about it or threatening to cancel my SP. :D

[gastrof]

Well, Chloe could wind up getting killed by Kryptonian Doomsday stalker Davis.

I think that's the exact opposite of what's going to happen, tho' she might get killed as a result of his banging around.

Remember, Davis loves Chloe. Killing her is likely the last thing on his list.

Unless of course they decide to rip off the Hulk and have Davis' Doomsday form be nearly mindless with only shadows of his thoughts and feelings being there.

[porges]

How can Chloe's childhood classmates have been calling her "Brainiac", a name that only exists (in our world) because of the comics character?

[Graymalkin]

How can Chloe's childhood classmates have been calling her "Brainiac", a name that only exists (in our world) because of the comics character?

I think she made that up on the spot.

[gastrof]

I'm not so sure about the word being based on the comicbook character.

In fact, Brainiac was originally an organic being (or thought to be one). A while after the character began appearing, Superman discovered the alien was actually an artificial lifeform, not flesh and blood.

Take a look here, too...

http://www.word-detective.com/0807C.html

...when the folks at DC Comics introduced their new character, there was already a "Brainiac" on the market, a small kit for building rudimentary computers, aimed at home experimenters. A 1964 note from DC editors explains: "Shortly after the first 'Brainiac' story appeared in Action Comics in 1956, we learned that a real 'Brainiac' existed..in the form of an ingenious 'Brainiac Computer Kit' invented in 1955 by Edmund C. Berkeley. In deference to his 'Brainiac' which pre-dates ours,..we are changing the characterization of our 'Brainiac' so that the master-villain will henceforth possess a computer personality.'" I'm not sure why they cited 1956 as Brainiac's first appearance; all my other sources say 1958. Perhaps the folks who wrote "Pre-Crisis Brainiac in the Post-Crisis Universe" would care to sort that out.

In any case, the DC folks apparently derived "Brainiac" by blending "brain" with "maniac," and only later, as noted above, was Brainiac depicted as being computer-like. The name of the Brainiac kit, however, was clearly modeled on ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first truly practical large-scale computer put into operation in 1946 and employed in the design of the hydrogen bomb.

"Brainiac" has also, since the mid-1970s, come into use, often in a derogatory sense, as slang for someone perceived as very intelligent, roughly synonymous with "nerd."

If you want to try and "fixit", you could say that in the SMALLVILLE universe, the Brainiac computer got very popular with experimenters, was never forgotten, and years later the term was still being used in reference to people with smarts.

This is sort of like the "Warrior Angel" thing. Superman is a very popular character, and it's hard to imagine what little things in life would be different if he'd never been invented.

Well, obviously in the SMALLVILLE universe there never was a Superman character, first published in 1938...

But there WAS "Warrior Angel", who also was first published in 1938 and also has the red cape.

Apparently WA fills the "Superman" slot in the culture of the SMALLVILLE universe, which is why there's talk of super-heroes and fancy costumes. They know about them, because they DO have comicbooks.

The only difference is that they're starting to have real ones, where as in the real world, we aren't. Yet.

Give it time.

Someone's gonna go "hero" one of these days and the real police are gonna have to deal with a wannabe Batman type. :D

[Rob Helmerichs]

The only difference is that they're starting to have real ones, where as in the real world, we aren't. Yet.

Give it time.

Someone's gonna go "hero" one of these days and the real police are gonna have to deal with a wannabe Batman type. :D
Oh, it's already a trend! People putting on costumes and "fighting crime."

There's even a comic book about it! :D Mark Millar's "Kick Ass," which is already being made into a movie (he's the guy who wrote the comic book that the "Wanted" movie this year was loosely based on).

[JYoung]

You mean like this:

http://chanisoft.com/images/ComicBookGuy5.gif

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Flash_DC_Comics/the_simpsons_comic_book_guy_as_flash.jpg

[busyba]

It is on Saturday at 6PM on WPIX.

Apparently it was on at 6:02PM, but nobody bothered to tell TiVo, because my recording cut out a minute or so before it was done.

I got as far as Clark talking to Jor-El and saying "Chloe kept seeing the symbol for 'doom'". What did I miss?



BTW, I liked this episode much better the first time I saw it, when it was called "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". ;)

[wprager]

Apparently it was on at 6:02PM, but nobody bothered to tell TiVo, because my recording cut out a minute or so before it was done.

I got as far as Clark talking to Jor-El and saying "Chloe kept seeing the symbol for 'doom'". What did I miss?



BTW, I liked this episode much better the first time I saw it, when it was called "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". ;)

+1

They definitely "borrowed".

[busyba]

+1

They definitely "borrowed".

Thanks for the +1, but I don't suppose you could also answer my question about what I missed? :)

[Mars Rocket]

Thanks for the +1, but I don't suppose you could also answer my question about what I missed? :)

Nothing important, except for the Braniac juice that leaked out and took over the Fortress of Solitude after Clark left.

[Crobinzine]

Do you consider these normal steps, or more like a Zeno's paradox type of step? :P


The latter!

[TAsunder]

Nothing important, except for the Braniac juice that leaked out and took over the Fortress of Solitude after Clark left.

Also Jor-El went on a long diatribe about what the symbol for doom means and that it's basically a doomsday monster that adapts and destroys stuff.

[vertigo235]

Well at least they gave us an answer on how clark can remove people's memories.

[Church AV Guy]

That fortress has proved to be a real fixer-upper. Jor-El needed to put in a virus checker for Brainiac.

So, after all this time, sudedenly we are told, "Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that there is a Kryptonian Doomsday Monster out there? It can adapt to anything. Good luck with that! ...my son." If it were THAT big a monster-type thing, shouldn't we have heard about it before now?

Chloe can't marry Jimmy. She just can't!

[vertigo235]

Brainiac has been to the fortress before, in a much stronger state, why didn't he oooze into it then?