SMALLVILLE 10/6/09, "Rabid"

[gastrof]

Okay, so what is the CW's mentality at this point?

After the opening they run a VERY kiddie commercial for the CW's Saturday morning shows. Then, a few minutes later, Tess is being chased by throat biting zombies, who she begins slashing with a sword.

This after she finds a Luthor mansion security person with half his face chewed off.

I dunno. Schitzo time on the part of the programming department?

At least we get to see Clark's figured out his breath power can also be used to chill things, not just blast them. Another power we didn't see him actually develop onscreen, like the telescopic and microscopic aspects of his x-ray vision, neither of which should have to be connected with the X-ray power anyway.

Still waiting to see them explain Clark with needle marks on his arm earlier.

[JimSpence]

I haven't watched this episode, but you have the wrong date in the thread title.:)

[gastrof]

I haven't watched this episode, but you have the wrong date in the thread title.:)


Thanks Jim.

Interesting Lexdysia incident. Normally it turns things around. This may be the first time I've managed to turn something upside down.

[Kamakzie]

Oh boy this episode was back to the low Smallville standards we are all used too.. :down::eek:

[cheesesteak]

Is Clark going to be wearing a big black coat in the summer?

[David Platt]

I thought Smallville reached the worst it could possibly be long ago. Wow, was I wrong. This has to be one of the worst three ever. I don't think there was a single original thing in this episode that wasn't stolen from a movie.

[Kamakzie]

I thought Smallville reached the worst it could possibly be long ago. Wow, was I wrong. This has to be one of the worst three ever. I don't think there was a single original thing in this episode that wasn't stolen from a movie.

Agreed, that episode was just deplorable..

[Tangent]

You'd hope that even though this was clearly a throwaway Halloween episode that they'd still make it worthwhile... Nope, just take your usual viral-origin zombie infestation and make it Kryptonians that released it. They even seem to be making quite the effort to turn one of the more interesting characters (Oliver Queen) into a cliche.

[IndyJones1023]

They jumped the megashark with a giant octopus on this episode.

[Rob Helmerichs]

They jumped the megashark with a giant octopus on this episode.
Wow, you were that impressed?

I wouldn't say they had enough momentum to get over a mega shark!

:D

[IndyJones1023]

Remember suckage is inversely proportional to blowage.

[cheesesteak]

I'm not really familiar with the Superman mythos. What does the "S" inside the triangle mean in Kryptonian? I always thought it meant "S" for Superman. I'm pretty sure it's not Kryptonian for "Red-blue Blur".

[Rob Helmerichs]

I'm not really familiar with the Superman mythos. What does the "S" inside the triangle mean in Kryptonian? I always thought it meant "S" for Superman. I'm pretty sure it's not Kryptonian for "Red-blue Blur".
It's the symbol for the House of El, Clark's Kryptonian family.

It's just a coincidence that it looks like an "S." No, really, just a coincidence.

(Actually, I'm not sure if that's true in the comics...I know they did it in the first Christopher Reeve movie, but it may have been original there.)

[busyba]

It's the symbol for the House of El, Clark's Kryptonian family.

It's just a coincidence that it looks like an "S." No, really, just a coincidence.

(Actually, I'm not sure if that's true in the comics...

It's not even true in this series!

Wasn't it always (since the first season) something that looked more like an "8" than an "S", but inside the familiar Superman Logo Pentagon?

It's only recently, maybe as recently as just this season, that it's been an "S".

[gastrof]

Nope.

Early Kryptonian writing had it as a diamond shape with a figure 8 (see the writing on the cave walls), but the top left and bottom right of the 8 were wider than the opposite sides.

When Clark met his father's assistant Raya, she gave him the means to stop escapees from the Phantom Zone, and the handheld crystal involved had (apparently) a more modern version of that Kryptonian character on it, plainly the Superman shield. (The more narrow portions of the "8" had sort of faded away with time.)

That was what, two years ago? Three?

As for the comics, originally it was the English letter "S" on a very different looking shield. It morphed over the next few years and quickly assumed pretty much the appearance we know it to have.

The meaning and origin changed too (more than once) as time passed, but it does now match up with the movies and show. The "S" in the diamond is the symbol of the House of El. (When a woman not of the House of El but with Kryptonian powers tried to use it on a "Superwoman" costume recently, Kara nearly blew her stack.)

[TiVoJedi]

The only thing that would have made this episode worse would have been Clark using the power to throw giant sheets of cellophane in the color and shape of the House of El emblem at the zombies. When is he getting *that* power? ;)

[classicX]

One question: why did the black goop and drool disappear when the people were cured?

Dumbest. Smallville. Ever.