… eh.
Much hype, okay episode. I haven’t been watching Smallville this season, so I don’t have much to compare it to. I didn’t really watch the show last season either. I know, I’m a heretic. But it was kind of … repetetive. Meteror-powered superfreak of the week shows up, Clark stops it. Romantic tension between Clark, Lana, Chloe, etc. Lex almost finds out Clark’s BIG SECRET. Deus Ex Machina devices abound. But, you know, it’s a comic book basically. It’s guilty fun.
“Justice” was pretty good. But they’re running out of T-Shirt Colors. Red (Impulse), Blue (”Boy Scout”), Orange (Aquaman), Green (Green Arrow), Grey (Cyborg). Let’s see … Black? Batman. Yellow? Wonder Woman. Purple? Barney; purple’s not a real color name. Violet? Dunno. Metamorpho? The Question? The Wonder Twins?
Any more heroes after that fter that, they’ll need to re-use T-Shirt Colors. Green Lantern, Plastic Man (Was he Justice League, or Justice Society?), Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle, Blue Devil — all represented by colors already used.
I think I digressed from my review of the episode. Anyway, there seems to be more depth to the show now, with two running plots as near as I can tell, one re: the Kryptonians & the phantom zone, and the other re: Lex & Luthorcorp & 33% or 33 1/3 or 33.1 or whatever it was called. Which is a step up from the freak-of-the-week format.
Lex is a full-fledged bad guy now.
And Lionel’s a good guy? The wha … ? And he knows Clark’s BIG SECRET. Is he really good, or is he just up to his old shenanigans, playing both sides, or working his way toward manipulating Clark for his own ends?
It’s no Heroes, and certainly no Buffy, but it seems to not suck as much as it did. I may start watching it again now.
I’d certainly like to see more of the League.
Oh, and did everyone catch the Fanservice bits? The references to “JL International” and it being a “Satellite” of Queen Enterprises and Chloë was the “Watchtower” …
And didn’t Chloë’s role seem a bit reminiscent of Barbara Gordon’s as Oracle?
So, my bottom line: Plot was okay. Acting didn’t suck too bad. The obligatory “Hero Walk” shot was cheesy, but all-in-all, the episode was enjoyable. 2 1/2 stars out of 5.
