[Stu]

Yeah good opener. I thought the guy playing Lex's clone did a good job of copying his mannerism's and way of talking, and the stuff with Jor-El and Jonathan was good. I just read that the supersuit their using is the one from returns, so that's kinda cool. I'm pretty sure Rick Flagg is the guy who kidnapped Ollie, so looks like we've got some more Checkmate/Suicide Squad stuff this season. I wonder if what they're going to do with Darkseid is have him possess people since there talking about him preying on people's darker natures. It's a bit disappointing, but maybe they'll get someone good to be his host. Michael Ironside is back as Sam Lane this season, and since he did an awesome job voicing Darkseid before, that'd be a good pick.

[Demko]

Were they able to get Rosenbaum back for this season, or did that completely fall through? I was actualy very afraid they were attempting to replace Rosenbaum's absence in this final season with a hokey story, with the "clones" who don't actually (in my opinion) anything like the original Lex.

It was nice seeing Papa Kent, even if only in dream-state form.

I'll admit, I marked out a little bit when a) he said "I felt like I was flying", and b) when he went to the blue and red, seemingly with the initial intention of putting it on.

With Chloe's "trade", does this end her stint on the show? It seemed like a prepared goodbye to me.

[DevSop]

They're keeping a very tight lid on if they got Rosenbaum back for an episode or more. I have to think they have. I am interested what they do with Alexander Luthor though since that seems to be a very possible story to follow up on. Chloe's only supposed to be in about half the episodes and I assume they're saving those for the end of the series so this is the way to write her out for the first half of the year.

[Stu]

Michael Hogan to play Deathstroke

[DevSop]

I'm going to probably overhype it, but this week's episode could very well have been the best episode ever. Just loved every single second of it.

[Stu]

Yeah, I loved it to bits. Only real disappointment was I expected something a bit bigger to happen at the end since Brainiac said it was the day everything changed. I figured that at least meant he told Lois about his powers.

[Stu]

Liked this week's episode a lot. Yeah, they could have done more with it and had a whole Crime Syndicate world with an evil version of the League, and Clark Luthor was basically the same as Red K Clark Kent, but we've got Lionel back on the show because of it! Fuck yeah!

[DevSop]

I know the season is only half way through, but I think I've at worst enjoyed every single episode this season while downright loving some. And that's without my favorite character from the first 9 seasons even on the show at all. Just love how they're mixing and matching the heroes/villains into episodes. But I am curious if this VRA was ever a DC storyline or if they just basically stole Marvel's Civil War story.

[Stu]

There's probably been shades of it, and I do remember reading a Batman story where the background was a protest group who were opposed to Superheroes doing what they were. But it does overwhelmingly look like a Civil War ripoff, without the "Civil War" part. Really liked what they did with Hawkman this episode. They did a much better job of making him look good in the costume and flying than they did in Justice, and his funeral was the first of that sort of thing on the show.

[Stu]

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[OpTard]

Dec 12, 2010 13:39:14 GMT -5 Stu said:

There's probably been shades of it, and I do remember reading a Batman story where the background was a protest group who were opposed to Superheroes doing what they were. But it does overwhelmingly look like a Civil War ripoff, without the "Civil War" part. Really liked what they did with Hawkman this episode. They did a much better job of making him look good in the costume and flying than they did in Justice, and his funeral was the first of that sort of thing on the show.

i guess i didn't notice this when you first posted it, but with the darkseid/godfrey influence angle, it looks like they're more loosely basing it on 1986's legends series than it is civil war.

looking fwd to the return this friday. this final season has been a great one.