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  1. I would pay real money for Tom Ellis's Lucifer to interact with Jensen Ackles' Dean Winchester. A match made in heaven for sure!
  2. The Previously even highlighted Jon's fear of being the only one unable to protect himself. And while Lois has a certain amount of street smarts and life experience, as we saw in this episode that means squat against a couple of Kryptonian parasites. If Jon hadn't rushed them to the barn and got a shot off at Emily and Other Guy, they would have killed them both before Clark got there. They would have killed them in the house if Sam hadn't suspected something was up and thrown in Kryptonite gas grenades in the nick of time. Kyle got the drop on them because they had no reason to suspect him until they saw the laser eyes. In other words, Lois can't physically defend Jon and herself against suped up beings without some special help or fire power. My only quibble is we don't know when Jon went back to get the weapons or why JHI didn't know they were gone. Of course, JHI could have suspected the DOD took them when he was locked up - that's actually a perfectly reasonable assumption. If that happened, JHI wasn't getting them back and he would know that. But again, as with Clark, Lois, and Chrissy suddenly jumping to the conclusion that Edge was using Smallvillians as hosts, it feels like we're missing scenes. Maybe we are and we'll see them later when extras are released.
  3. Actually, it was good for JONATHAN stealing the guns. And, yeah, it doesn't make sense that JHI wouldn't check his van first before leaving, but whatever, he's gone for now. I'm guessing he'll figure it out soon enough, and that will be the reason he returns. As for what Jon said to his grandfather ... weeeeeellll, I'm not so sure Jon is telling Sam the whole truth. I'm sure it's the truth he wants to believe, that his father and brother would never hurt himself and Lois. But that's not true as Jordan already hurt his brother, and Jon did watch Superman kill Lois on another world. I'm guessing he hasn't told anyone that yet. But Jon's superpower is his unwavering devotion to his family, so he'll always want to trust them even if on some level he knows now, like Sam Lane knows, he needs to be prepared for the worst. I think he likely also stole the guns precisely because he feels powerless within a powered-up family, and having those weapons gives him an ability to protect his family, especially himself and Lois - like he did in this episode. I'm surprised I'm the only one who totally expected Kyle to become a Kryptonian host - I even said it after last week's episode. I knew when they did that slo-mo thing in the beginning of the episode that it was Kyle coming in to become his "best self". It makes sense, and not just because he had little purpose before now. But the way he keeps disappointing his family makes him the perfect candidate for a quickie self-improvement program. The only surprise I see with this turn of events is how quickly it was discovered by everyone that this is what's happening to Kyle and the others. Which I'm guessing means we're going to see a way to separate the Kryptonian parasites from their hosts at some point. Though I have no idea how Lois and Clark jumped from assuming Edge was using the x-Kryptonite to power up the Smallvillians to Invasion of the Body Snatchers in one fell swoop. It's like we're missing an episode somewhere, some crucial clues and facts we weren't privy to. I like Sam Lane. I truly do believe he was always doing what he thought was best to protect the planet. And he's not wrong, so I'm glad he'll be sticking around. I think when Edge called Supes "brother", he just meant he's a Kryptonian who came to earth the same time Kal-El did. Yeah, I think the safe bet at this point is that he's Zod. But obviously he could be someone else, though I doubt he's Kal-El's literal sibling. When Chrissy called Lois and Clark about her findings with the name changes and the people who were original residents of Smallville, I honestly feared for her in that moment. I kept expecting one of Edge's people to come into the building behind her. Eeeek and whew!
  4. I love it and I think the green is appropriate considering SB was a legit soldier. As someone who served in the army, green is the color. Though this looks much snazzier than the fatigues I had to wear. LOL!
  5. I think that's a real possibility. We see Evil Supes hanging onto whatever it was JHI was traveling in, and I don't think we ever saw him get shaken off. And that's a pretty typical trope, it's what usually happens in zombie shows or other apocalyptic type of scenarios, where the "good guys" are often if not always the ones who inadvertently bring the threat into the happy enclave that was perfectly safe until said "good guys" showed up. If the Supes from JHI's world made it through and is somewhere on this Earth, where is he and why is he laying low? If that is what happened, then JHI is completely correct, what happened on his Earth is what is about to happen on this one - the irony being that JHI himself is the one who will have caused it to happen.
  6. Jonathan needs ALL the hugs! And I both laughed and felt depressed reading the entire "Shit on Jon Parade", along with its addendums. And I don't understand why none of the kids in that crap high school in this crap town feel the desire to be friends with Jon, who is a great kid and should be super popular. Seriously, Smallville and the kids in it suck. Honestly, at this point I'm starting to wonder if the story is building up to Edge getting a hold of Jonathan and turning him into a sleeper agent inside the Kent family. Do we know what happens to the humans once they become what I assume are Kryptonian hosts? I mean, that's what's happening, right - not that Edge is trying to turn humans into a supercharged army, but that he's picking and choosing hosts to see which ones can accommodate an alien implant with the use of x-kryptonite? At least, that's the way I'm understanding it from this episode. Which if that's the case, then what is Tag? He's something different. Super awkward FiL - SiL bonding time. No Clark, Sam doesn't trust you, he didn't trust you long before JHI showed up, and he'll still take you down if he has to despite what he says. Then again, we knew that from the beginning. The whole story with Lois and the miscarriage hit really hard because we've been dealing with a family member who just went through this, and I'm not sure this is a storyline I needed to watch right now. Sigh. But Elizabeth did a great job with it, and I'm glad Lois apologized to Jon - like sincerely apologized, and not the way Clark was with the whole lame empty box thing. It felt like someone put Jon first for once in this family, bringing him into Lois's pain in losing the baby, not something she shared with both boys, just Jon. And I certainly appreciated Lois letting Jon know she understands how useless he's been feeling and that she and he are their own special human team, because that's what the hell I've been waiting for - it's the way it should be since I suspect more and more that Jon isn't going to gain powers. That is, again, unless he's being set up to become one of Edge's alien hosts. I would think that Jonathan honestly should look at his father a little differently from now on. He saw the video, Jordan didn't. I don't even think Lois saw it, right? It would be perfectly natural for him to be a little leery of Clark for a while, if not from now on. Maybe Jon can bond more with his grandfather too. Letting JHI go on his merry way didn't seem right, but I suspect he's going to come back to help Superman and the DOD defeat Edge. Obviously his story isn't over. I wish I could care what's happening with Sarah and her father, but I don't. If Jon doesn't get turned, the next best candidate is Kyle, clearly. He doesn't seem to have a purpose on this show, though as the fire chief he legit has a very important job. And that right there should show him that he knows he has "leadership" abilities. I guess Lana is trying to protect him from Edge, but I can't always tell with her. I do get sick of Jordan always putting Sarah, his not-girlfriend, ahead of Jon's needs. It was heartbreaking to hear Jon tell his brother, who can't be bothered to answer his texts, that Jordan is the only person he has to talk to, his only "friend". Life continues to blow for Jonathan Kent. At least Jordan was mostly put on the back burner this episode. Yay.
  7. Actually Dean dying was what Jensen had a problem with. Even Jared finally admitted that recently in some interview - how Jensen "bristled" when he learned of Dean's fate. At the time when they were told how it would end, I don't think they knew the details so much, just the broad strokes. Of course, the details made it worse, but that's a whole other story. Jensen had to come to terms with it, obviously - and I think it helped that he had another gig to go to after the show ended, plus whatever he and D are doing with their production company, as well as the music he was working on. He's busy. And Jensen has always been the consummate professional and team player, regardless of whether he was happy with this story or that one. However, when he was asked at the most recent virtual con about the finale, in both his M&G and the open panel he talked about his belief that Jack would bring them back. So it's pretty clear in Jensen's mind that wasn't Dean's ultimate end - not the one Jensen envisions for Dean. As for the details, the fact that Dean isn't coughing up blood actually matters WRT whether or not he could have been saved. Two paramedics on twitter were talking about how Dean could have been saved. If Dean was truly that far gone, yes, he should have been coughing up a lung. But the reason he didn't is simple and two-fold - 1) whoever, probably Pedowitz (because Dabb wouldn't care), wanted a "pretty" death. Something that would look clean and good on screen, not messy and ugly as death often is. And 2) if Dean was coughing up that lung, he wouldn't have been able to spend his dying moments blowing smoke up Sam's skirt, which was what was most important to Dabb. Ultimately the whole Dean giving up and dying on a vamp milk run made zero sense, and I hate it. I'm with Jensen, that was not Dean's end. I don't buy it.
  8. That was my takeaway too. Lois already knew JHI wasn't who he claimed to be, he wasn't "Marcus", so she and Clark were wary of him and trying to find out who he was. Like they already figured out he probably wasn't related to the Luthor family at all. But I think in that moment she realized Superman, who she sent to meet with "the stranger", was possibly in danger if this individual wasn't even from their universe. And of course she was right.
  9. Of course, the Nat in this iteration is his and alt!Lois's daughter, right? I assume we'll see her again, and that she will have found a way into this universe, setting up for much more awkwardness with Lois who isn't her or JHI's Lois. Anyway, thanks for the insight into this character as well as the red solar radiation. I wasn't really aware who this character was, but as we were watching the episode last night my husband figured it out. So essentially it looks like this guy is DC's cross between Iron Man and Thor. And obviously DC took the name "John Henry" from American folklore as "the a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel" (tm Wikipedia). His backstory was interesting, though I still think this JHI flipped the switch much too quickly on "Must Kill Any and All Superman" with zero evidence that this Superman would go bad. I can understand him warning Sam Lane and the DOD on what could happen, but he went there way too fast in his execution. Though I guess we can assume his grief pushed him over the edge long before he hopped worlds. At some point obviously he's going to have to come to terms with the fact that this Supes is different and team up with him to defeat Edge. OTOH, there was that moment when it looked like Superman's anger was getting the best of him before Lois yelled at him and snapped him out of laser-eyeing JHI. So maybe JHI has a point too. So apparently Lana's job is to line up candidates for Edge to infect with x-kryptonite, unbeknownst to her, obviously. Still, building her 401K on the bodies of the residents of Smallville is not something that makes for sleeping well at night. Is Edge keeping Kyle in reserve to keep Lana tied to him - or does he just not believe Kyle would be a good candidate for the experiment? I am not even a little convinced that Jon is supposed to develop powers in this version of Superman's story. Maybe he will, but so far it doesn't look like the story is going there. I can't get past the feeling that Jordan is a raging Sue who is a showrunner insert. If that's the case, Jon won't develop powers precisely because a Sue needs to be propped up by someone considered "lesser than" himself/herself, otherwise the Sue can't stand; and sadly so far being a prop appears to be Jon's lot in life. That's why his story - or rather lack thereof - is frustrating to watch, because he doesn't appear to be a character anyone is putting actual thought into or even seeing as a character in his own right. Sure, I'm glad they let him be a little mad at Jordan the Sue, because he should be mad as hell. But he's only allowed to have legit human feelings for a few seconds a show until the show needs him to prop up Jordan the Sue - or in this case drive him around. It was surprising the writer allowed the "prop" to wield the Thor hammer to kill the radiation lights - even though with a broken wrist it really shouldn't have been possible. But then later Clark only credits his super boy son's super hearing with the save and doesn't even mention Jon. Wow. Seriously Clark, you suck the hairy big one sometimes as a parent. If Jon is going to remain human, and I'm fine with that, someone on this writing staff needs to be tasked with putting thought into him as a fully fledged character. And Lois should be spending more time and energy with Jon, not Jordan the Sue, as the human parent who can relate to not having powers. Of course, we're not seeing that at all so far because everyone has to woobie Jordan the Sue. As for Sarah, she and Jordan the Sue have zero chemistry, so I hope they don't go the predictable route and make her his or anyone's gf - because I certainly don't want to see her with Jon either. Sarah works infinitely better simply as a friend to both brothers. Is Lex Luthor supposed to be alive on this world? Will some version of him show up eventually? I think Dave Ramsay did a good job directing this episode. I thought Diggle was supposed to show up too, but obviously not.
  10. This is my absolute favorite song of theirs from both albums, really strong and beautiful, and something I would totally expect to hear on the radio.
  11. Apparently - and I didn't listen to it myself because I just can't anymore - one of the extras on the series dvd set has Singer and Dabb, or tells of Singer and Dabb, being all shits and giggles that the one thing they always wanted to accomplish with the finale, if not the ONLY thing, was killing Dean Winchester. Sounds like they would have been fine doing just that and filling the rest of the episode with more lame music montages. So essentially you're right, COVID changed nothing really except for the number of guest star cameos they would have lined up for 19 and 20. I also realized that the deleted scene with Dean & Sam in the car talking about boarding Miracle makes it seem, or rather very clear, that this is the first hunt they've gone on since the end of 19 and however long it takes Dean to go back and adopt Miracle (guessing a day or two). So while an early draft intention might have been to say it was "Six Months Later", it was obviously changed to make it clear it hadn't been more than one-three weeks after 19 at best. But that's how almost all viewers understood it anyway, save for Dabb apologists. And not even all those tried to sell the idea that it was more than a couple weeks after 19 that Dean was stupidly slaughtered. What's on screen is what's on screen. Your eyes do not deceive.
  12. Wasn't the whole reverse mortgage thing in the beginning a way to try and save family farms? Isn't that why Martha took one out on her own farm - to help other family farms? I always thought Smallville was supposed to be a, well, small one-horse kind of town surrounded by family farms. The mine doesn't really seem to fit that scenario, and certainly not for a suburb of Metropolis - which for sure wouldn't account for the supposed miles between Metropolis and Smallville. Yeah, I too am thinking around three-four hours apart. And if Smallville is still in Kansas, then Metropolis has to be more along the lines of St. Louis, MO. Again, this is giving me a headache because none of it makes sense. I agree if the mine was always there, pretty much everyone in town would have been affected to some degree ages ago. I guess we're not supposed to put that much if any thought into it.
  13. 😭 The other thing that is made clear in this scene, and in the way Sam mostly ignores Miracle after Dean dies, is that Miracle is 100% Dean's dog. That makes it even more likely he gave Miracle to Jodi or Donna or someone like that on his way to Austin since he didn't intend to return to the bunker. Yes, it would have been nice to have included this scene, and they certainly had time to do that. I don't know what the hell Singer and the editors were thinking when they cut this episode. You'll never convince me that Dabb didn't grow to hate Kripke's take on the Winchesters and the universe Kripke created. The final episode made it quite clear he continued to resent the fact that he and Berens couldn't spin off the mothership universe because of how the Winchesters were vitally important to the show. If they got to keep the Roadhouse party aspect of the finale, that would have been Dabb saying only dead people cared about the Winchesters. The rest of the living world didn't. But at least we would have had a party. I agree ending on the cheesy montage in 19 would have been better - though better is relative WRT the final two episodes. And regardless of what Dabb and Singer said, I think there had to be some radical changes to the scripts, especially in 19. Showalter already spilled the beans on that one long before they went back to shoot anyway. I don't think anyone truly believes the beach scene was supposed to go down the socially distanced way it did. Sure, Chuck still probably became human because the CW wouldn't let them kill "god", and Jackie Poo Sue was supposed to inherit all Chuck's powers because JPS was Dabb. But I think the beach scene was supposed to have a lot of characters involved, probably angels and demons from the Empty who were awakened after JPS blew up and made it "loud". I think that's how Lucifer was really supposed to get out, and it's more likely than not Cas would have been there too. After the battle, what happened to Luci and Cas remains to be seen. Given how much Eugenie loved Luci and wanted him to have a redemption arc, I'm guessing he and Mikey actually helped defeat Chuck and didn't turn on the Winchesters. At least that's my theory. If Cas was to return at the end of 19 with the other angels from the Empty, he probably would have chosen to go off with Jack to help him do what they did - fix Heaven, probably the Empty too, Purgatory, etc. And then we'd see him one more time as a cameo in Heaven with the brothers, and probably Jack too since Alex admitted he shot a scene for the finale.
  14. I feel like Oprah should do a talk show in this town, and she can stand up and yell, "You get laser eyes, and you get laser eyes, and YOU get laser eyes, and EVERYBODY gets laser eyes!!!!!" And the town goes wild! I mean, seriously, it's going to get to the point that everyone in this town will, sooner than later, have some sort of supes ability as Morgan Edge intends ... ... except for you Jonathan Kent. All you get is perpetually screwed over. Yikes. I understand now why I've quickly come to resent this lopsided relationship between the bros and will always feel sorry for the older brother who is mostly overlooked and/or forgotten by his parents on a weekly basis. I already endured a version of it for 15 years on another CW series. Jonathan, sweetie, honey, cookie - if you keep on this path giving 100% and getting back, on a good day 40%, but most of the time 2%, it will not end well for you. It will end very very very badly for you. Seriously, you might want to consider running away and joining the circus or the military. Save yourself! I suspect not a single writer on this show has ever even been to a football game, much less understands how it's played or supposed to be coached. It's time to move away from this sport - and maybe the writers should stay away from sports entirely. I don't think it's their thing at all. Like him or not, Jordan is a danger to everyone around him except Clark. At this point he should be home-schooled until such a time as he gets a handle on his powers. Poor Tag, he really just wants answers. He's a little bit like Deadpool without the foul mouth - he desperately wants someone to fix him. BTW, does Tag have parents? I don't recall now if we ever saw his family asking about him, wondering where the hell he's gone to. Lois needs some instruction on how to come up with a costume and blend into whatever role she's playing to break in somewhere. She's really not good at it. Luthor, of course, is a natural. Morgan Edge telling Lana he wants her to work for him because she was so good at all those reverse mortgages is not the compliment she thinks it is. I think it means he knows you're not above doing suspect work given that while those mortgages have pros, they also have cons that sometimes border on scam. At least Lana quickly came to realize that Lois is right, something nefarious is happening at the mine. Which is, of course, sad for the town and all the guys for whom this work is legitimately a lifeline. However, as much as I want to see Lana and Kyle as a real couple, they just don't fit. And as parents, they're certainly no better than the Kents where it comes to Jon. I mean, they walk in the house and start making out in the kitchen before realizing their youngest is home alone and their eldest is nowhere to be found. I don't think parenting in Smallville is a model for anyone else in the world to emulate. There must be something in the water supply. I always thought Gotham was supposed to be NYC, and Metropolis more along the lines of Chicago. But when I look into it, while at times that was true, it's also supposed to be NY with the Toronto skyline. But that definitely doesn't work here with the proximity issues. So maybe in this iteration I can head-canon that Metropolis is St. Louis, MO, and Smallville is on the edge of Kansas and MO. Otherwise, it gives me a headache. They certainly had a lot going on in this episode.
  15. The chocolates look delish. That's a cool gift. As for the boxed dvd set ... well, you could use it to set a plant on or something.
  16. Given the epic screwing over Dean and Jensen got in the finale, allowing him to be slightly front and center in a stylized piece of cover art that's not even new - it was already used back in another special issue of TVG before the COVID break - is the textbook definition of the very "least" that could be done here. And it is definitely an artist's stylized rendition - not exactly a canonical snapshot of the show. Then again, we're talking about a show with years of LOL!canon - i.e., canon was abandoned ages ago, so have at it Mr. or Ms. Artist, do whatever the hell you want. It's not like the showrunners and writers of this show didn't screw up everything week after week themselves. That's kind of all they did. I like it, white wings and all. I liked it back when we first saw it which was, again, late 2019/early 2020? And as a Jensen fan, sure, I like that Jensen is front and center. And it is Jensen, just as it is Jared - neither are in character in this poster.
  17. No doubt at all, especially in Jensen's mind, I assume. He was willing to forgo a pay raise to have the car in his contract instead, for goodness sake. Yeah, he knew if it wasn't in writing, he wouldn't have gotten Hero 1.
  18. Thanks for reposting Bergamot's review of the episode - I knew the song, but I'm not sure I ever realized or remembered that it was a Vietnam era anti-war song. It makes so much more sense in context of the episode. Essentially Dean losing his memories unburdened him in a very childlike way for a while from the adult horrors he dealt with daily as a hunter/soldier. I remember, when we first saw the episode, feeling like the song was a goodbye to Dean, and many of us discussing that same take-away. And of course, now we know Dabb very likely always intended to snuff out Dean at the end of the series as soon as he took over Carver's position in an official manner. But I no longer believe that's what this writer was going for here. About a month ago I started catching the occasional episodes on TNT if I was home during the time it was on. I mostly only watch Dean-heavy episodes - or at least good episodes that have good Dean in them. As time has passed since the finale, I've gotten to the point - probably the same point Jensen is at - in believing that the last two episodes, especially the finale, wasn't Dean's end, or even Sam's end. In fact, I'm pretty much wiping the last two episodes from my memory. As far as I'm concerned, most of season 15 just never happened. It's the only way I am able to watch an older episode, because I do miss the hell out of Dean Winchester. And I miss when the show was good in general. Ironically, I too just watched the replay of this episode.
  19. He could also be reading scripts for the projects they're working on for Chaos Machine. Also if you'd like to join me in my personal fantasy land, Ryan Reynolds started following Jensen a couple weeks ago ... soooooo maybe something else entirely???? Yessssss, it's really nice over here. LOL! ETA: I wish I could figure out how to imbed these things, but Misha posted an update to his health issues a couple days ago. He started jogging again after his second hip replacement surgery. Poor guy, but good for him - glad he's finally feeling better.
  20. Jensen commented to Misha's post showing himself (Misha) getting vaccinated, and he said something like 'welcome to the club', indicating he had already been vaccinated, I assume when he was in Colorado. I love Jensen's Batman too - and the smirk! Dies!
  21. Love that he's throwing himself into the role, but I'll be glad when the character is shaved again. LOL! Cool!
  22. OMG that's sooooooo cute!!!!!! Yeah, definitely been working out - or all that snow shoveling is really fab for toning the body. LOL! The big bushy beard isn't my favorite at all either, but I know it's temporary for the role. But I look forward to the day he posts selfies without it. I love all the comments from other actors to his selfie. Does Ian Somerhalder live in Toronto? Yes, Ian, bring him bourbon! So apparently even with being vaccinated and testing neg, Ontario still requires 14 days of quarantine?
  23. That's exactly the kind of effect that happens in editing and costs them literally nothing at all. So what the hell? Why did they opt instead for it to look like only a week or two had passed? The thing that kills me is cutting out the scenes with Jodi, Eileen, even Rowena getting the news that Dean had died and clearly mourning him, as if he actually mattered to the world. Because he did, dammit. These are one-person scenes they could have even shot in LA to get around the whole travel/quarantine problem. I think those are the biggest loss to the episode.
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