Season Three: Sekriths and Lies!

[GHScorpiosRule]

It just seemed everyone just wanted and NEEDED to know Clark's "secret" and he was the worst liar. Ever. Lana, Pete, Chloe, Lionel, and of course Lex, but that dates back to the first season.

It just seemed worse this season. 

Though I have to admit, I did and do enjoy asshole Clark on Red Kryptonite. 

There were so many times Clark could have just said "none of your bidnez" but nooo, he had to look stoopid with his lame excuses.

But My oh My, With the longer, mussed up hair, and the sexay swagger, Tom had me in a puddle of goo in the season premiere.

[Spartan Girl]

32 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

But My oh My, With the longer, mussed up hair, and the sexay swagger, Tom had me in a puddle of goo in the season premiere.

Mamma Mia, he was so fine…not that he isn’t still, mind you 😜 

“Memoria” was a good episode, with the whole Julian story and Lex’s terrible mess of a childhood. And Clark remembering Lara 😭😭😭😭😭😭

34 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

There were so many times Clark could have just said "none of your bidnez" but nooo, he had to look stoopid with his lame excuses

Is it bad that when it seemed like Chloe got blown up in the finale, I was…happy? And hoping it was true? She seriously pissed me off so much that I almost wish the writers had killed her off right then and there. 

Ooh that finale sequence with the Magnificent Bastard’s Godfather moment and the Mozart requiem playing in the background STILL gives me the chills.

[GHScorpiosRule]

Watching "Legacy" pisses me off for several reasons. But one of the things that really, really irks me is, we see that Swann and Lionel did NOT know each other. It was the first time they met. Yet, four seasons later, during the Veritas subplot, in a flashback, we are told that Queen, Lionel, Teague, and Swann were part of a society/group, that monitored the coming of the last son of Krypton/the "Traveler" which was just a massacring of the mythos of Superman. I don't care how you want to make creative licenses or reimagining. I LOATHED it.

And I also hate how AlMiles, Souders/Peterson, went all out in trying to make AI Jor-El as something that had emotions and was some evil despot that hated Earth that needed to be conquered. Just give me Marlon Brando's version, thankyouverymooch. Not to mention that horrid "Relic" that had Jor-El doing a walkabout and meeting Hiram Kent, and thus chose the Kents to find and adopt Clark.

And even after Clark tells Lana, they can't be together, she's forever in his face, wanting to know his secrets, asking what his feelings are, blah, blah, blah, when he told her in "Phoenix" his feelings weren't the issue. I don't think. I always fast forward that. But the gag reel for that scene is hilarious, because the horse that Kristen rode, kept bumping her back. There are a lot of funny things in the gag reels.

I mean, you have her coming to Clark's house (a lot, uninvited or his barn, uninvited to give him a hard time), wanting to know if it was true he told Alicia his "sekriths" , etc. in "Obsession".

[Spartan Girl]

13 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

And I also hate how AlMiles, Souders/Peterson, went all out in trying to make AI Jor-El as something that had emotions and was some evil despot that hated Earth that needed to be conquered.

They really went back and forward on that one. First he was evil, then he wasn’t, then he was evil, then he wasn’t…pick a plotline, already! 

14 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

Not to mention that horrid "Relic" that had Jor-El doing a walkabout and meeting Hiram Kent, and thus chose the Kents to find and adopt Clark.

Oh Christ on a cracker, that was stupid even for this show! And is every ancestor of Lana some macguffin that no man can resist?!?! 🤦‍♀️  

[GHScorpiosRule]

33 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

They really went back and forward on that one. First he was evil, then he wasn’t, then he was evil, then he wasn’t…pick a plotline, already! 

No, AI Jor-El was always EVUHL, until the series finale, when all of a sudden, it tells Clark it was always within him to fly, in this gentle, loving voice. BULLSHIT. Otherwise, he was punishing Clark.

[Spartan Girl]

1 hour ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

No, AI Jor-El was always EVUHL, until the series finale, when all of a sudden, it tells Clark it was always within him to fly, in this gentle, loving voice. BULLSHIT. Otherwise, he was punishing Clark.

Huh, I always thought they mellowed on him a little before the finale. But I barely tuned in to later seasons, so what do I know?

I really hated how when Clark confronted Chloe about her deal with Lionel, she basically turned it around to make it sound like she was the victim. “Oh, I only promised Lionel I’d spy on you, but you started seeing Lana without me!”

[GHScorpiosRule]

5 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

Huh, I always thought they mellowed on him a little before the finale. But I barely tuned in to later seasons, so what do I know?

Nope. Jackass throughout until the series finale. He stripped Clark of his powers and made him human in the season five premiere, because he didn't make it to the fortress by sundown; locked him in a case of ice for some reason in season...7? 8? and Lana had been boinking Bizarro! Made Clark pay, time and time again for not following an inanimate thing's orders. But I'm jumping getting ahead of myself.

[Spartan Girl]

Gotta give Clark credit for the one other time he grew a spine: when he had to use his powers to bail out Pete from the trouble he got to in drag racing. And even after the dust settled, he was still pissed off that Pete exploited him like that and told him he needed some space at the end of the episode.

Now why couldn’t he have been that assertive where Lana was concerned? I mean, he did for like second in the episode where he was blind and told her she couldn’t act all buddy-buddy with him after she’d basically blamed him for getting stomped on by that horse, but OFC she turned on the tears and he was made out to be the asshole.

I. Just. Can’t. 

[Tenshinhan]

7 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

But one of the things that really, really irks me is, we see that Swann and Lionel did NOT know each other. It was the first time they met. Yet, four seasons later, during the Veritas subplot, in a flashback, we are told that Queen, Lionel, Teague, and Swann were part of a society/group, that monitored the coming of the last son of Krypton/the "Traveler" which was just a massacring of the mythos of Superman.

Even though it was clearly a retcon, I thought that the Veritas story worked well enough.  It was never outright stated that Swann and Lionel were meeting for the first time during that convo, despite the implications.  And it was a nice way to tie everything together for Al/Miles as their exit storyline.

 

7 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

And I also hate how AlMiles, Souders/Peterson, went all out in trying to make AI Jor-El as something that had emotions and was some evil despot that hated Earth that needed to be conquered. Just give me Marlon Brando's version, thankyouverymooch. Not to mention that horrid "Relic" that had Jor-El doing a walkabout and meeting Hiram Kent, and thus chose the Kents to find and adopt Clark.

I never thought Jor-El was evil, just very strict.  I don't mind the writers expanding upon the comics that way.  I also didn't mind the 1961 story with Jor-El, despite the Clana anvils.

[Spartan Girl]

It really annoyed me how this season side-stepped Jonathan’s part in driving Clark to run away. They just basically glossed over it in the first two episodes with Martha telling him that they never blamed him about the baby. Uh, you didn’t, but Jonathan sure did. I don’t care that it was in the heat of the moment, it still happened. And on top of the other MANY issues Clark has, he didn’t need the insecurity that his dad preferred a biological human child over an adopted alien on top of them!

The whole thing wasn’t even acknowledged until the deal with Jor-El came back to bite Jonathan in the ass and Jonathan FINALLY said something about it. Guess it was still better than Joyce Summers throwing Buffy out of the house then acting like she was the big victim…sorry, sorry, wrong show. 😜