So, apparently there’s something on TV tonight… what is it… I can’t remember…
Oh, yeah!
The Justice League are on Smallville!
For those of you who can’t wait, the first 12 minutes are available for preview.
I am excited, but I’m also trying not to build it up in my head too much.
Oh, who am I kidding? I loved every one of their solo appearances so of course I’m going to love this.
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I’m really looking forward to this. It has been a really good season for Smallville and now that we have the Justice League….you can’t beat that.
Well, that truck I had been following almost dropped everything I was after. Now I have to watch to catch up with what the hell is going on.
I’m following the season 2 truck right now. should stop by the weekend. halfway through season 1 and it’s good
Am I the only one who watched the 12 minute preview?
Am I the only one who watched the 12 minute preview?
I probably would have if I weren’t at work. I don’t have 12 solid minutes to spend on it right now. By the time I get home tonight it will be sitting on my DVR, so I’ll watch it then.
I will say this…
Without trying to spoil anything…
The use of SFX in that preview is awesome.
The use of SFX in that preview is awesome. Awesome. I’m super excited now. Plus there’s a ton of other good stuff on tonight, so I’ll have lots to laze around to tonight.
Did anyone else here about the spin off?
Smallville: The Oliver Queen Chronicles, which is going to be an animated cell phone/web serial.
wow I got here right when it started….. I hope this is good.
Impulse! , hehe
freakin’ awsome!!!
Clark is bad-ass!
the Watchtower!.. I think I am actually giddy. Well for a tv show based on DC comics, this really makes me happy. DC is my fav so I am always scared but usually happy. I loved Lois and Clark. Same for Superboy back when I was younger. I also saw a really good animated series CBS did when I was a kid that I think they only did one season of. Anyway, I am walking away a happy customer. Man, Ollie and Clark are going to have issues in their relationship later. More than now that is.
The last 10 minutes were gold. I am suprised Cloe didn’t say “You have some pretty super friends, Clark Kent.”
I thought that was a pretty average show. I expected it to be a lot better.
Wow, I was totally blown away by that. It was much better than I expected.
That was the best episode ever. I was hoping that they kept all the original actors. This better make it as a spin off.
It really makes it seem like there’s going to be a push for a spin off. But I loved all of the characterization.
The dialog was funny, the action packed, and the villains evil. I loved it.
The JLA assault on the LuthorCorp lab was great and Chloe as Oracle was genius.
And I loved the final scene. I was basically in my happy place for the last 20 minutes of the show.
What I kept thinking while watching this episode was that this show was treating all of these characters with the seriousness and the respect that they deserve, yet have not really gotten, in live action (well, The Flash did), and that was really gratifying.
I’m going to miss Ollie though the scuttlebutt is that one of the JLAers is coming back before the season ends and I imagine it’s him.
“Let’s go save the world.” Indeed.
It was great but man do I wish it would have been a two hour block. Right when all the fun was starting the episode had to end. No complaints, everything developed nicely I just wanted to watch it progress some more.
The best part… the episode was Lana free. Well it wasn’t the best part, but it was refreshing to get away from her. She was with Nell??? I thought Nell died off camera a long tine ago.
Is there any chance these guys will come back for another episode? I hope so.
Oh wait. The real best part of the episode had to be Chloe/Oracle. It is not a bad direction for the character to go towards. I think it makes more sense than being a reporter who sits on stories of teenager aliens in Kansas and the identity of a Robin Hood vigilante.
Wow, that was so much fun even I liked it. This was like the fifth Smallville I’ve ever seen and I don’t really speak DC, so it took me a while to figure out who I was looking at a couple of times, but not a long while; gotta love those Smallville not-a-costumes. (“What? I just like orange shirts.”)
Intrigue! Excitement! Kick punch zoom! If every episode were a JL episode, I’d have been watching all along. Though I did laugh out loud when AC heard about the LexCorp facility and said, “That’s near the docks!” Well, lucky for you, sport!
(Poor Aquaman.)
Man, that Lex guy’s gotta be sick of shaving his head.
(Poor Aquaman.)
They only thing I didn’t like about the episode was that we didn’t get to see Aquaman take out those eight guards. It would have been a great F-you moment to everyone who says he’s lame. It was such a cool build up with him in the air duct and the slow pull out to the room full of guards.
Ah, well.
I wishf this was a two hour show, it felt like everything was set up to be awesome and then it just kind of ended, like they didn’t fight anybody, Clark wasn’t part of the team (he was pathetic) and that Luthercorp has the worst security on the planet, there were like 10 guys defending the entire building.
Oh well, I hate how Ollie is leaving I thought he was a great character, I still say this should be like a 6 episode story arch or somehting.
Luthercorp has the worst security on the planet, there were like 10 guys defending the entire building.
Man, would you take that job if you had anything to live for? Shit goes down at Luthorcorp. No, all those guards have backup, and his name is Jim Beam.
Wait a minute… the docks? Of Kansas??
Ah, never mind. I bought the flying man.
Luthercorp has the worst security on the planet, there were like 10 guys defending the entire building.
But every one of them knows Clark Kent well enough to identify him by voice. Not by his uncovered face. By his voice.
It wasn’t the sound of his voice that they recognized. Lex said, “from what the guards said, it sounded an awful lot like Clark Kent.” Meaning the description sounded like him. I made the same mistake at first. I was thinking, “why the hell do the guards know what he sounds like.” Ha Ha
Last nights episode was the best ever. This season keeps getting better and better. The only thing i dont like is Chloe’s hair. It looks awful
You can tell that Smallville is really working with a smaller budget but the episode was still fun to watch.
They only thing I didn’t like about the episode was that we didn’t get to see Aquaman take out those eight guards.
I agree. He got short-changed in this episode. If he’s not going to fight anyone on-screen, at least mention the aquatic telepathy. I really wanted to see him talk to a fish. Any fish. Maybe Ollie has a goldfish in a tank somewhere that’s hungry.
A lot of Bart in the episode, which was a plus. The contrast of his personality with Clark’s is fun to watch. I hope the J’onn episode is this good.
At the end of the show, Ollie mentions an island. Is that the name of the island GA is stranded on in his comic origin?
At the end of the show, Ollie mentions an island. Is that the name of the island GA is stranded on in his comic origin?
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corto_Maltese
The name Corto Maltese also appears in Frank Miller’s graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns as the name of an island at the centre of an incident not unlike the Cuban missile crisis. The choice of name is apparently an inside joke as Miller has stated he is a great admirer of Pratt’s work. The island has been occasionally referenced in other DC Comics since. In the 1989 Batman movie, Corto Maltese was referenced as the location of a violent uprising where Vicki Vale had been working as a photojournalist. In the episode “Justice” from the sixth season of the television series Smallville, the name is referenced as being a site of Luthorcorp’s 33.1 lab.
Why is it called 33.1? I missed the early episodes of the season.
I believe it was because the original evil lab was on a secret floor above the 33rd floor in one of Lex’s labs. I think.
I believe it was because the original evil lab was on a secret floor above the 33rd floor in one if Lex’s labs. I think.
Dude are they stealing plot points from Being John Malkovich?
I believe it was because the original evil lab was on a secret floor above the 33rd floor in one if Lex’s labs. I think.
You are right about 33.1. Thanks for the Corto Maltese info. I wanted to look it up after the show was over, but couldn’t remember the name.
Best episode ever! It was great.
Aquaman was fantastic. The “actor” who plays him is prefect. He has this cool grin on his face all the time like “what a a great life I have”
Pitch perfect. I wanted a 2 hour episode. I think this word is overused these days but it was AMAZING!
Aquaman was fantastic. The “actor” who plays him is prefect.
I like him too. I actually find it funny that Justin Hartley (Green Arrow/Oliver Queen) was going to play Aquaman in the series they proposed.
*owns the pilot bought from iTunes*
It was a great episode. Does anyone know if this is the last season or if it’s been picked up assuming that the CW will be around next season?
No word on it yet. If I had my choice, though, this season would be it. As much as I love it, Smallville has run its course, I think.
Smallville has at least one more season left. It was planned for seven seasons and that’s it. All of the actors are committed to 7 seasons.
It’s going very well and I would be up for 1 more season.
Some of the best Trek episodes came in season 7 so why not?
OK, before I saw this episode, I was thinking there is no frickin’ way they could build up this amount of expectations and deliver with the whole team in just about 45 minutes, give everyone enough to do and shine, and just plain pull it off.
The I saw it, was fully grinning 10-15 minutes in, wondering how it was going to come together, and for the last half hour I was going, “Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! YEEEEEEEEEEEEE—HAAAAAAAH!”
And a cool “death trap” too! No Lana, thank god, I love how the suits are rather “gangsta” but in a way that fully flies the DC colors, and they have used Ollie Queen very effectively as truly Green Arrow, but also obviously a stand in for Batman since DC/Warner won’t let the Smallville team use the Bat.
Expectations raised, Expectation Met, Chloe as Watchtower and the use of codenames (Boy Scout!) brilliantly executed. Bravo Steven S. DeKnight, he served up some serious respect for DC characters, he should get more budget, more permission to use other characters. He really has jump started Smallville’s heart after a two season coma…
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0701/19/index.htm
SMALLVILLE SPIN-OFFS?
Now that the “Justice” episode of The CW’s Smallville has aired — with Green Arrow, Aquman, Cyborg and Impulse off on a global mission to stop 33.1 bases — the open-ended conclusion begs the question:
Will there be a Green Arrow or Justice League spin-off?
The Continuum reached Smallville executive producer Al Gough on Friday and he responded with the following comment:
“No plans for the moment for a Green Arrow spin-off. Sorry,” he said. “No plans to bring the entire Justice League back this season but you may see several members toward the end of the season!”
This is the first corroboration of an earlier Continuum report that DC heroes would return to the show this season. This will likely happen in the 17th and/or 19th episodes of the season.
In all the excitement over the league, I almost didn’t pick up on Lois telling us that Ollie’s been leaving her high and dry when it comes to getting physical. Quite a departure from the Ollie in the comics!
I thought Ollie was more of the love ’em and leave ’em type too. However on Smallville Ollie’s characterization made him more into a pseudo-Batman than Green Arrow. His actions fit how I know Bruce to act so I was pleased with Ollie’s role in the show. If I was a die hard Green Arrow fan I imagine I would be upset.
Then again I am a Cap fan and those terrible Captain America movies where he launches out of the back of his van don’t bother me. I think I have experienced so many bad characterizations and bad plots that when more bad material comes around I just shrug it off. I have become numb to it. There is so much good stuff out there right now, I prefer not to dwell on the bad.
Even though he wasn’t a pure Green Arrow, the character lead me to enjoy this season of Smallville a lot more than I enjoyed the last one. I hope it keeps going forward even though he is gone.
However on Smallville Ollie’s characterization made him more into a pseudo-Batman than Green Arrow. His actions fit how I know Bruce to act so I was pleased with Ollie’s role in the show.
Totally. I enjoyed Oliver on the show but I’m sad it wasn’t Bruce. So much Bruce potential… wasted.
“Totally. I enjoyed Oliver on the show but I’m sad it wasn’t Bruce. So much Bruce potential… wasted.”
Agree Agree. But again, the producers (despite begging) have been told time and again by Warner&DC, they CAN NOT use certain characters, especially Batman and Wonder Woman because of the movies under development.
So, the use of Ollie as an obvioius Batman replacement has proven successful, and an artful “workaround” by the Smallville producers. I just wish “the suits” in the boardroom would realize nobody gives a darn if there are several versions of a character running at the same time in different media.
It’s not like Warner/DC is losing any money with Batman in animated, comic AND movie form all at the same time… would Batman on Smallville “cost” anybody anything? They should give the viewers (us people) some credit for being able to go “duh, that’s the one on cartoons, that’s the one on TV, that’s the one on the movie…”
duh. Multiple marketing channels. Duh.
That happened in the final couple of years of the Justice League animated series. Because Warner Brothers developed “The Batman” animated series to go along with Batman Begins, the Bruce Timm Justice League series could not use any of the Batman supporting characters. Granted Alfred doesn’t make a lot of trips to the Watchtower, but it would have been nice if they could have used a couple of villains from Batman’s rogues gallery.
It’s not like Warner/DC is losing any money with Batman in animated, comic AND movie form all at the same time… would Batman on Smallville “cost” anybody anything? They should give the viewers (us people) some credit for being able to go “duh, that’s the one on cartoons, that’s the one on TV, that’s the one on the movie…”
You know, I used to think that way (very passionately) until Superman Returns came out and I had many people asking me how the movie fit in with Smallville continuity.
It was my “Oh, I guess people are that dumb” moment.
I think the question now becomes, should those dumb people be catered to? The execs obviously think so beause they are so afraid of losing even a single dollar.
the majority of America is dumb
I don’t say that because I’m an elitist
no wait, yes I do
I’m probably not serious
or at least wish I wasn’t