Smallville
Smallville: 3.15 review posted
by Paul Talon on May.23, 2010, under Reviews by Paul Talon, Smallville, Television
Leave a Comment more...Superman: Smallville 3.14 Review Posted
by Paul Talon on Mar.20, 2010, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville, Television
Leave a Comment more...Smallville: 2 Reviews Posted
by Paul Talon on Oct.06, 2009, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville, Television

The unique to Smallville recurring episode theme – The discovering a power episode. In this case, Clark is sort of pushed into discovering his super-hearing.
“Delete” is a great episode to the mythology of Smallville. If only it was handled better. It started out very well. Bringing back the villainous Dr. Garner from Sommerholt Institute was a good touch. It seems that even as Lionel fires Chloe from the Daily Planet column, she has the goods that she is going to publish on Garner’s less than ethical methodology.
Superman: Smallville 3.08 review up!
by Paul Talon on Aug.18, 2009, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville, Television
“Shattered”

A gripping hour of television with just enough groundwork that it doesn’t quite come out of nowhere. We open with Lex finding the still alive Morgan Edge after he had plastic surgery to hide his identity. He threatens Morgan that he has proof that Lionel and Edge were behind the deaths of Lex’s grandparents (Lionel’s parents).
Superman: Smallville 3.07 Review Up – Magnetic
by Paul Talon on Aug.11, 2009, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville, Television
“Magnetic”

Ho hum. Magnetic is truly the archetype of Smallville freak of the weak filler. There is nothing strikingly bad about the episode, but there is nothing truly memorable either.
We get another new and creative way to infect a Smallville resident to give him powers that influence said resident to abuse his gifts and Clark has to find a way to stop him.
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Smallville – Review for 3.06 Up
by Paul Talon on Jul.27, 2009, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville, Television
“Relic”

I certainly have to hand it to the writers. After languishing in freak of the week mode, it looks they tried their best to come up with differing storylines and it works. I’m not certain if I’m liking the episodes even more than I would given that it’s lifted the series out of a doldrums of sorts, but I am finding that I am digging them.
Superman: Smallville Reviews
by Paul Talon on Jul.26, 2009, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville, Television
Leave a Comment more...Smallville: Review for 3.03 Up
by Paul Talon on Jul.25, 2009, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville, Television
“Extinction”

It’s almost as if someone else on the writing team noticed how many freak of the weak episodes there were so that when they went towards a filler episode, they chose to act out their own subconscious desires.
So instead of a freak of the weak…it’s someone who hunts down and kills the freaks of the week. Hell he even drops a calling card…a meteor rock with the word FREAK inscribed on the side.
Smallville: New reviews up for Season 2
by Paul Talon on Feb.14, 2009, under Reviews by Paul Talon, SecondViews SubSection Updates, Smallville
Leave a Comment more...Book Review: Dragonlance War of Souls Volume 2: Dragons of a Lost Star
by Paul Talon on Feb.10, 2009, under Dragonlance, Literature, Reviews by Paul Talon, Smallville
Dragonlance: War of Souls Volume 2: Dragons of a Lost Star
by: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The engine still revs. After a little clunkiness in the first volume of War of Souls, the second volume takes the groundwork it is given and runs with it a bit. The tone of the series really seems to find it’s focus amidst the chaos and with an injection of both characters and action, Lost Star is worthy to sit side by side with the other Weis/Hickman Dragonlance novels.




