Smallville 3.15 – “Resurrection”

Another alright episdoe of the show that seems to mostly be meandering along. At least it’s not true freak of the week episode, but it might as well be. The only mythology it seems to further is that Jonathan has a weak heart and needs surgery.

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“Obsession”

Blah. The episode has one redeeming quality, I guess in that it’s interesting seeing Clark get to have actual conversations about his powers with someone who can actually understand him but that’s about it. The beginning had much potential when Clark and Alicia are stuck aboard a crashing elevator. Clark has to use his powers to stop it showing Alicia his strength (and heat vision). What happens next makes it interesting when Alicia grabs a hold of him and they teleport to safety. Clark obviously has quite a draw to the girl as he finally can be himself.

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“Whisper”

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”

“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.

“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).

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“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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“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.

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CLICK HERE for the review to Episode 3.04 – “Slumber”

CLICK HERE for the review to Episode 3.05 – “Perry”

“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.

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2.18 – Visitor

2.19 -Precipice

2.20 -Witness

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.

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