Comments on: This is only just barely a spoiler post for last week’s JSA episode of SMALLVILLE.

By: Justin Mohareb

Justin Mohareb — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:49:52 +0000

I think they showed Mr. Terrific’s little logo during the museum tour, and it was actually written on a weight belt. Which kind of makes sense (as much as anything in this show does).

By: chuck strode

chuck strode — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:03:09 +0000

1) The costumes were pretty spot-on, except that (I agree) Hawkman’s mask looked a bit top-heavy and clunky.

2) Why did Michael Shanks (as Carter Hall) feel the need to invoke a Christian Bale gutteral growl whenever he spoke in character??

3) Personally, I think Geoff Johns may have been trying to stretch/bend the spacetime continuum to make a group of spandex vigilantes who publicly met up in a brownstone and maintained a museum dedicated to their exploits and yet no one in Metropolis seems to recall them without digging through the archives of 8mm film and newspaper clippings work in the ‘present day continuity’ of Smallville. C’mon. Seriously? who WOULDN’T remember them??

4) Thought it was funny the John Jones, at the end of the show, mentions he’s fond of cookies, but they couldn’t secure a product placement for OREOs or HYDROX.

The ending was lame, I agree – too much power in one room, totally unnecessary to overwhelm a hyped-up helmet-wearing Icicle. For a moment, I thought that when he put on Fate’s helmet he would go insane or something, (and maybe become the Psycho Pirate!!) but, alas, no….

By: Nimbus

Nimbus — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:43:02 +0000

@Kid Nicky – erm, the show was always about Clark Kent *before* he became Superman. It was always stated that we’d never see Clark dress up as Supes. That was what I though was meant by the “no tights, no flight” rule – i.e. it was specifically aimed at Clark. Of course, the original creators have left and so now we do get people dressed up in weird and wonderful costumes taken right out of the comic books that we all love.

By the way, in the earlier seasons, Clark used to wear a red and blue costume. He’d often be wearing a blue t-shirt and a red jacket (that was somewhat reminiscent of the cape). That little detail used to make me smile.

Of course, now he looks like the Connor Kent version of Superboy.

By: adam ford

adam ford — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:59:35 +0000

The thing that got me about the timing of this episode’s golden age was – yeah, workign on their ages at the time of the episode, you’d be talking the 80s, or maybe the 70s, but why does that mean that all the footage of their arrests (and what professionally lit and staged footage it was…) should then be on reel-to-reel film? What, the Metropolis police force didn’t upgrade to camcorders until the 90s?

By: Rocco

Rocco — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:46 +0000

g23 – Doctor fate was well done for the most part other then the fact that *SPOILER* he was killed by The Icicle of all people… because that makes a whole lot of sense.. *END OF SPOILER*

Over all the episode was pretty great. In an over the top cheesy kind of way.

By: Mikester

Mikester — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:08:59 +0000

g23 – Dr. Fate wasn’t bad…kind of a different take on Kent Nelson, and there was a neat glowy-red effect in the helmet’s eyes.

By: Mikester

Mikester — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:06:21 +0000

CW – Me neither. But there she is, tornado logo on her apron and everything. Just a brief glimpse, but it’s enough.

By: CW

CW — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:21:40 +0000

Mike, Ma Hunkel’s really in the episode? Wow, that’s something I didn’t expect!

By: adam barnett

adam barnett — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:45:25 +0000

I SO WANT that picture…. it would result in divorce threats from my wife, but it would totally be worth it!

By: Chris G.

Chris G. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:41:13 +0000

Y’know, I get the feeling no one really thought through the political implications of a group of folks who decided put on masks and fight street crime in the late-60s/early 70s.