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amavel_bel) wrote2006-02-23 11:17 am
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Smallville - 5.12 - Reckoning and Supernatural - 1.12
I've been being a bit busy, so just now I'm going to say something about last Tuesday episodes ;-).
Smallville - 5.12 - Reckoning
It seems this time someone really important to Clark died. I wasn't exactly surprised when I saw the foreseen death, because the trailer last week was pretty obvious and, well, I inadvertently stumbled in some evil spoilers a couple of weeks ago *headdeask*.
Well, the episode starts Lana arriving in the farm to have a mysterious date with Clark. And then the miracle happens and Clark finally decides to be honest with her. I liked the whole scene when Clark reveals Lana the truth, takes her to the fortress and proposes her after forging a ring right in front her. What can I say? I'm such a romantic.
Clark tells Chloe about his conversation with Lana and the proposition and he says he gave Lana some time to think about the whole situation before agreeing (or not) to marry him. Lana goes to help Lois with decoration stuff and Lois notices Lana's apprehension. After a while, Lana goes to the farm and says "yes" to Clark. Oh, Clark didn't expect this, did he? He always had his insecurity telling him she would refuse him because of his secret. Well, it seems he didn't know her that well after all.
Further, Jonathan Kent wins the election and everybody is happy. Except defeated Lex, who sends a message to Lana and she goes to see him at his mansion. Lex notices she's hidding something about Clark's secret, he tries to coerce her to tell what she knows, she runs away, Lex chases after her, a schoolbus crosses the road in the wrong time, Lana's car capsizes, she dies. And the prophecy is done. Clark arrives too late this time and the audience knows he won't accept that.
I was sure he would spin the world backward to reverse time like in the movie to bring Lana back to life. Instead he used a sort of crystal given by Jor-El with a warning about the need to keep the balance. Of course I read in that line that someone else would pay the price.
Suddenly Clark finds himself in the same morning of the beginning of the episode with Lana arriving and asking about the secret date. Well, this time Clark chooses not to tell her the truth and she tells him they need a break in their relationship. Clark tells Chloe everything he's done. Lana goes to see Lex again, he kisses her, she runs away, he chases after her, that schoolbus is ready to cross the road in the wrong time again, but Clark slows down it. Well, Lana is safe.
In the farm Lionel and Jonathan have a confrontation and Lionel tries to do some kind of blackmail by showing a suspicious photo (my bet is it's involving Martha). There are some punchs and treats, Jonathan walks out while Clark and Martha arrive home. And then Jonathan fades and dies in their arms. Clark saved Lana, but Jonathan Kent died in her place.
The scene in the cemetery was moving with the snow falling over the coffin and the grief of Clark, Martha and the others. Touching episode, even if not that impressive.
Supernatural - 1.12 - Faith
The episode starts with the brothers Winchester in a house saving some children from a creature and Dean kills it, but ends up being electrocuted. In the hospital, the doctor says Dean will not live longer than three weeks, because his heart is seriously damaged.
Then Sam calls up John Winchester and leaves him a message explaining what is happening to Dean without many details. Oh God, I was expecting to see John answering or doing something, but it never happened *sighs*.
Desperate to save his brother, Sam surfs the internet for three days and makes contact with some friends of their dad until someone tells him about a reverend called Le Grange who is known by his power to heal people. They go to the reverend's tent and met Layla, one of the people seeking for cure in the reverend's sessions.
Even not believing in any of that, Dean is chosen by the reverend and then he is miraculously healed. But guess what, during the healing process, Dean notices a strange figure on the stage who definitely wasn't an angel. Of course Dean raised some suspicious about the cures and, well, he just had the feeling something wasn't right.
Dean and Sam go to an hospital to check if Dean is really cured and they found out that a young man named Marshall died from a heart attack. Dean goes to talk to Le Grand and his wife Sue Ann. Meanwhile Sam goes to investigate Marshall's death. While Le Grand tells Deans that he got his power after being miraculous healed from a cancer, Sam discovers that Marshall died in the same hour Dean was healed. When Dean is leaving the reverend's house, he meets Layla arriving with her mother, who says Layla has a brain tumor, which wouldn't let more than six months to her. Apparently, Layla has been waiting for a chance to be cured for a long while, but Sue Ann says it's not her time yet.
After some researches, the brothers find out that a Reaper takes the life of another person to save the ill one in a "one life for another" kind of exchange. And the person dies with the same symptoms of the disease the ill person had. So the miraculous reverend wasn't so miraculous after all, huh?
The brothers have to destroy whatever elements keep the magic which is responsible for controlling the Reaper and making him trade lives like that. Turns out the person who orchestrated everything was Sue Ann, who wanted to keep the Reaper away from his husband and to use him to take the lives from those she considered impure. She even tried to make the Reaper take Dean, so Layla could be healed. But then Sam destroyed the cross Sue Ann was wearing and she ends up being killed by the Reaper. And Le Grand lost his great power by consequence.
What else?
Ahhhh, how happy I was when I read "Julie Benz" in the opening credits! Got me all nostalgic.
Poor Dean, even knowing he was going to die, he kept making jokes about his imminent death with lines like "You better take care of that car or I swear I'll haunt your ass". Maybe it was his way to disguise how terrified he was.
In the end, I though Layla would be healead when the Ripper took Sue Ann's life. Guess it was just an act of revenge then.
Smallville - 5.12 - Reckoning
It seems this time someone really important to Clark died. I wasn't exactly surprised when I saw the foreseen death, because the trailer last week was pretty obvious and, well, I inadvertently stumbled in some evil spoilers a couple of weeks ago *headdeask*.
Well, the episode starts Lana arriving in the farm to have a mysterious date with Clark. And then the miracle happens and Clark finally decides to be honest with her. I liked the whole scene when Clark reveals Lana the truth, takes her to the fortress and proposes her after forging a ring right in front her. What can I say? I'm such a romantic.
Clark tells Chloe about his conversation with Lana and the proposition and he says he gave Lana some time to think about the whole situation before agreeing (or not) to marry him. Lana goes to help Lois with decoration stuff and Lois notices Lana's apprehension. After a while, Lana goes to the farm and says "yes" to Clark. Oh, Clark didn't expect this, did he? He always had his insecurity telling him she would refuse him because of his secret. Well, it seems he didn't know her that well after all.
Further, Jonathan Kent wins the election and everybody is happy. Except defeated Lex, who sends a message to Lana and she goes to see him at his mansion. Lex notices she's hidding something about Clark's secret, he tries to coerce her to tell what she knows, she runs away, Lex chases after her, a schoolbus crosses the road in the wrong time, Lana's car capsizes, she dies. And the prophecy is done. Clark arrives too late this time and the audience knows he won't accept that.
I was sure he would spin the world backward to reverse time like in the movie to bring Lana back to life. Instead he used a sort of crystal given by Jor-El with a warning about the need to keep the balance. Of course I read in that line that someone else would pay the price.
Suddenly Clark finds himself in the same morning of the beginning of the episode with Lana arriving and asking about the secret date. Well, this time Clark chooses not to tell her the truth and she tells him they need a break in their relationship. Clark tells Chloe everything he's done. Lana goes to see Lex again, he kisses her, she runs away, he chases after her, that schoolbus is ready to cross the road in the wrong time again, but Clark slows down it. Well, Lana is safe.
In the farm Lionel and Jonathan have a confrontation and Lionel tries to do some kind of blackmail by showing a suspicious photo (my bet is it's involving Martha). There are some punchs and treats, Jonathan walks out while Clark and Martha arrive home. And then Jonathan fades and dies in their arms. Clark saved Lana, but Jonathan Kent died in her place.
The scene in the cemetery was moving with the snow falling over the coffin and the grief of Clark, Martha and the others. Touching episode, even if not that impressive.
Supernatural - 1.12 - Faith
The episode starts with the brothers Winchester in a house saving some children from a creature and Dean kills it, but ends up being electrocuted. In the hospital, the doctor says Dean will not live longer than three weeks, because his heart is seriously damaged.
Then Sam calls up John Winchester and leaves him a message explaining what is happening to Dean without many details. Oh God, I was expecting to see John answering or doing something, but it never happened *sighs*.
Desperate to save his brother, Sam surfs the internet for three days and makes contact with some friends of their dad until someone tells him about a reverend called Le Grange who is known by his power to heal people. They go to the reverend's tent and met Layla, one of the people seeking for cure in the reverend's sessions.
Even not believing in any of that, Dean is chosen by the reverend and then he is miraculously healed. But guess what, during the healing process, Dean notices a strange figure on the stage who definitely wasn't an angel. Of course Dean raised some suspicious about the cures and, well, he just had the feeling something wasn't right.
Dean and Sam go to an hospital to check if Dean is really cured and they found out that a young man named Marshall died from a heart attack. Dean goes to talk to Le Grand and his wife Sue Ann. Meanwhile Sam goes to investigate Marshall's death. While Le Grand tells Deans that he got his power after being miraculous healed from a cancer, Sam discovers that Marshall died in the same hour Dean was healed. When Dean is leaving the reverend's house, he meets Layla arriving with her mother, who says Layla has a brain tumor, which wouldn't let more than six months to her. Apparently, Layla has been waiting for a chance to be cured for a long while, but Sue Ann says it's not her time yet.
After some researches, the brothers find out that a Reaper takes the life of another person to save the ill one in a "one life for another" kind of exchange. And the person dies with the same symptoms of the disease the ill person had. So the miraculous reverend wasn't so miraculous after all, huh?
The brothers have to destroy whatever elements keep the magic which is responsible for controlling the Reaper and making him trade lives like that. Turns out the person who orchestrated everything was Sue Ann, who wanted to keep the Reaper away from his husband and to use him to take the lives from those she considered impure. She even tried to make the Reaper take Dean, so Layla could be healed. But then Sam destroyed the cross Sue Ann was wearing and she ends up being killed by the Reaper. And Le Grand lost his great power by consequence.
What else?
Ahhhh, how happy I was when I read "Julie Benz" in the opening credits! Got me all nostalgic.
Poor Dean, even knowing he was going to die, he kept making jokes about his imminent death with lines like "You better take care of that car or I swear I'll haunt your ass". Maybe it was his way to disguise how terrified he was.
In the end, I though Layla would be healead when the Ripper took Sue Ann's life. Guess it was just an act of revenge then.