Smallville was interesting. Comic books have never deal with Jor-el really. What was he like as a teenager? What was his father like? It would be an easy task to aim a starship torwards Earth specifically towards Smallville even so it's entirely possible he sent his son somewhere where he knew he'd be safe. This hasn't been contradicted in any comic I've ever read and is kind of cool actually. The fact that there is that Native American connection suggests to me that "Joe's" visit to Smallville wasn't by coincidence either. One thng I'm unclear about is, Jor-el flies yet Clark still hasn't figured it out yet. (Or at least knows he has.) Is this kid an idiot or what? And what about this revelation Lex's grandparents were murdered? Why should we care?
When I first started watching last night's episode of Angel, I was rather amazed on how simplistically stupid it was. Then I realized what it reminded me of: Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Angel has always been a more dark series that it's originator. This episode brought it back to it's roots. With Buffy now done, they really tried hard with this episode to give those fans something to watch. They did add they're own touches, however, when Angel kept commenting on why they wore their masks all the time for instance. This would have deliberartely ignored on Buffy. Everyone, including the writers at the time I'm sure, assumed the Shanshu prophecy was refering to Angel since Spike didn't have a soul at the time. But what if it refers to Spike instead? Hmmm. It was a nice touch for Angel to refer to the "The Father Will Eat the Son" prophecy forgetting only he, and Eve I guess, remembers Connor's existance.
When I first started watching last night's episode of Angel, I was rather amazed on how simplistically stupid it was. Then I realized what it reminded me of: Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Angel has always been a more dark series that it's originator. This episode brought it back to it's roots. With Buffy now done, they really tried hard with this episode to give those fans something to watch. They did add they're own touches, however, when Angel kept commenting on why they wore their masks all the time for instance. This would have deliberartely ignored on Buffy. Everyone, including the writers at the time I'm sure, assumed the Shanshu prophecy was refering to Angel since Spike didn't have a soul at the time. But what if it refers to Spike instead? Hmmm. It was a nice touch for Angel to refer to the "The Father Will Eat the Son" prophecy forgetting only he, and Eve I guess, remembers Connor's existance.
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