November 6, 2024 • 26 mins
Lex Luthor escalates his vendetta against Superman and Lois by bringing LuthorCorp to Smallville, sparking a showdown with Mayor Lana Lang. After Lana is nearly killed in a failed assassination attempt, Superman steps in, leading to an epic confrontation that drives Lex out of town—at least for now. But as the dust settles, Lex and his lawyer, Amanda McCoy, begin plotting their next move.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've got you, You've got me.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Who's got you? Hello, come to me, son of Jallo
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Neil before.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So Hey everybody, it's your host John Reid here for
another episode of the podcast Full of Kryptonite. We are
here for season four, episode six, when the Lights Come on.
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Great Santana song, by the way. We start off this
episode with Lex doing a little heavy metal renovations. It
seems he's got a bit of an appetite for destruction.
A maybe he's listening to some music. Maybe it's a
symphony of destruction if you will. So as he's filming
his episode of this demolished house, he is just wailing
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the crap out everything, and ultimately, as he's tearing everything down,
he takes a picture of Elizabeth and burns that as
well as he's setting fire to all of his other stuff,
which I've only ever seen people doing TV shows and movies.
But you said fire to the stuff in the garbage can,
and that's basically it. He's severing ties with his daughter.
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He realizes that he has lost that and all he
has left is is revenge. So he's doug with that.
His assistant Amanda shows up and they talk a little
bit about how he is planning to move Luther Corp.
To Smallville, and he tells her as well that he
needs something from Milton. By the end of the day,
Arry hands or a diagram of something. And it was
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a little hard to tell this part as I was
watching the episode. I had to watch this part of
the episode on my phone, so it was a little
hard to see exactly what it was. But we do
find out later what this device is. Then we cut
to a scene of Clark, Lois and Jordan, and John
has been making a bunch of saves, like he has
been all over the place, three or four saves that morning,
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and then Jordan, they say, hey, you know, it's fine
that you don't want to do the superhero thing, but
you can't sit around the house play video games. You
gotta go get a job. Then we cut to a
scene of Lana and Sarah by the folding laundry and
a little talk. Sarah talks about missing her dad. Sophie
nowhere to be seen at this point, so she is
Mia once again. They do talk a little bit about
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how Lana and John Henry. It's mentioned two times I
think in this episode. Sarah mentions about Lata and John
Henry spending time together. Clark and Lewis later mentioned that
they've been dating for about a month. Then we cut
to Clark and Lowis talking about Luther's minions and trying
to figure out a way to get them to talk.
Lois makes a little comment that Clark's hair is starting
to turn a little gray. She happens to spot Lex's
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assistant Amanda across the street and is going to go
confront her. We kin have a scene in the Mayor's
office where Lex shows up without it a opintment, basically says, look,
you got to Lana. You gotta cut out what you're doing.
I am coming to Smallville. You cannot stop me. You're
just you're getting in my way and when people get
in my way, things do not go well. Lois also
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then confronts Amanda, the assistant and basically says, look, you
can't trust Luthor. He will turn on you. She tells
him the whole thing about Elizabeth and what happened in
that situation, which Amanda did not know, and that kind of,
you know, crumbles the the I Love Lex foundation that
she's got going on there. Clark shows up at Britain
Dunn's convenience store. De Nice is being awkward because she
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knows that Clark is Soups and he's getting his stuff
wrung up there at the register ordering a box of
hair color as well. He's buying a box of hair
color from him. The total is nineteen thirty eight, his
very first year Superman came out. But Lana walks in
spots the hair color thing and kind of has a
little chuckle to herself. Tells Clark that Luther core is
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being moved to Smallville, which he did not know, and
says that Luthor has planned by Adie Mannings farm a
land and that is where he is going to be
setting up the new headquarters for Luther Kork. She does
ask Clark to come with us, basically says, look, Clark,
your bom, I mean you hold more sway than I
think you think in this town because your last name
is Kent, like your mom is basically everybody's guardian angel
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for years and years and years. So if you come
and talk to ady with me, then I think you
really are going to hold a lot more influenced than
you think you do. Would be really helpful if he
did that. We get a scene with the diner and
John is just wolfing down food because he has been
doing saves left and right. Jordan and Sarah are kind
of picking on it a little bit. Coach Gaines stops by,
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So there's a little funny part. We have all these
other characters, all these other kind of they had been
recurring series regulars throughout the time of this show. I
think we've seen more Coach Gaines than we have of
John Henry and some of the other supporting actors that
have been around for years and years on this show.
So anyway, Coach Gaines again and we find out that
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I think more people than we thought know of the
secret because he's being extra friendly to the boys and
basically says, you boys ready for the football season. John
reminds him, Coach, I'm banned from the football team kind
of for life, and he basically whispers, well, yeah, but
I know that you guys are you know Superman's sons,
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and he's like, look, we got I mean, think about it,
state titles, scholarships, girls, and a dimension of girls. Although
that was just bad timing. John here's something and does
the what Sarah called the meerkat, So he meerkats and
Coach Gains mistakes that, for see, your brother knows what
I'm talking about, and then he rushes off, leading Jordan
to be stuck there with Coach Gains. We got to
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eighty manning. Lana and Clark are trying to talk her
out of selling her land, and she is hesitant because
this is more money than she probably would ever see
in her entire life, but asks ultimately, is Luther really
that bad because it is so much money to turn down,
And then ultimately, as they say yes, yes he is,
she says somewhat cryptically but not really. Well, it's nothing
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compared to what you've sacrificed, she says, as she is
looking at Clark, and again, example of one more person
who shouldn't know that he's Superman, knows that he's Superman,
but is keeping it on the down low. So at
this point, I think we're kind of thinking everybody in
Smallville must know the secret, and they are at least
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a so much has been done for them by Superman
over the years that they I mean, Coach Gaines is
maybe being a little too excited about it, but everybody
else at least respects and revers Superman enough to keep
his secret because he knows that because they know he
would want it to be kept. They get back into town,
Luther is watching from his window at the hotel Pomono.
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Lois tells Clark about the Luther Court move. Clark already
knows and tells Lois that I think a lot of
people seem to know that I'm Superman. We have a problem.
John zooms in with bagels from Montreal, and they said, look,
we might need to have a little talk and you
might need to just chill for just a bit because
it seems like the secret's getting out. Jordan goes to
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the diner and wants to try to get a job there.
Sarah basically says, nope, I do not want to be
working with my ex boyfriend. Sarah talks about how she
feels stuck in Smallville and jealous of Jordan's powers. Basically,
you can fly anywhere you want, you can get a
summer job anywhere you want, and I'm stuck here. And
Jordan kind of reminds her. He's like, look, you don't
have to have powers to get out of Smallville. You
just have to get out of Smallville. And I think
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that she kind of you see a change in her
facial expression that kind of piques her interest as she realizes,
you know what, actually, yeah, I probably just need to
get out of Smallville. And then as that scene ends,
a man walks to the bar and she says, hey,
mister Taylor, and then he walks to the diner and
has a seat. I'm gonna do a quick little left
turn here and say that mister Taylor may or may
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not be a reference to George Taylor. So here's your
little podcast full of kryptonide history. Lesson here, George Taylor.
The character was first seen in Action Comics number one
in June of nineteen thirty eight. As I said a
moment ago, nineteen thirty eight is the year that Superman
first appeared in comic books. George Taylor is introduced as
Clark Kent's first editor in the early Superman comics. He
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is the editor in chief of the Daily Star, which
is the precursor to the Daily Planet, and that is
where Clark started his journalism career. George Taylor basically a
minor character, served mainly as kind of a backdrop in
Superman's early career, primarily involved assigning stories to Clark and
Lois unaware of Superman's dual identity. As Clark Kent. He's
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pretty much straightforward, no nonsense editor who encourages the investigative
journalists that work for him provide some moral guidance, but
doesn't really play a significant role in any major story
arcs or stories in those early comics. Over time, he
gets replaced by Perry White, who, as I recall, has
a very similar personality, so they're really not all that
different in some ways in terms of characters, especially as
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the character of Perry White evolved over the years. At
different times he may have looked more or less like
George Taylor, but occasionally the name or character of George
Taylor reappears as kind of a nod to Golden Age
Superman did reappear for a short time when Clark I
believe was working at the Daily Star during the New
fifty two storyline when they rebooted everything in I Believe
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that was twenty eleven. Bunch of Golden Age Superman stories
that he's in, or retellings of stories that explore Superman's origin.
He doesn't feature prominently in a lot of the animated adaptations,
but is sometimes referenced in versions that are kind of
referencing Superman's early days, and then sometimes in live action
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TV or film, George Taylor will get referenced in passing,
and this may be one example of that. They're talking
to Lex Luthor's lawyers in the bar, so Lex walks in.
Clark and and John are talking and John here's Lex
at the bar. At Luthor is getting very angry that
the handshake deal they had with eighty Manning is not
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going to hold up, that she is not keeping up
her end of the bargain. Clark shows up Luthor at
that point then basically says, I will give you ten
million dollars, and I will give everyone else in this
bar ten million dollars if you sell me your land
right now. And the other folks at the bar, you
can tell they know that Clark is Superman, or at
least you get a really strong sense that they do.
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And they all kind of tell her. One of them
says it doesn't feel right. One of them says, something's
wrong with this, so her answer is still no. Back
at the hotel, Pomono, Amanda and Lex are arguing and
he tells her tell Milton to send his installation team.
And I think I did this on one of our
earlier episodes this season, but I'm gonna do it again
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for a little another left turn into let's educate you
about some characters. Milton Fine a lot of times aka Brainiac.
His first appear was an Action Comics number two seventy
five April of nineteen sixty one. He was initially introduced
as a human with psychic abilities, later reinterpreted as the
alis of the infamous Superman villain Brainiac. Brainiac character itself
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first appeared in Action Comics two forty two, which was
in nineteen fifty eight, but Milton Finds version was developed
in some later stories. Originally, Milton find was a sideshow
mentalist in psychic who became possessed by the end of
the of Brainiac, transforming him into a loan of Superman's
most famous villains. This version, this version kind of diverges
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from well he might have been, I don't know. I'm
not going to judge Brainiac and his relationships. This version
of break Hick diverges from the alien Koluin origin of Brainiac,
but adding kind of a psychological angle to it, and
kind of explored some of Fine's inner struggles as he
had between his human mind and the influence of the
Brainiac entity. As Brainiac, Milton Fine has genius level intellect,
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psychic powers, a particular obsession with Superman, and cities that
he can collect. Oftentimes sometimes he's even called the Collector,
collecting cities like Metropolis and Candor Lost City of Candor.
In some stories, Milton Vin as Brainiac appeared in several
different stories. Some key appearances would be a bunch of
different times. I think Panic in the Sky storyline was
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one of them. There were some after Superman had died
and come back where Brainiac was messing with Superman's mind
and making him think that maybe he really hadn't come
back to life the animated series. Brainik was featured prominently
in both Superman the Animated series and Justice League Unlimited,
typically as an alien AI, but every once in a
while they will mention Lilaction TV Smallville did have a
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Brainiac version that I believe used the Milton Fine alias,
and that was played by James Marsters, who some people
would also know from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So we
have Amanda telling him, look, this is a bad move.
After he says, you know, have Milton's teams come in
and do the installations. She says, this is a bad
move and how dare you keep me in the dark
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and not tell me what had happened with Elizabeth? And
you can tell that this relationship, at least for Amanda,
this relationship is more than just boss and assistant. She
seems to love him, and whether or not they have
had more of a relationship than employee employer is maybe implied,
but I don't know, so it doesn't see. It seems
very one way that Lex, just as he does with everyone,
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is just using her, but she feels very very differently.
Lex basically says, look, you gotta choose whether you're gonna
stay with me. You're either with me or with everyone else.
And at that point she walks away. So we think
that maybe this is done, as we will see later,
maybe not so much. We got to a scene of
Lana and Sarah talking about the whole Lex situation. Again.
Sophie no where to be, seeing she was around sewing infrequently.
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They even forgot her name, so they just sent her
off and they're like, you know, just they'll they'll do
your thing, or because she grew twenty feet in the
last episode, they probably got her a basketball scholarship, and
she is now at a boarding school somewhere playing basketball.
And that's why Sarah wants to travel, because her sister
got to first. I don't know, I'm just making stuff up,
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Sarah says, there's something I want to talk about. That
phrase among phrases that never ends up being anything good,
but in this case, it's semi good. COUSSEI good. She says,
I want to study abroad next year. Her mom says, well,
didn't you already study abroad in season one? And John
says that's a terrible joke. Alana's not excited about this.
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She says, this is very expensive. Where is this coming from?
Where would you where would you even go? And they
cut away from the scene before she answers, we have
the super sons. Jordan says, Coach Games made me promise
to watch Varsity Blues before I gave him an answer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Playing football at West Canaan may have been.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The opportunity of your lifetime, but I don't want your life.
I kind of liked it. I might have a point.
I think you're going. He's telling Jonathan, I think you're
going a little bit too much. All in on the
Superboy thing, you might need to pull back a little bit,
and John is like, well, I wouldn't have to do
so much if you were actually helping me, and Jordan
reiterates the well, when I get involved, things get worse.
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So still kind of mulling that over and still upset
over what had happened with his dad. Clark and Lewis,
we have a kind of a funny and cute scene
where Clark has been in the bathroom for a while
and he comes to Lois is like, what she can
tell because she can smell it right away. It's like
if you've been dyeing your hair, and he's like, look,
this is not the time for both Clark and Superman
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to be going gray. And he is still concerned about
his diminished strength, diminished superhero, which kind of explains why
sometimes you know, John and Jordan will hear something and
Clark won't. And he basically by the end of the
scene he says, you know what now, if anything, it
now means we can, you know, age gracefully together. He's
about to give her a kiss and she's like, no,
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not until you watch that stuff out of your hair,
because it smells We have a lightning storm in Smallville.
It's a little matrix revolutions kind of stuff going on.
I'm the lightning storm, mister Anderson. Welcome by.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We miss you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Like what I've done with the place. It ends tonight. Well,
we set the scene here because John is sleeping, Jordan
is gaming with the headphones on. We see Lana sleeping,
but she wakes up and something is I'm quite right,
So she starts walking through the house. The stove is on,
the oven is open with the gas on, and she
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sees the security system has been disabled. There is a
bad guy in her house strangling her. She pulls off
his mask and maybe it is Otis Grisham Lexus crony.
Sarah shows up with a baseball bat and knocks him out.
He is out cold. The Kents then show up at
Lana's house with all the other police cars that are there.
This is being carried on on a stretcher, so way
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to go, Sarah. Lana was talking to the police. Lana
tells Clark and Leis about what happened, and she you're
kind of talking through this. She's just flabbergasted. She's like,
so Lex Luthor tried to kill me over a land deal.
She clearly does not understand the obsession that Lex has
and has always had since likely the age of six
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with land Lett. What is this obsession with real estate
all the time? Lad land Land Steves Parker. When I
was six years old, my father said to.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Me get out.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Before that. He said, some stops.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
May rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse.
People are no damn good, but they will always need land,
and they'll pay through the nose to get it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Remember, my father said, land. Sarah is talking with the
super Sons and they both feel guilty that they didn't
hear anything. She's like, look, don't it's not You're not
supposed to be listing for my family, you know, don't
feel guilty about this. Stuff happens and it's okay. Everybody's okay,
and then everybody realizes that Clark is gone when they
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go back into the house. And here's where we full
on Matrix revolutions this. Because it's raining, it's lightning. Clark
is in downtown Smallville in the street, calling Luther out
for a showdown at high midnight, and Lex meets him
on the street and he's like Luther, he keeps calling out, Luther,
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get out here. And this is the angriest I believe
we have ever seen the tyler Hecklan Clark can't Superman.
Lex meets him on the street. You look upset. Did
something happen? He says, and he says, this is over.
We are going to end you, and Lex clicks a
little switch that he's got and all the street lamps
turn red. So clearly this is something that Milton Fine
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was working on. Red solar radiation. If you know from
the comic books and other iterations of the show, then
the character of Superman that it is the yellow sun
that gives Superman his powers and the Red Son, just
like the Red Son of Krypton, takes his powers away.
So we've seen this before with you know, with Uncle
Tal they had the scenes where they put him in
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the red solar radiation cage and just other instances where
they've used red solar radiation in the show. So this
is nothing new for this character. And they start a
big old brawl in the street. Lois and the boys
arrive and watch the end of the fight. Luthor is
beating the crap out of Clark. The boys can't help
because of the lights Lois holds the back and says, no,
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you can't because of the red lights. The tide turns.
Clark is beating up Luther, hands around his throat, and
Luthor is laughing and says, I always knew Superman was
a facade. Now they see who you really are, and
Clark basically smacks him down and says leave and don't
ever come back. We cut to a scene of Lois
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trying to kind of fix Clark up a bit, and
she says, you know your face is still bruise. Should
have healed by now. He's like, when the sun comes up,
it'll be fine, it'll heal, and she's like, no, no,
even even at that, like you should have healed by now.
You might need to go talk to your mom and
see what's going on, because this is just not right.
Your healings, even at your weakest, like your healing should
have taken over by now. So this is just it's
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not wrong. The boys are excited about the fight. They're like, man,
that was awesome, like you just you beat him up,
and Clark is like, no, I never should have gone
out that. I never should have stooped to his level.
What I did was wrong and I love how when Superman.
Superman is always the best of what we would hope
to be. And while he has the strength to do
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all the things that he does, his true strength comes
when he says things like that to his sons. It's like, look,
I shouldn't have thought like I did the wrong thing.
I shouldn't have been there, I shouldn't have done what
I did. This power is not about cool. This power
is about using it when it's necessary to help those
who who can't help themselves, to help the most helpless.
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That is what this power is about. It is not
about getting revenge. It's not about giving people what they deserve.
That's not the job of Superman. Jordan. At that point,
then it kind of finally realizes, like, look, I've been
on the sidelines too much, and I really think I
should be helping. I should be doing the superhero thing too,
because things are going wrong even though I'm sitting out,
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Maybe I need to step back in. We cut to
a scene with Lana at home talking with Sarah. She's like, look,
you're right about some stuff and you should study abroad.
We're going to make this happen, and so big hugs
all around there Sarah is talking to the boys a
little bit later. She tells them she's leaving small Villae
just for junior year. They ask her where she might
want to go. She's thinking Santiago, Chile or Greece, and
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the funny scene where the boys are like, well, you know,
we could take you to both of those locations, then
you can figure out which one you like best, and
they kind of look at each other and they're like,
what do you think Greek islands? Greek Islands? Yeah, Creek Islands,
And she protests, but they do grab her and they
launch themselves into the air. And I'm trying to remember,
I'm blanking out on whether Sarah has had the opportunity
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to fly with them at any of these points. I
feel like there was an instance, but maybe not so
maybe this is her first time flying. But yes, they
are launching to Greece and they're gonna take this so
she can check it out. Clark, Lois, and Lava are
in Lex's hotel room. Luther is back in Metropolis, and
Lana asks the question, what do you think he is
planning next? Back in Metropolis, Lex is giving himself stitches.
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Amanda comes in and asks Milton's lights didn't work, and
Lex says, no, he was just stronger than I thought
he was. Amanda is back because she chose to stay
with him, and she starts to help him with the stitches,
and she says, you've been going about this all the
wrong way, and he's like, well, it was hard to
do the stitches and she said, I'm not talking about
the stitches, and he says, what do you have in mind?
And her the final line of the episode is the
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first thing we need to do is to get you
a killer suit. So it sounds like for at least,
you know, for the next episode or at some point
in the near future, we are probably gonna go full
on suit it up. Well, either suited up in a
business suit Lex, or maybe we don't know, maybe we
get like super Friends Green and Purple power suit Lex.
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I don't know. I'd be fine with either one of them.
I go with that, But either way, they're gonna get
an killer suit. Now, if it is the power suit
like from the old Super Fans cartoon and some of
the other iterations of Lex, I could see that being
something that if Milton Fine is their kind of resident inventor,
I could see that being something that he puts together
for Lex. At this point in time, I am going
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to make a prediction to say, I don't think we're
gonna see Brainiac. The next episode is episode seven out
of a total of ten episodes. I think at this
point it would be a mistake for Milton Fine to
be anything other than a genius inventor that they name
drop in these episodes, because Brainiac is way too big
of a character. It would take way too much to
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explain why Lex is working with him with all four
episodes left, I highly doubt they're going to do that
at this point. It would have been interesting we had
Doomsday during the first half of the season. I don't
think it's appropriate. I don't think you have enough time.
There's not a runway to be able to really do
it and do it right. If you saw the promo
for the next episode, A Regular Die, seems like a
lot of this episode is going to deal with trying
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to get the they say, put the genie back in
the bottle, trying to somehow maybe trick people into thinking
that the whole Clark Superman thing that they really are
two different people. They've done this a few different times
in the comics and in other shows, so I'll be
curious to see what they decide to do to try
to pull this off. I have said before, I am
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totally fine if they decide to just reveal the secret,
that's absolutely fine. I think that might be the best
way to realistically get the boys to be super Boys
by the end of this whole thing. But I am
not writing the show, and the show has been written
very well for the three and a half seasons that
have existed so far, so I am going to trust
the writers that they are going to do the right
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thing because they have done a phenomenal job up to
this point. Everybody that's going to do it for this episode,
thank you so much for being here. We will be
back here again next week with the next episode a
regular guy. He's not a regular guy. He's a super guy,
but he wants to man. I don't know, maybe he
wants to be a regular guy. But yes, we'll be
back here next time with a regular guy. Everybody, Thank
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you so much. As always, looking forward to talking about
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Speaker 2 (26:03):
And the shot listen, I mean got talking about end
this and got so baffled. Pursuit the dream list of
the shot up the ball and do the bruising lap
and make you tell about
I've got you, You've got me.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Who's got you? Hello, come to me, son of Jallo
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Neil before.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So Hey everybody, it's your host John Reid here for
another episode of the podcast Full of Kryptonite. We are
here for season four, episode six, when the Lights Come on.
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Great Santana song, by the way. We start off this
episode with Lex doing a little heavy metal renovations. It
seems he's got a bit of an appetite for destruction.
A maybe he's listening to some music. Maybe it's a
symphony of destruction if you will. So as he's filming
his episode of this demolished house, he is just wailing
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the crap out everything, and ultimately, as he's tearing everything down,
he takes a picture of Elizabeth and burns that as
well as he's setting fire to all of his other stuff,
which I've only ever seen people doing TV shows and movies.
But you said fire to the stuff in the garbage can,
and that's basically it. He's severing ties with his daughter.
(01:29):
He realizes that he has lost that and all he
has left is is revenge. So he's doug with that.
His assistant Amanda shows up and they talk a little
bit about how he is planning to move Luther Corp.
To Smallville, and he tells her as well that he
needs something from Milton. By the end of the day,
Arry hands or a diagram of something. And it was
(01:51):
a little hard to tell this part as I was
watching the episode. I had to watch this part of
the episode on my phone, so it was a little
hard to see exactly what it was. But we do
find out later what this device is. Then we cut
to a scene of Clark, Lois and Jordan, and John
has been making a bunch of saves, like he has
been all over the place, three or four saves that morning,
(02:11):
and then Jordan, they say, hey, you know, it's fine
that you don't want to do the superhero thing, but
you can't sit around the house play video games. You
gotta go get a job. Then we cut to a
scene of Lana and Sarah by the folding laundry and
a little talk. Sarah talks about missing her dad. Sophie
nowhere to be seen at this point, so she is
Mia once again. They do talk a little bit about
(02:33):
how Lana and John Henry. It's mentioned two times I
think in this episode. Sarah mentions about Lata and John
Henry spending time together. Clark and Lewis later mentioned that
they've been dating for about a month. Then we cut
to Clark and Lowis talking about Luther's minions and trying
to figure out a way to get them to talk.
Lois makes a little comment that Clark's hair is starting
to turn a little gray. She happens to spot Lex's
(02:53):
assistant Amanda across the street and is going to go
confront her. We kin have a scene in the Mayor's
office where Lex shows up without it a opintment, basically says, look,
you got to Lana. You gotta cut out what you're doing.
I am coming to Smallville. You cannot stop me. You're
just you're getting in my way and when people get
in my way, things do not go well. Lois also
(03:13):
then confronts Amanda, the assistant and basically says, look, you
can't trust Luthor. He will turn on you. She tells
him the whole thing about Elizabeth and what happened in
that situation, which Amanda did not know, and that kind of,
you know, crumbles the the I Love Lex foundation that
she's got going on there. Clark shows up at Britain
Dunn's convenience store. De Nice is being awkward because she
(03:35):
knows that Clark is Soups and he's getting his stuff
wrung up there at the register ordering a box of
hair color as well. He's buying a box of hair
color from him. The total is nineteen thirty eight, his
very first year Superman came out. But Lana walks in
spots the hair color thing and kind of has a
little chuckle to herself. Tells Clark that Luther core is
(03:55):
being moved to Smallville, which he did not know, and
says that Luthor has planned by Adie Mannings farm a
land and that is where he is going to be
setting up the new headquarters for Luther Kork. She does
ask Clark to come with us, basically says, look, Clark,
your bom, I mean you hold more sway than I
think you think in this town because your last name
is Kent, like your mom is basically everybody's guardian angel
(04:17):
for years and years and years. So if you come
and talk to ady with me, then I think you
really are going to hold a lot more influenced than
you think you do. Would be really helpful if he
did that. We get a scene with the diner and
John is just wolfing down food because he has been
doing saves left and right. Jordan and Sarah are kind
of picking on it a little bit. Coach Gaines stops by,
(04:38):
So there's a little funny part. We have all these
other characters, all these other kind of they had been
recurring series regulars throughout the time of this show. I
think we've seen more Coach Gaines than we have of
John Henry and some of the other supporting actors that
have been around for years and years on this show.
So anyway, Coach Gaines again and we find out that
(05:02):
I think more people than we thought know of the
secret because he's being extra friendly to the boys and
basically says, you boys ready for the football season. John
reminds him, Coach, I'm banned from the football team kind
of for life, and he basically whispers, well, yeah, but
I know that you guys are you know Superman's sons,
(05:24):
and he's like, look, we got I mean, think about it,
state titles, scholarships, girls, and a dimension of girls. Although
that was just bad timing. John here's something and does
the what Sarah called the meerkat, So he meerkats and
Coach Gains mistakes that, for see, your brother knows what
I'm talking about, and then he rushes off, leading Jordan
to be stuck there with Coach Gains. We got to
(05:46):
eighty manning. Lana and Clark are trying to talk her
out of selling her land, and she is hesitant because
this is more money than she probably would ever see
in her entire life, but asks ultimately, is Luther really
that bad because it is so much money to turn down,
And then ultimately, as they say yes, yes he is,
she says somewhat cryptically but not really. Well, it's nothing
(06:09):
compared to what you've sacrificed, she says, as she is
looking at Clark, and again, example of one more person
who shouldn't know that he's Superman, knows that he's Superman,
but is keeping it on the down low. So at
this point, I think we're kind of thinking everybody in
Smallville must know the secret, and they are at least
(06:29):
a so much has been done for them by Superman
over the years that they I mean, Coach Gaines is
maybe being a little too excited about it, but everybody
else at least respects and revers Superman enough to keep
his secret because he knows that because they know he
would want it to be kept. They get back into town,
Luther is watching from his window at the hotel Pomono.
(06:52):
Lois tells Clark about the Luther Court move. Clark already
knows and tells Lois that I think a lot of
people seem to know that I'm Superman. We have a problem.
John zooms in with bagels from Montreal, and they said, look,
we might need to have a little talk and you
might need to just chill for just a bit because
it seems like the secret's getting out. Jordan goes to
(07:12):
the diner and wants to try to get a job there.
Sarah basically says, nope, I do not want to be
working with my ex boyfriend. Sarah talks about how she
feels stuck in Smallville and jealous of Jordan's powers. Basically,
you can fly anywhere you want, you can get a
summer job anywhere you want, and I'm stuck here. And
Jordan kind of reminds her. He's like, look, you don't
have to have powers to get out of Smallville. You
just have to get out of Smallville. And I think
(07:35):
that she kind of you see a change in her
facial expression that kind of piques her interest as she realizes,
you know what, actually, yeah, I probably just need to
get out of Smallville. And then as that scene ends,
a man walks to the bar and she says, hey,
mister Taylor, and then he walks to the diner and
has a seat. I'm gonna do a quick little left
turn here and say that mister Taylor may or may
(07:58):
not be a reference to George Taylor. So here's your
little podcast full of kryptonide history. Lesson here, George Taylor.
The character was first seen in Action Comics number one
in June of nineteen thirty eight. As I said a
moment ago, nineteen thirty eight is the year that Superman
first appeared in comic books. George Taylor is introduced as
Clark Kent's first editor in the early Superman comics. He
(08:20):
is the editor in chief of the Daily Star, which
is the precursor to the Daily Planet, and that is
where Clark started his journalism career. George Taylor basically a
minor character, served mainly as kind of a backdrop in
Superman's early career, primarily involved assigning stories to Clark and
Lois unaware of Superman's dual identity. As Clark Kent. He's
(08:42):
pretty much straightforward, no nonsense editor who encourages the investigative
journalists that work for him provide some moral guidance, but
doesn't really play a significant role in any major story
arcs or stories in those early comics. Over time, he
gets replaced by Perry White, who, as I recall, has
a very similar personality, so they're really not all that
different in some ways in terms of characters, especially as
(09:04):
the character of Perry White evolved over the years. At
different times he may have looked more or less like
George Taylor, but occasionally the name or character of George
Taylor reappears as kind of a nod to Golden Age
Superman did reappear for a short time when Clark I
believe was working at the Daily Star during the New
fifty two storyline when they rebooted everything in I Believe
(09:25):
that was twenty eleven. Bunch of Golden Age Superman stories
that he's in, or retellings of stories that explore Superman's origin.
He doesn't feature prominently in a lot of the animated adaptations,
but is sometimes referenced in versions that are kind of
referencing Superman's early days, and then sometimes in live action
(09:47):
TV or film, George Taylor will get referenced in passing,
and this may be one example of that. They're talking
to Lex Luthor's lawyers in the bar, so Lex walks in.
Clark and and John are talking and John here's Lex
at the bar. At Luthor is getting very angry that
the handshake deal they had with eighty Manning is not
(10:08):
going to hold up, that she is not keeping up
her end of the bargain. Clark shows up Luthor at
that point then basically says, I will give you ten
million dollars, and I will give everyone else in this
bar ten million dollars if you sell me your land
right now. And the other folks at the bar, you
can tell they know that Clark is Superman, or at
least you get a really strong sense that they do.
(10:30):
And they all kind of tell her. One of them
says it doesn't feel right. One of them says, something's
wrong with this, so her answer is still no. Back
at the hotel, Pomono, Amanda and Lex are arguing and
he tells her tell Milton to send his installation team.
And I think I did this on one of our
earlier episodes this season, but I'm gonna do it again
(10:51):
for a little another left turn into let's educate you
about some characters. Milton Fine a lot of times aka Brainiac.
His first appear was an Action Comics number two seventy
five April of nineteen sixty one. He was initially introduced
as a human with psychic abilities, later reinterpreted as the
alis of the infamous Superman villain Brainiac. Brainiac character itself
(11:14):
first appeared in Action Comics two forty two, which was
in nineteen fifty eight, but Milton Finds version was developed
in some later stories. Originally, Milton find was a sideshow
mentalist in psychic who became possessed by the end of
the of Brainiac, transforming him into a loan of Superman's
most famous villains. This version, this version kind of diverges
(11:37):
from well he might have been, I don't know. I'm
not going to judge Brainiac and his relationships. This version
of break Hick diverges from the alien Koluin origin of Brainiac,
but adding kind of a psychological angle to it, and
kind of explored some of Fine's inner struggles as he
had between his human mind and the influence of the
Brainiac entity. As Brainiac, Milton Fine has genius level intellect,
(12:03):
psychic powers, a particular obsession with Superman, and cities that
he can collect. Oftentimes sometimes he's even called the Collector,
collecting cities like Metropolis and Candor Lost City of Candor.
In some stories, Milton Vin as Brainiac appeared in several
different stories. Some key appearances would be a bunch of
different times. I think Panic in the Sky storyline was
(12:25):
one of them. There were some after Superman had died
and come back where Brainiac was messing with Superman's mind
and making him think that maybe he really hadn't come
back to life the animated series. Brainik was featured prominently
in both Superman the Animated series and Justice League Unlimited,
typically as an alien AI, but every once in a
while they will mention Lilaction TV Smallville did have a
(12:50):
Brainiac version that I believe used the Milton Fine alias,
and that was played by James Marsters, who some people
would also know from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So we
have Amanda telling him, look, this is a bad move.
After he says, you know, have Milton's teams come in
and do the installations. She says, this is a bad
move and how dare you keep me in the dark
(13:10):
and not tell me what had happened with Elizabeth? And
you can tell that this relationship, at least for Amanda,
this relationship is more than just boss and assistant. She
seems to love him, and whether or not they have
had more of a relationship than employee employer is maybe implied,
but I don't know, so it doesn't see. It seems
very one way that Lex, just as he does with everyone,
(13:32):
is just using her, but she feels very very differently.
Lex basically says, look, you gotta choose whether you're gonna
stay with me. You're either with me or with everyone else.
And at that point she walks away. So we think
that maybe this is done, as we will see later,
maybe not so much. We got to a scene of
Lana and Sarah talking about the whole Lex situation. Again.
Sophie no where to be, seeing she was around sewing infrequently.
(13:55):
They even forgot her name, so they just sent her
off and they're like, you know, just they'll they'll do
your thing, or because she grew twenty feet in the
last episode, they probably got her a basketball scholarship, and
she is now at a boarding school somewhere playing basketball.
And that's why Sarah wants to travel, because her sister
got to first. I don't know, I'm just making stuff up,
(14:15):
Sarah says, there's something I want to talk about. That
phrase among phrases that never ends up being anything good,
but in this case, it's semi good. COUSSEI good. She says,
I want to study abroad next year. Her mom says, well,
didn't you already study abroad in season one? And John
says that's a terrible joke. Alana's not excited about this.
(14:36):
She says, this is very expensive. Where is this coming from?
Where would you where would you even go? And they
cut away from the scene before she answers, we have
the super sons. Jordan says, Coach Games made me promise
to watch Varsity Blues before I gave him an answer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Playing football at West Canaan may have been.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The opportunity of your lifetime, but I don't want your life.
I kind of liked it. I might have a point.
I think you're going. He's telling Jonathan, I think you're
going a little bit too much. All in on the
Superboy thing, you might need to pull back a little bit,
and John is like, well, I wouldn't have to do
so much if you were actually helping me, and Jordan
reiterates the well, when I get involved, things get worse.
(15:15):
So still kind of mulling that over and still upset
over what had happened with his dad. Clark and Lewis,
we have a kind of a funny and cute scene
where Clark has been in the bathroom for a while
and he comes to Lois is like, what she can
tell because she can smell it right away. It's like
if you've been dyeing your hair, and he's like, look,
this is not the time for both Clark and Superman
(15:35):
to be going gray. And he is still concerned about
his diminished strength, diminished superhero, which kind of explains why
sometimes you know, John and Jordan will hear something and
Clark won't. And he basically by the end of the
scene he says, you know what now, if anything, it
now means we can, you know, age gracefully together. He's
about to give her a kiss and she's like, no,
(15:55):
not until you watch that stuff out of your hair,
because it smells We have a lightning storm in Smallville.
It's a little matrix revolutions kind of stuff going on.
I'm the lightning storm, mister Anderson. Welcome by.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We miss you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Like what I've done with the place. It ends tonight. Well,
we set the scene here because John is sleeping, Jordan
is gaming with the headphones on. We see Lana sleeping,
but she wakes up and something is I'm quite right,
So she starts walking through the house. The stove is on,
the oven is open with the gas on, and she
(16:40):
sees the security system has been disabled. There is a
bad guy in her house strangling her. She pulls off
his mask and maybe it is Otis Grisham Lexus crony.
Sarah shows up with a baseball bat and knocks him out.
He is out cold. The Kents then show up at
Lana's house with all the other police cars that are there.
This is being carried on on a stretcher, so way
(17:01):
to go, Sarah. Lana was talking to the police. Lana
tells Clark and Leis about what happened, and she you're
kind of talking through this. She's just flabbergasted. She's like,
so Lex Luthor tried to kill me over a land deal.
She clearly does not understand the obsession that Lex has
and has always had since likely the age of six
(17:25):
with land Lett. What is this obsession with real estate
all the time? Lad land Land Steves Parker. When I
was six years old, my father said to.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Me get out.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Before that. He said, some stops.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
May rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse.
People are no damn good, but they will always need land,
and they'll pay through the nose to get it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Remember, my father said, land. Sarah is talking with the
super Sons and they both feel guilty that they didn't
hear anything. She's like, look, don't it's not You're not
supposed to be listing for my family, you know, don't
feel guilty about this. Stuff happens and it's okay. Everybody's okay,
and then everybody realizes that Clark is gone when they
(18:10):
go back into the house. And here's where we full
on Matrix revolutions this. Because it's raining, it's lightning. Clark
is in downtown Smallville in the street, calling Luther out
for a showdown at high midnight, and Lex meets him
on the street and he's like Luther, he keeps calling out, Luther,
(18:30):
get out here. And this is the angriest I believe
we have ever seen the tyler Hecklan Clark can't Superman.
Lex meets him on the street. You look upset. Did
something happen? He says, and he says, this is over.
We are going to end you, and Lex clicks a
little switch that he's got and all the street lamps
turn red. So clearly this is something that Milton Fine
(18:53):
was working on. Red solar radiation. If you know from
the comic books and other iterations of the show, then
the character of Superman that it is the yellow sun
that gives Superman his powers and the Red Son, just
like the Red Son of Krypton, takes his powers away.
So we've seen this before with you know, with Uncle
Tal they had the scenes where they put him in
(19:14):
the red solar radiation cage and just other instances where
they've used red solar radiation in the show. So this
is nothing new for this character. And they start a
big old brawl in the street. Lois and the boys
arrive and watch the end of the fight. Luthor is
beating the crap out of Clark. The boys can't help
because of the lights Lois holds the back and says, no,
(19:35):
you can't because of the red lights. The tide turns.
Clark is beating up Luther, hands around his throat, and
Luthor is laughing and says, I always knew Superman was
a facade. Now they see who you really are, and
Clark basically smacks him down and says leave and don't
ever come back. We cut to a scene of Lois
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trying to kind of fix Clark up a bit, and
she says, you know your face is still bruise. Should
have healed by now. He's like, when the sun comes up,
it'll be fine, it'll heal, and she's like, no, no,
even even at that, like you should have healed by now.
You might need to go talk to your mom and
see what's going on, because this is just not right.
Your healings, even at your weakest, like your healing should
have taken over by now. So this is just it's
(20:17):
not wrong. The boys are excited about the fight. They're like, man,
that was awesome, like you just you beat him up,
and Clark is like, no, I never should have gone
out that. I never should have stooped to his level.
What I did was wrong and I love how when Superman.
Superman is always the best of what we would hope
to be. And while he has the strength to do
(20:37):
all the things that he does, his true strength comes
when he says things like that to his sons. It's like, look,
I shouldn't have thought like I did the wrong thing.
I shouldn't have been there, I shouldn't have done what
I did. This power is not about cool. This power
is about using it when it's necessary to help those
who who can't help themselves, to help the most helpless.
(21:00):
That is what this power is about. It is not
about getting revenge. It's not about giving people what they deserve.
That's not the job of Superman. Jordan. At that point,
then it kind of finally realizes, like, look, I've been
on the sidelines too much, and I really think I
should be helping. I should be doing the superhero thing too,
because things are going wrong even though I'm sitting out,
(21:21):
Maybe I need to step back in. We cut to
a scene with Lana at home talking with Sarah. She's like, look,
you're right about some stuff and you should study abroad.
We're going to make this happen, and so big hugs
all around there Sarah is talking to the boys a
little bit later. She tells them she's leaving small Villae
just for junior year. They ask her where she might
want to go. She's thinking Santiago, Chile or Greece, and
(21:42):
the funny scene where the boys are like, well, you know,
we could take you to both of those locations, then
you can figure out which one you like best, and
they kind of look at each other and they're like,
what do you think Greek islands? Greek Islands? Yeah, Creek Islands,
And she protests, but they do grab her and they
launch themselves into the air. And I'm trying to remember,
I'm blanking out on whether Sarah has had the opportunity
(22:04):
to fly with them at any of these points. I
feel like there was an instance, but maybe not so
maybe this is her first time flying. But yes, they
are launching to Greece and they're gonna take this so
she can check it out. Clark, Lois, and Lava are
in Lex's hotel room. Luther is back in Metropolis, and
Lana asks the question, what do you think he is
planning next? Back in Metropolis, Lex is giving himself stitches.
(22:29):
Amanda comes in and asks Milton's lights didn't work, and
Lex says, no, he was just stronger than I thought
he was. Amanda is back because she chose to stay
with him, and she starts to help him with the stitches,
and she says, you've been going about this all the
wrong way, and he's like, well, it was hard to
do the stitches and she said, I'm not talking about
the stitches, and he says, what do you have in mind?
And her the final line of the episode is the
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first thing we need to do is to get you
a killer suit. So it sounds like for at least,
you know, for the next episode or at some point
in the near future, we are probably gonna go full
on suit it up. Well, either suited up in a
business suit Lex, or maybe we don't know, maybe we
get like super Friends Green and Purple power suit Lex.
(23:16):
I don't know. I'd be fine with either one of them.
I go with that, But either way, they're gonna get
an killer suit. Now, if it is the power suit
like from the old Super Fans cartoon and some of
the other iterations of Lex, I could see that being
something that if Milton Fine is their kind of resident inventor,
I could see that being something that he puts together
for Lex. At this point in time, I am going
(23:38):
to make a prediction to say, I don't think we're
gonna see Brainiac. The next episode is episode seven out
of a total of ten episodes. I think at this
point it would be a mistake for Milton Fine to
be anything other than a genius inventor that they name
drop in these episodes, because Brainiac is way too big
of a character. It would take way too much to
(24:00):
explain why Lex is working with him with all four
episodes left, I highly doubt they're going to do that
at this point. It would have been interesting we had
Doomsday during the first half of the season. I don't
think it's appropriate. I don't think you have enough time.
There's not a runway to be able to really do
it and do it right. If you saw the promo
for the next episode, A Regular Die, seems like a
lot of this episode is going to deal with trying
(24:22):
to get the they say, put the genie back in
the bottle, trying to somehow maybe trick people into thinking
that the whole Clark Superman thing that they really are
two different people. They've done this a few different times
in the comics and in other shows, so I'll be
curious to see what they decide to do to try
to pull this off. I have said before, I am
(24:42):
totally fine if they decide to just reveal the secret,
that's absolutely fine. I think that might be the best
way to realistically get the boys to be super Boys
by the end of this whole thing. But I am
not writing the show, and the show has been written
very well for the three and a half seasons that
have existed so far, so I am going to trust
the writers that they are going to do the right
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thing because they have done a phenomenal job up to
this point. Everybody that's going to do it for this episode,
thank you so much for being here. We will be
back here again next week with the next episode a
regular guy. He's not a regular guy. He's a super guy,
but he wants to man. I don't know, maybe he
wants to be a regular guy. But yes, we'll be
back here next time with a regular guy. Everybody, Thank
(25:27):
you so much. As always, looking forward to talking about
the next episode. If you have any thoughts, feel free
just send them in. We are on Twitter or x
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(25:49):
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you everybody, up, up, and away. We'll see you back
here next year.
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this and got so baffled. Pursuit the dream list of
the shot up the ball and do the bruising lap
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