ok i am checking it out now, will see your view on it.
Ok trip, i just finished reading your review. Always top notch writing you do. I do enjoy reading them as you well know. Now i do agree with your points a bit. As for the whole kandorian thing and alia, many of us here and other boards like ksite believe there is more to it then what we saw in this possible future. We know there is 13 more episode in the season. So the whole towers and zod's plan for getting powers could be explained in more detail in an upcoming episode. As for alia she is a mystery something has to be up with her. As to why she had powers under a yellow sun there is a few theories going there. Acting i thought was well around for all, and i agree not the best direction for this director i did like what he did in bulletproof alot more. As for other things like stuart's getting shot i believe he was shot in the back and not in his head. But i too thought he was dead as a doornail to chloe stated later he was still living. But again a good review and i understand your views on what you didnt like. I might watch the episode again myself and watch it a bit more creditical.
Well, I had to remind myself about Morgan's directing in Bulletproof, I think I remembered having some issues with it, so I went back and reread my review. I think he had some of the same problems there he did here, but the script was more solid being written by Bryan Q. Miller instead of two newbies...
just finished reading your review. It was a good read. You bring up valid points regarding the inconsistencies in the episode. I hadn't thought of the episode in that much detail but when you break it up the way you did, the episode had many problems. In fact, I'm surprised you didn't rate it lower. 3.5 out of 5 is a high grade considering all the plot holes in the episode. I didn't know the writers were new. It was a bold move to give the episode to new people at such a pivotal point in the season.
The grade was hard, there were so many things I liked, but so many I didn't.... I did enjoy some parts quite a bit, so I really struggled with the grade.
I was going to give it a four because I think I did like it better in some ways than Roulette, which I had given a four, but Roulette at least had no problems with the acting or plot consistancies so technically, I think that was a better episode from the writing, directing and acting view points.
As for the writers, I think they did okay with some things, the Clark/Lois scene were all good and I really liked the ending Daily Planet scene, but check out their IMDB pages. They've got some experience, but not a lot.
They last wrote for The Book of Daniel three years ago and had previously wrote a Hercules episode...
I think it was a bit questionable them giving newbie writers that have been untested a major mythos-centric episode.
Maybe they'll do better the next episode they write.
I told her she needs to check out the last few episodes because I think/hope it will change her mind about Lois.
