Friday, July 27, 2012

Smallville: Random, Awesome and WTF?! - S6E21: Prototype

Lex’s secret pet project, Ares, gets a trial run to see just how well it kill things and, surprising absolutely no one, it kills them real good.

Naturally, this is going to cause some problems for our heroes down the road…


The Random:
1. We should be impressed by Project: Ares’ test run mowing through the guards Lex has placed as obstacles, but then we remember these are the same guards that get compromised every third Friday and it loses the luster.

2. I would have thought that a senator being killed would have made more waves in the media, but Clark seems to be the one breaking the news to everyone.

3. Lex may be a bit insane, but it doesn’t exactly seem that batty for him to want a weapon that can challenge all the superpowered aliens and Smallville residents that’ve been trying to kill him these past few years.

“And now for the final ingredient…Mountain Dew Code Red.”

The Awesome:
1. Whoa, did Clark just step to Lionel?  Why yes he did.  Who cares if he knows all about your secrets, and your weakness, you go on and tell him what’s what.  That’s my boy.

2. Wes, our Project: Ares guinea pig, is a true badass, even more powerful than Titan, having about a dozen Kryptonite powers at once.  I’d say Lex’s team did a damn good job.  It’s going to blow up in their faces, sure, but hats off for ingenuity in initial design.

3. Lex totally called out Lana on her spying on him and, in no uncertain terms, pretty much threatened her.  It’s about damn time, dude.  And you know what makes it better?  That he’s got a whole damn room full of Ares subjects just waiting to be activated.

Yeah, this can’t possibly backfire, right?

The WTF?!:
1. Clark, listen.  You’ve got to let this go.  You know Lana is staying in her marriage for some reason and Chloe is all but telling you to drop it for everyone’s good.  So, what do you do?  You keep on being a passive aggressive dick to everyone.

2. Clark and Chloe are incredulous at Lois for claiming that she saw Wes Keenan kill the senator even though it jives with what his wife, Jodi, was saying when she took Lex hostage and tried to blow everyone up.  Yeah, because strange stuff never happens in this town, right?

3. Our boy Wes goes out a hero, breaking his control long enough to ask Lois to make sure this never happens to anyone again.  That’s all well and good, but what kind of programming did they use that could be so easily broken the second the subject was encountered by someone he knew personally?

“I am here to kill you.”
“No, please don’t!”
“I have no mercy, prepare to—“
“Hey, remember that time in band camp?”
“Huh?  What was I doing?  Oh well, killing urge subsided.
Let’s go grab a bite to eat.”


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