If you saw last Friday’s “Smallville” movie event, the two-hour “Absolute Justice”, then you probably weren’t the only one. 2.8 million viewers tuned in for the movie, which featured the introduction of comicdom’s The Justice Society, a team of superheroes fronted by Hawkman (“Stargate’s” Michael Shanks). The movie gave “Smallville” its best rating all season, and was the CW’s highest rated show in the timeslot in over a year.
Personally — eh, I thought it was okay. It did remind me why I didn’t follow “Smallville” that closely. The writing was pretty corny at times, and the translation of the comic book characters to screen, in particular Doctor Fate and Stargirl, were very silly. Also, for a bunch of long-time, veteran superheroes, it’s amazing how easily they were bumped off by a teenager with spike hair. Honestly, at one point the movie’s ice-powered killer snuck up behind Doctor Fate and literally stabbed him in the back with an icicle. Let me rephrase that: He snuck up behind Doctor Fate and got close enough to stab him with an icicle! Um, yeah.
And as always with a “Smallville” episode, it was hilarious watching the “too cool for school” Green Arrow get his ass kicked. Again. Really, does this guy actually ever do anything on the show besides his very impressive impression of a human punching bag?
Look, Green Arrow is getting his ass kicked again!
What I’d love to see—-Jack Knight (Starman) on SMALLVILLE. Just don’t have him as a 25 year old owner of a record store (as in the aborted tv pilot script). That was pretty God awful.
“Honestly, at one point the movie’s ice-powered killer snuck up behind Doctor Fate and literally stabbed him in the back with an icicle. Let me rephrase that: He snuck up behind Doctor Fate and got close enough to stab him with an icicle! Um, yeah.”
So when did you come down from your trip. Was it crack or just some weed? Honestly did you even watch the show you are so called reviewing? It wasn’t a million dollar episode but it did hold together a lot better than most of the garbage we see these days. And by the way, he didn’t sneak up on Doc Fate, if you were watching you would have noticed that he purposely stepped into the the way in order to save Martian Manhunter and in the process restored his powers. Having actually WATCHED the show, it seems likely it was time for the DF to move to a new host as the old one was pretty much nuts.
Do you actually get paid?
It doesn’t take a million dollars to write a script where TWO superheros don’t stand there yapping while a teenage villain sneaked up behind one of them and stab him through the back with an icicle. With an icicle! Doctor Fate! Mystical superhero gets stabbed in the back by a teenage villain with an icicle!
BTW great idea going straight to the personal insults, it does wonders to change people’s minds. ;)