SV: Beast...
Leave it to me to like the episode that seems to be the most reviled of the season. I loved this episode. Call me crazy, but I did. My word is “ensemble” and the important thing about an ensemble show are the relationships between the characters and insights on that dynamic (IMO) and “Beast” did that.
~Chloe’s nightmare image of Clark eviscerated with an S on his chest-a ghastly re-imaging of the scarecrow incident from the pilot--has to be the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in the history of Smallville. Moreso than Lucas Luthor’s eyebrows yet I still want it as my desktop background.
~Who exactly owns The Talon? I can see renting out space to Chloe above The Talon, but allowing free roaming of the café and access to the cappuccino maker? I find that more bothersome than keeping a man locked up in their basement. Or did the owners just say, eff it, she lets her friends wander in and out willy-nilly so just let her have the place?
~Chloe: “Look Clark, I know why you’re paranoid; Davis was sent here to kill you. That would make anyone believe there were monsters under their bed.” …”Davis is dead and the only thing keeping him alive in your mind is fear. Let it go.”
Clark: Wait, I know that patronizing tone and the not so gentle jab at one’s sanity. Why do I know it? Hey, that’s the same tone I used on Lex and now use on Tess! Chloe’s trying to pull a “Clark Kent” on Clark Kent!
~This is why I love Oliver: he’s a conscientious billionaire. He could take these businessmen to a swank, five-star chophouse with expensive cocktails, but there’s people starving all over the world so instead he brought them to the Ace of Clubs for some hot wings and beer-battered fish and chips. It’s probably Happy Hour too so he’s getting drinks two-for-one.
~LOL! Oliver’s business acquaintances are very intrigued by Jimmy pulling Ollie away from their meeting. They’re probably dishing.
“I hope he’s not dumping the studly cub reporter for tan coat over there.”
“Nah, it looks like Queen’s giving him the brush off. He must be a clingy one-night stand. See, this is why if you want something on the side you get a hooker. You don’t pay them to sleep with you, you pay them to leave. That’s the real business 101, am I right?”
~Hey, Emil’s back! I love when TPTB widen their circle of friends.
~ Davis is looking at photos of Chloe and holding strands of her hair to keep the demon at bay. I get the photos, but hair? Is he practicing Santeria now?
~Chloe: “How about I bring him down to your lab?”
Emil: “Frankly, I don’t want him anywhere near me.”
Emil is the smartest person in the world right now.
~Davis Bloome, Doomsday, the Ultimate Destroyer and now the Cornfield Killer; Davis has more names than Diddy.
~Jimmy (to Davis): “You’ve taken everything from me. All that’s left is scar tissue.”
That line was so cheestastic that even closed captioning didn’t pick up on it. Has Jimmy been listening to Staind again? He razzed on Davis about being “broody”, but Jimmy, that was being so emo.
~I love how Clark’s superhearing zeroed in on choked moans and gasping and the word “please” and knew immediately it was Oliver. Clark knows Ollie sex sounds all too well.
~After talking to Davis on the phone knowing he was holding people hostage, why didn’t Chloe come running into The Talon instead of strolling in. At the very least you would think the sight of the ambulance (you hear the siren after Jimmy is wheeled out) or the black cars in front would’ve sent her rushing in.
~Chloe: “Wait, Oliver; where is Clark?”
Oliver: “He took Davis. He’s finally gonna finish this.”
He’s so proud of his boyfriend, especially after Clark swooped in and dragged Davis off like a bouncer. If only Clark had a letterman’s jacket for Oliver to wear.
~Clark: “It’d send you to a world where you don’t have to hide who you are any longer.” It’s great. My cousin was there for awhile she learned how to make jewelry and braid hair. It’s a lot like Outward Bound.
~Chloe: “I can’t let you do this. You’d never forgive yourself for giving up on him.”
Clark: Is that a crack about Lex? You know what, give me my damn key back.
~ Oh, boys. If Oliver was mad before about Clark’s inaction he’s really pissed that Clark didn’t kill Davis after Davis tried to kill him. I love that Clark knows to stand down and let Oliver rant. He just rolled his eyes, turned his back and let him seethe.
~Oliver: “Take it from a guy who spent 10 billion dollars on a merger with the girl who got away, you don’t always choose who you fall for.” Oh, now you’re just purposely being cruel, you ass. Wait until you find out how street rat crazy Tess is.
~Oliver: “You should have killed that thing when you had a chance.” That’s like Aloha to Oliver. He opens and closes with advocating killing.
Clark: Okay, Ollie, I have to go. Lois and I are going to investigate a chemical factory. I love you.
Oliver: I love you too. Go kill someone today.
~Chloe: “I must’ve thrown away a million green rocks and I never really saved you. Now I can.” Awww, you’re still being outrageously simple, but awwww.
Davis
Shut up, Davis! I was on the Davis/Chloe bandwagon until this episode. He tried to kill himself and it didn’t work, so he did try to get himself out of the equation, but he was doubtful about Chloe running off with him and when Clark gave him a solution: I can put you in this Super Fun Phantom Zone; he doesn’t take it. If he really loved Chloe, he wouldn’t allow her to lose her life to save him when he knows he cannot be saved. Has he told her his true history?
Davis is nearly as evil as Doomsday because when Oliver was pleading with him to not kill Jimmy, Davis should’ve returned to his basement, ate some kibble and waited for Chloe return, not try to kill Oliver. He has free will as Davis yet he does the wrong things.
Oliver
I love, love, love when Oliver is being a prig to Clark. This is just how Oliver is when he’s overly invested in someone. He’s a standard issue controlling boyfriend. But what I’m hating is his rallying cry to Clark of “You have to make the tough decisions” when he really means, “You have to do what I want you to do.” Oliver is acting as if it’s so easy to take down a creature who has come back from the dead. Twice. That’s once more than Jesus! So telling Clark to “kick his ass” when he knows that Doomsday is kryptonian (I’m not sure if Ollie knows about his true origins of being created) yet sustained being soaked in a kryptonite shower and being buried isn’t helpful in the least. He has to know this isn’t an easy fight. But he gets points for burying Davis himself. I can just see Oliver crying hysterically as he’s throwing dirt over Davis’ body saying, “I’ll never let you hurt Clark again!! Never. Again!
Oliver: “Kick his ass, Clark. Get this thing out of our lives once and for all.”
Oliver: “Instead what do you do? You cook him, you fluff his pillow, you rock him to sleep!”
I think it was voldything who called him, Oliver “Drama” Queen. It suits him perfectly. He should be on the West End with all of that melodrama he brings.
Chloe and Oliver
No honor among thieves, nor trust among heroes and allies. Chloe tells Emil that she doesn’t trust Oliver because he killed Lex (when that’s what she has pushed Clark to do in the past and really, she’s just chuffed because Oliver blackmailed her into keeping quiet about it), Oliver tells Chloe he contemplated calling the cops on her for harboring Davis (when, no Oliver, you wouldn’t because then she’d tell them you killed Lex.) and Oliver again throwing salt in Clark and Chloe’s current difficulties by reminding Clark that Chloe, “Sent you on a wild goose chase to Alaska when she was hiding that psycho killer in the basement.” Okay, I laughed when she did that. She didn’t have a football to pull out from under him so she had to do that instead. I’m guessing this is the end of her stint as Watchtower?
Oliver and Jimmy
I loved all of their scenes together. I love that Oliver is trying to be Dr. Drew and get Jimmy help. I guess we’re supposed to remember the three days Oliver was shooting up so now he’s an expert on addiction. When Oliver wants to be, he can be a very good friend. We’ve seen it with he and Lois and now with Jimmy.
And there was a bit of continuity in Jimmy’s bleeding out his heart goth style to Davis about him taking everything from him. We learned in whatever that Jimmy-centric spy episode was called, that Jimmy doesn’t have a family. Chloe was all that he had and he lost that to a killer.
I liked what miss_tress suggested, that maybe Jimmy is SV’s version of Speedy. That’d be so cool.
Chloe
There is so much that I’m not getting about Chloe’s actions, but the biggest thing I’m confused about is her refusal to admit how she feels about Davis to herself or her friends. Not that it would make it better in Clark’s and Oliver’s eyes, but at least she’d get some sympathy instead of the two thinking she ate a heaping bowl of stupid flakes for breakfast with a glass of deception juice on the side. Maybe she’s actually ashamed that she fell for Davis while she was engaged to Jimmy and alarmed/scared because she can’t turn off her feelings for him despite the reality of what he is. Hey, that happens to the best of them ::cough:: Clark Kent ::cough::
When she’s talking to Emil at the Isis Foundation and tells him that she “was down to her last card” which was the run away forever plan indicated that she had a plan all along, but keeping Davis locked up in a basement forever doesn’t seem like much of a plan. Even keeping him locked up until Emil could find a cure for Davis wasn’t much of a plan because who knows how long that would take? What if it didn’t work (which it didn't) , what was her Plan B? Calling it a plan without actually having a goal in mind, can that even be considered a plan? Isn’t that just playing it by ear? And for her to guilt Clark about banishing Davis to the Phantom Zone was ridiculous because the basement is no different. Hell, at least the PZ is a wide open space where Davis could run around and chase wraiths. And the other problem with the basement holding is the simple problem that Davis won’t keep his ass in the basement! She sees him on the streets, he wandered out and brained Oliver and Jimmy (that is hit them over the head, not the colloquialism for giving someone a blowjob). Operation Basement Ban isn’t working.
And I don’t think we’re given a sense of how long she’s been holding him, but if already the pics and the hair isn’t working and he now needs her to be close to him to keep it at bay, what happens when that wears out? She has to see this is a progressive transformation for him. Does she even know he isn’t a real Kryptonian?
Again I’m just confused by Chloe because I can see that she wants to help both Davis and Clark and she thinks this is the right thing to do. The problem for Clark is that people in his life feel resentment and/or envy over what he can do just by nature of being a Kryptonian on Earth so they feel they have to step up. Chloe wants to be a hero, so if stopping Clark’s ultimate destroyer from killing him, she’s going to sacrifice her life (whether it be by being killed by him or leaving all that she loves and common sense behind) to be the healing Davis needs, which has the dual purpose of saving the guy she’s in love with. But when she threatened Emil saying that crossing her is crossing Davis, I have to echo what Oliver asked, “When did you become one of the bad guys?”
Supernatural
The closed caption reads that Dean is listen to CCR in the opening scene and when it comes to the part of “Let me remember the things I love” and there’s a close up on Dean’s face as he’s remembering and then Castiel pops up behind him. In his dream. So Dean/Castiel is canon now? Then the ultimate look of horror on Dean’s face as Jimmy is shot because he may not give a toss about Jimmy but he has Castiel’s face! And Dean silently cries-it’s just all inside.
~Chloe’s nightmare image of Clark eviscerated with an S on his chest-a ghastly re-imaging of the scarecrow incident from the pilot--has to be the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in the history of Smallville. Moreso than Lucas Luthor’s eyebrows yet I still want it as my desktop background.
~Who exactly owns The Talon? I can see renting out space to Chloe above The Talon, but allowing free roaming of the café and access to the cappuccino maker? I find that more bothersome than keeping a man locked up in their basement. Or did the owners just say, eff it, she lets her friends wander in and out willy-nilly so just let her have the place?
~Chloe: “Look Clark, I know why you’re paranoid; Davis was sent here to kill you. That would make anyone believe there were monsters under their bed.” …”Davis is dead and the only thing keeping him alive in your mind is fear. Let it go.”
Clark: Wait, I know that patronizing tone and the not so gentle jab at one’s sanity. Why do I know it? Hey, that’s the same tone I used on Lex and now use on Tess! Chloe’s trying to pull a “Clark Kent” on Clark Kent!
~This is why I love Oliver: he’s a conscientious billionaire. He could take these businessmen to a swank, five-star chophouse with expensive cocktails, but there’s people starving all over the world so instead he brought them to the Ace of Clubs for some hot wings and beer-battered fish and chips. It’s probably Happy Hour too so he’s getting drinks two-for-one.
~LOL! Oliver’s business acquaintances are very intrigued by Jimmy pulling Ollie away from their meeting. They’re probably dishing.
“I hope he’s not dumping the studly cub reporter for tan coat over there.”
“Nah, it looks like Queen’s giving him the brush off. He must be a clingy one-night stand. See, this is why if you want something on the side you get a hooker. You don’t pay them to sleep with you, you pay them to leave. That’s the real business 101, am I right?”
~Hey, Emil’s back! I love when TPTB widen their circle of friends.
~ Davis is looking at photos of Chloe and holding strands of her hair to keep the demon at bay. I get the photos, but hair? Is he practicing Santeria now?
~Chloe: “How about I bring him down to your lab?”
Emil: “Frankly, I don’t want him anywhere near me.”
Emil is the smartest person in the world right now.
~Davis Bloome, Doomsday, the Ultimate Destroyer and now the Cornfield Killer; Davis has more names than Diddy.
~Jimmy (to Davis): “You’ve taken everything from me. All that’s left is scar tissue.”
That line was so cheestastic that even closed captioning didn’t pick up on it. Has Jimmy been listening to Staind again? He razzed on Davis about being “broody”, but Jimmy, that was being so emo.
~I love how Clark’s superhearing zeroed in on choked moans and gasping and the word “please” and knew immediately it was Oliver. Clark knows Ollie sex sounds all too well.
~After talking to Davis on the phone knowing he was holding people hostage, why didn’t Chloe come running into The Talon instead of strolling in. At the very least you would think the sight of the ambulance (you hear the siren after Jimmy is wheeled out) or the black cars in front would’ve sent her rushing in.
~Chloe: “Wait, Oliver; where is Clark?”
Oliver: “He took Davis. He’s finally gonna finish this.”
He’s so proud of his boyfriend, especially after Clark swooped in and dragged Davis off like a bouncer. If only Clark had a letterman’s jacket for Oliver to wear.
~Clark: “It’d send you to a world where you don’t have to hide who you are any longer.” It’s great. My cousin was there for awhile she learned how to make jewelry and braid hair. It’s a lot like Outward Bound.
~Chloe: “I can’t let you do this. You’d never forgive yourself for giving up on him.”
Clark: Is that a crack about Lex? You know what, give me my damn key back.
~ Oh, boys. If Oliver was mad before about Clark’s inaction he’s really pissed that Clark didn’t kill Davis after Davis tried to kill him. I love that Clark knows to stand down and let Oliver rant. He just rolled his eyes, turned his back and let him seethe.
~Oliver: “Take it from a guy who spent 10 billion dollars on a merger with the girl who got away, you don’t always choose who you fall for.” Oh, now you’re just purposely being cruel, you ass. Wait until you find out how street rat crazy Tess is.
~Oliver: “You should have killed that thing when you had a chance.” That’s like Aloha to Oliver. He opens and closes with advocating killing.
Clark: Okay, Ollie, I have to go. Lois and I are going to investigate a chemical factory. I love you.
Oliver: I love you too. Go kill someone today.
~Chloe: “I must’ve thrown away a million green rocks and I never really saved you. Now I can.” Awww, you’re still being outrageously simple, but awwww.
Davis
Shut up, Davis! I was on the Davis/Chloe bandwagon until this episode. He tried to kill himself and it didn’t work, so he did try to get himself out of the equation, but he was doubtful about Chloe running off with him and when Clark gave him a solution: I can put you in this Super Fun Phantom Zone; he doesn’t take it. If he really loved Chloe, he wouldn’t allow her to lose her life to save him when he knows he cannot be saved. Has he told her his true history?
Davis is nearly as evil as Doomsday because when Oliver was pleading with him to not kill Jimmy, Davis should’ve returned to his basement, ate some kibble and waited for Chloe return, not try to kill Oliver. He has free will as Davis yet he does the wrong things.
Oliver
I love, love, love when Oliver is being a prig to Clark. This is just how Oliver is when he’s overly invested in someone. He’s a standard issue controlling boyfriend. But what I’m hating is his rallying cry to Clark of “You have to make the tough decisions” when he really means, “You have to do what I want you to do.” Oliver is acting as if it’s so easy to take down a creature who has come back from the dead. Twice. That’s once more than Jesus! So telling Clark to “kick his ass” when he knows that Doomsday is kryptonian (I’m not sure if Ollie knows about his true origins of being created) yet sustained being soaked in a kryptonite shower and being buried isn’t helpful in the least. He has to know this isn’t an easy fight. But he gets points for burying Davis himself. I can just see Oliver crying hysterically as he’s throwing dirt over Davis’ body saying, “I’ll never let you hurt Clark again!! Never. Again!
Oliver: “Kick his ass, Clark. Get this thing out of our lives once and for all.”
Oliver: “Instead what do you do? You cook him, you fluff his pillow, you rock him to sleep!”
I think it was voldything who called him, Oliver “Drama” Queen. It suits him perfectly. He should be on the West End with all of that melodrama he brings.
Chloe and Oliver
No honor among thieves, nor trust among heroes and allies. Chloe tells Emil that she doesn’t trust Oliver because he killed Lex (when that’s what she has pushed Clark to do in the past and really, she’s just chuffed because Oliver blackmailed her into keeping quiet about it), Oliver tells Chloe he contemplated calling the cops on her for harboring Davis (when, no Oliver, you wouldn’t because then she’d tell them you killed Lex.) and Oliver again throwing salt in Clark and Chloe’s current difficulties by reminding Clark that Chloe, “Sent you on a wild goose chase to Alaska when she was hiding that psycho killer in the basement.” Okay, I laughed when she did that. She didn’t have a football to pull out from under him so she had to do that instead. I’m guessing this is the end of her stint as Watchtower?
Oliver and Jimmy
I loved all of their scenes together. I love that Oliver is trying to be Dr. Drew and get Jimmy help. I guess we’re supposed to remember the three days Oliver was shooting up so now he’s an expert on addiction. When Oliver wants to be, he can be a very good friend. We’ve seen it with he and Lois and now with Jimmy.
And there was a bit of continuity in Jimmy’s bleeding out his heart goth style to Davis about him taking everything from him. We learned in whatever that Jimmy-centric spy episode was called, that Jimmy doesn’t have a family. Chloe was all that he had and he lost that to a killer.
I liked what miss_tress suggested, that maybe Jimmy is SV’s version of Speedy. That’d be so cool.
Chloe
There is so much that I’m not getting about Chloe’s actions, but the biggest thing I’m confused about is her refusal to admit how she feels about Davis to herself or her friends. Not that it would make it better in Clark’s and Oliver’s eyes, but at least she’d get some sympathy instead of the two thinking she ate a heaping bowl of stupid flakes for breakfast with a glass of deception juice on the side. Maybe she’s actually ashamed that she fell for Davis while she was engaged to Jimmy and alarmed/scared because she can’t turn off her feelings for him despite the reality of what he is. Hey, that happens to the best of them ::cough:: Clark Kent ::cough::
When she’s talking to Emil at the Isis Foundation and tells him that she “was down to her last card” which was the run away forever plan indicated that she had a plan all along, but keeping Davis locked up in a basement forever doesn’t seem like much of a plan. Even keeping him locked up until Emil could find a cure for Davis wasn’t much of a plan because who knows how long that would take? What if it didn’t work (which it didn't) , what was her Plan B? Calling it a plan without actually having a goal in mind, can that even be considered a plan? Isn’t that just playing it by ear? And for her to guilt Clark about banishing Davis to the Phantom Zone was ridiculous because the basement is no different. Hell, at least the PZ is a wide open space where Davis could run around and chase wraiths. And the other problem with the basement holding is the simple problem that Davis won’t keep his ass in the basement! She sees him on the streets, he wandered out and brained Oliver and Jimmy (that is hit them over the head, not the colloquialism for giving someone a blowjob). Operation Basement Ban isn’t working.
And I don’t think we’re given a sense of how long she’s been holding him, but if already the pics and the hair isn’t working and he now needs her to be close to him to keep it at bay, what happens when that wears out? She has to see this is a progressive transformation for him. Does she even know he isn’t a real Kryptonian?
Again I’m just confused by Chloe because I can see that she wants to help both Davis and Clark and she thinks this is the right thing to do. The problem for Clark is that people in his life feel resentment and/or envy over what he can do just by nature of being a Kryptonian on Earth so they feel they have to step up. Chloe wants to be a hero, so if stopping Clark’s ultimate destroyer from killing him, she’s going to sacrifice her life (whether it be by being killed by him or leaving all that she loves and common sense behind) to be the healing Davis needs, which has the dual purpose of saving the guy she’s in love with. But when she threatened Emil saying that crossing her is crossing Davis, I have to echo what Oliver asked, “When did you become one of the bad guys?”
Supernatural
The closed caption reads that Dean is listen to CCR in the opening scene and when it comes to the part of “Let me remember the things I love” and there’s a close up on Dean’s face as he’s remembering and then Castiel pops up behind him. In his dream. So Dean/Castiel is canon now? Then the ultimate look of horror on Dean’s face as Jimmy is shot because he may not give a toss about Jimmy but he has Castiel’s face! And Dean silently cries-it’s just all inside.