Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Here are some really cool things I bet you never notied while watching the show!!!
_________________Season One
{Pilot}

There is a blooper when you look at the Langs tombstone. For Mrs. Lang it read 1959-1959, but in another scene it reads 1959-1989.

Despite the fact the opening caption before the meteor shower says "1989", the vast majority of the cars in Smallville (including the one the Langs are at when they get squished) appear to be vintage 1950's.

When Clark is running past the bus, Chloe comments that she hears something odd on the roof of the bus. In the next shot we still see Clark running toward school, so what was on the roof?



Metamorphosis
Clark's hair goes from long to short and back to long as Clark, Pete and Chloe talk about Greg's tree fort.


{Craving}

The letter Lex receives from Dr. Vargas is sent from "Metropolis, KA". There is no postal code "KA" - if they meant Kansas, it should be "KS".



In the scene near the beginning, in the school corridor where Jodi is with Pete and Chloe, her thick green drink gets knocked down her front. Yet in the very next scene, set back at her home, we see her wearing exactly the same clothes, which are perfectly clean. Surely there would have been a stain (and it's not much later, so she could'nt have had time to wash her clothes).

{Hug}

So if Clark is vulnerable to kryptonite, shouldn't he be more vulnerable to the kryptonite-based mind control powers of the two salesmen, rather than immune? He's never been immune to people with krypto-powers before - why is he in this episode? He seems to have a pretty much normal brain, and his superpowers in all of his comic book appearances have never involved a resistance to mind control and telepathy. So why can't he be affected here?


{Zero}

How does Clark get to Metropolis so fast? He doesn't have a car so presumably he ran really fast with superspeed. You'd think that might raise Lex's suspicions sometime down the road, however. (Maybe he took his dad's orange car - ha, ha)

So how did Lex and the cop Phelan manage to cover-up Lex's involvement the shooting incident, when pretty much everyone in the club could have seen Lex, if not during the shooting then afterward when he stood around waiting for Phelan or whoever.

Lex tells the Club Zero security guy to go to his secure apartment in the city and hands him a set of keys. He neglects, however, to tell the guy where it is and the guy heads out immediately when Clark shows up.

{Nicodemus}

So Lex the multi-millionaire had to check out The Nicodemus Diary from the library? Good thing - otherwise Chloe couldn't have made the connection if he'd paid the $6.95 and just bought it at a local bookstore.

Lex talks about flying in the best doctors from Metropolis. As we've seen in previous episodes and at the end of this one, Metropolis isn't really that far away - flying them in seems like overkill even for Lex.

{Stray}

When Clark tears open the back of the garbage truck to save the boy, you'd think the driver would notice and say something!

Once again Clark super-speeds to Lex's rescue over a great distance (see "Zero") with no indication that he used a vehicle or anything. In fact, Lex was dropped off a considerable distance away from where he last saw Clark. Granted, Lex has just been drop-kicked out of a moving car so he's probably not at his best, but you'd think he'd kind of wonder about how Clark gets to the scenes of the crimes so quick.

Ma Kent hits the kid at what looks like 30-40 miles per hour, knocking him over the hood and onto the ground. And yet he only has "superficial cuts and bruises."

So Jonathan does chores on the farm, then drives into town with the kid, just to get coffee so he can bring it back out to the house? Either Martha Kent has never mastered the art of making coffee, or it's a plot contrivance to give the kid another scene with Lana - most likely the latter.

Is an earning report ("Luthercorp Plant Posts Profit") really front-page headline news for a small-town paper, especially when it's just a plant and not a company?

The package of Twizzlers that Chloe finds looks odd...unless you're in Canada instead of Kansas. They package them that way in Canada, but never in the U.S.

The timing is a little unclear, but apparently Social Services was supposed to show up "an hour later" after the kid's step-mom did. Then she takes off with the kid, and her husband steals the limo. Then Clark arrives. Then Lex arrives with the dad as the driver. Then Clark figures out the woman wasn't with Social Services. So...whatever happened to the real Social Service worker? Shouldn't he or she have been there by now? And how did the two crooks know when Social Services was supposed to show up so they could get their earlier and grab the kid?

Why doesn't Lex tell Clark something...useful when Clark runs up? All he says is the kid is gone and that Clark should "get some help". He doesn't say who has the kid, or the license plate of the limo (Lex seems to have about five different vanity plates), or anything that Clark could tell the police if he did go for help. All Lex tells Clark is which way the limo went, which wouldn't be much help to the police by the time Clark got to them unless the highway doesn't have any turnoff roads.

{Reaper}

Clark recognizes his mom's skeleton?? As soon as he sees her in the garage with his x-ray vision, he calls out her name.

Lana says that Tyler "seemed nice" after he almost kills Martha Kent. At that point in the episode she's never met him as far as we ever find out.

Whitney says that he's never been out at the graveyard with Lana. Lana doesn't contradict him, although Tina-as-Whitney was out there with her in "X-Ray." So is the knowledge of krypto-mutants, or at least shapechanger Tina, common knowledge?

Chloe has pictures of Tyler's corpse from the autopsy. Ummm, when did they take them? We saw most of it, and the coroner didn't take any pictures or seem to have a camera nearby.

Chloe says that the combination of kryptonite and painkillers turned him into a walking corpse. Umm, what painkillers? Tyler died when he fell out the window: who the heck gave him painkillers?

When Clark is in the Kitchen talking to Martha. His Shirt is made out of the same fabric as the curtains. Maybe Martha had some left over material from the curtain and decide to make Clark a shirt.

Near the end of the episode where Lex is talking to Jonhathan. After they finish talking Lex walk down the stair in a weird way (very unLex like) and if you watch carefully you see his mouth is open.

{Drone}

Doesn't Sasha have any parents? Her shack blows up, less than 50 feet from the house. And Clark just hauls her right off to the hospital or wherever surviving krypto-mutants get taken to.

{Done}

Doesn't Sasha have any parents? Her shack blows up, less than 50 feet from the house. And Clark just hauls her right off to the hospital or wherever surviving krypto-mutants get taken to.

Paul clads his poster/computer image in a very Superman-like costume.

{Crush}

The Daily Planet takes high-school interns? ...yeah, right. You're lucky to get in as a college intern with any kind of big-city newspaper.

Clark says that the fax came in at 4:43 p.m. the day before. We say that scene earlier, and it was just before the bell rang and students started coming out of the classrooms. At 4:43 in a Kansas high school?

{Obscura}

Why does Clark wear work gloves when he's by himself pitching hay? Is he worried about slivers and calluses?

{Tempest}

In the earlier episode "Stray" the local newspaper ran a headline saying that the Lexcorp plant posted a profit. In this episode Lionel shows up and says he's closing the plant because it isn't making a profit. Granted, Lionel is presumably lying about the profit-thing to get Lex back, but no one in Smallville seems to notice the discrepancy. And what do the shareholders and the board of LexCorp think of Lionel closing off a plant that has publicly announced a profit?

In the Smallville Ledger headline, in the subhead they misspell "Cited" as "Sited" (i.e., "Management Problems Sited")

When Lex meets with the employees to engineer the buyout, he says some people thought he was promoted over better people, and he got the job because of nepotism. Umm, he did, didn't he? Lying to these guys doesn't seem like a good idea to convince them he's sincere.

Nobody in the Clark household seems too concerned that they just lost their truck to an explosion. How many do they have?

Doesn't Lex have any security? Lionel just comes strolling in without any warning, and later Nixon just wanders in and steals the spaceship key.

Does anyone believe every single person, not only the committee but the teachers and chaperone, would leave the decorated gymnasium completely empty?