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| Smallville (9.08) - Idol |
Somebody is trying to boost the Blur’s reputation by foiling crimes and leaving the “shield” all over Metropolis. Unfortunately, whoever it is keeps screwing up, including busting some undercover cops and taking out the power grid for the city, so Clark and Chloe track them down to salvage the situation.… |
Christopher Valin |
11/19/09 |
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| Smallville (9.07) - Kandor |
Clark and Chloe figure out that Jor-El (or his clone, anyway) is on Earth, so Ollie helps Clark track him down, without any luck. But Jor-El shows up at the Kent farm, which he remembers from a past visit to Earth. Back then he looked a lot more like Tom… |
Christopher Valin |
11/10/09 |
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| Smallville (9.06) - Crossfire |
While Clark gets roped into doing a morning talk show with Lois, Ollie is out trying to help a young prostitute turn her life around. But—surprise!—her pimp isn’t very happy about it, even when she’s able to pay him back more than what she “owes” him. Ollie decides to tell… |
Christopher Valin |
11/03/09 |
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11/07/09 |
| Smallville (9.05) - Roulette |
Oliver is duped by a woman (Roulette) he meets at a casino, and ends up in the middle of a dangerous game with seemingly serious consequences. He finds himself in a coffin, hit by a truck while stuck in a car, and arrested after being accused of murdering the woman… |
Christopher Valin |
10/27/09 |
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| Smallville (9.04) - Echo |
During a hostage situation, Clark is caught in an explosion and suddenly gains the power to hear peoples’ thoughts, starting with Lois and eventually everybody. Jor-El explains that this is another one of his trials, and it will help Clark to know how humans think so that he can better… |
Christopher Valin |
10/20/09 |
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| Smallville (9.03) - Rabid |
Clark awakens at the Watchtower next to a syringe with a Kryptonite-laced needle and a cell phone with a message from Ollie that he lost track of Lois. Clark finds her at the Planet, but she’s turned into some kind of zombie-like creature—and not the old-school, shambling kind, but the… |
Christopher Valin |
10/14/09 |
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| Smallville (9.02) - Metallo |
After flirting with Lois again, new reporter John Corben is hit by a truck and wakes up in a makeshift lab with bionic parts, including a Kryptonite heart. Dr. Hamilton tried to help him at the hospital, but Corben freaks out and smashes the place up due to the bionic… |
Christopher Valin |
10/06/09 |
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| Smallville (9.01) - Savior |
It’s three weeks after last season’s finale, and Lois zaps back to present day on a monorail train, chased by some super-powered ninja chick who ends up almost crashing the train (but for Clark’s quick save). Clark’s been AWOL since Jimmy’s death, being trained by Jor-El and saving people full… |
Christopher Valin |
09/28/09 |
2 |
09/30/09 |
| Smallville (8.22) - Doomsday |
Cosmic Boy comes back in time (again) to warn Clark that he changed history when he saved Chloe, and that Doomsday will kill him the next day, so he gives Clark another Legion ring to send Davis to the future. Clark decides to be Mr. Nice Guy and use black… |
Christopher Valin |
05/26/09 |
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| Smallville (8.21) - Injustice |
Tess’ team of meteor freaks, including a shapeshifter in the form of Chloe, track down Doomsday and convince Clark that even Chloe is no longer safe. Clark asks Ollie to steal the black Kryptonite from Tess’ safe (since he can’t go in there), but Plastique and Parasite show up after… |
Christopher Valin |
05/15/09 |
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| Smallville (8.20) - Beast |
As the Metropolis police hunt Davis and Clark becomes suspicious that he didn’t really die, Chloe decides she and Davis should leave Smallville. But before they can go, junkie Jimmy breaks into Chloe’s apartment for some cash and Oliver finds him there. Davis starts hulking out and captures them both,… |
Christopher Valin |
05/11/09 |
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| Smallville (8.19) - Stiletto |
After Lois saves Chloe from a mobster who was trying to carjack her to prove they still “own the streets,” she decides to adopt the superhero persona of “Stiletto” in order to get close to the Red-Blue Blur (who she still doesn’t know is Clark). Meanwhile, Jimmy (trying to get… |
Christopher Valin |
04/30/09 |
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| Smallville (8.18) - Eternal |
Tess finds a book of Lionel’s that tells the story of how another boy was found in the field with Clark’s ship, but when tested he appeared to be normal so Lionel left him on the street. That boy grew up to be Davis Bloome, who is also Doomsday, a… |
Christopher Valin |
04/11/09 |
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| Smallville (8.17) - Hex |
Chloe makes a birthday wish, which a magician named Zatanna grants: she wants to live the life of Lois. She wakes up the next day as Lois and, after seeing how differently Clark treats her, lets him know who she really is and gets him to help set things right.… |
Christopher Valin |
04/03/09 |
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| Smallville (8.16) - Turbulence |
Tess takes Clark to L.A. on Oliver’s private jet and has the cockpit explode, pretends the pilot has been killed, and lies about there not being any parachutes in an attempt to see Clark use his powers. But Clark waits until she passes out from lack of oxygen, then jumps… |
Christopher Valin |
03/29/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.22-23) – Daybreak (Parts 2-3) |
Galactica leaves the fleet and jumps to the Cylon colony, where an all-out battle takes place to retrieve Hera. Boomer has a change of heart and brings Hera to them on the colony, but Centurions and skinjobs invade Galactica to take her back. Baltar and Six save Hera and take… |
Christopher Valin |
03/24/09 |
2 |
03/24/09 |
| Smallville (8.15) - Infamous |
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Christopher Valin |
03/20/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.21) - Daybreak (Part 1) |
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Christopher Valin |
03/17/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.20) - Islanded in a Stream of Stars |
Starbuck sees Baltar while she’s taking a felgercarb, gives him the tags she pulled off of her own dead body on Earth, and explains where they came from. Baltar examines them in a lab and discovers the blood is from a dead body with the exact DNA as Kara Thrace.… |
Christopher Valin |
03/10/09 |
1 |
03/10/09 |
| BSG (4.19) - Someone to Watch Over Me |
Chief goes to see Boomer in the brig and they rekindle their old romance via projection, including a fantasy daughter that she created. Newly-elected Quorum member Sonja Six wants Boomer tried for treason, and Chief can’t convince Roslin not to hand her over to the Cylons, so Chief knocks out… |
Christopher Valin |
03/05/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.18) - Deadlock |
After coming back from the dead and recovering from amnesia, Ellen escapes captivity and rejoins the husband who thought he’d killed her, only to find that he’s in a new relationship with a younger woman who is pregnant with his child. Tori and Tyrol decide they want to go back… |
Christopher Valin |
02/25/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.17) - No Exit |
Ellen Tigh wakes up in a resurrection ship eighteen months prior to the show’s current continuity, and we learn that th e Final Five created the other humanoid Cylon models after coming from Earth to the colonies (a trip that took over a thousand years at sublight speed). They started… |
Christopher Valin |
02/16/09 |
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| Smallville (8.14) – Requiem |
Oliver shows up at a Lexcorp board meeting to tell them he’s bought a controlling interest in the company, but a huge explosion interrupts the meeting and kills everyone else and puts him in the hospital. Oliver realizes the killer is a former employee, Winslow Schott, whom he had to… |
Christopher Valin |
02/15/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.16) – Blood on the Scales |
Two Colonial marines, under orders from Vice President Tom Zarek, walk into the Quorum and execute all the members because they wouldn’t come on board with Zarek’s uprising. Adama is put on trial by Zarek and Gaeta, with Romo Lampkin as his unwilling attorney, and is about to be executed.… |
Christopher Valin |
02/12/09 |
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| Smallville (8.13) – Power |
Lana disappears and her apartment’s been ransacked, so Clark and Chloe assume the worst—that she’s been kidnapped by Lex’s people. But it turns out Tess is just out to help Lana destroy Lex now, and Lana has actually gone to Lex’s scientists to become the guinea pig for Project Prometheus,… |
Christopher Valin |
02/06/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.15) – The Oath |
The Fleet is in chaos, with Galactica at its center. Following an uprising led by Vice President Tom Zarek and Lt. Felix Gaeta, civilians and mutineers have taken over the Quorum and Galactica, and have a significant part, if not a majority, of military personnel on their side. The Cylons… |
Christopher Valin |
02/04/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.14) – A Disquiet Follows My Soul |
The Cylons offer to upgrade the fleet’s ships with their improved hyperdrive technology in exchange for full citizenship and protection from Adama and the humans. Some aren’t very happy about this, especially Vice President Tom Zarek, who’s running the quorum in Roslin’s absense, and Felix Gaeta, who is fomenting resistance… |
Christopher Valin |
02/01/09 |
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| Smallville (8.12) – Bulletproof |
John Jones (the “Martian Manhunter”) is shot by a Metropolis police sharpshooter while on a case, and he ends up in the hospital because he sacrificed his powers to save Clark a while back. Clark goes undercover as a cop to investigate, and by a stroke of amazing luck becomes… |
Christopher Valin |
01/30/09 |
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| Smallville (8.11) – Legion |
In the aftermath of Chloe’s disastrous wedding to Jimmy Olsen, which ended with Doomsday destroying the barn and nearly killing Jimmy, an assassin from the future appears and tried to murder Clark with his super-axe. Luckily, three super-powered beings from a thousand years from now, calling themselves the Legion, show… |
Christopher Valin |
01/19/09 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.13) – Sometimes a Great Notion |
Reality check: Earth was obliterated in a nuclear holocaust two thousand years ago, the majority of the Cylon fleet is still out to get not only the humans, but their Cylon allies as well, and four of the most trusted members of the Colonial fleet have turned out to be… |
Christopher Valin |
01/18/09 |
1 |
01/18/09 |
| Smallville (8.10) – Bride |
As Jimmy and Chloe prepare for their wedding in Clark’s barn (?), Oliver has info on the possible whereabouts of Lex. But when he shows up, the place is full of bald mannequins and he’s greeted martial-arts-style by Lana, who was on the same trail. They go back to the… |
Christopher Valin |
12/18/08 |
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| Smallville (8.09) – Abyss |
With Chloe forgetting everyone, including her friends and fiancé, Clark tries to help her out but eventually realizes he’s going to need Jor-El’s help. So he gets out the old crystal and re-creates the fortress up in the arctic, and luckily Jor-El’s in a good mood. The fortress removes Brainiac… |
Christopher Valin |
11/20/08 |
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| Smallville (8.08) - Bloodline |
Clark gets a package in the mail with his missing crystal, but for some reason it zaps he and Lois into the Phantom Zone, where Lois assumes they’ve been “abducted by aliens” (and she’s not far off). There, they find Kara, who knows how to get out but doesn’t want… |
Christopher Valin |
11/13/08 |
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| Smallville (8.07) - Identity |
A mugger who turns out to be working for Tess attacks Lois, and Clark saves her just as Jimmy is snapping a picture. Although he’s just a red blur in the photo, Clark is worried about the story being on the front page of the paper, but Chloe and Ollie… |
Christopher Valin |
11/05/08 |
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| Smallville (8.06) – Prey |
Chloe has started a support group for the meteor-infected and Clark, who now listen to police scanners and goes around the city trying to save everyone, suspects that one of them is the serial killer who breaks the bones of his victims. That is, until Davis the ambulance dude informs… |
Christopher Valin |
10/30/08 |
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| Smallville (8.05) - Committed |
…or rather, shock them. Both couples get kidnapped by a psychotic jeweler who straps them to homemade electric chairs and a polygraph and asks what they really think of each other. Despite what the audience is expecting, Chloe really does love Jimmy (and not Clark), and vice versa. When forced… |
Christopher Valin |
10/23/08 |
1 |
06/04/09 |
| Smallville (8.04) – Instinct |
Tess Mercer accidentally sets off the Kryptonian beacon using the crystal, which attracts Maxima, an alien queen looking for a worthy mate. She quickly discovers that human males can’t even handle a kiss without dying, but keeps doing it anyway hoping to come across a Kryptonian eventually. Jimmy finally makes… |
Christopher Valin |
10/16/08 |
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| Smallville (8.03) – Toxic |
Okay, so it wasn’t quite that obvious, but most of this episode did concern the origin story of Green Arrow, as well as that of new villainness/replacement Luthor Tess Mercer. Apparently, Ollie and Tess go way back—all the way back to when Ollie was stuck on an island honing his… |
Christopher Valin |
10/08/08 |
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| Smallville (8.03) – Toxic |
Okay, so it wasn’t quite that obvious, but most of this episode did concern the origin story of Green Arrow, as well as that of new villainness/replacement Luthor Tess Mercer. Apparently, Ollie and Tess go way back—all the way back to when Ollie was stuck on an island honing his… |
Christopher Valin |
10/08/08 |
1 |
10/12/08 |
| Smallville (8.02) – Plastique |
The pieces are falling into place to turn this into a show about the adult Superman if they ever decide to go there. Clark is in Metropolis working at the Daily Planet with Lois and Jimmy, Lana’s long gone, Pete is even longer gone, Chloe is going to start using… |
Christopher Valin |
10/01/08 |
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| Smallville (8.01) - Odyssey |
After we’re treated to a “Previously on Smallville…” recap that took up about half the show, we find out it’s a month later and neither Clark nor Lex are anywhere to be found. Lex’s people, led by new villainess Tess Mercer, are trying to find him, the Justice League is… |
Christopher Valin |
09/22/08 |
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| First Star Trek Cast Pics Released |
The official site has released the first cast photos for the upcoming Star Trek film directed by J.J. Abrams, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, and Eric Bana. |
Christopher Valin |
07/20/08 |
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| Dr. Horrible’s Final Act |
It’s here for just the rest of the day… |
Christopher Valin |
07/20/08 |
0 |
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| Dr. Horrible, Part Deux |
Yeah, I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but some day you will thank me. |
Christopher Valin |
07/18/08 |
0 |
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| Dr. Horrible is Here! |
The online super-villain musical from Joss Whedon is here! |
Christopher Valin |
07/15/08 |
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| Caprica Details Revealed |
A review of the pilot for the BSG prequel, Caprica, has hit the ‘Net. A few spoilers, but not much. |
Christopher Valin |
07/13/08 |
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| Dr. Horrible is Coming… |
Dr. Horrible is a new online project from Joss Whedon that he wrote while the writers’ strike was going on. If you’re a Buffy/Angel/Firefly fan, I probably don’t need to say any more. |
Christopher Valin |
07/10/08 |
0 |
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| Battlestar Galactica (4.12) – Revelations |
WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS! I’M NOT KIDDING! DON’T READ IF YOU DON’T WANNA KNOW! LAST CHANCE! D’Anna doesn’t trust the humans, so she holds most of them hostage until the four secret Cylons have a chance to get over to the baseship. But the four don’t want anyone to know who… |
Christopher Valin |
06/24/08 |
3 |
07/10/08 |
| Battlestar Galactica (4.11) – The Hub |
The show rewinds two days so that we can see what happened on the damaged baseship that disappeared along with President Roslin, Baltar, Helo, and half the fleet’s Viper pilots. The Hybrid keeps jumping the ship around, but it’s actually trying to complete the mission, and is following the Resurrection… |
Christopher Valin |
06/11/08 |
1 |
06/18/08 |
| Battlestar Galactica (4.10) - Sine Qua Non |
With the baseship containing Roslin, Baltar, and half the Viper pilots in the fleet missing, Adama decides to risk the lives of his few remaining pilots - then the entire fleet - to find it. Realizing he isn’t thinking straight, he gives command over to Tigh and decides to wait… |
Christopher Valin |
06/03/08 |
0 |
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