Breaking: Smallville Looks…Kind of Awesome, Actually
Here’s a preview for the next episode of Smallville, and yeah…it looks shockingly good. I wish it was a big mystery why, but the answer is pretty simple: Geoff Johns, DC scribe extraordinaire, wrote the episode, which will bring some of the Legion of Superheroes to..well, Metropolis, since that’s where 99% of the show takes place now. The cool thing about this cameo–besides being another bone for the comics nerds–is that because the Legion comes from the future and knows all about Superman, it actually brings Clark closer to his eventual destiny, and thus allows character development. And then there’s also an armored guy who I assume is Doomsday (please correct me if I’m wrong) and I think I saw Chloe pick up a car. Hell, it’s almost cool enough to make me forgot about the episode with the illegal Smallville street racing league. (Via Newsarama)
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