Smallville – Major Zod is a bad ass!

If you’d asked me nine years ago if Smallville would make it this long, I probably would have placed the over/under somewhere in the six year range. Despite my skepticism, and my on and off fandom of the show, Smallville started this season with a bang, and the name of that bang was Major Zod.

“Major Zod,” you ask? “I thought he was a general!” I’m sure he will be, but at this point in his time line, he’s still a youngin’. Newcomer Callum Blue does a great job at fleshing out a character played on screen so subtly (and, conversely at times, over the time) by Terrance Stamp in Superman II.

The details on how Zod and his crew (if there are direct allusions to the other characters in Superman II, then they weren’t emphasized in the plot) were a bit more complicated than they needed to be. The short answer is they are here and quite pissed that they don’t have any superhuman powers. Oh, and spoiler alert, their home planet totally blew up. Whilst the soldiers originally blame Zod for their predicament (with then captive Tess Mercer’s influence), he’s quickly able to turn the tide back to his favor. A little too quickly, if you ask me.

Other Stuff

• Nice to see that Brian Austin Green landed back on TV … on Friday nights … on a genre show with a questionable future
• Erica Durance, someone whom I’ve not been a big fan of, has grown on me
• I’ve always thought Durance has more chemistry with Hartley’s Oliver Queen, which was apparent in the aftermath of the fight club
• Its time for Chloe, and thus Allison Mack, to leave town (Mack deserves more than she’s being give here)
• Its really time for the Red-Blue-Blur to get a better name (but I love the use of the S-Shield)
• Love how the show always seems to give itself a built-in one-year clock for their big arc (With Clark’s father’s watch)
• Lois’s dream at the end was a bit freaky. Is it supposed to be a premonition, and, if so, what does that mean for Clark and Chloe?

Clacked by Ivey West
on Sep 26, 2009 @ 00:13 EST5EDT