Smallville: Obsession

A really cute teleport. Neat that lead blocks her power so covering her in lead paint prevents her from teleporting - just as covering the Invisible Man in paint makes him visible. Clark can throw it at her so fast that she does not have time to teleport.

Good to see Luthorcorp and Lionel again. An elevator would not drop in the Luthorcorp building. The connection between Adam and Lionel is revealed but the truth still comes out in very small doses.

Pete says, "We've had our problems lately," referring to the way things were between him and Clark at the end of the previous episode. Clark not being honest with Lana makes less and less sense - but it is necessary for the story.

Smallville: Velocity

Adam gets even weirder, giving Lana a hard time, like Clark, while he temporarily diverts Lex's attention from Clark.

Pete Ross gets a neat nickname, "the Boss." Lex is understandably reluctant to part with $20,000 cash and, of course, Clark does find another way to deal with Pete's blackmailer.

Jonathan had had a heart attack, probably because of the deal he made with Jor-El, but is this the last consequence of that deal?

No Lionel or Metropolis so nothing really big going down this time.

Smallville: The Ambience

Smallville is not Superboy:

no quiet small town life;
no happy ending to every episode;
instead, a continual sense of impending doom;
we know that friends will become enemies;
the superhero secret identity idea is developed in ways that create dishonesty and distrust;
a mystery from the past, whether from Krypton or from the Luthors, is always threatening to disrupt the present;
if Clark is to have an indefinitely extended lifespan, is this good or bad?

Smallville: Hereafter

Is Jonathan dead at the end? No, I know he lives longer than that. Jordan thinks Adam died?

When Jordan touches people, he foresees their deaths but Clark can prevent a foreseen death, thus affecting the lives of others and potentially changing the circumstances of their deaths as well.

Jonathan avoids contact with Clark but, when Clark touches him from behind, Jonathan sees a red cape flying down to

Earth. He says it is as if Clark will live forever. In Robert Heinlein's Future History, Pinero has a machine that accurately measures the time of birth and death of anyone. He measures Lazarus Long's world line but returns Long's money without telling him the result. We know that Long lives a very long time, possibly forever.

Kryptonian lifetimes are certainly longer than Terrestrial but, even if we know Kal-El's ultimate fate in a comics continuity, it will not necessarily be the same in Smallville continuity.

Smallville: Delete

"Brainwave" is in the comics but this is a new version? Lana trying to kill Chloe does not seem to disturb the school authorities.

The first mention of Chloe's cousin, Lois Lane. We see inside the Daily Planet. Clark has really messed Lana up so Adam has a struggle.

There is more continuity of characters that have been introduced in this series. Lex wants his forgotten months back. That will mean remembering that Clark is not human.The series moves imperceptibly towards the ultimate conflict between Lex and Clark.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past

I am not even going to try to make sense of the time travel nonsense in this film.

If there is a Sentinels-dominated future and if Wolverine is sent from that future to 1973 to initiate a timeline without a Sentinels-dominated future and if he succeeds, then he initiates a timeline in which there are no fire-breathing Sentinels attacking Xavier. He does not initiate a timeline in which fire-breathing Sentinels are attacking Xavier but suddenly Sentinels and Xavier disappear (and, furthermore, the building they were in continues to exist but is empty). {Addendum: Thank you for the comment correcting my inconsistent spelling.}

If Xavier sends Wolverine back to 1973, then maybe Wolverine succeeds in initiating an alternative timeline diverging from 1973 but that does not change the fact that the Xavier who sent Wolverine back to 1973 remains in the undesirable timeline.

The film seems to treat different (earlier and later) times as different places existing at the same time!

How can Xavier possibly know to ask Wolverine, "What is the last thing you remember?"

Why does Wolverine's consciousness from the future remain in the present?

When his older mind entered his younger body, where did his younger mind go? (This question can be answered in more than one way. My problem is that the question is not even asked.)

The school had closed down. Does this sound as if Wolverine had gone back to a different past?

How come the school was functioning as normal again at the end of the film? We did not see anything to explain this.

Smallville: Whisper

Clark Kent/Superman losing his powers is an old idea but losing his sight is a new one. We get our first sight of Clark wearing glasses, not only dark but also, as his vision returns, clear. His super-hearing increases, like Daredevil's.

We see Pete's mother and learn that she is a US Judge.

The conflict between the Luthors is never-ending and more interesting than Clark's and Lana's permanently off-off relationship. The latest twist is that Lex thinks it is an advantage for him that Lionel thinks he is weak. The Sullivans have fallen foul of Lionel.

It would be good to transport Lionel to a society where survival and success were entirely dependent not on competition or manipulation but entirely on cooperation.