I usually only come here to share my thoughts when they are negative about this show, because there is some god awful things over this 10 year span like Kwan's reaction to his school spontaneously catching fire in season 1 Hothead, why does he not call the fire department or reach for a fire extinguisher? That scene haunts me to this day.
This for a change will be a happy review.
I watched the first three seasons original air dates but then gave up with the Isabela Magical countess story line. Now watching it online I lost track of the episode count and did not know it was number 200 until I came here.
Generally I would say any spin on a Christmas Carol is a clique, and it is, but they did it well, and it was a fun episode. You got to look down memory lane and you got a kind braniac. Gives a good message to try and remeber heros are made today and today is all you can affect. Made politically relavent stances even today about walls and immigrants. Darkness is in the dwelling of the past, and the fear of the unknown, what is real is now.
As well as wrap things up in the final season, we all know they will cram as many old guest/recurring stars into this season as possible, it was nice to see brainiac again and just behind the camera producing.
This episode stands alone from other plot moving forward episodes for the most part but still manages to tangentially tie in the theme of the season so far, super heros coming out of the shadows.
This show has always been best when meteor rocks or kryptonite is ignored. They are massively abundant and can do whatever you want them to. It is the greatest crutch a writer can have. The best episodes were when they focus on the relationships between those who care about each other and forget magic or meteor rocks exist. Sure they got the help of a legion ring but it was that or a dream sequence and I prefer this over a dream episode anyday. I mean they could try the darkness version of the phantom episode where the golden retriever saves clark from going to the dark side, but they already did that and I am always disappointed when they draw from the same well a second time. That is why I was finally happy to see Lana written out of the show.
Unlike season 9 where if the characters could have talked to each other the entire season could have been solved by episode 4, this episode did not have any of that hair pulling out problems. It was nice and yes the ending was fabulous.
This for a change will be a happy review.
I watched the first three seasons original air dates but then gave up with the Isabela Magical countess story line. Now watching it online I lost track of the episode count and did not know it was number 200 until I came here.
Generally I would say any spin on a Christmas Carol is a clique, and it is, but they did it well, and it was a fun episode. You got to look down memory lane and you got a kind braniac. Gives a good message to try and remeber heros are made today and today is all you can affect. Made politically relavent stances even today about walls and immigrants. Darkness is in the dwelling of the past, and the fear of the unknown, what is real is now.
As well as wrap things up in the final season, we all know they will cram as many old guest/recurring stars into this season as possible, it was nice to see brainiac again and just behind the camera producing.
This episode stands alone from other plot moving forward episodes for the most part but still manages to tangentially tie in the theme of the season so far, super heros coming out of the shadows.
This show has always been best when meteor rocks or kryptonite is ignored. They are massively abundant and can do whatever you want them to. It is the greatest crutch a writer can have. The best episodes were when they focus on the relationships between those who care about each other and forget magic or meteor rocks exist. Sure they got the help of a legion ring but it was that or a dream sequence and I prefer this over a dream episode anyday. I mean they could try the darkness version of the phantom episode where the golden retriever saves clark from going to the dark side, but they already did that and I am always disappointed when they draw from the same well a second time. That is why I was finally happy to see Lana written out of the show.
Unlike season 9 where if the characters could have talked to each other the entire season could have been solved by episode 4, this episode did not have any of that hair pulling out problems. It was nice and yes the ending was fabulous.