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A podcast dedicated to discussing every episode of the series that ushered in today's golden age of superhero television, #Smallville! Hosted by @mooreonzach.

Jun 26, 2022, 184 tweets

#Smallville #Descent

Chloe searching for Brainiac across the country's power grids.

#Smallville #Descent

Lionel's opera CDs! On brand until the very end.

#Smallville #Descent

A nice look into Lionel's safe. Is that the necklace Lionel gave Martha in #Arrow? Wasn't that stolen and Green Arrow returned it though? Nice bit of continuity: Lionel was reading "Beyond Good & Evil" in #Suspect. And there is no better description of him.

#Smallville #Descent

I should try to translate this and see if it really says "For Kal-El in the event of my death." Same with the message. Does they line up with dialogue or are they just from a random Kryptonian text generator?

#Smallville #Descent

Enhance...Enhance...Enhance...ENHANCE!

#Smallville #Descent

We're back to the 8 now? Because I thought we'd transitioned to the S in season five.

#Smallville #Descent

Not sure if this is how text messages look, even by 2008 standards.

#Smallville #Descent

A nice promo photo of John Schneider from either season one or two, I'm not sure. Love it when they do that!

#Smallville #Descent

One of my favorite shots of the series. The ray of sunlight signifying Lionel got his redemption.

#Smallville #Sleeper

Jimmy playing his Brand X Metal Gear Solid Ripoff. Is this character's name another shout out to our friend Craig Bryne from @KryptonSite?

#Smallville #Sleeper

Apparently this IS how text messages looked in 2008. At least on a Treo.

#Smallville #Sleeper

You can just hear this in John Glover's voice. Perfection.

#Smallville #Sleeper

You think Chloe keeps that CK folder on here?

#Smallville #Sleeper

Chloe is a terrorist confirmed. This episode reeks of the Patriot Act.

#Smallville #Sleeper

Does this really say "Save Lana at Fortress?"

#Smallville #Sleeper

"Don't forget your book!"

#Smallville #Sleeper

Sadly aceofclubsmetropolis.com is a dead link. Too bad because it looks like a swanky place.

#Smallville #Sleeper

Worst spyware ever.

#Smallville #Sleeper

(Henry) James Olsen's address!

#Smallville #Sleeper

I spoke too soon, THIS is the worst spyware ever.

#Smallville #Sleeper

Plus one for Metropolis ____, the Metropolis Satellite Center!

#Smallville #Sleeper

This doesn't look like Rosenbaum to me. Probably a stand in. Since we don't see his face in the shot I guess they figured they could get away with it.

#Smallville #Sleeper

Chloe pointing out the extremely obvious wormhole in case you couldn't see it.

#Smallville #Apocalypse

July 9th! Hey, that's today!

#Smallville #Apocalypse

Kristin Kreuk season 3 promo shot!

#Smallville #Apocalypse

Replacing Tom Welling with the new Clark Kent was one thing, but I guess making him shorter was too much to ask.

#Smallville #Apocalypse

Nice of Jor-El to give Chloe a happy ending with her own Superman of a kind. Notice the placement of the Metropolis Police Department logo on the shirt.

Lana got a happy ending too, but this absolutely should've been Jason Teague.

#Smallville #Apocalypse

Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex.

#Smallville #Apocalypse

This must be the scene Welling and Rosenbaum always mention at conventions. "WHERE ARE THE TELEPROMPTERS?!?!?"

And is KSRP the CSPAN of Earth-167?

#Smallville #Apocalypse

If anyone wants to flip this image and "enhance...Enhance...ENHANCE" to read this top secret document, have at it!

#Smallville #Apocalypse

I wonder if the real life nuclear codes briefcase looks anything like this.

#Smallville #Apocalypse

The infamous #Terminator3 footage, last seen in #Scare.

#Smallville #Apocalypse

Speaking of stock footage, this is from season four. #Sacred and/or #Commencement.

#Smallville #Apocalypse

Completing the stock footage trifecta this episode, the destruction of Krypton from #SupermanTheMovie. With the Smallville spaceship added to the shot (even though the ship didn't look like that in the pilot).

#Smallville #Apocalypse

Yeah Clark, because if Lex's team of experts can't figure out what's wrong with Lana I'm sure WebMD can.

#Smallville #Quest

Listener Eric Folk pointed out that sometime between #Sleeper and this episode, the cryptograph changed quite a bit from a paper that fit into an envelope to a sophisticated, three-dimensional clockwork.

#Smallville #Quest

These photos are a serious HIPPA violation.

Usually when there's a date shown on screen it's the date the episode aired. But this episode aired on 5/8/08. So My assumption is 4/10/08 was the actual production date these photos were taken.

#Smallville #Quest

Seeing Chloe examine these scars and symbols makes me uncomfortable.

#Smallville #Quest

If only they remembered the events of #Slumber they wouldn't have had to search this.

#Smallville #Quest

Looks like Clark got a new slider phone from Sprint! Does Clark glance down at this for guidance as he super-speeds?

#Smallville #Quest

Gonna be on the lookout for symbols like this next time I'm in a Catholic church.

#Smallville #Quest

Remember the Kawatche Caves? We don't have the set anymore, but here are some pictures!

#Smallville #Quest

Of course the Veritas guitar pick is in the shape of the Superman pentagon. And all these years I was watching for the Veritas window, but I really should've been watching the mantle above the fireplace!

#Smallville #Quest

Ever wondered exactly where the Fortress of Solitude was in Smallville? It's at the literal north pole apparently!

#Smallville #Arctic

Edward Teague's fake passport. I would've loved his alias to be Dr. Lewis Zimmerman.

#Smallville #Arctic

No search for the Fortress of Solitude going in here! Just Luthorcorp drilling for oil and gas. Didn't realize they were in that industry.

#Smallville #Arctic

I guess octagons really are a common shape.

#Smallville #Odyssey

Green Arrow's heads-up display. Those are more than just sunglasses!

#Smallville #Odyssey

Still not sure if this was Aquaman, Clark's jacket or the Fortress of Solitude crystal.

#Smallville #Odyssey

Clark having so many great promotional photos helps with the facial recognition scan I'm sure.

#Smallville #Odyssey

Chloe interpreting The Matrix code to find Arthur, Dinah and Oliver's phone numbers.

#Smallville #Odyssey

Green Arrow located at Black Creek.

#Smallville #Odyssey

Chloe scanning through old headlines (many seen previously on the show) Lt. Cmdr. Data style.

#Smallville #Odyssey

Kudos to the prop department for fleshing out Regan's disappearance in this article!

#Smallville #Odyssey

Tess wondering if the window has always looked like that.

#Smallville #Plastique

Can't wait till someone goes back through old Daily Planet staff photos in a few years and says, "Wow, Clark Kent looks exactly like Superman!"

#Smallville #Plastique

The show is getting better about text messages, they're not just typed into notes apps anymore.

#Smallville #Plastique

Out with Smallville Medical Center, in with Metropolis General Hospital.

#Smallville #Plastique

Lois' editing notes on Clark's obituary.

#Smallville #Toxic

A "save the rainforest" charity ball? Are we watching #BatmanAndRobin?

#Smallville #Toxic

The raw photos of Oliver at the charity ball, and Lois' article on Metropolis' new serial killer.

#Smallville #Toxic

Chloe's research and Luthorcorp's file on the toxic flower.

#Smallville #Toxic

Joanne Totter is the new Linda Lake a the Daily Planet. And be sure to check out those horoscopes!

#Smallville #Instinct

The Fortress crystal in its new form (but seen briefly this way in #Commencement and #Odyssey), contained in #SupermanTheMovie-esque rings!

And Dr. Groll using a Dell! Don't think we counted this as Product Placement Pete, I didn't notice it till now!

#Smallville #Instinct

BIG BLUE BEAM TO THE SKY

#Smallville #Instinct

Enhance, enhance, enhance away on that autopsy report if you want!

#Smallville #Instinct

Jimmy snooping around Chloe's "high school shelf." Nice pull by the prop department to put some Smallville High School yearbooks on there.

Nice weight set too. Chloe and Lois going for tone, not bulk.

#Smallville #Instinct

Did the first sentence chance in the #Fever letter? I don't remember her saying "Clark."

#Smallville #Instinct

"I used to live there."

#Smallville #Instinct

Chloe's screensaver with in-universe pictures we've seen of her and Jimmy before! Always nice to not see promo shots for stuff like this.

#Smallville #Instinct

"On my world it means hope."

#Smallville #Instinct

Some of the graphics here are backwards!

The Digital Wave must've been acting up that day because the MPD website is just fine. Nice easter eggs in the Breaking News section too.

#Smallville #Instinct

ENHANCE! ENHANCE!! ENHANCE!!!

#Smallville #Instinct

The regular suspects in Tess' emails.

#Smallville #Instinct

According to @alseptien, Lex was X and his team stole the crystal from Tess to send to Clark (in #Bloodline).

Side note: Mr. X is my favorite supporting character from #TheXFiles.

#Smallville #Committed

They are really getting some mileage out of those photo-booth pictures we saw of Chloe and Jimmy last season. It's their go-to for anything of them now.

#Smallville #Committed

This is an extremely expensive engagement party! For real, the reveal about Jimmy's parents should've been that they're either super rich but recluses or died and gave him a huge inheritance. It would explain so much! And ANOTHER banner outside? Come on!

#Smallville #Committed

Engagement announcements in the newspaper aren't cheap either...we looked into it!

Pretty sure that's a photoshopped image from that same photo-booth sequence. And no middle names to be found here so they lucked out on this not contradicting Henry James.

#Smallville #Committed

Another Dell laptop, I really do need to revisit the Product Placement Pete numbers on the tally board!

#Smallville #Prey

The actress on the left is Elysia Rotaru, #Arrow's Taiana Venediktov. My mind was blown.

#Smallville #Prey

Clark on the Metropolis Police Department website, Jimmy on the Metropolis Police Department website. Kudos for them not just using the same screen!

#Smallville #Prey

The members of Chloe's ISIS group. Elizabeth Bishop was played by Elysia Rotaru. Again, #Arrow's Taiana Venediktov!

And remember the name Randy Klein...

#Smallville #Prey

Mary aka. Starlight's memorial vigil.

#Smallville #Prey

Not sure this kind of patient health information is accessible by the public. Usually this would call for a Chloe's Unseen Connection, but since Clark was investigating on his own this time he just...got it.

#Smallville #Prey

The crime photos Davis was collecting in his locker.

#Smallville #Prey

A Map of Metropolis! We'll have to see how this matches up with any other ones we see down the road.

#Smallville #Prey

Nothing like a cold beer at a coffee shop. Davis in his dress blues for Chloe too. Also, "WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!?!?"

#Smallville #Prey

In the comic books, Shadow Thief is a Hawkman villain named Carl Sands. On Smallville, he's "Shadow Killer" and he's known only as "Randy." Whoever wrote that story should've checked with Clark. He knew his last name.

#Smallville #Identity

Henry James Olsen's photographic evidence of the Good Samaritan.

"Jimmy, this is clearly photoshopped."

#Smallville #Identity

Not a bad cut-and-paste job from various cast photos, but Clark never wore this in a promo shot with the Kents.

#Smallville #Identity

Henry James Olsen puts all the pieces together.

#Smallville #Identity

This day shot of the Luthorcrop jet has been all kinds of altered to show a night shot of the Queen Industries one.

#Smallville #Identity

If my name was Wilson Turner I'd change it to Sebastian Kane too.

#Smallville #Identity

The show's use of iconic Superman catchphrases was hit or miss, but this one is very appropriate here. Written by Ron Troupe! I don't recall ever seeing him in the flesh. Too bad because he would've been a great addition to the cast in these later seasons.

#Smallville #Bloodline

“Fra-gee-lay…it must be Italian!"

#Smallville #Bloodline

Prop fail. Or UPS fail. Either way, it was opened before Clark opened it.

#Smallville #Bloodline

Kryptonian technology aka. paperweight.

#Smallville #Bloodline

No easter eggs in Davis' "family tree" as Chloe inaccurately described it.

#Smallville #Bloodline

Props Master Dustin Farrell is in Oliver's Luthorcorp files though!

#Smallville #Bloodline

Faora scanning through old headlines Lt. Cmdr. Data style. Check out the Dr. Garner headline from #Delete!

#Smallville #Bloodline

The text messages are back to not looking like text messages.

#Smallville #Bloodline

Martian Manhunter would say, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

#Smallville #Bloodline

Lots of missed merchandising opportunities for the show over the years, Kara's necklace was one of them! Also, the S isn't exclusive to Clark, she's been wearing one this whole time, so I don't know where she gets this "you'll always be with me" stuff.

#Smallville #Abyss

The book Chloe stole from Metropolis General Hospital.

#Smallville #Abyss

Chloe's new Wall of Weird: her memory wall at Isis.

Lots of the usual cast headshots, but I've never seen that picture of Lionel before.

#Smallville #Abyss

The symbol for doom. I think this is unique to Smallville. Notice the S at the top? I wonder if that was intentional.

#Smallville #Abyss

Clark and Chloe: "Best Buds" since 2004! This looks like a picture that was actually taken in 2004, so good on them there.

#Smallville #Abyss

Amnesia or no, if I were Chloe I would be suspicious of these photoshopped pictures.

#Smallville #Abyss

The book Clark stole from the Smallville library. Lots of book theft in this episode.

#Smallville #Abyss

Including this because in the podcast we thought they skipped it, but it was there for a few frames! All other Clark/Chloe kisses had already been erased from her memory. Great attention to detail on which ones to include or not. Well done, show.

#Smallville #Abyss

Did Clark ask Jor-El to give Chloe a Vespa too?

#Smallville #Bride

EIGHT HOURS EARLIER

#Smallville #Bride

Chloe using a blackberry these days, with suspiciously notepad-looking voicemail alerts.

#Smallville #Bride

Robert, Moira, Oliver, and the Queen's Gambit. Pretty sure that's not the actor was saw in #Veritas either.

#Smallville #Bride

Clark's boutonniere from the HOMECOMING dance in #Tempest. Not the prom. Not the spring formal. HOMECOMING.

#Smallville #Bride

Ridiculous that the Green Arrow would need this targeting assist from his HUD sunglasses.

#Smallville #Bride

Lana has the same kind of phone as Chloe apparently. With suspiciously notepad-looking text messages.

#Smallville #Bride

Lex catching up on the episodes he missed before his big return in the second half of the season.

#Smallville #Legion

To The Future! Brilliant banner that teases the coming of the Legion of Superheroes but also works as a wedding slogan.

#Smallville #Legion

I feel like John Jones' Phantom Zone crystal used to look different/smaller. Also, keeping track: both Clark's "S" crystal he got from Raya and Martian Manhunter's crystal here have now been destroyed. So what does Clark use later in the series?

#Smallville #Legion

The show really getting its money's worth out of that "photobooth" photo shoot with Chloe and Henry.

#Smallville #Legion

Did they really have to add "Isis" to that label? Chloe would've been the one who added it. She knows what the Wall of Weird is.

#Smallville #Legion

Alicia! Definitely should have brought her back in another timeline/alternate universe at some point. #TeamAlicia

#Smallville #Legion

The Brainiac logo from #SupermanTheAnimatedSeries! The first and only time it's crossed over into live action. At least for now.

#Smallville #Legion

Brainiac in his natural state. I interpret the missing chunks of his sphere as his corruption (which the Legion fixes in the future).

#Smallville #Legion

The first time we've seen this framed screenshot from #Exodus. Did Clark have Pete take a few photos that day?

Never seen this presumably BTS photo from #Reckoning either. It makes sense for there to have been a picture from the election night party though.

#Smallville #Legion

When #Talkville gets to season eight, they need to start selling these baseballs!

#Smallville #Legion

Even though Clark never uses the ring to visit the Legion in the 31st century, the Legion rings do play a role in future episodes.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

John Jones' Martian ornament. Very cute.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

Again, the Metropolis Police Department badges and logos being the same shape as the Superman pentagon is a little TOO on point.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

The autopsy report of Doomsday's most recent victims.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

"Always wear a vest." It'll protect you from armor piercing bullets apparently.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

The two things every cop keeps in his rear view mirror. A picture of him and his wife...and the mugshot of the guy who killed his partner.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

Lana just keeping that Luthorcorp folder on her desktop for all the world to see.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

OMG ITS THE LEX LUTHOR BATTLE SUIT FROM THE COMICS I CANT WAIT TO SEE IT ON SMALLLVILLE....oh.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

Season 8 continues to misunderstand how wifi works, but it was the early 2000s we'll give them a break.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

The personnel files of the members of the 44th Precinct.

John Jones arrested this man, but they executed him without due process.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

Shouldn't this image be exactly what Tess is seeing in the mirror since it's coming from her eyes? In that case it should be reversed like a mirror, as we literally see in this shot! And was the "signal jammed" really necessary? I think we got the point.

#Smallville #Bulletproof

Not the first time Lex has been declared dead. "Tragic Ending to a Turbulent Life" indeed.

#Smallville #Power

Clark watching the DISC Lana left for him in #Arctic, and Lana recording that DISC. The latter doesn't exactly match the video we first saw last season and again at the beginning of this episode though. Notice her key light is on the opposite side.

#Smallville #Power

Not-Rick Flagg's Not-Phoenix medallion.

#Smallville #Power

The schematics of the machine from #Fracture.

#Smallville #Power

Considering changing my desktop background to this. What do y'all think?

Nice Ares and Prometheus references in these folders.

#Smallville #Requiem

Pictures of the Luthors in the Luthorcorp conference room. Pretty sure the one of Lionel is a Photoshop combination of other images.

#Smallville #Requiem

Queen Consolidated---I mean Industries technology!

#Smallville #Requiem

Winslow Schott's profile. Notice the Race/Sex: Male.

Also, terminated from Queen Industries November 2003. #Delete aired in January 2004 so the timeline fits for him to be the Luthorcorp IT guy in that episode.

#Smallville #Requiem

Chloe making Toyman's picture her iPhone wallpaper.

#Smallville #Requiem

"Nice fucking model."

#Smallville #Requiem

Lex GPS! That font and graphic for "Lex Luthor" though...

#Smallville #Requiem

Darth Lex! Honestly, they did the very best they could with this and it works. This is a believable injured and bandaged Michael Rosenbaum Lex Luthor. Well done, show.

#Smallville #Requiem

Security footage of Oliver leaving the hospital to kill Lex. Oliver cancels it out by telling Chloe he has the footage of her leaving the hospital after killing Sebastian Kane (whose actor Kyle Schmid married #Arrow's Caity Lotz this year #itsallconnected).

#Smallville #Requiem

"Toy Bomber." Maybe he becomes Toyman to the public in his next appearance.

#Smallville #Requiem

The kryptonite ring, which this time around Lex added an L to.

#Smallville #Infamous

Linda Lake's article. Actually written out and not just gibberish! How does it become water but still stay dry? Who knows!

#Smallville #Infamous

Lois Lane's article. My favorite part is Clark crediting his work on The Torch "giving him a lifelong interest in journalism." Sure...

#Smallville #Infamous

Some great fan posters cheering on Clark.

#Smallville #Infamous

Channel 11? I worked for my local Channel 11 when I was younger! #itsallconnected

#Smallville #Infamous

Deleting those digital files and shredding those physical files at Isis!

#Smallville #Infamous

Is this how voicemails looked in 2009?

#Smallville #Infamous

TWO DAYS EARLIER

As I said in the podcast, they really should've had some visual cue like a calendar in the barn instead of this text.

#Smallville #Infamous

Is Lois' phone how text messages looked in 2009? Clark phone us more in line how I remember them looking. Also, classic relationship drama stuff here.

#Smallville #Turbulence

The police alert that Tess stopped Clark from running off to. I hope that stand-off turned out alright without him!

#Smallville #Turbulence

Jimmy's resignation letter to The Daily Planet, along with his file on Davis Bloom which will turn Tess' attention towards him.

#Smallville #Turbulence

Tess' inaccurate article which not only says she's 30 (which means she'd be OLDER than Lex), but that she was considered Lex's "right hand." And yet we never saw or heard of her before #Odyssey.

#Smallville #Hex

Clark's birthday gift to Chloe, the Tales of the Weird & Unexplained book! From #Abyss (and maybe #Obscura too, I don't remember). I wonder if he actually bought it this tine or just stole it from the library again.

#Smallville #Hex

Chloe's nightstand. Are these the keys to her vespa?

#Smallville #Hex

Nice continuity pull having one of Lois' press passes be for a monster truck rally. I'm convinced Erica Durance really met the Dalai Lama. This photoshop is too good for this show.

#Smallville #Hex

Zatanna is a magician, hypnotist and...motivational speaker?

#Smallville #Hex

Notice the articles must be from old newspaper props, they talk about Lex in the present tense.

#Smallville #Hex

Zatanna's names in lights on the marquee at the Metro Theater. A perfect page-to-screen translation of her costume. Well done, show.

#Smallville #Hex

Maybe its the #Heroes fan in me, but this looks like Robert Forster and Hayden Panettiere.

#Smallville #Hex

Who wants to try calling this number?

#Smallville #Hex

I want a replica of this to hang in my office. So cute.

#Smallville #Hex

Headshots of the the Justice League, online!

#Smallville #Eternal

A new insert shot of the events of the #Pilot with Connor Stanhope as young Lex.

#Smallville #Eternal

Kudos to the prop department for melding together the multiple versions of the spaceship for this flashback. Continuity duct tape!

#Smallville #Eternal

Chloe looking up the dozen missing persons in Metropolis the past month. And this is supposed to be a high number?

#Smallville #Eternal

The very obvious body doubles for the Kents for this new shot of the events of the #Pilot. If only the kid Clark hadn't looked at the camera.

#Smallville #Eternal

Nice continuity with the Warrior Angel comic...but I'm pretty sure Lionel gave Davis all of Lex's toys!

#Smallville #Eternal

The St. George box that Lex doesn't get for a few more years until after Julian is born.

#Smallville #Eternal

There's that Veritas window that wasn't there until late season seven, but here it is during the events of #Lineage!

#Smallville #Eternal

The schematics for Dr. Groll's lab. Must be a different lab than the one we saw in #Power.

#Smallville #Eternal

"We don't have the cave set anymore, but here's a picture. And by the way, Lex wasn't the prophesied arch nemesis of Superman. It was Davis."

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