Episode 100 Recut

[PBoiIceBerg]

I've read the rules and don't fell this video violates them. It's borderline, but it more of a fan creation then an illegal download of a full episode. Hopefully, the admins will agree so you guys can view it. Nothing special just throw it together. Personally, episode 100 to me was fine, nothing spectacular but it's what the creators choose and there's nothing to be done but watch Smallville or dump it. Anyway, enjoy.

Here's the details I posted on File Front:

I saw a lot of displease with how the episode turned out, so I made a recut of ep. 100. I like to edit and hopefully you'll like this simple but ultimately different path for Smallville. That starts and ends with this recut, since the real show has already choosen it's course.

Things to note:

1. Lex seeing Clark 'magically' appear could have worked, simple by having Clark play it off as Lex being drunk in later episodes.

Making the funeral scene work for the recut.

2. When we see Lana in the cemetary it's almost like shes a ghost. Clark doesnt acknowledge her, and watch her closely. It's almost as if the scene was shot perfectly for the recut because the way she looks at the coffin (which she is in) and how she slips away from Clark on her way to the afterlife. Then Lex is saddened by her passsing, but in Lex style he does it alone and from a distance. Then we come to Martha, does see look like a wife that just lost the love her life? She should have ice sickles hanging off her face from the endless flow of tears freezing in the cold. But if you picture her at Lana's funeral her emotions in the scene are more believable. For the scene to have been absolutely perfect, just imagine that its Jonathan, and not Lionel, that comes up behind Martha. And that they would walk away hand in hand instead of Martha alone, and he'd have his arm around her when they show her a final time.

Smallville - Episode 100 Recut (http://files.filefront.com/Smallville___Episode_100_Recut/;4677386;;/fileinfo.html)

[jag5311]

wow, that is definitly a way to think about it.

I noticed that Clark looks in Lana's direction after she walks away.

now that I think about it, the amount of people we see at the funeral seems more appropriate if it was Lana who died, not JK who just won the election.

[jag5311]

well, I looked at it...and now that I think about it, it was definitly shot with the intent to show JK as the one who died and not as Lana as a ghost.

I guess it's tough for those to download a 180mb + video...but I watched it and do see where you are coming from, but I don't htink Lana's reaction was that of a ghost looking on.

They both make efforts to hold hands and clark looks in her direction after she leaves like "I'm sorry...don't leave"

Definitly a sad scene.

Regarding the funeral, I forgot that the open casket part is usually where most people show up. The actual funderal typically has less people.

[PBoiIceBerg]

jag I wasn't stating the funeral was shot for Lana, because obviously it wasn't. I was simply stating if you view it this way (Lana is a ghost, because it's her funeral) then you can make the scene, which was totally for someone else, work. Since, in the recut, I have Lana as the one dying and not Jonathan after a time warp. I sure you probably understood that, but i'm just saying it's obviously not going to be perfect. It requires a little imagination from the viewer.

To debate your comments somewhat. We all view things differently, obviously, and I see Lana reaching for Clark with almost no reaction on his part even when she slips away. Then he turns as shes walking away. I view it, if your going with Lana died, as him feeling her presence leaving but not fully knowing she is even there, in spirit. Like we've seen in so many movies.

[cakreel]

Many people who have it in for Lana should love this version.

[SSJConan]

That wasn't bad, but the only flaw I saw in it was the fact that it's just too obvious of being a "fan project". What you gotta do is make it the standard episode length through smart editing means, here's my idea on what you can do to make a perfect version.

First off, to fill in that 18 minute gap of time, what I suggest you try and do is combine the first half and funeral scene with smoothly used flashbacks. At the very start, show a flashback from the "Pilot", when Clark saw Lana for the first time at high school and tripped. Start this flashback out with an outside shot of the school, then move to Clark's gaze at Lana. After Lana and Clark exchange the "Man or Superman" dialogue, cut to the start of the Reckoning. After Clark puts the key in the cave and he and Lana teleport to the Fortress, try and edit in the season 5 theme literally a frame before it's shown Lana and Clark are fully in the Fortress.

After the finish of the theme, when Clark picks Lana and "Flies" upward, insert a flashback just as Lana is looking at Clark in the face as they ascend upward. Insert here the scenes from the Tempest/Vortex episodes, starting with Clark speeding up to the twisters when Lana sees him. After Clark super-speeds into the twister, cut directly to the shot of Clark's point of view as he's flying toward the truck from Vortex. After Clark puts his arms around Lana and screams with all his might, cut right back to the place where you left off in Reckoning.

After Lana says "That isn't the first time you've done it" and the camera pans around the ice structure they're on, cut to the scene in "Metamorphosis" right when Clark hovers above Lana and wakes up collapsing in his bed, then cut to the "Rosetta" episode where Clark is hovering in the caves and places the key in the cave, and finally go right to "Crusade" in the scene right after Clark shoves Martha out of the way, show all the footage of Clark flying, up to the point when he rips the door off Lex's plane. During this montage of "flights", I'd think it'd be appropriate to have some type of cool music piece play in place of the audio from those past scenes, perhaps something emotional that shows Clark's evolution to flight.

After Lana says "How many times have you been there to save me", you can show a collection of flashback clips of moments Clark has saved Lana. Bringing Lana out of the crypt in "X-Ray", catching her after she falls off the windmill in "Nicodemus", rescuing her from the psycho cop in "Obscura", rescuing her from the Ians in "Dichotic", saving her from the drunk college rapists in "Precipice", bringing her back to life via CPR in "Accelerate", taking kryptonite bullets for her in "Extinction" (going to the next clip before Clark reveals the lead plate), show Clark saving Lana from the destiny fire in "Hereafter", then show how Clark saves Lana from Adam's fateful bullet in "Crisis", next show Clark saving Lana from Emily Dinsmore in "Forsaken", and finally Clark defeating the Kryptonian decibels of Zod in saving Lana in "Arrival". Following this, cut right back to when Clark says "It doesn't matter" in Reckoning.

Another nice place to put a flashback is when Clark uses his heat vision to meld the diamond to the ring, you can flashback to the scene in "Heat" when Clark "combusts" on Lana's cappuccino machine and the Talon wall, there by making more sense that Lana's not totally shocked by what Clark just did. Now, since the theme song has been edittingly used already, put in here another montage like the "flight evolution" sequence, basically a small collection of Clark and Lana's "best moments" from through out the series. I'd say put start it off with scenes of them playing together in "Exodus", "Mortal", and "Hidden". End that with a shot of them looking at each other from the start of "Hidden", then end the music part of the montage and leave in the audio for an insertion of when Clark leaves Lana for Metropolis, their dance at the prom, next the part from the end of "Blank" when Clark says "This time thing'll be different" along with Lana's "This time", and cap it off with the scene from "Arrival" when Clark says "No more secrets no more lies".

After all of that, just show the episode as it was in the first half, with just "some" flashback insertions here and there. When Chloe are talking, try and find just the right spot, for this to seem like Chloe's point of view, then insert a flashback from "Pariah" right at the part when Alicia and Chloe are teleported into the car and Alicia reveals Clark's secret to Chloe, then try and go back to a shot of Chloe in Reckoning. During Lois and Lana's conversation, after Lois says "I'd be lucky to end up with someone as honorable as Clark", feature a sequence of clips from moments when Clark has saved Lois, such moments being "Gone when Clark fries Meta-Trey, "Recruit" when Clark rescues her from drowning, and then the scene when Clark super-jump rescues Lois in "Exposed" from the bastard foreign guy.

Next, after Lex throws his drink in the fire at his mansion, try and signal that has the final true turn to his full dark side by showing the presidential-doomsday prophecy of his flashback-future vision on screen. Now, when you do this, start it out with the version from season 4's "Scared", which doesn't speed up the frames of Lex while he's walking around in the oval office, and also features the more realistic planet bombing in contrast to the flower decay. Though, right after Lex looks satisfied and the shot's about to cut back to Lex reviving, cut right to the first frame instance of the black and red clouded sky in the season 1 "Hourglass" version. With this, you can show the blood rain flowing on Lex, and just as the golden light envelops him, cut back to Reckoning as the alcohol reacted fire dies down.

After Clark finds Lana dead and Jonathan tries comforting his son in his arms, at the exact instant that the screen is about to black out, cut to Clark remembering Cassandra's prophecy in one more flashback. Show it in its entirety, from Clark opening his eyes on one of the tombs, to when he yells his final "No". Though, rather than ending this, cut right to the "Hereafter" vision of Jordan's and show Clark's final destiny following his future graveyard anguish, when he (possibly out of anger) crusades through out the universe with his cape flapping, ending right as the white light from the central void envelops him.

Now, back to Reckoning, show the next morning with the Kent farm in snow and its cows trying to stay warm, and go to the funeral scene. Try and avoid all shots of Martha, and instead if you can, try and use some recycled footage from season 1's "Crush" of Jonathan and Martha standing together at Whitney's Dad's funeral, blending in with "Lana's" funeral. As said, try and avoid all Reckoning shots of Martha, use that style of ootage recycling, and let the funeral scene be as-is. Maybe as Clark is dropping the dirt, insert an audio clip with the ongoing footage ofd Lana and Clark saying "I love you" to each other.

With Windows Movie Maker, or whatever program you use, I'm sure this type of thing can be done. If you can get it done, I have no doubts that this'll turn out better than episode 100 itself, and that IMO was the best episode of Smallville.

[PBoiIceBerg]

Wow, SSJConan that's a detailed idea. Something better left to people with patients or when it actually matters. My recut was simply for fun and best of all only took a short time to do. But I too would be interested in watching something like you have written.

[RedPhoenix23]

Originally posted by cakreel
Many people who have it in for Lana should love this version.

Thanks for the info. ;)

I was gonna check this out, but I like Lana! :p

[Cleetus]

I was reading Vypermans post and i think that jonathon should be the one to die not lana. Cos i think that its jonathons death that will change him the post becoming the man his father would want him to be not his girlfriend.

I think the ep should stay basically the same up to point when clark takes the crysal travelling back in time. However i don't think it should be the beginning of the day i think it should travel back to the election party at the talon. So lana has just said yes to marrige, they go for photo ops and lana take off to the luthor mansion and the scane should play out as before but interwomen with the clip with lionel and jonathon on the phone. When lana rings clark interweave it with the shot of clark going to stop the bus. However as lex is there is disappears so that lex does not see him use his powers. The rest of the ep plays out as normal the fight with lionel and jonathon, the funeral etc. However it will eb assumed that clark is distance with lana due to his grief not over their fight. What do you think?? That way the ep stays basically the same except for the fact that there is less time travel.

However in future eps lana and clark will become more distance due to his grief etc. So they will break up and clark will go onto to become the man that he is destined to become.

[UpandAtom]

I agree with the previous post. Jonathan's death will be more important to Clark becoming Superman, not Lana's.

[RedQ]

Died instead of Johnathan.:\
http://www.kryptonsite.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55177