Best episode of the season!!!

[xrayvision]

Freak was hands down the best episode of this season. Yeah!!!

[thehenry89]

Originally posted by xrayvision
Freak was hands down the best episode of this season. Yeah!!!

it was one of the better ones i'll admit, but i still like crimson and justice better.

[Kalel x2x2]

Really?, It was a GREAT episode, nonetheless.. most definitely a 10/10 and loved all the powers used! :D but my vote would probably have to go to 'Justice' :D


Originally posted by thehenry89
it was one of the better ones i'll admit, but i still like crimson and justice better.

and of course ^crimson^ :p love teh Clois! :D

[myankskent]

This was a great episode. It really brought out the best in all of the characters, including Lana. There was no character that annoyed me this episode.

[chloefan5]

It was 2nd best, to Justice

[Brock Solid]

It was the best

[MidgardDragon]

And to think, everyone was going on about Freak sucking because it would retcon Chloe before it aired. It seems I'm the only one who continues to have faith and it freaking paid off tonight! I don't think it was the best of the season, but I can't really rate them, so I'll say it was "one of" the best of the season.

[niki]

It was definitely pretty good!
My ranking is:
1. Justice
2. Crimson
3. Freak
But so far, since Smallville's gotten back from the winter hiatus, no episode has yet to disappoint me!

[drwood]

Fantastic episode. Justice was better, but not by a lot.

[TheRealClarkKent]

Very good, it progressed the story while at the same time opening an entirely new Chloe plot, my question still remains.
Where's the CHLARK????

[dave73085]

It was REALLY good!! Especially coming off of last week's we've-done-this-ten-times-already Lana stalkfest.


I'm still partial to Justice as my fav of the season.


If Lana had been the meteor freak, it might have been the best episode of the SERIES for me haha

[Nospam]

Originally posted by myankskent
This was a great episode. It really brought out the best in all of the characters, including Lana. There was no character that annoyed me this episode.

Exactly. Everyone was their iconic selves and Lana has matured from her relationship with Lex, as I had hoped. Clark also cleverly combined his powers, without prompting.

We still don't really know if Chloe is a freak or not.

[warriorrenegade]

Everyone was themselves, it was awesome. Loved it. This episode is in the Top 3 of the season. Zod is still #1

[jazzylg]

Great episode. Nice combo use of powers, finally.They gave us a real taste of how awesome superman can be!

[98chase]

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I guess I was hoping for a different kind of cliffhanger, but that's not a big deal. Definitely one of the best thus far this season!

[shirkie]

What do you mean we don't know if Chloe's a freak or not? Tobias ID'd her as a freak.

MY CHLOE'S A FREAK!!! YAY!!! SUPERCHLOE!!!!!! :D
shirkie

[Dark Knight23]

Yeah this was definetly a good episode but it ranks number three on my episodes of the season.

1. Justice
2. Crimson
3. Freak

[dave73085]

I really wanted Lana to be the freak, but I think they handled making Chloe one pretty well so far.

[xrayvision]

Justice was too predictable. Plus it had pretty much no conflict for the good guys and saving the day was too easy. And Clark, the main hero and the focus of this show was shown to be as a huge BDA. Besides seeing those heroes like Victor & Bart again, it just didn't do anything special for me. I think had Justice had a plot involving various freaks going missing and them actually having to work hard to locate the good freaks & save them, it would have rocked.

Freak was the best episode (IMO) for the following reasons:

1. It was very unpredictable

2. Clark was shown to be very smart finally (that scene where he steals the computer with superbreath & speed)

3. Powers, powers, and more powers-- There was superbreath, superspeed, x-ray vision, heatvision, superhearing, invulnerability, freak vision, and telekinesis

4. Suspense-- They just created more speculation amongst the fans-- Is Chloe really a freak or not? What are her powers?

5. Great acting-- the scene with Clark burning the whole in Chloe, the Lana-Clark scene with Lana's "Same old Clark Kent" quote

6. Good Lana-- Her facial appearance seemed very much like seasons 1-3 Lana. She really started to wise up and you could see that she's not buying Lex's crap anymore and that she would be a great secret keeper (especially with her "it would endanger someone who saves lives daily" quote, which also proves that she knows Lex is a threat to Clark)

7. An awesome save at the end with Clark & the bullet

8. Great effects with that save at the end & with Freak Vision.

9. More suspense-- This is regarding Lana & the secret and how she thought Clark was a meteor freak

10. Evil Lex-- You could see how dangerous his threat was when Lex felt any danger of being liable of going to jail

IMO, there is no doubt in my mind this was the best episode of the season. An excellent episode. A big thanks to Michael Rosenbaum in his directorial debut.

[AndyBear1980]

I agree, it was a great episode! I loved it!

[smallvilleusedtobegood]

I personally thought it was one of this season's worst. :(

I mean, Chloe, a meteor freak? Now that's one the writers pulled out of their as*es. It's so stupid I can't even begin to rant.

[MidgardDragon]

Originally posted by smallvilleusedtobegood
I personally thought it was one of this season's worst. :(

I mean, Chloe, a meteor freak? Now that's one the writers pulled out of their as*es. It's so stupid I can't even begin to rant.

All I gotta say is, glad you're in the minority, cause this episode rocked. :D

[Bosrudorfer]

I place it tied with Crimson. Both are awesome episodes. This season is a good one at that too!

[khol145]

Yea, it one of the better ones, but Justice was the best...

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by shirkie
What do you mean we don't know if Chloe's a freak or not? Tobias ID'd her as a freak.

MY CHLOE'S A FREAK!!! YAY!!! SUPERCHLOE!!!!!! :D
shirkie

We're still not sure who Tobias ID'd as a freak. I think the fact that they didn't show the effect was to make it ambiguous. And that's good, because it will make us wait in suspense.

[shirkie]

Uhhhh Tobias flat out told Clark that Chloe was meteor infected. Remember? "She's meteor-infected." The reason they didn't show it was because they were waiting for the reveal later on in the episode when the words actually came out of Tobias' mouth.

She's a superfreak, superfreak, she's superfreaky! :)
shirkie

[xrayvision]

I still don't think that Tobias was sure he saw Chloe as the freak. Perhaps Clark's superspeed in picking up his glasses could have made him think it had to be Chloe he was looking at, not knowing that Clark was already blocking him from seeing Chloe.

Yes, Tobias said it, but the scene was very ambiguous. If they show him again and have him scan Chloe again without Clark around, maybe he won't see anything wrong with her (as in that director's cut scene where he scanned the entire bowling alley and saw no other freaks than Dan). Even Clark had his doubts.

Right now, I'm staying neutral. I don't know if Chloe is a freak and don't want to take a guess since anything could happen. This is proven by the house explosion scene in Covenant where it appeared that there was no way in which Chloe or Gabe could live, but in Gone, they changed things around. They could do the same here.

[Heilige]

xrayvision, do you think Freak was better than every single episode of Smallville Seasons 1-6?

[xrayvision]

No. That will award probably always go to Exile. I have yet to see another episode as excellent as Exile. Rosetta was very close as it was rich with mythos. Arrival was also great. Same with Red, Exodus, Shattered, Asylum, Talisman, and Calling.

I love episodes about the cave legend, the FOS, Brainiac, Morgan Edge, and all that other stuff.

[Heilige]

Originally posted by xrayvision
No. That will award probably always go to Exile. I have yet to see another episode as excellent as Exile. Rosetta was very close as it was rich with mythos. Arrival was also great. Same with Red, Exodus, Shattered, Asylum, Talisman, and Calling.

I love episodes about the cave legend, the FOS, Brainiac, Morgan Edge, and all that other stuff.


What was Exile about? I forgot. Could you elaborate on it? :)

[xrayvision]

Clark on red-k running wild in Metropolis. Lex trapped on the island, with that greatest video shot ever---zooming into the eye of Sigeeth's monster head and having it be the same shape as the island Lex was on. Also, Jonathan making the deal with Jor-El, Morgan Edge being introduced, Clark stealing the vial of his blood from Lionel's safe, Lex's alternate personality Louis who was with him on the island, and the beginning of what was the greatest fight ever on Smallville.

[Kal-ed]

I wouldnt go as far as to say it was the best, aside from all the cool power combos we got to see, It didnt have THAT MUCH (although the directing is trully remarkable). I prefer Justice, Zod, Arrow, Fallout and Crimson better. Not necesarily in this order.


Originally posted by xrayvision
... and the beginning of what was the greatest fight ever on Smallville.

huh?? The Lana vs Chloe from delete??? Cause all I saw in that JK CK fight was grabing eachother (while their chlothes unrealistically withstood their superstrong pulls) and throwing around. I rather see 1 good punch than a thousand pulls and hugs.

[xrayvision]

I thought Justice was extremely overrated. Other than seeing all those heroes again (which I liked) & the Lex scene with Bart, the episode was not good at all. Clark looked like the sh*t he cleans out of the horse stables, and there was very little action and pretty much no climax (no challenge to the good guys, they ran all over Lex's guys). You would think that since this is the 1st time they all teamed up like this, that it would take more effort. It could have been much better. Justice was a lot like Crusade to me (which only had 1 good part to---flight). Both were very overrated, and if one were to actually de-layer the episode and look at it, they would see that they did not offer much.


Originally posted by Kal-ed
I wouldnt go as far as to say it was the best, aside from all the cool power combos we got to see, It didnt have THAT MUCH (although the directing is trully remarkable). I prefer Justice, Zod, Arrow, Fallout and Crimson better. Not necesarily in this order.



huh?? The Lana vs Chloe from delete??? Cause all I saw in that JK CK fight was grabing eachother (while their chlothes unrealistically withstood their superstrong pulls) and throwing around. I rather see 1 good punch than a thousand pulls and hugs.

Well, that's left to opinion then. If you want to talk about unrealistic, the chances of Lana missing Chloe with an ax would be nearly zero. But to each his own. Clark vs. Jonathan was a superpowered fight that I loved. The dive through the window, the landing into the area below, Jonathan spinning & throwing Clark into more stuff, causing things to collapse and fall on him and the reveal of Jor-El's brand on Clark's chest IMO far surpassed anything else they showed us.

[Mr.Magic]

Freak was without a doubt a great episode.

I have to agree that Justice is overrated. Clark walking into a room full of Kryptonite yet again?! Let go of that stupid plot device already. On the other hand, I liked the banter very much.

my top 3:
1. Crimson
2. Freak
3. Justice

[Kal-ed]

Originally posted by xrayvision

the chances of Lana missing Chloe with an ax would be nearly zero.

The chances of two superpowered beings not riping the sh!t out of their clothes while pulling them are ZERO, so The Chlana fight has a lot to it and it has happened in real life, I saw in some show about a lady that almost got axed by her husband but she dodged it (or something) and she managed to scape, now the poor bastard is in prison.

And, from my POV, if there are no punches and/or kicks I dont consider it a fight, its more like wrestling or pent up sexual frustration ;)

And Justice did hava a Climax, the rescuing Impulse. There was not enough budget to have them in some sort of indivudual fights against meteor freaks, and the showdown swith the guards, just showed us what we know, normal humans dont stand a chance against the JL members.

I just dont see WHAT WAS SO SPECIAL about this episode, aside the usage of the superpowers and a couple of well delivered plot movement scenes.

[Coyote]

Yeah, this was probably the best of this season, although there are better eps in other seasons. I thought Justice was kind of simpleminded, although fun, and Crimson was just another tiresome episode where Clark gets drunk on red K and acts silly. Neither one had the suspense, pacing, or character impact of Freak.

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by Kal-ed
The chances of two superpowered beings not riping the sh!t out of their clothes while pulling them are ZERO, so The Chlana fight has a lot to it and it has happened in real life, I saw in some show about a lady that almost got axed by her husband but she dodged it (or something) and she managed to scape, now the poor bastard is in prison.

And, from my POV, if there are no punches and/or kicks I dont consider it a fight, its more like wrestling or pent up sexual frustration ;)

And Justice did hava a Climax, the rescuing Impulse. There was not enough budget to have them in some sort of indivudual fights against meteor freaks, and the showdown swith the guards, just showed us what we know, normal humans dont stand a chance against the JL members.

I just dont see WHAT WAS SO SPECIAL about this episode, aside the usage of the superpowers and a couple of well delivered plot movement scenes.

I thought in rescuing Impulse, there was no conflict. They didn't run into any huge problems, other than Clark being made to look like a total fool. And that really hurt the episode in my eyes, since this story/show is about Clark, and by making the main hero of this show look like an incapable nothing does not equate to a good episode. I've seen episodes in which he was powerless where he did a better job than in Justice. He just took up space and slowed the team down. I found myself asking why the team needed a liability like him.

Well, I listed 10 things that appealed to me if you go back to page 2 of this thread.

As for the clothes---Clark's shirt was tattered to the point where he ripped the rest of it off. I also liked how he threw that bar at Jonathan and when Jonathan got up, he was nowhere to be seen. That shows experience in having powers.

One thing I don't understand about the Delete fight is why Lana wasn't snapped out of it when Chloe slapped her off the stairs. I would think she landed harder than she did in the shower.

I think the greatest fight ever would be Clark vs. Kal-El if they were to have such a thing. I think having those 2 against each other in a battle of strength, wits, powers, and cunningness throughout season 7 would be the best possible training that Clark could get, with him reporting to the FOS every now & then for pointers & advice. Especially if Clark createa a Naman superhero suit before the black-k split, causing Kal-El to also wear that suit and making Lex think that Naman is finally in town and creating excellent stories for episodes between the ones in which Clark and Kal-El face off against each other. Having Lex see both Kal-El (in a Naman suit) and Clark at the same time would do big things in diffusing the bomb that is why Lex wouldn't be able to know Superman is Clark.

[Kal-ed]

In response to Coyote´s post

If by character impact you mean Chloe freaking out, this is just about the dumbest retcon in the history of SV, even greater than Reckoning, making CHloe meteor infected, is just a lazy twist that doesnt make sense (even with the latent powers explanation) and just shows me that they are running out of ideas. Chloe a meteor freak...pffff.

And after Lana´s comments in Sneeze, Wither and Fallout (I think) and her experience with evil meteor freaks through out the series and recently with the guy in Static, her reaction to Clark being a meteor freak was completely contradictory, heck she spoke like a true intolerant person in Extintion.

[Mac55]

Very good episode, the heat vision on chloe was a very cool scene. But this seasons best episode was Crimson, hands down. that one had it all.

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by Kal-ed
In response to Coyote´s post

If by character impact you mean Chloe freaking out, this is just about the dumbest retcon in the history of SV, even greater than Reckoning, making CHloe meteor infected, is just a lazy twist that doesnt make sense (even with the latent powers explanation) and just shows me that they are running out of ideas. Chloe a meteor freak...pffff.

And after Lana´s comments in Sneeze, Wither and Fallout (I think) and her experience with evil meteor freaks through out the series and recently with the guy in Static, her reaction to Clark being a meteor freak was completely contradictory, heck she spoke like a true intolerant person in Extintion.

It hasn't been proven that Chloe is a freak yet. Just as it wasn't proven that she will go insane. The scene with Tobias was very ambiguous. He could have mistakenly seen Chloe as the freak, but it may have been Clark. The house explosion scene from Covenant being changed to the scene in Gone should be proof that anything could happen.

I'm hoping she's not a freak, because that would really mess things up. It would be interesting if she's not a freak and if Lex thinks that Tobias was right because he thinks the abnormalities in her DNA have yet to appear. So he would have his men keep track of her regardless since he would be convinced no matter what.

[Kal-ed]

Originally posted by xrayvision

Freak was the best episode (IMO) for the following reasons:

1. It was very unpredictable I saw everything coming a mile away and what I didnt, I wasnt very surprised with.

2. Clark was shown to be very smart finally (that scene where he steals the computer with superbreath & speed)Completely agree

3. Powers, powers, and more powers-- There was superbreath, superspeed, x-ray vision, heatvision, superhearing, invulnerability, freak vision, and telekinesis IMO, honestly, I think this shouldnt be atributed directly to the episode per se, I mean powers are always cool, but its not the episode per se.

4. Suspense-- They just created more speculation amongst the fans-- Is Chloe really a freak or not? What are her powers? I thought it was very clear that Chloe was a freak, they just postponed the audience learning it untill Clark interrogated Tobias

5. Great acting-- the scene with Clark burning the whole in Chloe, the Lana-Clark scene with Lana's "Same old Clark Kent" quote Agree, they all did a wonder full job, If you ask me, its MR´s doing, at least in great part, some of the scenes showed acting skills I hadnt seen in the 6 seasons the show has been on.

6. Good Lana-- Her facial appearance seemed very much like seasons 1-3 Lana. She really started to wise up and you could see that she's not buying Lex's crap anymore and that she would be a great secret keeper (especially with her "it would endanger someone who saves lives daily" quote, which also proves that she knows Lex is a threat to Clark) Agreed, with this Lana I could stomach one more try at Clana


7. An awesome save at the end with Clark & the bullet Yup totaly

8. Great effects with that save at the end & with Freak VisionAgreed, but lets be fair there are always great effects, they won prices and stuff for the effects And the freak vision looked a lot like Predator´s in the first movie.


9. More suspense-- This is regarding Lana & the secret and how she thought Clark was a meteor freakdisagree, Im tired of it all, i think she should know just so we can finally see Lana moving on

10. Evil Lex-- You could see how dangerous his threat was when Lex felt any danger of being liable of going to jail Agreed, he is a bad ass, and his "clean up" was awsome, the points progresively turning from red to green .

But lets not forget we got an awsome Evil Lex in Justice, the cell deviced especifically for a superspeed enemy, the dialogue with the "pony tail", The word face off with GA. Also in Subterranean, the last scene walking out of level 33.1 was awsome. In general (when he is not mixed up in some Lana drama) Lex has been an evil bastard, finally worthy of Lionel Luthor from seasons 1 -3.


Originally posted by xrayvision
It hasn't been proven that Chloe is a freak yet. Just as it wasn't proven that she will go insane. The scene with Tobias was very ambiguous. He could have mistakenly seen Chloe as the freak, but it may have been Clark. The house explosion scene from Covenant being changed to the scene in Gone should be proof that anything could happen.

I'm hoping she's not a freak, because that would really mess things up. It would be interesting if she's not a freak and if Lex thinks that Tobias was right because he thinks the abnormalities in her DNA have yet to appear. So he would have his men keep track of her regardless since he would be convinced no matter what.

I think it was pretty clear, even tobias was sure, 100 percent, and there was no hasitation in his voice, and he did know both Clark and Chloe were in front of him (the normal thing would be for him to doubt), and judging from the fact that he CAN see the siloutes (sp) There would BE A HUGE diference with Chloe´s silouete and Clark´s and Im guessing that how Tobias knew for without question that it was Chloe.

Further more, there is no reason for Clark to shine (or whatever) in tobias´s vision, cause unlike with Chloe, we are a 100 % sure HE IS NOT A METEOR FREAK.

[xrayvision]

I'm not sure if I would say worthy at this point, but you can see he will be. Had Lionel not been unlucky enough to go up against Clark and still had Luthorcorp, who knows how much worse he would have been. But Lex is definitely getting there. The scene with his eyes at the end also did a good job showing it.

I wasn't sure during the episode if Chloe was a freak. I thought that Lex would have done tests on her and found her not to be a freak at all. For all we know, this could be what happened. It could be that he thinks she's a freak even though he found nothing strange in her DNA and will no matter what think she is one because Tobias ID'd her as one and thus have her followed. Based on the preview, I thought Lex would do tests on her and know that she isn't a freak, but once they showed Tobias' freakvision, Lex was convinced no matter what.

[Kal-ed]

Well but take in consideration that Chloe´s mom is a freak and she became infected while being next to Chloe, so the conditions under which Chloe´s mom was infected could aply as well for Chloe.

Notice, how the meteor freak were under a very specific cirumstance to gain their powers. Linda Lake, she was around water, the hot chick from Heat was making out with a guy while the meteor shower fell, they guy that took eveyrones body heat, was in a frozen lake with meteor rocks, etc.

So we should asume that, for example Chloe had fallen into the frozen Lake with the football player, she would have had the same powers he did.

So if Chloe was withe her mother, what ever circumstances she was under when she was infected by meteors, Chloe was under the same.

[Coyote]

Chloe's mother is mentally ill, but it's never been established that she a kryptonite freak, as far as I can remember. But I do agree that Chloe is infected. Tobias was certain, and he had no reason to lie. Clark is not a K mutant, so there would be no reason for Tobias to see anything unusual about him.

[xrayvision]

Tobias believes he is certain, but I am not convinced at this time. I posted a clue about how he may be wrong:

http://www.kryptonsite.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=2830246#post2830246

[freefall]

Justice is still at the top of the list this season for me, followed by Zod and Arrow.

But I definitely agree Freak is quite a gem, it's wonderful to see Clark using all his abilities and putting them to good use. I also take back my words regarding Chloe being a plot device, seeing how the tables turned right upon the Ms. Wall of Weird herself and seeing how she deals with the realization. Very intense and suspenseful, and it's proof that the writers can indeed write Lana Lang as a very likable character. She held her own in this episode.

[xrayvision]

Well I just hope that if they do make her a freak (which I would rather not have happen), that they don't make her power be super hacking. That would be dumb. That would mean that they would turn Chloe into a freak to try to explain using her as a plot device, and turning her into one would be a plot device in itself, and one that wouldn't make sense. If she supposedly has latent abilities that haven't appeared yet, then hacking should not be a power since that has appeared for a while now. It would also be a lame power.

If they do make her a freak, then I'm guessing that they will do what most other shows did---make her power be one where she would be able to detect or have some sort of connection with other freaks. This is what happened with Sam Winchester & his dreams in Supernatural and it was also Nightman's (Johnny Domino's) power in Nightman.

[freefall]

I don't think superhacking is an ability per se, but something to do with controlling technology, a subconscious knowledge on how to deal with computer/electronic stuff immediately. It's not really a stretch IMO, they've dropped in a few clues in this episode itself if we want to speculate what is actually her power.

[xrayvision]

The one thing I didn't like was the unrealistic statement about how she's handled more kryptonite than almost anyone else. That's not true. I know she did in Splinter & Hypnotic and maybe a few other times. But there were others who handled it a whole lot more. Martha and Jonathan should have been freaks long before if that was true since they handled it far longer. Nevermind Lana who had a necklace around her neck for years. And Lionel who had a vault of pure, refined kryptonite bars.

These are just more signs that should make it that Chloe is not a freak. I hope they consider this when they make up their minds on what they want her to be.

[freefall]

Yeah, that's a very odd statement. Going by her line of reasoning, everyone in Smallville are freaks, all of them have been exposed to meteor rocks in some way or other. But I'm just chalking it up to Chloe being panicky and all scared with the prospect of her being a meteor freak.

[ShelbyKent]

Until the season is over, I'm not ready to commit as to which eppie is my absolute favorite for S6. But this one is definitely one of the highlights, mainly because #1 Clark used all of his superpowers and did admirably in independently solving a dilemma #2 Evil Lex is back, full throttle!

[Peat Moss]

Did the Exile fight scene remind anyone else of the Gobby/Spidey fight scene in the abandoned building?

And I know, when those red dots were disappearing, you were all shouting, "Who's agitating my dots?"

[Fly by guy]

Freak was great for showing alot of character growth for Lana, but I found the Chloe is a meteor freak story unnecessary.
My favorite episode this season is Crimson. I like over the top Clark. Embarrassed Lex is alway fun too.

[smallvillefreak24]

good, not best

[wolverine316]

1) Crimson
2) Freak
3) Justice