I am borrowing this from the "Eternal" forums because I thought it would be good to discuss here in the spoiler section of the forums.
"Eternal" was as many of us feared, plagued with giant mistakes, plotholes and inconsisitencies that practically destroy anything we knew from past Smallville episodes. I will list a few already discovered by various forum members:
-Chloe is able to stop Doomsday almost any time she wants but that wasn't the case in the original timeline arc for "Infamous"
new timeline.clark changed that back in infamous
-Lex didn't know the St. George (about the box) story until that b-day party of his
true i ll give ya that one
-Tess was able to get Lionel's Veritas journal yet Lex has never been able to.
um well lex probably has so much hidden stuff or too busy to look through it all...but i doubt lionel even told lex about it.lionel hated lex by the way
-Another one is why did the knife in Talisman disappear when Lex touched it if he wasn't Clark's greatest enemy?
lex isnt dead...not to mention lex has no superpowers...no i dont count white blood cells...and he is one of the few to stand toe to toe with superman...not some mindless brute...i still be lex is his greatest enemy
-Why was there kryptonite in the st george box and why was it on lionels desk when it was the gift for lex from where ever lionel got it. Did he re-gift it to lex? haha
hmm so you wouldnt keep a piece of glowing green rock? plus i m sure lionel knew the meteor shower was coming that day...he did know the exact place to find davis btw...maybe he went to that site and excavated everything...but the ship which johnathon had already gotten
-How would he even know about kryptonite that early in the Smallville storyline.
clarks arrival wasnt the beggining of the smallville storyline...thats why there called flashbacks
-It sure did look like Lionel Luthor lived there even though Clark said that Lionel never lived in the castle and had no intention to.
um what does this have to do with anything?
-Why did Davis get cut by the knife when in previous episodes he couldn't be harmed by knives?
look closer...he was cutting a tomato.in other words he didnt cut himself...unless chloe has kryptonite hidden somewhere in the room
-There was plenty of weird stuff, but the most glaring plothole for me would be the whole "Oliver's taking care of it" bit, and then Davis shows up, completely fine in Chloe's basement. Yeah, but wha -- ?!
-You gotta laugh how Lionel's people tracked down Davis right past the spaceship and left it there for somebody else to retrieve
looked like only two guys and i doubt lionel could give a dxmn about the ship when he had the traveler
-Lionels men didn't even notice the big egg Doomsday hatched from and ignored that he spoke perfect English.
possible but we dont know what happen to the egg...maybe it cracked down into nothingness,maybe johnathon got it thinking it was related to clark
-I have to rewatch the episode but was it Tess that made the comment that Davis and Clark didn't get along for a reason? If so (unless i'm wrong) ... how would she know that?
yes she said it...but what doesnt tess know? but i d have to guess it was tess s delusions..."i know your the traveler and i know davis came from the egg thanks to the book so think about it clark,thats why you dont get together" tess "knows" clark is the traveler and she knows davis is the destroyer,,,shes basing it off their destiny not their socialibility
-All sorts of biblical errors and misinterpretations from the new Testament.
wouldnt know,i dont follow it that close
-Also.. So Lional knew clark was the travel all along? they have always had him suspecting it but not knowing. Also wasnt it Johnathan not Martha that called in the favor?
knowing lionel...he probably knew johnathon would ask for help...or perhaps nots johnathon but whoever had the traveler...and once he did,a mysterious boy who had no past,as chances are johnathon had to tell lionel this for the deal to go through...and then lionel just played along to get leverage and not a restraining order
-Somehow the Orb magically survived Jor-El's destruction of the fortress and magically found it's way back to Tess Mercer who has never even seen the Orb in person before.
i d have to go with,started to sink...froze in the ice...tess dug it up in the excavation and decided to keep this,,,as it was obviously tied to the person who was with lex last
-Did Clark say he had nightmares as a child of his ship landing in the cornfield and noone come to find him? He must have been 15 or 16 when he found out he came from another planet.
i have nightmares about killing nazi zombies in berlin that doesnt mean that i believe them when i woke up...dreams are combined thoughts from the subconcious
I am usually pretty forgiving about errors but man were there a lot in this episode. It's kind of hard to ignore these glaring plotholes. This episode would have been ok if it didn't have these plotholes but because of them, I can't say that I really enjoyed this episode. I also don't like the whole Chloe/Jimmy situation. Jimmy sending her all sorts of swear words and stuff and then Chloe already over Jimmy, BFF'ing Doomsday. Even after finding out he is Doomsday to apparently "protect Clark". I don't know, this episode was horrible when it comes to writing. In my opinion!
EDIT: It looks like Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders wrote this episode...
"Eternal" was as many of us feared, plagued with giant mistakes, plotholes and inconsisitencies that practically destroy anything we knew from past Smallville episodes. I will list a few already discovered by various forum members:
-Chloe is able to stop Doomsday almost any time she wants but that wasn't the case in the original timeline arc for "Infamous"
new timeline.clark changed that back in infamous
-Lex didn't know the St. George (about the box) story until that b-day party of his
true i ll give ya that one
-Tess was able to get Lionel's Veritas journal yet Lex has never been able to.
um well lex probably has so much hidden stuff or too busy to look through it all...but i doubt lionel even told lex about it.lionel hated lex by the way
-Another one is why did the knife in Talisman disappear when Lex touched it if he wasn't Clark's greatest enemy?
lex isnt dead...not to mention lex has no superpowers...no i dont count white blood cells...and he is one of the few to stand toe to toe with superman...not some mindless brute...i still be lex is his greatest enemy
-Why was there kryptonite in the st george box and why was it on lionels desk when it was the gift for lex from where ever lionel got it. Did he re-gift it to lex? haha
hmm so you wouldnt keep a piece of glowing green rock? plus i m sure lionel knew the meteor shower was coming that day...he did know the exact place to find davis btw...maybe he went to that site and excavated everything...but the ship which johnathon had already gotten
-How would he even know about kryptonite that early in the Smallville storyline.
clarks arrival wasnt the beggining of the smallville storyline...thats why there called flashbacks
-It sure did look like Lionel Luthor lived there even though Clark said that Lionel never lived in the castle and had no intention to.
um what does this have to do with anything?
-Why did Davis get cut by the knife when in previous episodes he couldn't be harmed by knives?
look closer...he was cutting a tomato.in other words he didnt cut himself...unless chloe has kryptonite hidden somewhere in the room
-There was plenty of weird stuff, but the most glaring plothole for me would be the whole "Oliver's taking care of it" bit, and then Davis shows up, completely fine in Chloe's basement. Yeah, but wha -- ?!
-You gotta laugh how Lionel's people tracked down Davis right past the spaceship and left it there for somebody else to retrieve
looked like only two guys and i doubt lionel could give a dxmn about the ship when he had the traveler
-Lionels men didn't even notice the big egg Doomsday hatched from and ignored that he spoke perfect English.
possible but we dont know what happen to the egg...maybe it cracked down into nothingness,maybe johnathon got it thinking it was related to clark
-I have to rewatch the episode but was it Tess that made the comment that Davis and Clark didn't get along for a reason? If so (unless i'm wrong) ... how would she know that?
yes she said it...but what doesnt tess know? but i d have to guess it was tess s delusions..."i know your the traveler and i know davis came from the egg thanks to the book so think about it clark,thats why you dont get together" tess "knows" clark is the traveler and she knows davis is the destroyer,,,shes basing it off their destiny not their socialibility
-All sorts of biblical errors and misinterpretations from the new Testament.
wouldnt know,i dont follow it that close
-Also.. So Lional knew clark was the travel all along? they have always had him suspecting it but not knowing. Also wasnt it Johnathan not Martha that called in the favor?
knowing lionel...he probably knew johnathon would ask for help...or perhaps nots johnathon but whoever had the traveler...and once he did,a mysterious boy who had no past,as chances are johnathon had to tell lionel this for the deal to go through...and then lionel just played along to get leverage and not a restraining order
-Somehow the Orb magically survived Jor-El's destruction of the fortress and magically found it's way back to Tess Mercer who has never even seen the Orb in person before.
i d have to go with,started to sink...froze in the ice...tess dug it up in the excavation and decided to keep this,,,as it was obviously tied to the person who was with lex last
-Did Clark say he had nightmares as a child of his ship landing in the cornfield and noone come to find him? He must have been 15 or 16 when he found out he came from another planet.
i have nightmares about killing nazi zombies in berlin that doesnt mean that i believe them when i woke up...dreams are combined thoughts from the subconcious
I am usually pretty forgiving about errors but man were there a lot in this episode. It's kind of hard to ignore these glaring plotholes. This episode would have been ok if it didn't have these plotholes but because of them, I can't say that I really enjoyed this episode. I also don't like the whole Chloe/Jimmy situation. Jimmy sending her all sorts of swear words and stuff and then Chloe already over Jimmy, BFF'ing Doomsday. Even after finding out he is Doomsday to apparently "protect Clark". I don't know, this episode was horrible when it comes to writing. In my opinion!
EDIT: It looks like Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders wrote this episode...
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