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Smallville: Cure (2007)
Unsmooth Operator
At the beginning of the episode we see that Chloe runs into Sasha Woodman, classmate of Smallville high school with kryptonite powers, whom we met in "Drone", 18th episode from season one performed by Shonda Farr, where she ordered a swarm of bees to attack their competitors so she can win the election for student body president. This time Jovanna Huguet portrays her, and here she assures not remember what happened and tells Chloe that a doctor helped her by removing her powers but she lost some memory.
Far from his heroic role as Superman in Lois and Clark TV show, Dean Caan plays the psycho doctor Curtis Knox. An immortal meta-human who tries to revive his bride, died many decades ago by removing organs from his patients, this character reminds me of Mr. Freeze from Batman. We don't see what happens to him in the end but I have the theory that he was sent to Phantom Zone.
There's also a scene of a conversation between Clark and Lex in which for a moment Lex seems to be aware of Clark's abilities, and Clark acknowledges having taken a life as collateral damage to save somebody (he actually didn't kill Knox though, but he didn't know it). Is not the first time this has happened, but the only reason that Clark feels remorse here (or whatever) is that Lex Luthor was the rescued one, this ain't new either. However Lex thanks Clark by aiding him find Knox so he can save Chloe.
Legion (2010)
awful movie
At a remote diner in the middle of a Western U.S. desert, a group of unsuspecting people will become humanity's last stand against the most powerful force in the universe: God. It is a time of darkness, where the fate of the world would be influenced by a cook, a father and his son, a pregnant waitress, a stranded family, a lost motorist, and the archangel Michael. God has had enough of mankind's wayward ways, and as he did with the great flood millennia before, he's decided to once again wipe out the human race. Michael has chosen not to follow God's orders -- which include killing the pregnant waitress Charlie and her unborn baby that's destined to grow into mankind's last hope -- and has joined the band of what is to become human resistance fighters against God's army of angels who inhabit the bodies of human beings. It's spiritual warfare taken to a whole new level
Legion's take on God and His wanton destruction of human life will prove downright insulting to Christians and laughably far-fetched even for nonbelievers or those of other faiths.
The picture tries to justify this second "God-wrought apocalypse" by citing the flood (of Noah's Ark fame), but it ultimately paints God as the de facto "bad guy" of the movie and ignores most everything else in the Bible; sure, God goes unseen, but His powers, angels, and minions -- the latter of whom are, apparently, humans possessed by angles who become demonic zombies turned against their will and working for God to kill an unborn baby and its mother -- are front-and-center, while Michael, the "hero" of the film, is supposedly an Angel that now has more peace and love in his heart than does God. Whatever, it's a terrible premise that seems to go out of its way to upset anyone of faith that sees it, but the real kicker comes in a scene that seems to go completely against the entire presupposition of the story. With the gang holed up in the diner, a van carrying a father and child arrives; the father frantically tries to quickly pump gas into the vehicle, but it's a trick. When the father is killed, a character heroically tries to rescue the small boy who, it turns out, is one of these angel-demon-zombie things. In essence, "God" -- who has lost all faith in man because of his evil ways -- plays on a man's honest and well-intentioned humanity so "He" may kill this individual and, by extension, more easily kill the mother and her baby. It makes no sense; the human character obviously had enough good within him to save a random child, but God uses the character's goodwill and humanity against him, even when, supposedly, there's none of that left in the world.
This may very well be a first for a major motion picture: Legion is at times halfway intense, invigorating, and fun, but it's also completely devoid of significance and proves downright goofy at the same time, and that's not to even mention the ridiculous "God as the bad guy" angle. The movie can't even get that right, as if God would need angels masquerading as demon-zombies to do His work for him (no fire and brimstone to get the job done in three seconds?), making an already passably lame movie just plain stupid. Legion earns a couple of halfhearted points for some decent direction and atmospherics and a few spurts of entertaining action, but it gets little else right. Nor even End of Days is that sacrilegious.
Party of Five (1994)
Fantastic Series
I recently found on my VCR browser that they would re - run Party of Five on TV. Although the series had its heyday in the 90's, it arrived to my country (I'm from Peru) nine years later by a TV cable channel and since then I got hooked with the story.
This show, premiered in 1994, follows the story of five siblings of various ages who are orphaned after their parents die in a car accident. So, Charlie, Julia, Bailey, Claudia and Owen Sallinger have to fend for themselves, take care of each other and deal with the growing problems for their own.
And whilst there are several occasions in which tests the viewer's tolerance and sensitivity, since in the six seasons the main characters make the same mistakes more than twice, when it is supposed they should have learned of these the first time, or else the failure of a child, another brother or sister commits it time later . And most "unpleasant", so to say, is when the child has already lived, generally one of the oldest, first he or she preaches the youngest child and then he comprehends. Nevertheless, it is one of the shows I heart.