4.22 "Commencement"

<u>4.22 "Commencement" - 90 Min Season Finale</u>

Clark (Tom Welling) begins to piece together the reason he was sent to Earth after he has a nightmare that something horrible is going to happen to Smallville and heads to the cave to seek answers from Jor-El. His biological father tells him he must reunite the three crystals immediately or a disaster of epic proportions will befall the planet and even Clark won't be able to stop it. Meanwhile, Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) helps Lana (Kristin Kreuk) escape Smallville after the death of Genevieve Teague the takes shocking action to get one of the crystals away from Lionel (John Glover). Realizing they are connected to Clark, Chloe (Allison Mack) tries to stop Lex from discovering the truth about the crystals. Jason (Jensen Ackles) takes Jonathan (John Schneider) and Martha (Annette O'Toole) hostage and threatens to kill Martha unless Jonathan tells him where Clark hid the crystals.


Discuss...

[Val]

heads to the cave to seek answers from Jor-El.

This is the basic from Clark Kent.
BTW, thanx for sharing Madam "The Force"!

edit: Maria, your new nick scares me! [img]graemlins/uhoh.gif[/img]

[ May 18, 2005, 07:42 PM: Message edited by: Val. ]

[SultanOfSix]

gone...

the superboy comics. those stones do portray the fortress of solotude you mean you never knew this i knew it would reveal it this whole time.

[Disguy23]

The whole thing was just one big disappointment, imo

Somehow that was all really boring. The episode was basically a bunch of choppy loose ends strung together in an extremely messy fashion. Note to Smallville producers: tons of cheesy special effects don't make up for a shoddy episode.

And that 24-esque countdown clock was annoying as all heck. The show is terrible, I hope the writers regroup over the summer and get back to basics--instead of writing silly, embarassing fanfics.

I only became interested in the last minute. I want to see what happens with the crystal and what's in that spaceship. Does anyone know what they have in mind for next year?

I didn't thinlk the episode was that bad, in fact I thought it was rather good.....Kristin was pretty good in this, and the rest was good too, apart from the countdown thing. Judging by peoples opinions I think (with the trailers and all) people expect too much from SV.......my advice to them would be

..."don't believe the hype"...

As far as the mythos goes that was an excellent episode and I can't wait to see the next one. Fortress of solitude here we come. Lex and Chloe??
& What the hell is that other ship????

good stuff. [img]graemlins/thumbs.gif[/img]

[Disguy23]

yeah....that countdown was just extremely cheesey.

after watching the first 21 episodes of season four....i wasn't expecting anything from the season finale and it STILL disappointed me. zero expectations coming into it...the only thing i'm glad about, is that it's finally over.

*sigh*...whatever though. SV moving to thursday and i hope it'll be the last season.

I think the episode was really good,espicially compared to a few of the other episodes this season.
they might have left too much for the opening of the next season...but they allways do that,so no big surprise there...

anyway, i thought Kristin was great in this episode,i think she showed a great potential for becoming a very good actress, even more than usually ;-P
there was even a point were i thought..."wow! she should get an oscar for this one!"...but that's probably just me getting carried away. :-P

[ May 21, 2005, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: X-File ]

i was really disappointed about the whole lana-away-from-clark thing.both experienced something big and both were seperated.really annoying.
i don't care about lex and chloe...merely about lana.

**** i tried downloading it off Ares, missed it, frigin exams. Sounds like its good stuff

Finally got a chance to see it last night. I thought it was pretty entertaining really. It reminded me of Ben Affleck's Armageddon a few years back. Miller and Gough were able to create some good suspense in anticipation of the big strike. Like Armageddon, a lotta chaos and plot lines but OK overall. Like kodos said, the countdown was such an obvious ripoff of 24 and unnecessary.

Both KK and MR had good performances I thought...lex just barely keeping a lid on his frustration and lana maxing out the facial expressions with those unreal eyes. KK also worked hard for that brokenlegged crawl to the crater's edge... pretty realistic scene.

Were lana and chloe seein something get out of that ship? :confused:

..that would be scary if that other ship were a kryptonian prisoner remeber how they sued to imprison them.......

[Xadious]

I liked it

i can't wait for the next season to start :D

And tehkreuk looked amazing as ever...actually, more so than usual

[ May 23, 2005, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Xadious ]

[Val]

Woaaaahhhhh !
Look who came back!...
How was your vacation Xadious? :D

Originally posted by The Force:
<u>4.22 "Commencement" - 90 Min Season Finale</u>

WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't get to see the entire thing. I only saw from the part where Lana was crying and then handed a crystal to Clark. ... from then on, the show rocked!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ohhh what a cliff hanger of an episode! I am so impressed with it. I'm itching to know what happens next!!

Muwaha. I got to see it because I was home sick. ^_^ The final "song" or "tune" they had at the end of the episode rocked. Does anybody know what it was? As far as I can remember there was no words, it sounded like a techno/dance.