Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Asylum - S3-E9

Question: How realistic is Lana's physical therapy scene? She says she broke her leg in 4 places and hasn't walked in a month. She's seen struggling to walk using the metal bars to support herself, which Adam seems to suggest she could do "another lap" but that she quit. But then after struggling to walk, she's given her crutches and the therapist leaves, leaving her to walk on her own with crutches. If she struggled with the bars, could she use crutches? Or would she be in a wheelchair?

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Perry - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: After Clark drives the fence post in too deep, Jonathan comes up to him to talk. Clark is not moving, but in the next shot he has another fence post in his hand.

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Stray - S1-E16

Continuity mistake: When Ryan gets hit by Martha's car, his comic book goes flying out of his hand. When he falls to the ground, he's holding his comic book again.

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Pilot - S1-E1

Trivia: When Clark is on the computer, there's an article about a teen becoming the fastest man alive, normally a title for the Flash. The article names the teen Scott Higgs though, who isn't the Flash. The article says he ran the 100-m dash in 2.4 seconds, which is about 93 miles per hour. In the article it said the old record was 8.5 seconds. In real life, the record in 2001 was 9.79 seconds, so it seems the Smallville universe has several fast metahumans.

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Noir - S6-E20

Other mistake: When Jimmy wakes up in 1940, on his desk calendar it's Saturday the 3rd. The newspaper says it's May 3rd, 1940, but that was a Friday.

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Trivia: Justin Hartley, who plays Oliver Queen and joined the show in 2006, also starred in the unaired pilot of "Aquaman" (2006) as Arthur Curry. "Aquaman" was created by "Smallville" creators Gough and Millar. They didn't want "Aquaman" to be a spin-off "Smallville" so they didn't use Alan Ritchson, who had already played Arthur Curry in "Smallville." The show was scheduled to air on The WB, but when The WB and UPN were shut down, The CW was formed. The CW opted not to pick up the series.

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Oracle - S5-E21

Other mistake: Jonathan Kent's headstone says he was born September 1, 1954. However, in "Relic", we learn Jor-El visited Smallville in 1961, where he met Jonathan's parents and his mom was pregnant with Jonathan. And we know it was him since Hiram (his dad) wanted to name their son Gene and Jessica corrects him and says his name is going to be Jonathan. Plus, if he was born in 1954, he would have been 25 when he won the high school state championship instead of a more realistic 18 if he was born in 1961.

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Exposed - S5-E6

Trivia: Additional references to the show "The Dukes of Hazzard"; Senator Jennings (Tom Wopat) drives a '68 Dodge Charger, similar to the '69 Charger in DoH. Jennings mentions Jonathan outrunning cops when he was younger by driving through Chickasaw County, a fictional county in DoH the Dukes often weren't allowed to enter because of their probation, and were sometimes chased by the sheriff. And Jack Jennings' name is a nod to Waylon Jennings, who wrote the DoH theme song and was the Balladeer.

Bishop73

28th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

24th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

24th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Freak - S6-E15

Other mistake: The bowling scorecard for Chloe and Lana is wrong. It shows Chloe knocking down 1 pin (-|1) in the first frame but getting 3 points, then a spare in the 2nd frame but only getting 1 point. The math is wrong until the 7th frame where is ends up showing the correct score. Lana's score is correct, except on frame 9 it shows she knocked over 6 pins on her first ball and is on her 2nd ball, but when it cuts to her, all 10 pins are up. Plus an unfinished 9th frame shouldn't show a score.

Bishop73

19th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Zod - S6-E1

Trivia: Aaron Ashmore appears for the first time as Jimmy Olsen. Aaron's twin brother, Shawn Ashmore, played Eric Summers in season 1 (and again in season 3). Aaron appeared throughout season 6,7, and 8, until Jimmy's death. Aaron would later play Jimmy's younger brother at the end of season 10. Incidentally, it was Shawn who played the superhero Iceman (Bobby Drake) in the X-Men films.

Bishop73

18th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Vessel - S5-E22

Audio problem: At the beginning, you hear the horses braying and the dog barking, but you can tell none of the animals are making those sounds. The sounds were added in afterwards.

Bishop73

17th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Oracle - S5-E21

Continuity mistake: When Clark first looks at the baseball tickets, Milwaukee is circled in red on both tickets. In the next scene when Clark is lying them on the grave, Milwaukee is no longer circled.

Bishop73

17th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

17th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Fade - S5-E20

Character mistake: Chloe is looking at her digital wall of weird for anyone with camouflage abilities in the past and says there's no match. They act like this is a new power. However, in season 1, "Shimmer", Jeff Palmer had the ability to turn invisible because of a cream he made with kryptonite infused green roses. That should have popped up in her search. And even if it didn't, Chloe should remember the ability to turn invisible because she got the cream on her fingers, which turned invisible.

Bishop73

15th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Void - S5-E17

Stupidity: Lance and Lana's actions at the end don't make sense, other than to set up conflict for the plot. Lance won't give Lana a shot. Lana steals a vile and after Lance injects Lex (to stop him, fine), he finds Lana, who is trying to inject herself. He stops her, throws her back, then proceeds to try and inject her. He could have just waited and let her do it herself, or taken the vile and left. Lana is then scared that Lance is about to inject her when that's what she wanted in the first place.

Bishop73

15th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Void - S5-E17

Continuity mistake: When Lana goes to see Lance, who's packing up the serum, you see 5 syringes strapped in, 1 with serum in it. When Lance hits Lex and his case falls open, you can see the 5 syringes still strapped in, but now none have any serum in them. When Lance goes to pick up the case, only one syringe is strapped in, and it's in the wrong spot, next to some blood, and one syringe out of the strap lying in the open case.

Bishop73

13th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Solitude - S5-E8

Other mistake: Lois' car has the plate number "AJH 927." This is the same plate number that Senator Jennings had on his car in a previous episode, "Exposed."

Bishop73

12th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Exposed - S5-E6

Trivia: The name on the fake password for Lois Lane is "Margot Neill", a reference to Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the Superman film series of the 70's and 80's, and Noel Neill who played her in the film serials and the '50s television series.

Bishop73

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