A Case of the.... Smallville - Episode 9-10

I don’t know what it is, but Smallville always does the best “Previously” montage videos. Great stuff.

Anyway, Smallville returns from a rather long hiatus and, yet again, we get a Green Arrow-centric episode. I feel like Oliver is going through the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man 2 syndrome, where there’s this inexplicable desire to give him literal increased face time. There have been numerous moments this season where Oliver SHOULD have been in Green Arrow mode, but instead of rocking the bad ass costume, we see him as normal old Oliver. I suppose I can give them a free pass on the Saw-esque episode, because, thematically, it was more about Oliver overcoming his demons than the Green Arrow once again becoming a superhero, but I’m still disappointed that, in the future episodes, we saw Oliver fighting the Kandorians instead of the Green Arrow. I think back to that awesome visual of Oliver aiming his arrows at the sky filled with flying Kryptonians, and it just would have looked THAT much cooler if he was wearing the hood and sunglasses. The dude’s got a pretty awesome costume – let’s take advantage of it.

http://tv.insidepulse.com/2010/01/31/smallville-episode-9-10-review/