"Savior" Review


The show’s ninth season premiere has come. After the finale was a huge letdown, I had little to no expectations for this year. But it certainly was better than expected. Training with Jor-El was great to see on Clark’s end. Erica Durance once again brings her A game, being true to the character of Lois Lane. She literally puts her foot down on John Corben after kissing her and calls Oliver an obnoxious jackass.

I don’t like the producers retooling Zod for this time traveling arc that somehow involves Kandor. Callum Blue’s performance was okay, but this could crash and burn even faster than Davis’ “redemption”.

With this upcoming ends-justifies-the-means arc for the dumb blonde, Chloe is just another annoying bitch that’s sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. Emil Hamilton should be running The Clocktow..oh I’m sorry The Watchtower, not her. Claiming the “Henry” incident as their mess was irksome, as was her go back in time and “fix” things plea, but the retort afterward was just pure ownage. Clark says no! Glad Lois didn’t fall to her whims, either. That just proves how irrelevant Allison Mack’s character has become to the series.

A word about the visions: Kal-El’s befriending his father’s enemy is just an act, Lois & Clark are together, and Chloe will again do something stupid that will make matters even worse. I still remain skeptical, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Rating: 7 1/2

Corben’s change into Metallo next week seems way too fast. Rob and I also think they should’ve kept him as the mercenary instead of a replacement reporter.

Rob’s Notes: As Nick said, they definitely should have kept Corben as a mercenary, but even as a reporter he showed the same sort of cocky suave. I liked the character and regret we only got to know him as a person for one episode, skipping over some crucial character development involving the loss of human senses, the struggle between man or machine, and his eventual going mad and obsessing over Superman, scratch that The Red-Blue Blur, scratch that the Blur. God I hate that name. Take the law suits and just call him Superman, dammit.