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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Billy Pilgrim meets SUPERMAN!

Yes, yes, yes I do have a confession to make I AM A FAN OF SMALLVILLE. And as the season is nearing it's final episode I would like to pay tribute to the 10 year long series by examining Clark Kent(aka Superman/Kal-El) in the light of Billy Pilgrim. In my opinion Billy Pilgrim is Superman without the powers(with the exclusion to time travel). In many respects consider this Billy is in many respects "halluncinating" and "imagining" that he's traveling through time and so is Superman! Throughout the series, time travellers from the future make frequent visits and bring Clark along on their journey to the past, present and future. Their main goal is to teach Clark and show him the way of being and becoming the man he was suppose to be. He meets aliens, fights crime, travels at the speed of light, speeds faster then you could say "Uh-oh" and can make you fried eggs with his eye laser beams(however he may also melt the pot while he's doing this too so just be careful). He's also very romantic and can bring chocolates from Paris to giving you a nice back massage(but better be careful due to his extreme strength, when he cracks your back, your back's cracked for sure ;) ). But on the other hand this just seems to good to be true. He has all these powers, doesn't make himself king, and he doesn't try to manipulate it for his own purposes. That's strange, but oh the irony! Billy for example has the same problem: he has the ability to time travel but he doesn't change his future, past or present. He doesn't stop his own death or stop the plane despite knowing it would crash. And there's also another connection that can be raised. Does Clark Kent really have powers or is he like Billy hallucinating? Can he really jump over tall buildings or is that just the effect of current CGI and computer editing? Why the heck is he afraid of green kryptonite? If this guy's legit why have a weakness? And how the heck does he heal during the dark when there's no sunlight(or even better on a cloudy day)? And what's with this thing were he runs in slow-mo while superspeeding? I think Clark Kent may be hallucinating like Billy......Regardless of what I just said, Smallville was(and still is) an excellent television series that will always be remembered!

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