"Aquaman" Trailer News! "Smallville" RETURNS With NEW Episode Tonight Featuring Brainiac, Clark's & Lex's Friendship Explodes!

““Aquaman” TRAILER News! “Smallville” RETURNS With NEW Episode Tonight Featuring Brainiac, Clark’s & Lex’s Friendship Explodes!”

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright March 30, 2006

Aquamantv.com and Variety.com report that the “Aquaman” spin-off pilot, titled, “Mercy Reef”, may get some TLC from the kind, film making folks behind this summer’s blockbuster, ”Superman Returns”!

Variety.com says about “Aquaman’s” own newly christened CW Television Network, (a mish mash merger of the WB Network and the UPN Network), “that much of the CW’s promo resources will be aimed at letting people know there’s a new network in town….with shows they already know and love. (Including “SMALLVILLE”!) Parent companies, Time Warner and CBS Corporation will help with everything from saturation spots on CBS Radio stations….

….to a potential “AQUAMAN” TRAILER attached to summer tentpole, “Superman Returns”.”

....Speaking of “Smallville”!!!!

….“Smallville”, RETURNS TONIGHT from its February break/hiatus, with the NEW episode, “Hypnotic”, which will be broadcast, TONIGHT, Thursday, March 30, 2006!

Expect “Hypnotic” to feature the return of mysterious alien with a nefarious agenda, wolf in sheep’s clothing, Professor Milton Fine (aka villain Brainiac!), portrayed by “Smallville’s” most popular asset this season, actor, James Marsters!!!!

We can’t wait to see what otherworldly, treacherous, villainy, Brainiac is up to, and what he has in store in this episode and upcoming episodes for our Clark.

The focus of the episode, however, will further detail the unraveling friendship, that once was, and is now on an unstoppable, downward spiral of destruction, between former pals, now enemies, Clark Kent (aka “Superman”), and Lex Luthor.

So what’s all this chaos we hear about that happens in “Hypnotic”?

Lex, in his years knowing and growing up with Clark, feels frustrated and betrayed by Clark, that Clark won’t reveal his secrets to Lex….so Lex keeps trying, sometimes by rather nasty methods, to find them out for himself.

Clark, in his years knowing and growing up with Lex, on the other hand, understandably, feels frustrated and betrayed by Lex for going behind Clark’s back and trying to expose Clark’s secrets, which Clark feels he needs to protect from Lex.

Actor, Tom Welling who plays Clark/”Superman”, tells “TV Guide”, in their March 27, through April 2, 2006 issue that “Now there’s complete mistrust between the two of them.”

Their tensions and infighting comes to a boiling point in this week’s episode.

First, as “Smallville” Executive Producer, Al Gough, tells “TV Guide, “You find out that it’s a scheme of Lex’s to not only try to find out about Clark, but also to break up Lana and Clark.”

Making matters worse, Lex tries to blackmail, Simone, a mysterious newcomer to Smallville, with a secret of her own. It seems Simone committed a crime that Lex knows about and is holding against her. In retaliation, Simone casts a “hypnotic” spell over Clark, that causes Clark to actually try to kill Lex.

Subplots of course surround the further tensions of Clark’s and Lana’s mutual love for one another.

In a “Smallville” episode in January, Clark finally revealed his “Superman” secret identity and powers to Lana, only to have it backfire in a car crash that killed her. Clark pleaded with his biological Krypton Dad, Jor-El to intervene and resurrect Lana. Jor-El helped Clark turn back time to save Lana, and THIS time, Clark thought it best to NOT re-tell Lana his secret to protect her.

Now, Clark is worried that Lana may never be able to accept Clark’s extraterrestrial heritage, and he is also, actually worried about getting romantically busy with his lady love, fearing as “TV Guide” says, that his “supersex may prove fatal”!

Welling tells “TV Guide” that, “I think Clark will always love Lana, but what he realizes is that he may never be able to be with her, for her safety.”

“TV Guide” ponders if this will turn Lana at last, towards Lex’s own hypnotic charms, to which Al Gough says, “You’ll definitely see them getting closer towards the end of the season. Look he’s rich and he’s sexy and there’s always been an attraction between Lex and Lana. Whether or not she wants to admit it, Lana has always had some feelings for Lex”.

Of course, we can’t wait to see the further adventures, the thickening plot, and the intertwining characters (and their development) of “Smallville” in “Hypnotic”, and as the rest of this season plays out!

Lana and Lex as a canoodling couple though? We agree, that though the two couldn’t seem more polar opposites in moral fiber and character, as Al Gough inferred, greenbacks (MONEY!) can prove a powerful attraction! SECOND, greatest aphrodisiac in the world!

But….Virtuous Super Powers are the FIRST!!!!

That’s why for OUR money, we’d go for the man of steel, “Superman”/Clark!!!!

And so somehow we feel, that as “Smallville’ continues its epic story, the epic romance of Clark and Lana WILL triumph!!!!

Sources:
http://aquamantv.com/
http://www.variety.com/
TV Guide

Muse News And Micro Muse March 30, 2006

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright March 30, 2006