Laundry and Smallville

Well it is Thursday night, which either means one of two things, I am at Lodge or I am doing laundry and watching Smallville. This week it is Smallville, and I am glad, because tonight was the season finale. Yes I am a smallville geek. Dont ask me why, but it might have something to do with the beautiful women like chloe (pictured above), or it might have to do with the archetypical characters that I like so much.

So what do I have to say about the finale? For those who did not get a chance to see it, it was your basic finale cliff hanger. Whats the hanger this year? well Zog escapes his dimensional prison by taking over Lex's body. And, get this, Clark is sent by Zog, into the dimensional prison that he escapes. Set this against a backdrop of a virus that is shutting down all the electricity, and technology in metropolis, combined with an allusion to the final days on Krypton, and you have a pretty fun story.

One piece of dialogue that rang out to me was given by the character of Feines. He said, something along the lines of "Clark you have so much love for these humans. But watch what happens when I take away all their technology. You will watch them rip each other apart, and devolve into the animals that they are." As you can imagine, my over analytical mind had a hay day with that.

The Discover Channel has been presenting a series lately on "Super Disasters". They are dramatization of what could happen in the event of certain disasters like a "super tornado", or a "Tsu Nami" (not that we need fiction for that one), or a "Super Solar Storm". This last one was on last weekend and I watched it for awhile. Its premise was a solar storm that basically knocked out all the power, and shut down all the computers, across a very large track of land. (The eastern Seaboard.) And, as you can imagine the narrative soon devolved into a state of chaos. There seems always to be these doomsday/apocalyptic ideas floating around. And now it would seem that they have jumped off the pages of the bible, onto the discovery channel, and have now found there way to smallville.

So what would happen if one day all the lights went out? What side of humanity would rise from the ashes of such an event? Would it draw us closer together, or would it pull us farther apart? Has western civilization evolved so much on the back of technology, that it could not support us, if that technology collapsed?

There have been many people out there who have speculated that the writers of smallville have a very christian agenda. As I said before the archetypical characters and plots seem ripe with biblical allusions and possible lessons. If this is so, how does the imprisonment of Clark, and the release of Zog fit into their take on world events and the christian story. I would love to hear any comments that might be out there, from fellow smallville geeks.