Harry Potter vibe?

[Mysticlies]

For some strange reason, this episode along with the previous one kept giving me a harry potter vibe.

Did anyone else notice such a thing? or was it just me.

[Alexander III]

I believe it was just u :lol::lol::lol:

[MrZeppo]

It's because you're seeing the way the Smallville writers took the odd loose ends over the last few years and made it into a plausible woven storyline that implies years of history. I mean, there are a few things that don't work out the way they brought it all together, but I'm giving them a pass for effort.

J.K does a great job weaving an intricate storyline that makes the story feel more epic. That was the same feeling I got here too. :)

[thehenry89]

I think it's all the suddenly continuous story lines being tossed together at the last minute, not that i'm complaining.

[Theshadow129x]

^ agreed

[maryjanewatson]

as someone who used to be obsessed with Harry Potter, I can definitly tell you I did NOT get that vibe.

How did you get that vibe? I don't see it at all.

[~*smallville_tv*~]

lols I thought that flashback scene with Lex, Oliver and the other girl was abit Harry Potter like :P And that group with Lionel, etc could have been Order of the Phenix lol.
For me, that was the scene that would have come closest to it but the rest of it not really. Though Chloe with the healing tears ages ago lol that idea sounded like it was from Harry Potter.

[TheANIMAL (marcus)]

I was getting a "plot" vibe, i dont often get that when watching Smallville.

[Vergon6]

I was getting a "plot" vibe, i dont often get that when watching Smallville.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Mysticlies]

lols I thought that flashback scene with Lex, Oliver and the other girl was abit Harry Potter like :P And that group with Lionel, etc could have been Order of the Phenix lol.
For me, that was the scene that would have come closest to it but the rest of it not really. Though Chloe with the healing tears ages ago lol that idea sounded like it was from Harry Potter.

same here


1) The continuous flashbacks into Lex’s childhood
2) The flashback of the kids playing
3) The scene when Lex overhears a dark conversation taken place
4) The whole idea of Veritas, related to the spell Veritaserum both Latin words for truth.
5) A secret group...somewhat resembling that of the order of the phoenix.
6) The whole Snape/Lionel correlation.
7) Veriatas/TOTP both protecting a single person Clark/Harry.
8) Both Voldemort and Brianic, they just keep coming back!

9) And most importantly like everyone said the plausible woven storyline. :)

[silverfist]

It's funny, before seeing this topic I had read some others on this board concerning Lionel, and Snape popped up in my mind also. Especially Snape in the final book...

Heavy Harry Potter spoilers below...




I think it's something about how both these two characters are perhaps the most complex and interesting ones in their series and how ultimately in the end it seems like they're both striving to do the right thing to make up for their pasts (and more) but they know that they're kinda living on borrowed time. At least in Snape's case, he was living on the edge quite a bit throughout the final book and I'm sure he wasn't that surprised really (though shocked of course) when his time finally came. Lionel also seems to be aware of the fact that his time is coming soon (at least IMO) and he seems more desperate than ever before to make sure that everything will be alright (before anything might finish him off?). I'm pretty sure that Lionel knows that it was Lex who killed his own childhood friend to get hold of one of the keys. So now that he knows that Lex is capable of such a horrific deed he won't expect anyhing short of it when his son figures out that he is the keeper of the other key.

I'm not sure if Lionel believes in hell but he really do seem to want his redemption anyway...through Clark. If Clark would for example die now, Lionel would probably consider himself pretty screwed on the redemption part since all that he has worked for since he "changed" will be lost.

[SuperFan85]

lol I think if anything that the first flashback reminded me of, it was "Chronicles of Narnia". I mean you have four kids playing hide and seek in a mansion. When Lex came across that closet as a potential hiding spot, I seriously half expected him to open the door to reveal a Wardrobe inside lol

[superhippie2000]

i think maybe the whole family crets and uniforms and all that gave it a bit of the vibe.

[Minela]

Not that I'm complaining about continuity, but it seems very forced this late in the game.

[lastdaughterofkrypton]

It's funny, before seeing this topic I had read some others on this board concerning Lionel, and Snape popped up in my mind also. Especially Snape in the final book...

Heavy Harry Potter spoilers below...




I think it's something about how both these two characters are perhaps the most complex and interesting ones in their series and how ultimately in the end it seems like they're both striving to do the right thing to make up for their pasts (and more) but they know that they're kinda living on borrowed time. At least in Snape's case, he was living on the edge quite a bit throughout the final book and I'm sure he wasn't that surprised really (though shocked of course) when his time finally came. Lionel also seems to be aware of the fact that his time is coming soon (at least IMO) and he seems more desperate than ever before to make sure that everything will be alright (before anything might finish him off?). I'm pretty sure that Lionel knows that it was Lex who killed his own childhood friend to get hold of one of the keys. So now that he knows that Lex is capable of such a horrific deed he won't expect anyhing short of it when his son figures out that he is the keeper of the other key.

I'm not sure if Lionel believes in hell but he really do seem to want his redemption anyway...through Clark. If Clark would for example die now, Lionel would probably consider himself pretty screwed on the redemption part since all that he has worked for since he "changed" will be lost.

I don't see the Snape conection. Snape did a lot of horrible things to protect Harry out of the love he felt for Lily but everybody though ill all the time he was around he lived a miserable sad lonely life, while Lionel might be on losing grounds now he was worshiped and powerful for a long time not to mention truly evil till the transference incident and Jor-El's vessel happened.
Although the locket thing reminded me of the Horcrux's :D

[Mysticlies]

i think maybe the whole family crets and uniforms and all that gave it a bit of the vibe.

that also lol

[IamProdigy]

As to the words of Eric Cartman, "Harry Butthole Potter is lame".

[STFanatic]

I have never read or watched anything "Harry Potter".

Well, except the spoof on the Simpsons. ;)

[IamProdigy]

I have never read or watched anything "Harry Potter".

Well, except the spoof on the Simpsons. ;)


Christopher Walken...he's gonna be in SNL this Saturday and I'm taping that crap.

[gmaniac6]

That was just you!