Mistakes/Inconsistencies & Plotholes in Arctic

[xrayvision]

This thread is for the discussion of mistakes, plotholes, and inconsistencies spotted in Arctic after it has aired.

[Kal el of krypton]

if there is any 8-) lol

[timbojill]

there are several clips of Artic on youtube keyword smallville artic. One of them shows the fight between CLARK and brainiac. One shows Kara and Chloe taking. Then when chloe finds out that Kara is really brainiac chloe gets ****ed up like lana. Before it airs I will like to ask the following. How will Lex land a plane if he is to show up in the fortress ? Make your guesses.

[Kal el of krypton]

they probably won't show him land in a plane lol make a guess like luthorcorp jet droped him off then flew away lol :)

[SuperTal]

No, Kara (brainiac) will take him there..

[SuperJedi]

Yeah I hope they got Smallville's BEST writers on this!

[AlwaysRight]

Clark beats Brainiac, you think he would run right away to See Lana(which should take less then 30 minutes at most and that is being generous), but since Lana got up she had time to get checked out by the doctors, fill out all the paper work and make a video(which I am guessing would take more then 30 minutes combined).

[umar]

about when chloe called "kara" - are you telling me that braniac made sure he stole karas phone off her before imprisoning her in the phantom zone?

[HowardFilms]

Hey, Clark was looking at the shiny bits of Brainiac floating around. It took time!

[AlwaysRight]

Hey, Clark was looking at the shiny bits of Brainiac floating around. It took time!

I guess if he cleaned that mess up to make sure Brainiac doesn't regenerate, you can add an extra 30 minutes to my estimation how long it would take him to go visit Lana

[xrayvision]

One of the biggest and dumbest inconsistencies was how Brainiac in Apocalypse was already Kara---in other words there were 2 Brainiacs (one looking like Kara and the other like Brainiac)---and how the Kara Brainiac stopped the other Brainiac from killing the baby Kal-El. The entire purpose of Brainiac's trip was to kill Kal-El as a baby and prevent him from ever going to Earth so that the timeline presented in Apocalypse would come true.

Why the hell would he stop himself from killing him? He didn't need Clark to leave Krypton since he could have flown out. Even if he didn't have access to the time portals (which I don't believe was the case), he could have just flown to Earth and lived in the past (he's a machine, he wouldn't care if he was in his own time or not). And if he did need Clark to get back, then that had to be the most hair-brained plan ever made (needing the same person to get back that you wanna kill).

There was no scene showing Kara being sent to the Phantom Zone in that episode and in this episode, we see that she was there. The only way this would make sense is if Kara had something implanted in her mind and was mind controlled to open the Phantom Zone and jump in herself. And the fact that they didn't have such a brilliant scene where Brainiac mind controls Kara to jump into the PZ and focused on Clana, the Chloe-Brainiac scene and other stuff shows how foolish the writers of the show are and how they can't write a decent show. This season needed to be 22 episodes period. Since that didn't happen, the finale should have been 2 hours (with Supernatural's finale being pushed ahead another week). Supernatural's finale was a million times better than Smallville's.

[stenochick]

One of the biggest and dumbest inconsistencies was how Brainiac in Apocalypse was already Kara---in other words there were 2 Brainiacs (one looking like Kara and the other like Brainiac)---and how the Kara Brainiac stopped the other Brainiac from killing the baby Kal-El. The entire purpose of Brainiac's trip was to kill Kal-El as a baby and prevent him from ever going to Earth so that the timeline presented in Apocalypse would come true.

Why the hell would he stop himself from killing him? He didn't need Clark to leave Krypton since he could have flown out. Even if he didn't have access to the time portals (which I don't believe was the case), he could have just flown to Earth and lived in the past (he's a machine, he wouldn't care if he was in his own time or not). And if he did need Clark to get back, then that had to be the most hair-brained plan ever made (needing the same person to get back that you wanna kill).

There was no scene showing Kara being sent to the Phantom Zone in that episode and in this episode, we see that she was there. The only way this would make sense is if Kara had something implanted in her mind and was mind controlled to open the Phantom Zone and jump in herself. And the fact that they didn't have such a brilliant scene where Brainiac mind controls Kara to jump into the PZ and focused on Clana, the Chloe-Brainiac scene and other stuff shows how foolish the writers of the show are and how they can't write a decent show. This season needed to be 22 episodes period. Since that didn't happen, the finale should have been 2 hours (with Supernatural's finale being pushed ahead another week). Supernatural's finale was a million times better than Smallville's.

I've been trying to wrap my brain around that one in a bunch of other posts in other threads.

I assumed that he put part of himself into Kara, and that she was still herself when they returned to earth. This fits with Kara acting like herself up until Arctic, when she was clearly acting like Brainiac. But that does not hold up because in Arctic, Clark says to Brainiac, "Kara never left Krypton, did she?" and Brainiac replies, "Quite an impersonation."
What I got from that is that Bainiac got Kara in the PZ while on Krypton and came back to earth as himself impersonating Kara.

If you watch Apocalypse and Arctic back to back, it makes no sense for Brainiac to be impersonating Kara on Krypton unless he somehow was weakened by her when she stabbed him and smashed the boulder on top of him.

So, he would be himself and Kara would be herself when Clark arrived. Then, Kara tells Clark to take care of the baby and she will take care of Brainiac. Then, during the time when the camera has a close-up on Clark with the baby, Brainiac, in his weakened state, is able to get Kara in the phantom zone and morph into her (he was able to morph into Lionel in a weakened state).

It is Brainiac, impersonating Kara, who returns to Clark and says that they need to get to the portals.

My question has been, if it was Brainiac, not Kara, why didn't he just finish Clark and/or baby Kal-el off?

I have to assume it was because he was weakened and decided to go for his plan B which was to go back to earth with Clark thinking Brainiac is Kara.

I don't know when he figured out Veritas and controlling the Traveler, but that became his Plan B. When he first got back to earth and was having that heart-to-heart talk with Clark about always being there for him, he tried to get Clark to go back in time to Krypton again but Clark refused. That must be when he started figuring out another plan to get rid of Clark.

Why would Brainiac need to impersonate Kara in her hot white pajamas getting a swig of milk in the middle of the night with no one to watch him? Maybe he needed his calcium and minerals but didn't count on the resulting brain freeze that drinking directly out of the bottle would cause? Maybe he wanted to be in character as Kara in case he woke Clark, who has super-hearing, up.

Obviously I'm being sarcastic here. I guess the "milk migraine" was Brainiac still being in a weakened state, like he was when he was impersonating Lionel in the elevator. :confused:

[Mr.Magic]

@stenochick

I'd say Kara was Kara until the scene with the milk. Brainiac latched part of himself unto Kara on Krypton. He also was lying to Clark about impersonating her since Krypton.

That of course doesn't get rid of the holes - the boulder thing (Kara was on Krypton far longer than Clark, and shouldn't have any stored yellow sun radiation left), and just how Kara got into the Phantom Zone.

Inconsistent writing as usual. Makes you wonder what the producers, who are responsible for the end product, do all day long.

ps: The scenario with one Brainiac avatar stabbing another is just too out there for me to accept.

[colonyofcells]

I am pretty sure the Fortress will spring up again very easily and Clark can go back in time again to Krypton and release Kara from the phantom zone so that Kara does not need to spend too many years in the phantom zone.

As for plotholes, maybe Lex and Clark are just cuddling together sweetly in some hole under the Fortress.

[Theshadow129x]

i hate this saeson. i agree with Xrayvision, Supernaturals finale kicked ass. more so than this finale