- Smallville was the land of lost memories last night. The lingering effects of her encounter with BRAINIAC last season turned tragic for Chloe, who previously had seen only good from the incident as her brain had basically morphed into the world’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer. However, things took a turn for the worst this week when Chloe began forgetting all of her memories and knowledge about her friends and life experiences. As she thought about a particular friend, BRAINIAC overwrote Kryptonian messages in place of her original memories and left Chloe forgetting who even her fiancé, Jimmy Olsen, was. She also forgot about Clark’s secret and his powers and was forced to turn the computer room of the Isis Foundation offices into a Michael Scofield-like wall plastered with facts, information and pictures, designed to help her remember the people in her life. At the same time, she had the three men in her life scrambling to find a way to help her. Jimmy kept feeding her pictures of them together and trying to remind her of who he was. Jimmy also arranged for Chloe to see a neurologist at Metropolis General and get a CAT scan, but the CAT scan only worsened things. It exacerbated Chloe’s symptoms and wiped out all of her memories except one - those of Davis, the paramedic and new friend who also has made it clear that he has feelings for her beyond friendship. Davis tried early in this episode to talk to Chloe about those feelings, but she blew him off in a rush to get to the hospital library and research memory loss in view of her current plight. Following the CAT scan, Chloe only remembers Davis because, unbeknownst to her, he is Doomsday, the being referred to by the Kryptonian code taking over her brain. BRAINIAC is trying to communicate with Doomsday through Chloe, so he pops up in her flashbacks and he is the only one that BRAINIAC isn’t actively working to erase from her memory. Following the ill-fated CAT scan, Chloe finds Davis outside of the hospital and he takes her back to Smallville, to the Talon where Clark and Jimmy are preparing to leave to look for Chloe, who they believe is AWOL. Clark has also been busy looking for ways to help Chloe after Jimmy initially came to him for help. Clark’s first reaction was to talk to Chloe, which is when he discovered her memory-boost room at the Isis offices. He and Chloe realize that BRAINIAC is responsible, so he takes her back to the Kent Farm to decide what to do next. Clark’s choice is to take the Kryptonian crystal, the same one that sent he and Lois to the Phantom Zone last week. Despite Chloe’s protestations on using the crystal to rebuild the Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic, Clark puts the plan into action after Chloe suffers another episode in which she loses more memories, this time of Clark. She forgets all about his abilities and that’s enough to send Clark to the Arctic. There, he does rebuild the Fortress and his Kryptonian father Jor-El tells him that it is possible to stop Chloe’s memory loss, but because of BRAINIAC’s unpredictable nature, the end result of the process could be dangerous. Clark chooses to go through with it anyhow and after Davis brings Chloe to the Talon (in the mean time is when Jimmy took her in for the CAT scan), Clark speeds her off to the Arctic and Jor-El fixes her mind. She is back to normal, but at Clark’s request, she is also wiped clean of any memories of his powers. That leads to another Fortress visit for Clark, wherein he and Jor-El discuss the Doom/Doomsday symbol Chloe kept seeing in her flashback episodes. Jor-El tells Clark about Dooomday’s origins and the disaster he could bring to Earth. A fired-up Clark vows to fight him, but as Clark super speeds out of the Arctic, the Fortress turns black behind him and a voice says that Doom is coming. In Smallville, Doom is Davis, a.k.a. Doomsday, is still after Chloe, catching up with her in the alley outside the Talon, kissing her and telling her that she’s marrying the wrong guy in Jimmy. Chloe shuts him down, but he vows that he will wait as long as it takes for her to realize that he’s the guy for her. And that’s all for this week, leading into next week, Chloe and Jimmy’s wedding, the temporary return of Lana Lang (the uber, uber-hot Kristen Kreuk!) and the emergence of Doomsday……
- I believe we’ve found a new state motto for the great state of Nebraska: Please don’t bring your teenager here. And no, I’m not making that up; the state’s governor said it himself. “Please don't bring your teenager to Nebraska,” Gov. Dave Heineman pleaded. “Think of what you are saying. You are saying you no longer support them. You no longer love them.” To be fair, the governor wasn’t referring to bringing your teenager to Nebraska under any circumstances; he was talking about an apparent rush by parents to drop their teenage children off at hospitals before lawmakers change the state's troubled “safe haven” law. Officials in the state are so eager to change this law that they actually called a special session of the Legislature on Friday to add an age limit to the law. This move comes after a boy, 14, and his 17-year-old sister were dropped off Thursday at an Omaha hospital and the girl ran away from the hospital. Gee, wonder why that is? Her parent(s) drive from several states away to dump her, at age 17, in the middle of Nebraska? No offense to you, Nebraska, but any parent who drops a 17-year-old in any state for the purposes of abandoning them, it’s going to cause big problems. For the most part, 17-year-olds tend to know what is going on in those cases and they’re none too happy about it. And it’s not just parents driving to Nebraska to dump their teenage children; Wednesday, a father flew in from Miami, Florida. Don’t think this is what Nebraska legislators had in mind with their safe haven law. No, the law was intended to allow parents to hand over an infant anonymously to a hospital without being prosecuted. No one seems to have gotten that message, because of the 34 children who have been dropped off at hospitals, officials said not one has been an infant. In fact, all but six have been older than 10. Thus, Nebraska lawmakers will change the safe haven law and likely limit it to somewhere in the range of children between three and 30 days old. That should keep parents from Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Florida and Georgia from dumping their kids in Nebraska. And who are these pieces of crap, anyhow? Well, they are people like Tysheema Brown, who drove from Georgia to leave her teenage son at an Omaha hospital and tried to defend it. “Do not judge me as a parent. I love my son and my son knows that," Brown said. “There is just no help. There hasn't been any help.” Are you freaking kidding me? Memo to you, Tysheema: it is YOUR job to raise YOUR child. You have a kid, it’s then your responsibility to care for that child. If you need help, you ask friends, you ask family members, you ask neighbors, you ask fellow church members - basically, people you know or friends of people you know or just about anyone IN YOUR ZIP CODE OR FAMILY TREE. You don’t drive several states over to dump your kid. I will judge you as a parent because you are a bad parent, a coward and a quitter, and I’m glad Nebraska is going to shut people like you down….
- Clearly, the recent economic woes of this nation have also drastically impacted the value of the mullet just as much as they have affected the worth of a dollar. Five or ten years ago, the world-class, hall-of-fame mullet that Barry Melrose rocks would have been enough to earn a hockey coach the goodwill to make it through an entire season, no matter how bad his team performed. In 2008, that same mullet, still as glorious as ever, will get you fired after just 16 games. Melrose, after taking several years off from coach to become a TV analyst, made his return to the bench with the Tampa Bay Lightning this season and has now been unceremoniously fired and replaced by associate coach Rick Tocchet on an interim basis. Maybe the team had unjustifiably high standards this season after making several key offseason acquisitions and landing heralded Steve Stamkos as the top pick in the 2008 draft, I don’t know how to explain this. You just don’t fire a man with that level of mullet, period. So I will give Tampa Bay general manager Brian Lawton a chance to explain himself. “This was a tough decision to make,” the general manager said. “Barry is a good man and we have a great deal of respect for him. We wish him nothing but success. However, the results were unacceptable and the players have to understand that we need to be better. Hopefully this change helps push them.” No, Brian, what’s unacceptable is you firing the game’s best hockey hair after 16 games. Dude, that’s a quick trigger finger, even for the NHL. Sure, you team is 4-5-1 in its past 10 games, including three straight losses, but fans could still come to games and stare at Melrose’s awesome business-up-top, party-in-the-back ‘do. I don’t even like hockey and I’m still talking about this, so you know I’m pissed. You just hired this guy in June after he’d been ESPN's analyst since 1996. You did so knowing that Melrose had not been coaching in the NHL since the lockout-shortened season of 1994-95, when he was with the Los Angeles Kings. So in turn, you should be more understanding of his attempts to improve your team and oh yeah, of how amazing his mullet is…..sometimes, the world just sucks and this is one of them…..
- No time wasted for the new James Bond flick “Quantum of Solace,” starring Daniel Craig as Bond. The movie picks up just minutes after "Casino Royale" ended and wastes no time in accelerating to warp speed. Bond is still looking to chase down the villainous Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who manages to slip through his fingers once again and results in Bond being sent to Haiti. There, he is mistaken for an assassin and someone tries to take him out, although the movie’s breakneck pace doesn’t leave any time to dwell on that. At this point, enter the next Bond beauty, Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a Bolivian hottie with a burn mark on her back and burning desire for revenge on the man who inflicted it. That contributes to a trend in Craig-led Bond flicks; ass kicking instead of sweet lovin’. Roger Moore recently complained that his Bond was a lover, but Craig's is a killer; this movie doesn’t shy away from that. In "Quantum of Solace," Bond hooks up with only Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton), and by the way, that is the lamest name ever for a character, I don’t care if it is the title of a legendary Beatles song, it wouldn’t even be a good name in a bad porno. The film also makes a stop at an Austrian opera house for a performance of "Tosca", adding a dash of culture to the movie, albeit as a launching point for Bond to crash the party. The underlying theme through all of this is revenge for Bond on the people who killed the woman he loves in Casino Royale, although he denies to his boss M (Judi Dench) that this is the case. The producers clearly try to make Bond's relationship with M the centerpiece of the series, but although Dench is solid as always, the relationship never materializes in the form that the producers seem to desire. The details of the film are that “Quantum of Solace” is rated PG-13 and runs 105 minutes, although it could have been lengthened to 115 or 120 minutes, slowed the pace a bit and been a much better movie……
- Now here’s a pastor who loves him some lovin’. Rev. Ed Young, founder of the nondenominational Fellowship Church, a mega-church in Dallas, is preaching a unique message - the message of hitting it every day for an entire week, without fail. Young says he will challenge married congregants during his sermon Sunday to have sex for seven straight days and he plans to practice what he preaches as well. “We're going to give it a try," said Young, who has four children with his wife of 26 years. Before you think this is just some horny guy trying to get some action in the bedroom, know that Young actually has a method behind his curious choice of sermons. He believes society promotes promiscuity and he wants to reclaim sex for married couples because sex should be a nurturing, spiritual act that strengthens marriages. The seven-day sex challenge will be deliever while Young sits on a bed in front of his Dallas-area church campus. He’s not just some whack-job, controversial preacher seeking attention, either; his church draws about 20,000 people each Sunday and also has campuses in Fort Worth, Plano and Miami. Speaking of Miami, earlier this year, a Florida pastor issued a 30-day sex challenge to his own congregation. Pastors challenging their congregations to get after it in the sack, who would’ve thunk it…....
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