#and she'll be more like the main focus but i'm thinking of giving joe more focus too

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God I have a mighty urge to write more Joe-centric stuff

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Duke Reviews Tv: Smallville 1x17 Reaper

Hello, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome Back To Duke Reviews Tv, Where We Are Continuing Our Look At Smallville. Sorry I've Been Gone For A While I Had To Take A Break From Writing Here And Focus Mainly On My Main Tumblr Page, Duke Reviews For A While Because It Got To Be Too Much For Me...

I Couldn't Focus On Both Pages And Not Live My Life Which Is What Running Both Sites Were Doing To Me And I Just Had To Stop For A While. If Any Of My Followers Feel Like I Betrayed Them Because I Left Them Hanging I Would Like To Say I'm Sorry But Anyway While I Was Gone, This Happened...

(Start At 2:33, End At 3:05)

And While My Thoughts On This Are More Mixed Than What Other Smallville Fans Think About This, I'm Just Going To Shut Up And Get To Today's Episode Which Is The 17th Episode Of Season 1, Reaper..,

This Is About A Guy Named Tyler Randall Who Is Resurrected After A Piece Of Meteor Rock Collides Into Him At His Time Of Death, Granting Tyler The Ability To Turn Anyone He Touches Into Ash. At First He Uses His Powers To Help The Terminally Ill By Putting Them Out Of Their Misery...

But "Absloute Power Corrupts Absolutely" And Soon Tyler Gains An Addiction To What He Does, Can Clark Stop Him Before He Kills Whitney's Ailing Father?

Let's Find Out As We Watch Reaper...

The Episode Starts In A Hospital As Tyler Randall Visits His Ailing Mother Who Has Asked Him To See Her Because He Wants Him To Help Her Kill Herself And That If He Loves Her He'll Do This For Her...

And So, Even Though What She's Doing Is Wrong In This Reviewer's Opinion, He Does Help Her Die, Only For A Nurse To Call Security Who Ends Up Knocking Tyler Out Of A Window...

To His Death...

With His Body Taken To The Morgue, The Coroner Finds A Metor Rock Shard Embedded In His Wrist (From The Bracelet He Had On) Which He Decides To Remove Only For The Energy From The Rock To Be Enough To Bring Tyler Back To Life...

Turning The Coroner To Ash With His New Powers, Tyler Gets Off Of The Table And Walks Away...

A Few Weeks Later In Smallville, Martha And Clark Are Delivering Produce And Flowers To The Home For The Sick And Elderly Where They Talk About Clark's Upcoming Fishing Trip With Jonathan Which Clark Is Not Looking Forward To...

(Start At 0:51, End At 1:08)

Going Inside, They Visit An Ill Woman Named Mrs. Sykes Who Has A Dog Named Pepper Who Clark Feeds While Martha And Tyler Deliver Her Produce And Flowers...

However, When Mrs. Sykes Goes Through A Bout Of Serious Pain, She Takes A Liking Of Tyler When He Gives Her Her Pills And Promises To Bring Her Some White Roses Tomorrow...

Meanwhile At The Luthor Mansion, Lex Gets Another Visit From Lionel's Assistant, Dominic Who Is There For An Internal Audit As There Has Been Some Accounting Irregularities In His Division And Lionel Wants To Know Where The Money Went...

Which Leads Lex To Tell Dominic To Tread Carefully As Though He Denies It, He Still Is Lionel Luthor's Son...

Visiting The Talon, Lex Runs Into Clark Who Is Reading A Fishing Magazine For His Fishing Trip With His Father Which Leads Lex To Tell Clark About The Time He Went Fishing With Lionel...

(Start At 1:48, End At 2:25)

Seeing Lana Cry, Clark Goes Up To Talk To Her Where She Tells Him That's Whitney's Dad Has Just Had Another Heart Attack...

But Despite That Bit Of Bad News, We Cut To The Kent Farm As Dominic's Investigation Leads Him There, Introducing Himself To Jonathan, Which Leads To Him Asking Questions About The Crash Involving Lex's Porsche Before Telling Jonathan That While Lex Was Researching The Crash He Ordered An In-Depth Profile Into The Kents...

Having No Clue About This, Dominic Leaves Despite Jonathan Asking Him About What Lex Found During His Research?...

Visiting Whitney's Dad In The Hospital, He Tells Clark And Lana That Whitney Hasn't Been By To See Him Yet Which Has Lana Wondering...

Andrew(Singing In The Style Of Rockapella) Where In Smallville Is...Whitney Fordman?

Returning To The Farm Afterward, Clark Tells His Dad About The Metropolis Sharks Tickets That Lex Gave Him For Them Only For Jonathan To Relay His News That Lex Was Doing A Profile On Them, But Clark Tells Him That He Knew But Lex Promised That He Moved On...

One Thing: How Did Clark Know This?

Only Thing I Can Remember Was One Argument When Lex Asked Clark Questions About The Crash But He Never Outright Told Clark That He Was Investigating Into His Family So How Did Clark Find This Out?

Mad That Clark Didn't Tell Him Or His Mom About This, It Leads To An Argument Between Father And Son Which Leads To Clark Telling His Father To Stop Treating Him Like A Kid And That He Doesn't Like Fishing And That The Only Reason He Does It Is Because It Makes Him Happy...

Clark Tries To Apologize, But Jonathan Just Walks Away. Meanwhile At The Old Folks Home, Tyler Pays Mrs. Sykes Another Visit...

(Start At 3:09)

The Next Day On The Farm, Clark Gets Breakfast With Martha, Who Has Decided To Not Play Referee On Jonathan And Clark's Fight But Suggests To Clark That They Work It Out As She Doesn't Want To See Them To Drift Apart Like Jonathan Did With His Father...

A Few Hours Later At School, Chloe Tells Clark About Mrs. Sykes, Telling Him That While The Official Story Is That There Was Some Sort Of Fire And All They Found Were Her Ashes, She Thinks That It Was Spontaneous Combustion Which Leaves Clark And Pete Skeptical...

Visiting The Kent Barn To Talk With Jonathan About The Sharks Game On Sunday But Jonathan Tells Lex That He's Still Going Fishing On Sunday With Or Without Clark.

(Start At 1:53)

Finding Whitney At School, Clark Talks With Whitney About Why He Hasn't Visited His Father At The Hospital (Despite Whitney Knowing That It's Really Lana Asking And Not Clark) And Whitney Tells Clark That It's Because It Hurts Him To See His Father So Weak In That Hospital Especially Since He's The Strongest Man He's Known In His Life Also He Doesn't Want His Last Memories Of His Dad To Be The Sick Man In The Hospital Now...

After Finishing Talking With Whitney, Chloe Finds Clark To Show Him A Story In The Daily Planet About Tyler Turning The Coroner Into Ash And Disappearing Which Leads Them To Investigate Mrs. Sykes Room, Where Chloe Takes Pics Of The Ashy Shadow On Mrs. Sykes Bed..

While Clark Wonders Where Sykes Dog, Pepper Is As He Doesn't Hear Her Barking And....

Yep, Turns Out Tyler Also Killed Pepper...

You Know, Joe Bob Briggs That Did TNT'S Monstervision And Is Now On Shudder Doing Stuff, Once Said That One Of The Main Rules Of Horror Films Is That You Can Kill As Many People As You Want To But You Never Kill A Pet Because It Makes People Upset And Boy, Was He Right...

Yeah, I Know We Didn't Actually See The Dog Killed On Screen But No Offense, I Just Don't Like It When People Kill Dogs In Movies And Tv Because 1. It's Not Needed And 2. It Just Pisses People Off, Hell, Look At All The Animal Organizations That Jump At The Drop Of A Hat...

Seeing The White Rose On Sykes Dresser, Clark Believes It May Have Been Combustion But It Wasn't Spontaneous...

Dropping Off Some Extra Produce That She Didn't Want To Go To Waste At The Old Folks Home, Martha Runs Into Tyler Who Turns The Food To Ash When He Forgets To Wear His Gloves...

Telling The Manager To Call The Cops, Tyler Turns Him To Ash Too And Intends On Doing The Same To Martha As He Follows The Oliver Queen Method Of "No One Can Know My Secret" But Luckily Tyler Is Stopped By Clark Who Scares Him Off...

Taking Martha Home, Jonathan Tells Clark That She'll Be Fine And The Police Are Looking For Tyler, However Clark Doesn't Think They'll Be Able To Find Him Because 1. He Had No Heartbeat And 2. He's Too Powerful With His Powers...

In Fact, If Anyone Should Be The Spectre Right Now It's Tyler...

A Few Hours Later, Clark Visits The Talon To Warn Lana About Tyler Only To Say Thank You For What He Did With Whitney As He Wants To Get Together With Her After Work To Talk...

As Lana Takes Off, Lex Enters To Tell Him That He's Rescinding The Offer On The Sharks Game So Clark Can Go Fishing With His Dad As It's Obvious That Jonathan Wants To Spend Time With Clark And It's Not Something He Wants To Come Between...

Too Little, Too Late, Lex...

(Start At 2:40)

Later At The Graveyard, Lana And Whitney Have A Meaningful Talk Which Ends With Whitney Deciding To Go To The Hospital To See His Father. But As Whitney Leaves, Lana Runs Into Tyler Who Tells Her That He's Not Going Hurt Her Or Anyone And He Wants To Do Is Give People Peace...

Overhearing Whitney's Conversation With Lana, Tyler Promises To Help Whitney And His Dad Move On Before He Disappears...

Meanwhile At The Luthor Mansion, Dominic Continues His Audit With Lex, Who Offers Him A Drink Before Telling Him That He's Getting Tired Of This Game Dominic Is Playing...

(Start At 2:45)

Getting The Toxicology Report From A Friend Who Works With The Medical Examiner, Chloe Reveals That It Was A Bunch Of Painkillers In His System And The Fragments Of A Meteor Rock In His Skin That Made Tyler Come Back From The Dead, She Also Discovers Some News That Might Get Tyler To Back Off Of His Crusade...

But There Are More Important Matters As Lana Enters To Tell Clark That Tyler Is On His Way To The Hospital To Turn Whitney's Father To Ash...

Entering His Father's Hospital Room, Whitney Is Confronted By Tyler Who Throws Whitney Into A Sink So He Can Get To Work But Before He Does, Clark Zooms In...

(Start At 2:22)

The Next Day In Metropolis, Lex Talks With Lionel At A Secret Location...

Later That Evening, Lex Arranges For Whitney's Dad To See His Son Playing With The Metropolis Sharks On The Smallville High Field As Jonathan Arrives To Tell Him What A Nice Thing He Did For The Fordmans...

(Start At 0:53, End At 1:20)

Talking With Clark, He Admits To Lana That He Got Lex To Get The Sharks For Whitney As Lionel Owns The Whole Team Which Leads To Lana Kissing Clark On The Cheek...

Talking With Jonathan After, Both Him And Clark Make Up As The Episode Ends...

And That's Reaper And It's A Good Episode...

The Story Was Interesting, The Characters Were Mostly Well Written, The Villain (If You Can Really Call Tyler A Villain, It Seemed Like He Wanted To Help People More Than Just Kill Them Willy Nilly) Was Good And I Didn't Have That Many Problems With The Episode So I Say See It...

Till Next Time, This Is Duke, Signing Off...