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11th episode of the 9th season of Smallville

"Accented Justice"
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Episode no. Season 9
Episode 11
Directed by Glen Winter
Tom Welling
Written by Geoff Johns
Product code 3X5261/3X5262
Original air engagement February 5, 2010 (2010-02-05)
Running fourth dimension 84 minutes
Guest appearances
  • Pam Grier as Amanda Waller
  • Phil Morris as John Jones
  • Alessandro Juliani as Dr. Emil Hamilton
  • Michael Shanks as Carter Hall/Hawkman
  • Brent Stait every bit Kent Nelson/Medico Fate
  • Britt Irvin every bit Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl
  • Wesley MacInnes as Icicle
  • Jim Shield as Sylvester Pemberton/Star-Spangled Child
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"Absolute Justice" is the eleventh episode of the 9th season of the CW series Smallville, and the 185th episode of the overall serial. The episode originally aired on Feb v, 2010 in the United States, and was initially slated to exist two individual episodes before it was ultimately turned into a two-hour, single episode. Glen Winter directed the outset half of "Accented Justice", which was originally known as "Gild". Tom Welling directed the second half, which was called "Legends". Comic book author Geoff Johns, who get-go wrote the flavor 8 episode "Legion", wrote both hours of "Accented Justice".

In the episode's narrative, Clark Kent (Welling), Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack), Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Justin Hartley) and John Jones (Phil Morris) run across a squad of superheroes, called the Justice Society of America, who operated during the 1970s. The Justice Society is beingness hunted by an assassin known equally Icicle (Wesley MacInnes). Icicle was recruited past the organization Checkmate, which is being headed by Agent Amanda Waller (Pam Grier). Clark, Chloe, Oliver and John squad up with the Justice Society members to battle Icicle.

The introduction of the Justice Social club was adult to be relevant to the series, primarily beingness used to teach the new generation of superheroes—Clark, Oliver, and the rest of the team—a lesson nigh family and leadership. Johns modeled his vision of the Justice Gild later on the motion picture Watchmen, where a group of superheroes come out of retirement. Johns also included references to other Justice Club members throughout the episode. "Accented Justice" is Smallville's highest-rated episode for season ix in total viewers, adults eighteen–49, and men 18–49. The episode received generally mixed reviews from critics; while praise was given to the invitee characters' dorsum stories, criticism was dealt for what was perceived as a poor choice of a villain.

Plot [edit]

Every bit Chloe Sullivan tries to become in affect with Clark Kent, she finds herself cornered in an alleyway by a man named Sylvester Pemberton, who is wielding a staff that has the ability to control light. As Sylvester attempts to inform Chloe that he is a friend, an assassin known as Icicle attacks and Sylvester is ultimately killed. Chloe and Clark get to the hospital to investigate the truth behind Sylvester, which ultimately leads them to the Daily Planet annal room. At that place, Clark and Chloe discover documents and an erstwhile 16 mm moving-picture show that identifies Sylvester as role of a team of "criminals", which includes: Carter Hall, Kent Nelson, Jay Garrick, Alan Scott, Ted Grant, Abigail Hunkel, Wesley Dodds, and Al Pratt. In the documentary footage, Sylvester and the rest of his team are systematically arrested. Because of allegations of jury tampering, falsified testify, and lack of connection, all of the individuals are released.

While Clark and Chloe are looking into the criminal group, Icicle tracks down and kills Wesley Dodds post-obit Dodds' dream about him; Clark later on finds Dodds' trunk. Following Dodds' death, Clark tracks downwardly Carter Hall, assertive him to be Icicle'due south adjacent target. Clark finds Hall at a museum; he also finds Kent Nelson, who is mumbling incoherently to himself and clutching onto a small-scale pocketbook. Using his X-ray vision, Clark sees a helmet inside the bag, which turns on its ain and looks back at Clark. Having enough of Clark's questions, Carter sends Clark on his style.

Meanwhile, Chloe sends Oliver Queen after Sylvester'south staff. Unfortunately, high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore has already taken the staff. Before Oliver can get the staff from her, Kent shows up and uses the staff to teleport both him and Courtney back to the museum. Here, it is revealed that Sylvester'southward team was actually a group of superheroes led past Carter Hall, who went by the codename "Hawkman". The group called themselves the "Justice Society of America". Courtney, who was Sylvester's protégé, Kent and Carter band together to observe Sylvester'due south killer. As such, Kent places the Helmet of Nabu back on and transforms into "Doctor Fate".

After investigating Dodds and Pemberton'south deaths, Clark and Chloe believe they accept located the killer at the psychiatric ward of Urban center General Hospital. When they get in, they find the individual, Joar Mahkent, in a vegetative state and Doctor Fate reading his mind. Doctor Fate then sees Clark's fate and teleports Clark and himself to the museum. Meanwhile, the real assassin is revealed to be Joar's son, who is killing the Justice Lodge members for putting his father in that vegetative country decades before. Hired past an organization known every bit Checkmate, and instructed by Agent Amanda Waller, Icicle sets his sights on Courtney. Oliver tracks downwards Courtney—who calls herself "Stargirl"—and realizes that she is setting herself up every bit allurement to lure Icicle out. Icicle arrives, but Oliver interrupts Courtney's program. As a result, Hawkman grabs Oliver, throws him through the Watchtower window, and then threatens to do worse if Oliver interferes once more.

Meanwhile, Checkmate sends Lois Lane an anonymous bundle that provides her with the truth about the Justice Club. Clark awakens at the museum, where Physician Fate informs Clark that his fate is to lead a new generation of superheroes, and that he volition one day conquer his greatest enemy, Lex Luthor. Oliver and John Jones testify up at the museum to rescue Clark, unaware that Hawkman, Doc Fate, and Stargirl are actually heroes. Banding together, the group splits up into pairs to locate Icicle. While on patrol, Doctor Fate and John Jones are attacked by Icicle. Before Physician Fate is killed, he uses his abilities to restore John's Martian powers. While John lies unconscious, Icicle steals Doctor Fate's helmet and acquires the powers that become with it.

Clark and the others regroup at Watchtower, where Icicle arrives to kill the residual of the Justice Society and avenge his father. At first, Clark, Hawkman, Stargirl, and Greenish Arrow have trouble taking down Icicle and his new abilities. When John arrives, the group is finally able to defeat Icicle. Afterward, Carter tells Clark that he and Courtney have located the surviving members of the Justice Society, their children, and their protégés in social club to build a new team of superheroes for today'south generation. Back at the Daily Planet after having been visited by Amanuensis Waller, Lois publishes her article on the Justice Order, revealing them to exist a team of superheroes who were lambasted past the government, and falsely imprisoned. Icicle is transported dorsum to Checkmate. With Icicle in a heated muzzle, Agent Waller subsequently kills him after informing Icicle that he was a part of the new Suicide Squad. Later, Tess Mercer is revealed to be an agent of Checkmate.

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

The idea of introducing the Justice Club of America was first made public at the 2009 Comic Con, where producers announced that comic book writer Geoff Johns would write the episode. Johns had previously introduced the Legion of Super-Heroes in the season eight episode "Legion".[one] As Johns worked on the script for the Justice Order episode, which was titled "Society", it was decided that in gild to do the characters justice, the decision was fabricated to extend the story into 2 separate episodes, with the second episode titled "Legends". Executive producer Kelly Souders explained, "To be honest, there were so many characters and and so much great story that people would've been robbed of some great moments if we kept it to just i hour."[2] According to executive producer Brian Peterson, he and Johns realized there was so much material for one episode that they decided to make it into two. Peterson describes the episodes equally a "mini-movie", and referred to it as one of the nigh exciting things they have done on Smallville in nine years.[three]

Ultimately, the idea of two carve up episodes was scrapped in favor of combining them into a unmarried bear witness. The CW then marketed the episode as a ii-hour goggle box movie titled, Smallville: Accented Justice.[4] Following the episode's airing, the Smallville writers appear on their Twitter folio that they even so consider "Absolute Justice" to be two separately produced episodes, but was aired and packaged on the season nine DVD as a unmarried episode.[5] [vi] For the Consummate Series DVD packet released in November 2011, Warner Bros. Home Video acknowledged the two split up episodes in their official count of 218 episodes.[7] When the show was released on the Hulu streaming service in October 2016, the episodes were split in 2, labelled "Accented Justice, Part 1 - Social club" and "Absolute Justice, Function 2 - Legends," with both beingness recognized as episode eleven of season nine.[8]

On October 19, 2009, it was appear that Michael Shanks, Brent Stait and Brittney Irvin were cast as the Justice Society members Carter Hall/Hawkman, Kent Nelson/Doctor Fate, and Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl, respectively.[9] Shanks took the role because he did not think he would get many opportunities to play a superhero in the future.[10] On November 9, 2009, it was announced that Pam Grier would appear equally Amanda Waller, a graphic symbol from DC Comics, in "Accented Justice". The role is scheduled to last "multiple episodes".[11] Phil Morris was as well brought back as John Jones, a recurring grapheme Morris has appeared as since season six.[2]

Writing [edit]

Comic book author Geoff Johns wrote the script for the episode. Johns previously wrote the season eight episode "Legion".

As the script for "Absolute Justice" was existence developed by Geoff Johns, executive producer Brian Peterson explained that he wanted the archway for the Justice Social club to exist relevant to the series. Peterson felt that the Justice Society should teach the new generation of heroes—Clark, Oliver, and the residue of the team—a lesson about family and leadership.[iii] Peterson also stated that the mid-season episode "Disciple" would be written then that information technology could set the table for "Absolute Justice", and reveal that the show's heroes are not coalescing the way they need to be.[12] Geoff Johns described his version of the Justice Guild to be like to the heroes of the film Watchmen, who "come out of retirement to give 'the screwed-up guys of the next generation a needed smack downward'".[13]

When it came time to translate the comic book Justice Social club members into alive-action characters, Johns stated that he tried to keep everyone exactly the same. Johns notes that Hawkman and Stargirl are virtual duplicates of their comic book counterparts, merely that Doc Fate "took on a life of his own" when Johns was writing him. According to Johns, Kent Nelson is portrayed as being in a "different identify and head space than he is in the comics". Regardless of any differences between where the characters are in their respective lives, Johns stated that they both still "embody the aforementioned values and traits". Johns also noted that he most did not use the character of Doctor Fate. While he was developing the initial concept for the story, and coming together with executive producers Peterson and Souders, at that place were no restrictions on the characters he could use. The idea of using Wildcat or Jay Garrick was floated around, but Johns believed he had a unique arroyo to the Doctor Fate character. He also believed that Doctor Fate fit into the storyline better than Wildcat or Jay Garrick.[14]

Johns chose to write in as much particular as possible, because he wanted to create a total sense of history for the characters. This included specific paintings, cards, tables, and how their costumes appeared. Johns likewise included mentionings of former members and relatives of the current members. According to the author, the executive producers embraced his ideas completely. In addition, Johns researched where the Smallville writers had taken the show since the last time he wrote an episode, although he best-selling that he did non have the plan to incorporate the main storyline of season 9. Johns' initial script pushed the production budget to the max. According to Johns, "By turning [the story] into ii episodes, it non only allowed the story to go bigger, only it allowed our budget to become bigger."[15]

Character designs [edit]

Michael Shanks wears the traditional Hawkman uniform, complete with strap-on wings and Hawkman'southward mace. He spent time practicing his wire work for the flying scenes that he would take to motion picture while in full costume. One departure in the costume is the inclusion of a chest plate. According to Shanks, the costume designers added a chest plate to assist the flying harness they created. The chest plate and Hawkman's helmet were given a bronze color, as opposed to the more traditional "yellow/gold" colour. Shanks, who is accustomed to the chaos of a weekly television serial, was surprised to find and so much attention paid to a guest starring role. Shanks said producer James Marshall respected and took into consideration some of his artistic input. He as well said his character'southward return for future episodes is a "strong possibility".[16] According to Johns, "Their costumes work because [the Justice Order members] were from the generation before [Clark and his allies]."[15]

Reception [edit]

Nielsen Ratings for "Absolute Justice" came in at approximately two.77 meg viewers, which is Smallville's highest-rated episode for season nine in full viewers, adults xviii–49, and men 18–49.[17] A 7% increase from the flavour nine premiere, which had 2.58 1000000 viewers.[18] [xix]

Reviews for the episode were generally mixed. Carlos Delgado of IFMagazine gave the episode a B+, stating, "'Absolute Justice' was ambitious. A two hour defibrillation trying to restore a pulse to a show that had been relegated to the Fri night death slot. It takes guts to air something that could so hands brand or break a season. Two hours of garbage, the evidence is washed. Two hours of comic book elation, well, permit's just say contracts might be written up that very night to secure the next phase of the Man of Steel'south odyssey. Yes, it was that big." He said that Icicle was a weak antagonist just mentioned that "Absolute Justice" was a success.[20] Anthony Ocasio from ScreenRant went equally far as deeming "Absolute Justice" one of the best episodes of Smallville in its ix years of being on the air, writing "It was wonderful to come across that invitee characters could be on Smallville with a backstory that'due south more than the normal "guess who merely happened to come up to Metropolis". He voiced his opinion against the antagonist, Icicle, and called the histrion who portrayed the graphic symbol "poor", and stated he "got goose bumps when we saw glimpse at the fate of Clark Kent."[21]

Reviewer Graeme McMillan praised Tom Welling's directing, while calling Clark the graphic symbol who was the least fun of the episode; he praised writer Geoff Johns, saying, "There was a sense of scale and history to the episode that the serial doesn't usually manage." When talking about the Justice Gild, he said, "They brought with them — or, more likely, Geoff Johns did — a barrack and wit that the show often lacks, and also a speed and lightness that worked better than the bear witness's usual po-faced drama.... the show just seemed amend than usual." He concluded his review by proverb that fifty-fifty though the special effects were disappointing, the episode was fun.[22] Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly said the start hour of the episode contained the "stand up-out visual sequence" and idea the 2d hour was "more lumbering", with the large fight sequence toward the cease "unsatisfying". Tucker stated, "For viewers who only know the Superman/male child mythos co-ordinate to Smallville, it must have seemed foreign to take most of the series' ongoing subplots put in storage for this week's two-hour edition. Then again, since the villain of this piece was a faux-hawked foe called the Icicle, frozen plotlines were inevitable."[23] Reviewer Blair Marnell said, "For longtime comic fans, communicable all of the comic references was office of the fun, including Radu's Cafe from "Green Lantern," the "Trouble Alarm" from the classic Super Friends animated series, and Pemberton'due south "Star-Rocket Racer", which too served as the home for the fallen hero." He said the episode approached an "ballsy calibration not seen in the series for a long fourth dimension" and criticized the "raspy voice" of "Hawkman". In terminal the review, he stated that he enjoyed slight nods to the comics and thought the episode could have been told in one hour.[24] Reviewer Chris Carabott said, "For a show that realistically should have ended seasons ago, Smallville continues to surprise the hell out of me. "Accented Justice" brings various members of the Justice Society of America to life on the small screen and information technology does it brilliantly." He applauded author Geoff Johns, saying he "outdoes himself with a story that pays homage to the early on days of some of DC'due south finest." While stating disapproval among the costumes, he said Doctor Fate's "gilt helmet contrasted by the dark bluish of the costume looked fantastic in HD." He also called the episode "a swell achievement" and said it is "fun to watch for both long fourth dimension DC Comics fans and Smallville fans."[25]

Writer Joe Oesterle said that it is odd how in a major city like Metropolis, main characters are the but ones out on the streets. He expressed disappointment with the Sandman's death, "I'd have liked to see some one-time school Sandman roughhouse, and I felt cheated when a...Golden Historic period fable like Sandman goes to his eternal rest without then much as a single smash from his gas gun. I suppose the statement could exist made to say that'due south how formidable Icicle Jr. was, or how rusty Sandman was, only I'grand non buying that. Sandman deserved to get downwardly fighting, not frozen solid while frozen in hesitation." While criticizing the episode, he compared the episode to the Watchmen film and disapproved of the "Batman" voice the Hawkman had. He also said that there should have been more John Jones and less Lois Lane. While praising the episode, he approved of Amanda Waller and said, "It'southward interesting to get a whiff of how Tess Mercer became such a lethal mitt-to-hand combatant." He ended by saying that the episode did not live up to its hype and thought the episode before it, "Disciple", was "Grade A entertainment" in comparison.[26] One reviewer praised the show by saying Smallville is "quietly having its all-time flavor in at least 5 years." He said the show currently does not resemble its sometime self and plays more similar a graphic novel. He called Hawkman "excellent" but also disapproved of the "Christian Bale"-Batman voice; he chosen Doctor Fate "awesome".[27]

Brad Trechak from TVSquad had a negative review: "Absolutely, the episode was kind of light on story and concluded up having major plot-holes, the to the lowest degree of which being how exactly "Hawkman"'due south helmet stayed on." He compared the episode to the Watchmen pic and asked why the Justice Lodge were scared of Icicle, maxim, "It's the Icicle! He'due south at best 2d rate and shouldn't last 20 seconds with "Hawkman", much less Doctor Fate. They should have used Vandal Barbarous or some other villain with more menace. The Icicle represents i of the...plot holes." He compared Dr. Fate's death with possible foreshadowing of the early on decease of Chloe. He ended by stating, "The episode didn't quite live up to the hype, but information technology was close enough. Later all that foreshadowing, this series better end with Clark putting on the costume; otherwise, there may be nerd riots at The CW."[28]

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External links [edit]

  • "Absolute Justice" at IMDb

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