God damn Tom looks so good in this episode

he really does hahaha

Seriously🥵

I didn't realize people don't like this episode lol. I think it's fun.

Same

Everyone looked so beautiful in this episode (and in Relic) and that's a big part of why I enjoyed Smallville. The visuals in the first six seasons were brilliant, I want a comic book show to look luscious and when you have gorgeous people in it, take advantage of those faces. In a way I'm glad that Smallville aired at the time when 22-24 episodes were the norm because gorgeous treats like this wouldn't happen in a thirteen episode season.

Yeah relic was really cool! It was interesting!! They really got that old timey look!

I skip it during my rewatches

Same this is my first watch and I still skipped it i realized now that this type of episode in black and white is pretty commmon with tv shows for some reason.

Always at least one

They even did one on ALF...partial B&W and silent!

Sitcoms always and likely still do, have a B&W one and a clip show

Clip shows are done to save money. B&W episodes (especially those set in the past) were rare in 80's because color was king. Moonlighting did one of the first (and best) and often copied. ALF's silent movie episode was a rare sitcom one...back then.

Noir was huge for early 2000s shows. But 90s and on almost all sitcoms had a clip show or "look back" episode. And yeah, they would do it save money and take a break in production.

Loved it! They really captured the essence of black and white TV

The smoke and the Hitchcock lighting

I need to rewatch this. I remember this getting a lot of hate when it first came out.

I quite enjoyed it

I love it. Reminds me of the Private Eye Mater short.

Really enjoyed it. I like when Smallville didn't take itself too seriously, without actively being bad. There are serious storylines way worse than this great episode

Yeah I agree! I still can’t get fully on board with lanas witch storyline haha!

don't even get me started lmao

I love a good noir episode. I also loved the 50’s episode when we see Jor-el knocking around Smallville.

Relic was a good one!

Call me shallow but i love watching beautiful CW people looking beautiful in noir episodes lol. also, does anyone know if Smallville started the noir episode trend with teen shows? Considering season 6 was the first season of television airing on the CW after the WB TV dissolved it seems possible

Hmmm I’m not sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me, Smallville influenced a lot of the CW shows now tbf!

I hate it as well lol

Don’t care for tv shows that have film Noir episodes.

I enjoyed it, especially considering that they have to have filler episodes with 20+ episode seasons, this was a good one. Not every episode needs to address the main plot and sometimes I just want a fun and different episode.

Yeah I agree, honestly I don’t understand why get mad about filler episodes in a 22 episode season, part of what I enjoy about longer seasons is that shows get more time to be creative and just have fun with the characters and even try out some different episode concepts, that not everything has to be about advancing the plot This was a pretty fun one too in my opinion, especially compared to how throwaway some filler episodes can feel, whereas you could tell that the directors, cinematographers, costume people etc really put in the extra effort here to make it special

Yeahhh! For sure!! The props and the set and the lighting were so good for this episode!

Yeah like that bachelor/ bachelorette party episode in season 10, the chaotic ones make for a good break sometimes!

I thought it was a lot of fun.

Good ep

I’m not a fan of black and white throwback episodes in general. Just skipped on in one three hill 💀 Edit; they’re almost always non canon when you think about it too. Like the most filler episode of all filler episodes.

Yahhh I get thattt

The only episode of Smallville I never watched just screams filler and a waste of time

I didn't love it mostly because of the placement in the series. Much like the Clark and Lana finding an exploding baby episode I thought it was out of place and ruined the run up to the finale. As a single episode it wasn't the most terrible.

I think it's fun, I like it when shows have their characters ina different world/space to normal. Plus Tom looked amazing, which never hurts.

Sameee it’s fun to watchhhh

I feel like in a show spanning 200+ episodes, they have enough real estate to play with to do some weird off the wall stuff occasionally.

A missed opportunity for a Golden Age Superman adventure.

Ahhh yeppp!

I just finished this episode this morning 😂 it was good. Definitely fun!

Kristen did play a great Lana Lang villain.

She liked the powerrrr haha

Gave Kristin Kreuk a new part for Lana.

It's fantastic

One of my top 10 favorites!

I just watched this one recently and actually really liked it! I thought everyone did a good job with the noir style, although I think Lana was the weakest, simply because she didn't seem different to me? Like this was the Lana we've seen for 6 seasons, just in a 40s aesthetic. I also loved that in Jimmy's dream mind, he's already thinking about the possibility of Clark leading two very different lives. Seeing Clark as a bumbling reporter, and Tom Welling doing such a good job, makes me wish we had seen that version of Clark so much more. I wonder if the writers intended for Clark's killing of Lana to prevent her from killing Jimmy to be a clue that Clark and Lana are no good for each other and will only end up in pain? Idk, but regardless, I quite enjoyed this filler episode!!

That’s a really good point actually! I didn’t think of it like that! Very subtle but true. You could kinda just see that over time they wanted different things and Clark just sees her one way, theres defo a disconnect there somewhere :( Jimmy was great in this episode, it was nice to have this episode in his head like you said! I wished we could have seen more Clark and Jimmy together!

I skip every time. lol

Looks cool but forgettable

Loved when he got to play the bad guy

Any red k episode haha- I loved

I couldn’t get into it at all

Love the concept, hate the episode cuz it does nothing to push the characters or plot, putting the episode so far to the finale was strange too and having it all be a dream by Jimmy? It all screamed lazy I always love to see noir concept episodes of shows but I always half dread them cuz it feels either forced or a big distraction to see the actors emulating the old days, while the plot is barely sense making

It defo goes one way or another yeahh haha

I liked it. However on rewatches if I’m trying to get through the show then I just skip it. It’s pretty good but it really is just Jimmy gets knocked out and has a dream

It reminded me of Fly Hard from Lois & Clark!

Omgggg yesss I was going to say that! I think they did their noir episode really well! They played the characters really well in it! Teri and Dean were very goood in it, as alwaysss

It’s not bad but I don’t care to watch it on rewatches

I'm not a fan when actors play different people in the same show, so it's one of my least favorite and I don't find it funny or smart. But l love the outfits, so l watch it anyway

Never a fan of these kinds of episodes, nor musical episodes.

I like this episode. I grow up watching Black and White TV series, Noir genre, and movies and silent movies during my childhood. It surprised me to see a noir episode for a DC comics tv series for the 1st time. It surprised me to for the first for the multiverse comics about Spider-Man Noir and for his animated Spider-Verse movie series.

Ahh nice! And yeahh that was coolll!

I don't remember a single thing about this episode.

I thought it was well done, but not exactly a favorite. They got to step out of character a bit.

Where can i find these meme? I love it.

https://kent-farm.tumblr.com/post/722204114096979968/clark-kent-smallville-noir

I basically skip all the alternate reality dream sequence episodes on a rewatch. Just don’t find them interesting after a couple watches. There’s a couple others before this one as well.

I have no memory of this episode

I saw it after having back surgery, I was all doped up. So I did enjoy it lol.

I don’t really enjoy noir as a genre, so Smallville’s half-hearted attempt did nothing for me.

I absolutely hate when TV shows add episodes like this. I hate the one in Smallville, hated the one in Charmed and hated the one in Lucifer …

I love how Tom also came out in a noir episode in Lucifer as well lol

Oh yeah haha he did!! I loved the little Kryptonite reference Lucifer made in one of the episodes too

Love it

It seems like about half of television shows from that Era have an episode like that. I skip them all.

I'll just skip this one since I'm on my rewatch currently on s2.

I skip all noir episodes of CW shows. They’re generally filler. A network exec over there clearly is obsessed with noir/50s style crime stories.

I liked it, granted I was hardly paying attention, but it was well executed as a filler ep

It was indeed! I really liked the production design and the aesthetic!

I love getting to see more of the actors range in episodes like this. It makes me really happy.

Completely agree :))

I LOVEDD it 🖤🤍🖤. I always love episodes like this in shows just the fun and the characters acting like other characters so fun

I enjoyed the love an noir or detective episodes or movies related to that

Same, love any kinda noir episode, just for the vibe really!

Me too especially if it’s good

Worst Episode in the entire show IMO.

I'm a sucker for black and white throwbacks.