Just product placement. Stride gum, IIRC. They and Sprint paid good money
to have their products flogged in this ep.
I hate that ****.
Steve
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>> SPOILERS for the _Smallville_ episode "Fracture" that premiered in the
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>> * Anyone else notice the sticks-of-gum stand in the restaurant when
>> Clark walked in one of the memories? (They had a commercial during
>> the breaks.)
> ----
> No, I have to check the tape, any significance to it?
>>
>> * Isn't this the first episode that Lois and Kara were simultaneously
>> in? We got told, not shown, that they have been friends the whole
>> time.
> ----
> Yes, I do believe that is true.
>>
>> * It seems that the Jor-El made sure that "Linda" couldn't conquer
>> the world as an amnesiac.
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> Possible or it was simply the unintended side affect of the crystal
being
> destroyed in the console. This is why I don't count Lara or Kor-El to be
> definitely dead. Most likely they are, because they are genetic
> reconstructions, clones that their DNA where stored in the Crystal.
> Destroy the Crystal, destroy Lara and Kor-El replicants. Kara on the
> other hand didn't come from the Crystal so lived, but without memory and
> powers. However, since this is not a certainty (other than Kara living)
> it is possible the writers could use this as a way to bring back Kor-El
> and/or Lara in the future.
>>
>> * So Lois has no idea that Lex had something to do with Gabriel's
>> death. (Does she even know that he's dead?)
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> Possibly not, but that is unlikely. There could had been a large well
> attended funeral which Chloe, Lois Lionel went to, or alternatively, to
> avoid possible questions being asked by the police and therefore
exposing
> Grant Gabriel non-existing past covered it up and said he departed for
> parts unknown. But this is unlikely since Lionel mentioned to Lana
> Grant's death, so I believe there was a large funeral for Grant off
> screen.
>>
>> * Can Chloe resurrect from direct death? (Or have Wolverine style
>> super-healing from direct damage.) So far, she has super healing and/
>> or resurrection only from the backlashes from healing or resurrecting
>> others. I guess Chloe's healing is like the empathic healing Raven
>> (used to?) do in the 1980s Teen Titans comics, where Raven had to
>> mediate to fix the damage she transferred to herself.
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> I believe it is not true death but some kind of deep stasis her body
goes
> into. In real life there are both natural responses and chemically
> induced ways to make a person appear stone cold dead but really isn't.
> However, even in those cases you would have a steady heart beat.
>>
>> * Isn't a direct bullet to the head instant death? It wasn't a
>> glancing blow, and (AFAIK) Lex doesn't have a metal plate in his
>> forehead (like Michael Knight in the first _Knight Rider_ episode).
>> Or is this an injury that is more lethal in the movies than in real
>> life (like snapping necks)?
>>
>> Daryle Walker
> ----
> Maybe 90% of the time or more, but no it is not instant death. There
have
> been plenty of cases of which people where shot in the head with the
> bullet penetrating the brain and living, sometimes leading perfectly
> normal lives. The same with the snapping of necks. It can kill, or it
can
> paralyze or, they can recover fully.
> --
> ----->Hunter
>
> "No man in the wrong can stand up against
> a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."
>
> -----William J. McDonald
> Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907
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