Speedy come to Smallville in this one, while Lois & Clark on TV...together?? Check out the official description of 'Crossfire'.
The CW's Official Description For "Crossfire"
OLIVER TAKES DC COMICS’ CHARACTER SPEEDY UNDER HIS WING — Oliver tries to help a young street girl, Mia AKA Speedy (guest star Elise Gatien), get out of her dangerous life by offering to train her, but Mia double crosses him. Lois asks Clark to help her land a job as an on-air television host, but the two are shocked when the station wants to hire them as a team. Allison Mack, Cassidy Freeman and Callum Blue also star. Mike Rohl directed the episode written by Holly Henderson and Don Whitehead.
The original Speedy's real name was Roy Harper, Jr.. He first appeared in More Fun Comics #73 (November 1941), where he was identified as the orphaned son of Roy Harper, Sr., a forest ranger who had died saving a Navajo Nation|Navajo medicine chief named "Brave Bow" from a fire. Brave Bow raised the younger Roy himself, training him at archery. Roy Jr. took to this training eagerly, and idolized the archer superhero, Green Arrow. As a teenager, Roy is given the opportunity to perform at an archery competition judged by Green Arrow, where he assists the hero at foiling an attempted burglary, even proving himself to be a faster shot than the hero. Following the death of Brave Bow, Green Arrow asked Roy to serve as his sidekick, an offer Roy jumped at, taking the name Speedy. Harper became the Ward (law)|ward of Green Arrow's alter ego, millionaire Oliver Queen.
Harper became also a founding member of the Teen Titans. After the original Titans disbanded, he joined a band called Great Frog and became a drug addict, a first in DC comics, in an award-winning story in Green Lantern #85-86 (Sept. & November 1971), part of a classic, 14-issue run by the writer-artist team of Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams. Roy spent some time in the Suicide Squad before returning to the Titans.
He fathered a daughter by the villainess Cheshire, and eventually took the name Arsenal in New Titans #99 (1993). In Justice League of America #1 (vol 3), he is eventually referred to as Red Arrow.
Speedy of Earth-Two
There was an Earth-Two version of Speedy who was a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory and All-Star Squadron in the 1940s along with his mentor Green Arrow. Aside from their origin, having been trained on a mesa top together, their history nearly parallels the history of the Earth-One version up until the point when Speedy and Green Arrow, along with their teammates, were thrown into various periods of time during a battle with the Nebula Man. He and his teammates were later retrieved by the Justice Society and the Justice League in order to assist them in saving Earth-Two from the machinations of their old foe the Iron Hand. Years after returning to the present, Speedy came out of retirement, along with his mentor who died during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. This Speedy has not been seen since this time.
Mia Dearden was introduced in Green Arrow (Vol. 3) #2 in 2001. Mia was a teenaged girl who ran from her home after being abused by her father and fell into prostitution of children|child prostitution. Mia was rescued from one of her clients by Oliver Queen, who had just recently returned from the dead. Mia continued to try and convince Oliver, who was busy trying to reconstruct his own life, and began to secretly train with Connor Hawke in archery and combat. Mia continually petitioned Green Arrow to allow her to serve as his sidekick, but Oliver continually demurred, not wanting to put another youngster at risk. After discovering she is HIV positive, Mia redoubled her efforts and Green Arrow finally allowed her to become the new Speedy. Shortly thereafter, she joined the Teen Titans. __________________
Tonight's the night...for some of us. Unfortunatly, for me & hornboy, we have to wait till SUNDAY because of a basketball game tonight & a horror movie Halloween night. __________________
What was going on in this episode, I missed most of it cause the dang TV went in and out all night on the volume so I missed a lot of what was going on and plus for the second section my TV went went fuzzy. __________________
The MAN Rox and I stand with everything he stands 4, but I gotta have my girl Angelina wherever I go.
The majority of this episode, showing the chemistry between Lois and Clark, especially, the last scene. It also tied up and lingering feelings between Oliver and Lois. Oliver used his experience to help a girl (who happened to be cute and a good fighter (isn't it weird how I always put those together?)), from the brink that he was close to. She was a homage to Speedy of Earth 2 (girl version). Finally, the episode showed more confrontation between Zod and Tess. Zod has infiltrated into the buisness level as a CEO working into a partnership with Luthor Corp. using both assests he hope to regain his powers.
this was defiantely more of a filler episode, but fun nonetheless. Don't miss next week's though. That's probably going to be the big one of the season. __________________
"Any man can overcome adversity. If you truly want to test a man's character, give him power." — Abraham Lincoln
If you missed it wait a few days and you can watch it online at the CW's official site or go to Hulu and do a search for Smallville Don't wait too long as they seem to be only be keeping new episodes up for a week. This week they have Roulette.
I thought last night's episode was pretty good. Good character interactions, and the end action scene was awesome! I guess they were sort of doing their own version of Superman Returns machine gun fire eyeball scene. Very cool! __________________
My one buddy is girlfriend recorded while he was away at a meeting, so I go over to his house later on to See what was going on with sound and no interruption. __________________
The MAN Rox and I stand with everything he stands 4, but I gotta have my girl Angelina wherever I go.
LOLRH WTFH, Oh ya that's the poster they came up with that's right I almost forgot. I finally got to see it the other day and I only understood most of it, but I think I get the whole point of the episode. __________________
The MAN Rox and I stand with everything he stands 4, but I gotta have my girl Angelina wherever I go.
uperhero? Information anyone. But sounds like a good episode.
. This will be interesting.
almost forgot. I finally got to see it the other day and I only understood most of it, but I think I get the whole point of the episode.
