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It's established in his first appearance that Adam
Knight is a fake name he gives. Last night's ep
showed that there's a lot more to him than meets the
eye (although part of me says 'why was Lana freaked
out about Adam's modest hand-to-hand skills when the
hypnotic message suddenly seemed to teach Lana how to
fight well and kickbox with precision without falling
over?'). The theories on the message boards and stuff
are as follows:
1) It's really Bruce Wayne. He's travelling around,
finding himself, this would explain his extensive
knowledge of...everything and his fighting skills.
Also his sadness about his past. And obviously, the
name. Although if it is Bruce, they sure did a shitty
casting job - the guy looks not-very-Bruce Wayne-like, IMHO.
2) The producers wanted this to be their Bruce Wayne
story but didn't get legal approval since Warner Bros.
wanted the new Batman movie with Christian Bale to not
have any weird pseudo-tie-ins. So they took the plot
they had gotten together for the Bruce Wayne in
SMALLVILLE arc and rewrote it a little and made this
'Adam Knight' guy. So it was originally supposed to
be Bruce but was rewritten, and the Knight name is a
tip of the hat to that. Also, they knew the name
would make fans freak out in an endless guessing game
as to whether it was a red herring, tip of the hat, or
it's really Bruce.
3) It's not only not Bruce, but was never meant to be
Bruce as far as the writers were concerned. They're
still holding their Bruce ideas for when they get
legal approval.
But I bet the producers are having fun watch all the
speculation. What if it is Bruce, and the idea that
it's not Bruce and just a rewritten Bruce plot is a
red herring? So it's kinda fun. Though the actor who
plays Adam Knight not only is a bad actor, but looks
like he should be on a shitty show like MUTANT X and
not SMALLVILLE. His jaw actually goes out to the left
and right like some lame soap actor, and his hipster
"I don't wash my hair, my hair is all matted down bedhead"
shit is annoying.
One poster on aint it cool news said 'wouldn't it be
cool if this was Bruce but they didn't explicitly say
so in the show? like he and Clark 'team up' to fight
some menace and then at the end, Clark doesn't know
much more about the guy than when they started. at
the end of the episode, a black stretch limo could
come pick 'Adam' up to take him away from Smallville,
and you would just hear an English voice say 'Time to
go, Master Bruce' and that way it would be him but not
really significant enough to cause legal problems with
the new movie. And only the viewers would hear
Alfred's voice and see the limo pickup scene, so Clark
& the rest of the cast would have no idea who it
really was, and Clark wouldn't know he'd just teamed
up with Bruce Wayne.' I thought that was a cool idea. |
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