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After hearing that Zod is coming back, here is another news on Smallville returnees.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s the return of Supergirl!

A Smallville insider has confirmed to Michael Ausiello that Laura Vandervoort will take another break from her role on V and appear on one of the CW’s show’s final five episodes.

It will mark her second Smallville stint of the season.

There are lots of things that happened on “Reciprocity.” The most notable one is that alt-Olivia was finally given a name – “Fauxlivia.” I don’t like it actually.

Then, Peter became a some kind of a villain in this episode although we all know that what he was doing is for his own good. But still, I don’t like him sneaking and killing others.

TV Fanatic: Tonight, I was vindicated in my choice as Walter, too, has given her the moniker. It took long enough, and in a very silly way it made my day for them to choose it as the official Alter-Olivia nickname on “Reciprocity.”

The “first people” machine has been built, and from now going forth I don’t think things will be the same on Fringe, no matter what universe we are in. When Peter came in to the same room as the machine, his nose bled and the machine started moving. A machine heretofore found to have no power source or ability to produce its own power.

My first thought was that Walternate is far more wicked than I imagined, and then how much we now need our own Walter to have the full capacity of his brain, in short order, to try to save what we can of our universes.

When the computer of Fauxlivia is cracked, Astrid is finally asked to perform a task worthy of her abilities. She’s to go through the files and determine any worthwhile information or patterns within in the notes that can be used to their advantage.

Until now, our own Astrid has strictly been a sidekick to Walter and greatly underutilized. Given the incredible mathematical skills we know the other Astrid possesses, I was disappointed that the final encryption hint came from Olivia herself due to her similarity to Fauxlivia. Astrid needs, just once, to be THE AGENT who saves the day.

As shapeshifters are popping up dead all over, Olivia and Broyles determine they have a mole and start to crack down on staff at the FBI and Massive Dynamic. Unfortunately, the clues are right in front of us, just unimaginable. Peter sneaks into his home in the middle of the night, lying to both Walter and Olivia about his whereabouts. Of anyone in both universes, Peter knew Fauxlivia best. His behavior is shady throughout the episode, and part of me wanted it to be because he was uncomfortable that people were reading Fauxlivia’s notes.

ut it was not to be. Peter has fundamentally changed. He’s not holding anything back. He’s speaking out of turn, being disrespectful, and has lost the fun-loving side of his nature. Darkness has invaded him to his very core.

This is confirmed as we learn Peter is the mole. Well, not a mole, but fully capable of deciphering Fauxlivia’s notes, and in doing so he was one step ahead of everyone. He was trying to get the shifters to tell him his own personal role in regard to the machine. However, he didn’t give them much of a chance to give up information.

Question, rip out their chip, kill. Seeing Peter in this fashion was chilling. When Walter walked in on a questioning in progress, you could see both pain and fear on his face. What had happened to his son? I could feel how incredibly disappointed he was in himself that he was unable to stop the changes taking place in Peter. Because if he had his brain, and it wasn’t disabled at his own request decades earlier, he may have been able to foresee or hinder the present circumstances.

It must have been his similarity to Walternate’s depraved intellect that caused him to cut it short in the first place, but in hindsight, he must wish he had been able to handle it better.

As he tries various formulas William Bell left behind that may repair his brain and remove it’s cells inability to replicate, I wonder if this will ultimately change our Walter. What would Fringe be if Walter was an ignorant ass devoid of feeling and humor? Not worth watching, that’s for sure.

The other thing that hit me right in the face is that as Olivia is realizing Fauxlivia’s true feelings for Peter, they are both unaware of the shift that has taken place in him. At this point, the warm, loving man they both fell for is quickly slipping away. As he kills each shapeshifter in the hopes of finding information to save his life, he, himself, has become a sort of shapeshifter. His contact with the machine has altered his sensibility.

Not being used has become his sole motivation. To not stand aside and be exploited because of what the Walters did when he was a boy. What implication the first people book has in all of this is unknown, but we do know William Bell was at one time searching for it, so we should have a lot more to look forward to in that regard. I find the idea of the first people, here millions of years ahead of us, fascinating, so I’m looking forward to whatever they toss our way.

So what do you think about this episode?

You can check Fringe Season 3 Spoilers and Reviews HERE.

Continuing the sniper story arc on Bones, this spoiler brought to us by TV Line is a great addition.

Geoff Stults of 7th Heaven, October Road and Happy Town fame will front the Fox pseudo-pilot, which will air as the 19th episode of Bones‘ current season.

Stults’ casting, as reported by TV Line, concludes a lengthy search for the new show’s star. The pilot was originally expected sooner, but was pushed back.

Based on The Locator series of two books written by Richard Greener, the prospective new series will center on Walter Sherman, a.k.a. “The Locator.”

Stults will play the former military policeman who can find anything. Michael Clarke Duncan will play his partner Leo, a “tough cowboy philosopher.”

So what do you think of this spoiler?

You can check other Bones Season 6 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.

We know that Hellcats and The Vampire Diaries will be having their own flashback episode. Don’t worry Fringe fans, your favorite show will also have its own.

Jasika Nicole tells The New York Post that Fringe will take viewers to 1985 again next month, airing an installment that will serve as a follow-up to last season’s “Peter.”

“It’s going to pick up right where ‘Peter’ left off and it’s better than the first one,” Nicole says, adding: “This flashback is going to take place in the alternate universe as well as this universe… you’ll see the repercussions stealing Peter has for Walter and Walternate.”

The episode will air on February 25 and have a lot to do with Elizabeth Bishop, Nicole teases.

“As we’ve seen, Walternate is still with his wife and there’s a reason for that. You see all these consequences that happened as a result of that [abduction] and what that means for his relationship with Elizabeth. It’s a really heartbreaking story.”

So any comment for the flashback episode?

You can check Fringe Season 3 Spoilers and Reviews HERE.

Hey NCIS fans, here is a spoiler from TV Guide.

Beth Riesgraf of Leverage fame is coming to NCIS on February 22.

She’ll play Maxine Edwards, an infamous online gamer who still has bad blood with her Marine ex-boyfriend, who cheated her in more ways than one, TV Guide reports.

When his dismembered fingers and teeth are discovered in a pickpocket’s purse, she becomes one of NCIS’ suspects – and piques the curiosity of Sean Murray’s McGee.

Maxine and Tim not only share common interests, but a whole lot of chemistry. No word if DiNozzo will give her as hard a time as he does Tim for their gaming passion.

In addition to adrenaline-junkie thief Parker on Leverage, Parker is known for My Name is Earl (with former fiancé Jason Lee) and the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.

Any comment with this guesting?

You can check NCIS Season 8 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.

I am quite surprised that the trend right now for TV series is to do some flashbacks. As recently reported, The Vampire Diaries will take viewers back to 1864 again this season, while Fringe will also re-visit 1985. Now, Hellcats also announced that they will join the “Flashback Trend.”

Ashley Tisdale tells Entertainment Weekly that her CW hit will follow a similar path on the February 8 episode, aptly titled “Remember When.” The actress teases:

“It gets into everybody’s background, which is really cool. It’s really about Marti seeing where we all came from and, obviously, showing how it’s a family. You get to see where that takes us. And with all the drama, you get to see if they actually get back together and form their family again and form trust.”

Are you excited for Hellcats flashback?

You can also check Hellcats Reviews and Spoilers HERE.

So the sniper story arc of Bones has already started and now, this series becomes more exciting and intense. Nevertheless, I still hope that the subsequent episodes will be more intense than “The Bullet in the Brain.” But of course, I still love this week’s episode.

TV Fanatic: I loved the symmetry of “The Bullet in the Brain.” The introduction of a new, murderous foil for Booth dovetailed with the end of the Gravedigger, who went out in epic fashion.

The first five minutes leading up to the opening credits were awesome, plain and simple.

Pushing Sweets’ buttons like a true puppet master while offering no remorse for her monstrous acts, Deirdre Lovejoy’s incarcerated child killer is as creepy as a TV villain gets.

Just as she arrived in court for her appeal, her head was blown off by an unknown gunman. The effects were such that I recoiled in horror even when I knew it was coming!

The Bones producers openly admit having fun with gross-out gags to open episodes, but the demise of Heather Taffet was all-time. Not just gory for the sake of it, but terrifying.

With the image of her headless corpse spewing blood outside the courthouse burning in our brains, viewers (and Sweets) tried to shake off the horror and make sense of it all.

Should we be glad Taffet is gone? Hodgins clearly was. Others had mixed feelings, or two conflicting thoughts at the same time. Cognitive dissonance, as Sweets informed us.

Regardless, the Gravedigger as the “victim” provided a surprisingly thought-provoking element to the episode as Booth made it his mission to track down this gun-for-hire.

Thanks to the Bones spoilers we’ve posted for months, we knew it was a sniper played by guest star Arnold Vosloo. In that respect we were steps ahead of our FBI hero.

Anyone who might’ve wanted Taffet dead was a suspect at the onset, including Max Brennan (Ryan O’Neal), who also stopped by. His alibi was being drunk … naturally.

There’s no way Max has the skill to pull this hit off anyway, Angela later concluded. It was a 1,500-yard shot from an apartment whose location she’s able to triangulate.

The head hooker found in the tub was nearly as gruesome as Taffet’s corpse, and shed new light on our sniper. This was no vigilante justice, a la Dexter. Just personal.

After paring down the list to elite snipers, Booth singles out the wrong one at first, but soon realizes that his man can be none other than his own mentor, Jake Brodsky.

They come face to face when Booth learns of a tract of land Brodsky made under the name of Seeley Booth. He did this to lure Booth out there, for reasons unknown.

When they meet, he denies involvement, and doesn’t really explain how Booth ties into this, although when he takes off running, that sort of implies he’s responsible.

After a chase through the woods, Booth separates his shoulder and sprains his ankle after Brodsky blows up his own trailer (!) but still has a chance to take him out.

He doesn’t take it. As Brodsky said, almost tauntingly, he won’t do it if he’s not 100 percent sure. Did Brodsky’s denial, however bogus, plant just enough doubt?

The killer escapes, and will surely be heard from again.

It was a little odd that Booth and Evil Booth met face-to-face soon, and some of the details leading up to it were dubious, but the episode as a whole was strong.

Naturally, Good Booth was going to err on the side of caution, especially for a man he knows and wants to believe the best in. But he’s probably regretting it now.

We’re already looking forward to seeing this creep’s next move, and for him to eventually meet his end at Booth’s hands. But how many more will die before that?

With this episode, what do you think will happen on the storyline of Bones?

You can check other Bones Season 6 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.

Look who’s returning on Smallville. Below is a spoiler for TV Guide.

TV Guide reports that Callum Blue will reprise the role of Zod on one of the final five episode of the series.

Not much is known about his next appearance, but we last saw Clark’s nemesis being sucked into a one-sided portal that directs to New Krypton.

So what do you think on this spoiler?

You can check other Smallville TV reviews and spoilers HERE.

What will happen if Glee meets Grey’s Anatomy? Well, that’s a question that will only be answered once we’ve seen the musical episode of GA.

In my opinion, the idea is cool especially for us fans who have watched the show since day one. It will surely bring back memories and I’m sure our hearts will be touched by this upcoming episode.

The episode will feature songs made popular by the series, like The Fray’s “How to Save a Life” and Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars,” both featured prominently in Season 2.

Kevin McKidd reveals that he’s involved in both of those numbers, as well as singing Gomez’s “How We Operate,” from “Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response.”

“We’re in the studio right now,” McKidd says. “I did my recording [Wednesday]. I’ve got quite a big couple of numbers. It’s a one-off episode in Callie’s point of view.”

“It’s very dramatic. It’s a very intense episode. No jazz hands and glitter balls.”

While fans have been nervous that the show may be jumping the shark by doing a musical episode, the actor insists that it’s really more “a love letter to the fans.”

“It’s very exciting and experimental. I think it’s great that the show took such a bold move to do something like this, and I think it’s going to work in a big way.”

This is a great move, in my opinion, for the producers of GA. What do you think?

You can also check Grey’s Anatomy Season 7 Reviews and Spoilers HERE.

This year’s first episode of The Vampire Diaries is a good start for the series on 2011. Damon Salvatore’s secret was also revealed. What is it? Read below.

It’s not that he loves Elena and it’s not that he’s saddened by the demise of Rose. It’s that he actually yearns to be the exact thing he has spent months claiming to despise: human. I didn’t see that admission coming.

The 2011 premiere of The Vampire Diaries kicked off and concluded with a major body count: three campers (dead), one shirtless blood sucker (Stefan), one unfortunate female (dead? dying? Damon’s new sex slave?)

In between, the plot didn’t move forward very much, but plenty of information was passed between characters that planted the seeds for what should be an exciting second half of the season. To wit:

Stefan is pulling a Katherine, trying to build up his tolerance to vervain. Not a bad strategy, but let’s remember how close he came to the dark side when he did the same with human blood.

When Rose was not sucking down packets of blood like they were six packs at Charlie Sheen’s house, she spent a lot of time selling Elena on the advantages of being human, even saying building a family with a vampire is “not compatible” for her kind. Is this more foreshadowing of a decision Elena will soon have to make?

We’ve seen countless love triangles before on television, but this has to be the first between a human, werewolf and vampire, right? Then again, with the intel Jules has passed along the Tyler, he may wanna yell at Caroline more than make out with her next week. (It’s true.)

That was a very strange dream within which Damon and Rose hung out, wasn’t it? It was a touching scene and all, but it seemed to be an example of the show making up a supernatural rule. Since when can Damon control another vampire’s subconscious in such a manner?

Can’t say I missed Bonnie or Jeremy very much. No offense, guys. But let’s all welcome back John Gilbert. Hope your fingers are feeling better, buddy.

Overall, one might criticize the episode for focusing too much on Rose, a character we haven’t known for very long. But I see it differently. The extended death scene and the pain she was in as a result of the werewolf bite was necessary in order to depict the stakes that are on the horizon during the impending werewolf/vampire war.

Any comment about this comeback episode?

You can check The Vampire Diaries Season 2 Reviews and Spoilers HERE