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I have a horrible cough at the moment, one of those niggling types that sticks in the back of the throat, and no matter how often I try to clear it, it just stays there. Because of this cough I haven’t been sleeping very well these past few days, however this morning I managed to sleep long enough to have a dream set in the world of Smallville and intriguingly enough it was very vivid and had a very logical procession of events.

I am a little bit behind in my watching of the TV series, having missed a whole chunk because of airing issues and I have been watching it slowly via DVD, starting from Season One. I recently (about a fortnight ago) finished watching Season Six, however it wasn’t even in the back of my mind when I went to sleep last night (I was actually thinking about Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman and if they made it into a movie it would probably get ruined), so it is a mystery about how Smallville came to feature so heavily in my dreaming.

Back to the dream - the episode begins with a weapon deal going down. A sonic gun prototype has been stolen from somewhere (I’m assuming a government contractor) and the person buying the gun decides that he wants to test it out; however, as he really enjoys testing it out on moving targets, he opens fire on the thief’s people, who are frantically trying to escape down the stairwell. The gun shoots yellow, luminescent rays, which, upon contact with a target, vibrate it until it collapses into a pile of ash.
The scene cuts to Clark and Lois arriving at a university in hopes of writing some sort of news story on the questionable scientific research going on in its grounds. They are heading to the laboratories in search of the scientist rumoured to be conducting the experiments when who should appear but the sonic-gun-toting-crazy guy who is also looking for the scientist in question. Unfortunately for the scientist, Sonic-gun-guy is not there to talk like our reporter duo, he wants whatever the end product of the research is and he’s willing to take it with force (hence the sonic gun, a bit of overkill, but if you’ve ever seen an episode of Smallville, the crazies are generally over the top crazy).
He starts firing the weapon to clear a path to the research material and while Clark manages to get Lois to safety, in the commotion he is hit with a ray and a glowing, yellow sheen appears all around him. He groans in pain, but the weapon is unable to disintegrate his molecules and instead the sonic rays are sent shooting outwards from his body and hit everything in the room, including the research material and the shooter (Lois is safe because Clark hid her behind a pile of upturned filing cabinets).
The shooter is disintegrated, as is a lot of the room, but the research material has been transformed into a large sheet of textured, yellowish, glass-like material. Clark moves closer to investigate it and as he does so he sees a non-reflection of himself and Lois, smiling and loving towards each other, and in Lois’ arms is a baby who is obviously their child (it is wrapped in the same blanket that Clark was wrapped in when he arrived on Earth).
Clark assumes (after reading snippets of research notes that spilled out of the partially disintegrated filing cabinets that stated that the scientist was trying to discover a substance which allows an individual to tell the future if they consume it) that the research material combined with the sonic ray has created a sort of time-mirror by which an individual can see their future reflected off themselves. He is sort of shocked, but pleased, by the revelation (because as we know he has alien DNA and may therefore be incompatible with human reproduction, so he thought he may never have a biological child).
The episode is left there, with audiences left to mull on that little surprise.

I was watching Monk on DVD today. I laughed so hard during the episode titled “Mr. Monk and the Three Julies”. Monk’s investigations bring him to discover that a man used his taxidermy skills on his dead mother and after poking the corpse, its glass eye popped out and rolled across the floor, prompting Monk to make an emergency, late night appointment with his therapist, Dr Kroger.

Resulting is the best Monk quote so far (in my opinion):

Monk: “At least I never dug Trudy up and had her stuffed and mounted, right?”
Dr Kroger: “Yes, and I’ve always been very proud of you for that.” (I’m guessing he’s humouring Monk, however Monk takes it seriously!)

Also during that conversation, Monk comments that (as he woke Dr. Kruger up during the night) his wife didn’t sound very happy in the background. Dr Kroger attempts to convince Monk that his wife is fine with it; however Monk pushes on with his questioning:

Monk: “Does she have Tourette Syndrome?”
Dr Kroger: (After a long pause in which he gives Monk a stare of utter incredulousness) “Yes. Yes, she does.”

Lots of laughs, I love Monk.