7.22 Eclipse by MR & TW (Part V)

TW: Returning to the Darkseid Clark beat down.
MR: This is where David Bowie kicks the living shit out of Tom.
TW: Mostly Darkseid picking Clark up and throwing him up against stuff.
MR: And pounding him into walls, the street. Maybe a car or two.
TW: The fight...
MR: It's not really a fight.
TW: OK, fine, the beat down is so violent the military is fleeing.
ED: Please tell me they’re at least shooting rockets at Darkseid.
TW: If we have it in the budget.
KK: That would be a no, I assume.
ED: You're going to make the military look like a bunch of cowards?
MR: If they pony up some money and buy some advertising we'll let them kill Darkseid.
AM: Seriously?
TW: That seriously goes against canon.
MR: So? We need the money.
TW: [Shrugs] True.
AM: How about small arms fire? Surely that's not too expensive.
MR: Eh, we could probably do that.
KK: Small arms fire against Darkseid? So now the military is stupid?
MR: How about they run while shooting small arms fire?
KK: Stupid cowards?
JG: Getting out of Darkseid’s way isn't stupid or cowardly.
AM: Says the guy who betrayed Clark to save his own skin.
JG: You gotta do what you gotta do.
TW: Anyway, this scene is going to be a make-up nightmare for me. Clark's going to be bloody and bruised and...
AoT: Shirtless?
TW: Annette!
MR: I told Tom Darkseid should beat him so bad his clothes tear off but Tom says the horrible red jacket is indestructible.
TW: It survived a nuclear explosion!
KK: Technically Clark threw the warhead into space before it went off.
TW: And your point?
ED: I think the point is shirtless Tom!
AoT: Wahoo!
TW: But that means more time in the make-up chair!
MR: Then set your alarm early, buddy!
KK: Do it for the fans, Tom, do it for the fans.
TW: OK, fine. Clark is all bloody and bruised and his clothes are in tatters.
MR: Now that's more like it!
TW: After one particularly violent slam into the pavement Clark struggles to get up and Darkseid slams his foot right into Clark's face hard enough to bury his boot a foot deep into the pavement. When Darkseid pulls away Clark lies motionless, completely spent.
AoT: And shirtless.
TW: Yes. And shirtless.
AoT: And sweating.
TW: That's quite enough, Annette.

MR: Pull back from this last cut to show this scene as being watched from the TW inside the oval office. Lex looks on sadly and Lois drones on about Darkseid's cruelty.
ED: Lois doesn't drone.
MR: Oh yeah she does. All. The. Time. Lex touches in Bluetooth headset. "I'm sorry, Chloe. But it's time." Cut to Chloe and her headset, tears streaming down her face.
AM: "Lex, maybe I can..."
MR: "No, Chloe. You know what you have to do."
AM: Chloe nods.
MR: Back in the Oval Office Lex presses a button inside the briefcase. The display reads, "Launch confirmed."

MR: OK. This is my favorite scene.
ED: I don't see any Lois dialogue.
MR: Of course not, why would I ruin my favorite scene? Nukes are flying everywhere.
TW: We can use footage of Lex's dreams of Armageddon.
MR: Or shoot actual nukes. Either works. Lex is on the phone with the President.
TW: The president wants to know what the hell Lex is doing.
MR: "I'm saving the world, Mr. President."
ED: That's your favorite scene?
MR: Tom made me cut the one where Lex punches Lois in the jaw.
ED: Why would you want to punch me in the jaw?
KK: To get you to shut up for five minutes?

TW: Speaking of punches to the jaw... we cut to the scene of the fight
MR: Beat down...
TW: As Chloe runs to Clark's bruised and broken...
AoT: ...and shirtless...
TW: Body.
JG: So does Darkseid put the beat down of Chloe now?
MR: Not yet. He chuckles and informs Chloe not to worry. He didn't kill Kal-El. His suffering has just begun.
TW: Just then we hear the incoming missiles and Darkseid looks up in the sky.
KK: You wouldn't hear the missiles. They're faster then sound.
MR: Shut up. Up in the sky three missiles are converging upon the city.
AoT: Metropolis? You're going to destroy Metropolis?
ED: No way, Lois is there. You can't kill Lois.
JG: Chloe, Clark, Darkseid on the other hand are expendable.
ED: Lionel too.
TW: They aren't going to die.
MR: Yet. They aren't going to die yet.
AM: With nuclear missiles on the way?
KK: I'm thinking commercials first. Then people die.
TW: Good guess, but no.
MR: Chloe gets out a good one liner about Darkseid’s suffering having just begun before she creates a force bubble around her, Clark, what's left of the military.
ED: Which is what, one Pfc. hiding under an overturned jeep trying not to crap his pants?
MR: Pretty much.
AoT: Chloe creates a force what?
TW: A force bubble. Think about the twins that kidnapped Lana and the Kents when Clark was mortal.
AM: That's Lex's big plan for Chloe? A force bubble?
MR: Yes. Lots and lots of them. And it's was a good plan. No a great plan.
TW: Cycle through various cut shots of hundreds of Chlones staining to maintain force bubbles around various famous cities as the nukes hit. They save the Eiffel tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Taj Mahal, St. Peters Square, etc.
KK: That's a lot of heroics for Chloe.
MR: Yeah, but also stock footage of famous cities doesn't cost much.
ED: Would the Chlones and there [makes quote sign] "force bubbles" cost something.
MR: Eh, just do the effect once and overlay the same image over each city.
AM: This is going to make Superman IV look like a special effect master piece.
ED: Was Superman IV really that bad?
TW: Superman IV is the reason I refuse to ever wear the suit.
MR: Meanwhile Apokoliptic ships explode. The armies turn to dust, etc. etc. Oh, yeah, including Lionel in the flag ship over Metropolis.
JG: What?!?!! You can't kill Lionel!!!
MR: Oh, really? Because I just did.
ED: Right! It's Lois you can't kill. She's in a force bubble, right?
MR: Unfortunately. Damn DC restrictions.
ED: Yes!
JG: You bast...
MR: Go on, say it. I know you want to.
JG: You bastard.
MR: Magnificent bastard?
JG: No. I refuse to give you the satisfaction.
MR: Fine. Killing off Lionel was pleasure enough.
TW: Finally under the strain the Chlones all just kind of burn out and fall under the strain.

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