I've missed the last three episodes, but I happened to look at the clock at a few minutes after 8 this evening and finally remembered to turn it on.
I'm glad to see Lynn mention that there was no explation for the FOTW and how he got his power. I thought I'd missed something in the first few minutes, but it seems the episode really did appear to start in the middle. I guess they just assume that since it's Smallville, the audience will just accept the fact that everyone is weird and strange and insane and evil. Whatever.
My husband's comment -- "Wow, you'd think the state of Kansas would get suspicious of Smallville High's graduation rate going down to 65%. Of course, it's because a few more kids DIE every week instead of just dropping out ..."
Lois was totally wasted. It was almost more painful than not having her be in the episode at all. I was so sure that once she showed back up, things would get fun again, but alas, we now know that the writers can relegate her to "minor side character". Wonder who she pissed off.
Lex/Lionel -- nice to see father and son "bonding", though could have REALLY done without yet *another* torture scene. I'm all for shirtless Lex and appreciate the fic writers wanting to racket up the angst for their hurt/comfort fics, but come on, show writers ... being this lazy, you should be ashamed to cash your paychecks. Come up with a new theme. Please.
The Clana -- please, kill me now. I thought last week's episode (based on the summaries) might be a throw-back from an earlier season. ("Hey, look what I found under the couch! Remember that script from season 2 that we thought the dog ate? Turns out he just buried it. Now we can got back to playing video games instead of wrtiting a new one this week!") But after tonight, I have a very bad feeling that we are seeing the future of this show -- they have apparently decided that having things be fun again, and letting couples who actually have chemistry together interact, is a bad idea.
Jason -- I know I've missed a few episodes, but just WHEN did Lana choose Clark over Jason? And ... why? And when did Jason turn evil? Am I right in guessing that this came pretty much out of the blue?
The college sub-plot -- I think this part is what pisses me off the most about this episode. What are these writers smoking?? What a horrible message this episode sends to teenagers. "Hey, you've got a great GPA and just got into the college of your dreams! But you know, that would require you to grow up and expand your circle of friends and experience something outside your tiny hometown, so the best thing to do would be to pass it all up in order to go to community college nearby and continue to hang out with all your childhood buddies -- who are also chicken-sh** losers, just like you. Oh, yeah, and while you're at it, but sure to guilt your best friend who *is* brave enough to do what she's supposed to do about her being the one who is leaving and breaking up the gang."
Absolutely ridiculous.
Kathy
