This week in the Smallville Season 8 finale, Clark and the Legion fought over how best to deal with Davis, the Blur braced to battle Doomsday, and Lois got into a scrape of her own before... well, we'll get to that in a bit. On with the recap!
Rokk meets up with Clark on the roof, toting a message of gloom and Doom. Whoa, I thought all was right with Brainiac gone, Clark says. "Yes," Cosmic Boy says, "Brainiac is gone... but so are you." Clark refuses to regret his decision to save Chloe and thus save her connection to Doomy. Still, Rokk offers Clark a new Legion ring. "Send Doomsday to the future," he strongly suggests, "where the Legion is ready to fight him." If only because, he says, "There is nothing on earth ...
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This week on Smallville, Chloe and Jimmy were heading for a wedding, where two "special guests" would turn Clark's world upside down.
I'm Matt Mitovich, you own "special guest" recapper, offering you Smallville fans a solid by giving you a place to discuss this week's "Bride." I had hoped to recap for you ...
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Shut away in his loft, Clark is studying the latest of Kara's future-past Kryptonian messages. Krypton is on the verge on destruction and Brainiac is going to prevent Clark from ever being sent to earth. Despite Chloe's protestations, Clark is willing to let this happen.“All I've brought is death and suffering...meteor freaks, phantoms, Brainiac. I'm taking responsibility for all the lives I've ruined.”“This planet would be better off if I never existed.”At this point, it's obvious the episode is headed in one of two directions. Either Clark tries to change the future-past while fading from existence ala Back to the Future, or, his wish is granted, It's A Wonderful Life style. As fun as the former scenario might have been, it's the latter that plays out, parlaying its slightly hokey premise into one of the most enjoyable episodes of the entire series. Ignoring his wishes, Chloe forces the octagonal Kryptonian key into Clark's hands, triggering a blinding flash th...
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Chloe: “Have you ever killed anyone?”Jimmy: “Yeah, but they were all bad.”This week's episode of True Lies Smallville kicked off with a pre-credits intro that saw super-spy Jimmy Olsen break into a ventilation system, disable a courier, crack into a retinal-scan briefcase and steal its contents. Flash back to fourteen hours earlier, where Jimmy's burning the toast on a breakfast he's prepared special for Chloe. She doesn't have time to eat, but makes an empty to promise to do lunch.As it happens, she has enough time to meet with Clark, hoping he's managed to steal back the Veritas keys from Lex. Nope. “I spent the night with Lana.”Pointing out the obvious, Chloe argues there's no point in his saving Lana if Lex will eventually have complete control over his powers. But if he's so bent on finding Brainiac, why doesn't he go re-read the Swann journals? You know, make himself useful for a change?He does, and stumbles across a page he hasn't seen before, an...
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“How does a son murder his own father?”“Total absence of love. Some say that’s the very definition of evil.”Satisfying as it may be to have the show finally acknowledge Lex’ conversion to the dark side, I think the phrase Chloe was looking for was “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Considering what a backseat Clark’s taken to the wicked machinations of the Luthor family, it’s a much more suitable cliché. That being said, if Al & Miles (while they’re still around) wanted to brand Lex as a wholly unredeemable villain, what better way to do it than having him murder his own father?“I was raised in your shadow. Now you’re going to die in mine.” Over at the Daily Planet, Clark & Chloe are hard at work tracking down Kara and Brainiac when they’re rudely interrupted by the rest of the staff exploding into action over the fact that someone’s leapt to their dea...
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Her memory restored, Kara is now content living the Green Acres life with Clark, casting aside the enormous assumed responsibilities that come with the ability to walk as a god among men, choosing instead to feed the horses and tend to the farm. That is, until Brainiac shows up, promising to restore her life to the way it was before awakening on Earth. “Quiet morning. It's cold, still, bleak: almost reminds me of Krypton,” he tells her. Lacking Clark's pathos, she picks up on his obvious bad-guy vibe, and tosses him through the barn and into a water spigot. Clark soon reveals to her the nature and motivation of the brain interactive construct, although neither can guess what its new goal may be, given that Clark has already destroyed Zod, and that Kara's father, even in his darkest hours, would never have sided with him. Kara, proving twice in less than ten minutes that she is infinitely smarter than Clark, realizes that neither of them can defeat Brainiac on their o...
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Working late into the night, Lionel Luthor is delivered an ominous note. “Heed our warning. The son of Krypton belongs to Veritas.”Not one to take outside threats to the son of Krypton lightly, Lionel quickly dispatches a crack squad of mercenaries, armed with the latest in krypton-enhanced taser technology, to kidnap Clark. Operating under the auspice that all of this is in Clark’s best interest, Lionel has no trouble claiming the ends justify the means.Lucky for Clark, Lana and Chloe were to quick to realize that Clark’s disappearance was wholly unrelated to his plans to head to the fortress and convince Jor-El to restore Kara’s memory/powers. Unlucky for them, their first instinct is to seek out Lionel for help, who tries to shift the blame toward Lex, pointing out that he’s been developing military-grade tasers. Yes.Chloe and Lana aren’t the only young, attractive women on Lionel’s case. Patricia Swann, Virgil’s daughter, discovered t...
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Smallville's return this week brought with it the return of Pete Ross and two classic show staples: over-the-top product placement and a one-on-one game of hoops featuring the egregious misuse of super-powers. “Hero” opens with a concert held, naturally, in an abandoned Stride gum factory that's seen its overstock contaminated with liquid kryptonite. Jimmy's brought Kara along in an attempt to jog her memory, a date cut tragically short when she's nearly crushed by a hunk of falling debris. Remy Zero never would have let this happen at one of their concerts. Lucky for Kara, Pete “Plastic Man” Ross was on-hand to save her. Jimmy happens to catch a shot of the rescue on his cellphone, which is a bit of a...stretch.Eager to show off his newfound abilities, Pete drops in on Clark, Lana and Lionel at the Kent farm. Even though he disappeared for years, his appearance is greeted with a surprising degree of non-chalance. After laying down a heavy guilt-trip on Clark; &#...
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Considering last week's episode went up against the recap of Lost, that opening scene with Black Canary almost knifing Chloe should have ended with Clark saving her from near death, not Green Arrow's arrow shattering mid-air because Black Canary has the power of sound. That aside, it was hard to find anything redeeming in tonight's airing. Tom Welling's take on Bizarro was a lot stronger than his take on Clark's been in a while, and the relationship between Lana and the “real” him were beyond uncomfortable. Even the scenes with Lionel and Lex, who for a long time were far and away the strongest characters on the show, felt forced.So what worked? Not a lot. Why would Green Arrow reveal his identity to Chloe, who was nothing more than a bit player in the Justice League, and not Lois, the gorgeous girl he was dating? Why did it take this long for Lana to see herself more as a Lady Macbeth than the girl next door? On the same line, why did it take this long for Clark to realiz...
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With a forced hiatus of nearly a month and a half, "Persona" had a lot more riding on it than was likely intended. Why else would it have opened it with an awkward morning-after scene between Lana and Bizarro? How many times does the audience need to get beat with the fact that Lana will never fall for the real Clark? She married Lex Luthor — of course she's going to dig Bizarro Clark over regular Clark. Not than I can blame her — Bizarro Clark can fly her to Paris for breakfast, long as he doesn't you know, hit any direct sunlight on the way there.Lana, as usual, is either blind to or complicit with the sketchy things going on around her and goes as far to fight with Chloe when she points out how strange Clark has been acting. I've said it before — if the writers are turning her character into a villain, they're doing a great job. But if she's supposed to be a sympathetic love-interest? Then I'm completely lost. But back to the clones. The Julian Luthor model was bus...
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