DJariya

By djariya at 2010-10-29

Synopsis:



Written by Al Septian and Turi Meyer

Directed by Christopher Petry

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Episode 6 of 22

DJariya

Bump for all of you in the East.

thelwig14

This episode was a great reminder of my love/hate relationship with Smallville. To think an episode in the last season of this show was wasted on this makes me ill.

mikehunt

did Alexander say "bad man" or "bat man"

edit: looks like it was bad man, when Tess said it she enunciated a bit better

Orbi-Wan Techno

The Alexander/Lex stuff was decent, and the post plot Lois /Clark bit was tolerable.

SkullOrchard

This was pretty much a throwaway episode. If not for the bits regarding the rebirth of Lex, this would have been a complete dud.

MrX

I thought the Alexander/Tess story was decent, though it was a struggle to stay awake during Lois and Clark's scenes.

RocShemp

Though a definite throwaway, it was still enjoyable. However, it would have fallen appart if not for the Tess/Alexander scenes and the payoff at the end where we saw further growth in Lois and Clark's relationship.

That said, am I the only one who expected Lois to exclaim "killing me won't bring back your damn honey"?

Superman07

I must be the only one who liked the Lois and Clark scenes. I especially enjoyed their frank conversations about past incidents. It's also great to see their devotion for each other in spite of the situation.

I didn't really care for the Lex stuff. Maybe it's because they don't know what to do with Tess. I was really expecting Alexander to be up in the stair balcony area to overhear the conversation with the lead scientist.

I thought the twist of a different town being infected by different color meteor was a nice twist! A little extra sprinkle of season 1 in season 10! Plus it goes, potentially, to show how Smallville didn't turn out like that because of Clark. Who knows what would have happened to a Smallville over run by green meteor victims.

Red Dog

Lois needed to be in sluttier sacrifice attire.

MrSmearkase

I was ready to hate this episode by the time the opening theme started, but it certainly picked up. The Lois and Clark stuff got better over the episode, and like an above poster noted, I also appreciated the references to previous events.

Also, I loved when Alexander was in the barn remembering his relationship with Clark. One of the best scenes from an early season that I often think back on was when Clark and Lex were looking out at the farm from the barn window talking about their friendship (if I remember correctly, the episode was about 2 traveling salesmen who were friends that later became enemies?), but when Clark asked Lex if he thought that there friendship could end up the same way, Lex replied that he was sure that their friendship would become the stuff of legend. It was pretty rewarding to me as a viewer to see the writers go back and reference that. That original exchange is one of my favorite scenes in the series.

riley_dude

Thought the Harvest stuff was crap but liked the Tess/Alexander stuff.

Superman07

So Clark mostly had (or had) his powers and lost it again when the flame hit? It seemed like his running wasn't regular super speed shot, but rather slow motion run in that everybody could see him run. However, it seemed like he was okay until the blue flame hit, at which point he lost his powers until the flame went out.

Ranger

Yeah, I liked that, too. Legendary relationship talk was from Season 1, episode 11, Hug.

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Good episode.

riley_dude

Slutty huh?

Michael Corvin

Echoing what 99% of you guys said, the Lex stuff was intense, the village stuff came across as quite lame, even if you factor in the parallels that Superman007 mentioned.

wearetheborg

That shot of Alexander in the formal pants/shirt was great --- classic Lex

DJariya

I enjoyed this episode despite it being mostly filler. The Village of the Damned A story was a little hokey, but I thought the B story with Tess and Lex was really interesting.

The one thing that I really did enjoy was near the end with more progress in Lois and Clark's relationship. Really liked the love scene with them. Welling and Durance as has been said many times have great chemistry and I thought it was a really well shot scene and good use of music.

riley_dude

So Lois is getting the Super pump from Clark?

RocShemp

But only after he put on the Blue Kondom. If not, he woulda ripped her in half.