A Man. And His Blog.

Season 1, Episode 20 (20)
Date of airing: May 14, 2002 (WB)
Rewatched for review: Jan 16, 2012
Number of review in January/2012: 97/107

To be surprised, I didn’t even remember this episode having a story preparing for the season finale. At least one story in the penultimate episode was good enough to lead to the finale, though it wasn’t good enough to be thrilling. The writers would have never let Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) made contact with either the ship or Clark’s secret so early in the series (especially since SMALLVILLE proved to be a success). It would have been a great story though, when Lex turned out to be an enemy better earlier than later. Well, now this, but it’s not even him who gets all the secrets of Clark. I can’t even imagine how bored I was, when Roger (Tom O’Brien) was the one watching through the binoculars.

The story itself wasn’t a burner, but it was also not boring. Chloe (Allison Mack) kidnapped, Lana (Kristin Kreuk) kidnapped, Lana having superpowers, Chloe not wondering how Clark (Tom Welling) was able to get out the casket without digging, Lana not asking questions, when it came to her rescue… It’s these kind of questions, which completely destroy the entertainment factor. When I have to question the believability of the characters ability to ask question, the episode failed. In addition, it wasn’t really something of a suspenseful hour, since Chloe got rescued after half the episode, and Lana wasn’t kidnapped very long also. It would have been better to either get both girls in danger for a whole episode, or to make just one kidnapping out of it, and letting Clark fight for his love(s). Because it sucked that it took a whole damn act for Lana to realize her visions are real, and that Chloe is in danger.

That was something, which completely sucked. The writers had a kidnapper for one, a pretty normal case, a crazed-up cop and all, but they give Lana superpowers with it, so that Clark can easily find out where Chloe is. Baah, ugly cop-out. No scene where suspension was built, no dramatization. The script hasn’t done anything with its story. And Gary’s (Darrin Klimek) reasons for his actions were also pretty stupid. Again, no real reasons behind it, instead the writers just needed a villain. And forgot to make him a character first.

Well, at least the lookout for some alien something was okay. That Roger returned… not really cool, because he is a clichéd character. That he knows about Clark now, could be interesting. That Lex found a fragment of the ship and doesn’t know what to do with it or what it is… okay, but I doubt he’s going to know. That Dr. Malcolm (Joe Morton) is involved in it, cool, since I’m expecting him for the future of the show. That Lex still has troubles to get through Jonathan and is calm as a flower, when Johnathan rejects him… it’s gonna get unbelievable with every scene. Let Lex be uncool to Jonathan (John Schneider) for a second. Because it really looks like Lex wants to kiss Jonathan’s ass. Uargh. 5.5/10

One of those early career moves from Galen Tyrol

Mysterious artefact on Lex's table. Omigod