Last night on Smallville, Clark did two things that were, to put it lightly, incredibly stupid. He and Kara had just had a conversation about how he wished he’d known his mother, when he heard her calling out to him, and voila, just like that, he found Kara’s missing crystal. That was thing one: you’d think he’d have learned by now not to listen to crystals that call him. Then, when he took it to that cold, crystal fortress place, he didn’t listen to his father, and put the crystal in the stone thing (reverse King Arthur, anyone?).

Lara, Clark’s mother, is then released and she shows up at the Kent Farm. Though both are happy to see her, Kara is wary. Unlike Clark, it seems she’s remembered about the whole cloning/Zor-El thing. Lara warns them of the same thing and Clark promises to take care of her.

Zor-El flies to Kara – and that looked really cool, by the way. I hope Clark learns to fly by the end of this final season – and Kara looks stunned and angry to see him. Given the fact that she’s learned the truth about him, that’s no surprise. Even so, he’s able to sweet talk her into believing that he wants a family. And she wasn’t just pretending to believe him, like I’d thought, either. You can’t know how disappointing that was. Instead, she agreed to meet him at the fortress.

Lara gives Clark a ring she’s been wearing on a chain around her neck. He slips it on and his eyes get that bright flash that means that Kryptonite is infecting him, this time in blue. (Okay, so he got it from his mother, so I’m not sure if that counts as stupid or not.) She tells him it was his father’s ring, and it’s the Kryptonian symbol for Victory. Cool. Clark leaves Lana with his mother while he goes off to find Zor-El.

Then, Clark finds Zor-El beating up on Lionel, and then Zor-El beats him (Clark) up, at which point Zor-El reveals something Lara could not have known – that the blue ring makes him human. Zor-El then kidnaps his mother and runs away. Like the smart boy he is, Clark goes crawling to Chloe for help.

Eventually, they get it figured out, but there is one problem: when Clark sent his mother and Zor-El back to where they came from – nowhere – Kara turns up missing. He doesn’t know she’s had a concussion and is in Detroit, Michigan, suffering from Amnesia. Clark, meanwhile, returns to the fortress and asks his father where she is. Jor-El tells him that he can’t help because Clark didn’t listen, adding that Clark has again disobeyed him, and must suffer the consequences. Who do you think is gonna die now?

Oh, and the side story is actually quite important, and is probably the only thing that saved this episode, in my opinion. Gabe and Lois are dating, and then everyone’s down on them about it, so they “break up.” At the very end of the show, Lex and Gabe are talking, and Lex warns him that Lionel can’t know about him. Who is he? Lex’s brother. Oh, and not Lucas, either. Julien.

This week’s episode of house was fresh, unique, and hilarious. It also made a few interesting points about the longing to “fit in” and “be normal.” I mean, what is normal? A friend of mine always said that “normal is a setting on a washing machine.”

Kenny, House’s uber-sick person of the week, suffered a heart attack just before undergoing major facial re-constructive surgery. House wants to start him on treatments, but Kenny and Kenny’s father don’t want to do that because it will set back the surgery. In House’s opinion, he’s saying that the surgery is more important than his life.

I also like the documentary-style of this episode, it made it highly original, and it let us see other people’s perspectives of one another. By the way, if you missed this episode, don’t worry, it’ll be playing again soon, once reruns kick in.

Last night, after eight seasons, Jorja Fox starred in her last episode of CSI. Her character, Sara Sidle, had an excellent good-bye episode, even if it was a little… un-Sara-like.

A former case with creepy kids (genius murderers Marlon and Hannah West from last season) resurfaces, and Sara insists upon taking it over because the whole thing has been haunting her. As a result of what she discovered, she resigned.

Obviously, they left it open for her to return, which the producers seem to think she will do. Jorja though, says, “It was an extremely difficult decision,” but she wants a break from showbiz.

Poor Karla wakes up from a nightmare of a dream in which J.D, Elliot and Turk are all trying to kill her. JD and Turk want to go to the waterpark, and Elliot wants the baby.

As she’s telling J.D and Turk about it, she reveals that the thing that really scares her isn’t that she was going to die, but that the dream was in English. For anyone who’s learned a second language, you understand: you can speak both languages, but when you’re dreaming in one, it’s almost like you’re losing the other. When that’s your native tongue, that’s gotta be terrifying.

Dr. Perry Cox on the other hand, has just learned from Jordan that she’s going to be away for the weekend, and the couple start a bet on who’s going to miss who first. I love that about Jordan and Perry… their ongoing little battles.

J.D has just finished nicknaming the new nurse who looks like Laverne, Laveragin (Laverne Again), when the Janitor mocks him about claiming to be a people person when he doesn’t know anyone’s name. So the two have a bet: if J.D can’t learn everyone in the hospital’s name by the end of the day, J.D will do Janitor’s job. If he can’t, Janitor will actually do his job. J.D takes him on, and believe it or not – it’s Dr. Cox who helps him.

Turk and Carla, meanwhile, are having an argument, because Carla talks to Izzy in Spanish when Turk’s not around, and it bothers him because he doesn’t speak Spanish. Carla is still upset over the dream, and is complaining because whenever people see the baby, all they see is Turk: the Little African Princess. To prove her point, Carla asks someone what race he thinks the baby is. He tells her “Half-African, half-Latina… probably Dominican, but then, I’m the new Geneticist.” That is why I love Scrubs.

Elliot sees Dr. Cox helping him and busts his balls over it, telling him he IS lonely, and… then she realizes something… it was supposed to be his day off. He is lonely.

At this point, Ted and his band begin playing “Who are you?” and it stirs up the ranks: Carla wonders who she is, Perry wonders who he’s become, and J.D wonders who everyone in the pictures is.

That night, Carla has the same dream, this time in Spanish, and she doesn’t realize it, but when she wakes up, we see Turk, headphones in his ears, trying to learn Spanish. Perry confesses to Jordan that he misses her. And J.D tells the Janitor everyone’s name: except for Janitor’s, thus losing the bet. I guess Janitor wouldn’t tell him????

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