A Disappointing Smallville, But an Intriguing Surprise
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.
