Smallville "Wither" Review (Spoilers)

[matt_zimmer]

Smallville "Wither"

Decent episode with good points and bad points. Let's mix it up and start with the bad stuff first.

-I am sick of Lana and Lex.

-No John Glover.

-NO fallout whatsoever about Clark actually KILLING the sentient villain. Seriously, this should have messed him up. They glossed over it completely.

-Lex is a Man-Slut.


The Good:

-Clark and Lex confrontation. More of these please. Seriously we need to be building to something huge at this point in the series. Clark and Lex avoiding each other sucks.

-Lois mistaking Oliver Queen for a courier. Green Arrow's scenes with Lois (especially in his costume) were great. I especially loved the touch of him hitting the soda can's pull-tab but making Lois think he missed. And Erica Durance's costume is hot. More please. (Or should I say less?)

-Phantom Zone baddie fall-out. I'm glad they only took two episodes to finally get to this. The Poison Ivy lady was creepy.

The stuff I'm not so sure about:

-Jimmy Olsen. He IS adorable and I love how doofy he is but I think it's a SERIOUS mistake to put him between Clark and Chloe. Clark is SUPERMAN and should in NO way think of Jimmy as a romantic rival even at this stage in the game. Plus, I'm a huge Clark/ Chloe shipper and I'm pulling out my hair because of Clark finally realizing Chloe is hot comes RIGHT when he shows up. AAAARGH!

Do you know what Smallville should do? Take one of the characters from the Superman stable and KILL them off. How shocking would it be for Perry White or Jimmy Olsen to bite it before Clark even became Superman? That would TOTALLY shock the fanbase and raise the stakes considerably! Might I nominate LANA for this honor? ****.

Comments

[mattzimmer.livejournal.com]

I don't think Jonathan counts either. I think the only two people on this show besides Clark who SHOULD be off limits to kill are Lois and Lex. Everyone else should be fair game.

If they kill off Lana in a future ep I'd actually be impressed. And grateful. Unfortunately this seems like the kind of show that will off Chloe in the last episode because she has the nerve to actually be an original character not in the Superman mythos. They do that and I'll be pissed.

[style92.livejournal.com]

A *mostly* original character. When she was invented, she was meant to be a teen-age stand in for Lois Lane. But then the actual Lois Lane showed up and that got screwed up.

And yes, sadly, I've been figuring from the beginning that Chloe's lack of status in other Superman canon automatically puts a big "kill me off" sign on her back. (and the fact that she knows his secret means they've put neon on that sign.)

I still really, really hope that Lana will be justified by the end as being killed tragically in an early clash between Lex and Clark/Superman/boy, and be a major reason for their rivalry, if each blames the other for her death.

I'm really, really glad that they DIDN'T evolve Smallville into a Superman movie, now.

[mattzimmer.livejournal.com]

That would be nice as it WOULD SORT OF justify Lana. Still absolutely no reason for two guys to be fawning over this drip though.