Odds and Ends-Smallville thoughts

Ok so this is a little late, I figured I wasn't going to be able to post as often when I took this new job. Speaking of the new job, I haven't started yet, it will be Monday. As of right now I am working at the current store to get at least a 40 hour paycheck. So it should all work out.

So let's get to Smallville, well it wasn't bad but it wasn't great. Here's a little recap and then I will give my thoughts.

-The Justice League consisting of Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Black Canary attack a compound in the Artic where they find Luthor's goons looking for Lex. The JL take out the bad guys and find Clark's frozen jacket. We are also introduced to Tess Mercer the new CEO of Luthor Corp.

-New opening credits-pretty sweet

-We then see Lois as a HOT French maid breaking into Lex's mansion and retrieving a zip drive. She is the busted by Tess and after a brief catty convo Lois lets her know she is looking for Chloe and she will find her.

-We then see Chloe and she is in some secret facility the is run by a govt agency. It is revealed that Chloe has become more intelligent that the fastest supercomputer.

-We then get the JL and how they cannot find Clark. GA does not want to give up, so they keep looking for Clark.

-We finally see where Clark is and he's in Russia, he's a prisoner, and he has no powers. Bad Russian Guy won't let Clark call for help so Clark tries to escape only to be shot and crashes his getaway vehicle. He's then beaten up and left to die.

-Next up is Tess and her threats to the guy who went with Lex to find the fortress. She threatens him and he blows her off.

-Back to Chloe and they have another test for her, she needs to break a code for three sets of cell phone numbers that the govt agency says are terrorists. Chloe begins to break the codes and we see that these numbers are for Aquaman and Black Canary who are captured. Chloe starts on the last set and realizes it's GA's cell and she FINALLY puts it all together that this is not a govt agency, she is being held by Lex's goons. She tries to escape only to be caught.

-We get back to Clark who survived the gun shot and tries to escape again only to get his butt kicked by the BRG. Out of nowhere Ollie/GA shows up and basically buys Clark his freedom after the two have a staged fight. Clark and Ollie take a nice jet flight and Clark reveals Jor-El took his powers as a fail safe if the Fortress was destroyed. Ollie then fills him in on what is going on with the JL and Chloe. They decide to bust Chloe out.

-Black Canary and Aquaman are being held captive where Chloe is and they are powerless. Chloe will not give out the last number. GA and Clark arrive and split up to find everyone. Clark runs into Lois, who is disguised as one of the guards, they both promptly get rid of the guards and work together to find Chloe.

-Chloe still refuses to give up the number so she is drugged with a drug that was made from her Mother's spinal fluid that makes people do what they are told. She is drugged up and gives up GA's cell number. The guy who went with Luthor to the Artic is the bad guy behind all of this so he captures GA and injects him with the drug. He tells GA to find out what happened to Lex.

-Clark and Lois find Chloe. Lois gets tasered by the geek who was working on Chloe, Clark kicks his butt. Chloe tells Clark that the JL is in trouble and Clark goes to help.

-Clark finds GA. GA is under the influence of that drug and wants to know where Lex is, Clark is confused and GA shoots him with an arrow in the shoulder. GA asks Clark again and Clark tells GA he doesn't know and GA shoots Clark through the heart.

-GA wakes from the drug to see what he's done and Chloe comes down to see Clark dying. She wants to heal him since she has the power to do that but he says not to do it because Chloe will be hurt in the process. Chloe tries to heal him but she no longer has that power and Clark is about ready to die when the Martian Manhunter shows up and takes Clark into space.

-Clark wakes up in the barn and MM tells him he is healed and has his powers back. MM flew Clark into the sun to heal him. MM promised Jor-El he wouldn't interfere but MM could not let Clark die. Clark thanks him and MM tells him he is now powerless because of what he did to help Clark. Clark decides to sell the farm and take on his destiny in Metropolis. MM is happy about this.

-Chloe accepts Jimmy's proposal of marriage.

-The JL including Clark meet up to discuss what to do next. They decide to lay low and to continue their search for Lex since Clark believes Lex knows his secret.

-The last scene is with Lois and Clark. Clark decides to take the job at the Daily Planet and is sitting across from Lois. Lois smiles.

Well that last scene definitely gave this episode a big boost. The chemistry between Clark and Lois was just plain awesome. The look on Lois' face was priceless and you could tell she is beginning to have feelings for Clark.

It was great to see and hear Clark FINALLY move on. With him moving to Metropolis it finally gets the ball rolling with the Superman mythos. I loved his speech to MM and how he is ready to move on and accept his destiny.

Speaking of MM I was VERY surprised to see him in this episode, although I am not to keen on him losing his powers that easily, I would bet money he hasn't lost him, they are just diminished. It was a great surprise guest appearance.

The JL scene's were great, although I don't agree with how easy it was for Aquaman and the Black Canary to be captured. GA was fantastic in this episode and really showed his leadership skills, the scene with him shooting Clark and then waking up from the drug and seeing what he had done will definitely have him reconsidering being a hero. I especially like the little comment by BC on why Cyborg and The Flash weren't around to help, when in fact they were helping to find Clark albeit on the other side of the world.

There were a lot of positives to this episode but there were quite a few negatives. For instance I think they tried to cram too much into this episode. In fact we never found out what exactly happened in the facility after MM flew Clark out. Instead we get Clark and MM talking about his powers and moving to Metropolis, but we never find out how the JL and Chloe go out of the facility and what happened to the Luthor main goon. Instead we get the Chloe/Jimmy proposal. They could have saved the proposal for te next episode and then extended the facility escape. What's worse is when the JL and Clark meet up towards the end of the show, all three of them are just fine and don't look like they have any residual effects. It was just sloppy writing.

I was ok with the explanation Clark gave about Jor-El taking his powers. It does make sense and I really didn't have a big problem with it although it was mentioned very briefly.

So all in all it was a good episode. It looks like next week we get a new DC character called Plastique.