Smallville "Wrath" Talkback (Spoilers)

[The Penguin]

The CW gives you sweeps Smallville at 8 p.m. ET tonight. Last week was Lara (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=200230).

Lana has the power! Here is the official preview from CWTV.com (http://www.cwtv.com).


http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/smallville-welling27.jpgSmallville #7-7 "Wrath"
Kryptonite and high voltage mix during a lightning storm, causing Lana (Kristin Kreuk) to absorb Clark's (Tom Welling) powers.

Using her newfound super powers, she breaks into Lex's (Michael Rosenbaum) safe and steals incriminating evidence which she then delivers to Lois (Erica Durance) and Grant (Michael Cassidy), demanding they run a story exposing Lex's secrets.

After Grant refuses to use stolen material, Lana decides to take care of Lex herself. Clark tries to stop Lana from killing Lex and a super battle ensues between the two.

Allison Mack, Erica Durance, Aaron Ashmore and John Glover also star.

Charles Beeson directed the episode written by Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders.

[Rolling Cloud]

"You wouldn't do it! You're too scared to get blood on your hands!" - Lana Lang

With that line, the episode was sealed. I knew that this was a good episode, despite the 13 minutes I missed from it.

So, Lana who hates Lex is missed by Clark who cares for Chloe and Lois who has a higher-up at the Daily Planet who's into her. Soap-opera syndrome, we get it and don't have to be reminded of it. (Though, it did give me a chance to add in some hilarious ad-libbing. xD)

This episode reminded me how good the writers could be, if they put their minds to it. =]

Though, the preview at the end...WTF?

[Shredder565]

Not a bad episode at all...

Although this show needs a drinking game. Drink everytime a show ends with Lana and Clark Doey Eyed in the barn, and a WB Sponsored song played :)

[Crash]

Ooh! Did you all see that living black goo? Its the Alien Symbiote! We're gunna see the black costume! We're gunna see Vemom! We're gunna.......Wait a minute...

[Jacob T. Paschal]

Super Sex???


This episode wins simply for that alone.

[Hyper Shadow X]

The super sex bit was funny.

[Katsumara]

Super Lana is awesome. Chloe went all defending Clark mode, which was sort of nice.. and Lois was meh. It was a pretty good episode and the next looks just as good.

[halinar]

Much better than the rest of the season so far. Only one big thing stood out to me. How was there a chunk of K on the Kent farm that was never found until that exact moment? Guess he never walked past that windmill before.

Besides that I did enjoy the episode

Might just get a Luthor / Braniac melding here before long which would be interesting.

[Azrael24]

great episode, interesting to see lana go all out and attempt to kill lex. i just hope this episode ended the whole arc.

although i missed part of the episode, how did lois end up in the hospital?

[Rolling Cloud]

great episode, interesting to see lana go all out and attempt to kill lex. i just hope this episode ended the whole arc.

although i missed part of the episode, how did lois end up in the hospital?

Lana was showing the dirt she got on Lex to the reporter guy (I forget his name). Lois tried to stop Lana from beating him up since he wouldn't take the news story and she got pushed through a window. =/

[Simpler Simon]

You know, if Lana's ultimate fate in this incarnation is to end up a vengeful, Andrea Beaumont-like character, I'd be okay with that. Of course I'd rather the writers have not butchered her character for the last few seasons, but given that's happened this seems to be a decent band-aid fix and compelling character arc. A lot of things came out in this episode that seem to tie together the past little while. Lana is the product of Clark and Lex's treatment of her, and both have to face that.

Super sex! Now there's an earth-moving experience for ya.

Nice tease to Brainiac's return. How he'll figure into this season's arc, I have no clue yet.

And Lois starts a relationship...again. Joy. At least the rest of the episode was enjoyable.

[DisneyBoy]

So no sooner do I start crabbing on about lousy Series Lana then I get a good episode that does something of substance with her.

So sure...her getting powers was dumb. But it was dumb in that kinda of Season Two sort of way, when the krypto-freaks were taking a serious back seat in every episode to the interesting drama.

Was anyone else actually liking Lana at the end of the episode? Her lines were believeable, and when the screen went black, I was like "Wait...she's...she's making sense kinda! Don't end it now!" As Simon said, Lana is the product of Lex and Clark's treatment of her....which is kinda stupid. I mean, you have to be your own person and you only get affected by others as much as you allow them to affect you...but still.

Lana telling Clark not to think of her as someone who is perfect was a nice touch. If only they'd done more with her strange/unique personality traits throughout the show, I'd have bought that a bit more. I mean, did she ever stop visiting her parents grave for a reason?

Anyways...nice stuff with Chloe and Lana facing off like old times...and the three big characters really having to deal with one another. And Lois has a new man just in time for Ollie to come back...awww!

[Shredder565]

Yeah, they gave her a reason. If I remember correctly, I htink it was about her and time too 'grow up' and be out on her own....someone will correct me if I'm wrong..

Have we seen the new Daily Planet boss before? For some reason I seem to remember someone like him as one of Lex's security agents...

You know... Judging by next weeks previews... Maybe the crystal isn't what we think. Maybe that IS the portal power source or something, and like the Phantoms in the Zone, Lara is stuck inside the crystal until Clark releases her next week?

But once Clark learns tht he'll live allot longer than every other human, you can kind of understand why he's fighting becoming a super hero. Wouldn't you want a normal life for as long as possible?

[Dogbert]

You know... Judging by next weeks previews... Maybe the crystal isn't what we think. Maybe that IS the portal power source or something, and like the Phantoms in the Zone, Lara is stuck inside the crystal until Clark releases her next week?Okay, this is based on the preview, so I'm putting it in a spoiler box. It is speculation and not based on anything other than the preview and what's already been shown on the series:

Maybe I'm way off here, but I thought it was clear that the crystal contains Lara's DNA. By combining it with the Fortress of Solitude, which houses Jor-El's memories so why not Lara's as well, he could somehow build her a new body. A clone with memories essentially.

[Jacob T. Paschal]

Okay, this is based on the preview, so I'm putting it in a spoiler box. It is speculation and not based on anything other than the preview and what's already been shown on the series:

Maybe I'm way off here, but I thought it was clear that the crystal contains Lara's DNA. By combining it with the Fortress of Solitude, which houses Jor-El's memories so why not Lara's as well, he could somehow build her a new body. A clone with memories essentially.

Now, this is just me speaking, but I think it's Blue K.

[BlackoutCreature]

Probably a little late for this but I just watched the episode and I gotta ask. If Lois got hurt in the Daily Planet in Metropolis, why was she taken to the Smallville Medical Center? In a huge city like Metropolis there was nothing closer?

[Simpler Simon]

Probably a little late for this but I just watched the episode and I gotta ask. If Lois got hurt in the Daily Planet in Metropolis, why was she taken to the Smallville Medical Center? In a huge city like Metropolis there was nothing closer?

Because the show spends its budget elsewhere and can't afford another hospital set :P Funny the Metropolis Medical set doesn't seem to be a standing set, considering its shown up a few times and at the rate people on this series get injured you'd think it'd be smart to keep it around.

[mookie75]

Probably a little late for this but I just watched the episode and I gotta ask. If Lois got hurt in the Daily Planet in Metropolis, why was she taken to the Smallville Medical Center? In a huge city like Metropolis there was nothing closer?

Because Smallville Medical is her Primary Care Clinic and insurance won't cover the treatment elsewhere! Duh! :p ;)

[Peter Paltridge]

I made a remark about the insurance rates in Smallville two weeks ago; something to the effect of nobody in their right mind would insure any of these people.

So you know, Helen Slater is only slatered--er, slated to appear in next week's episode. And that has nothing to do with the strike. The return of Lara is not permanent.

Know what'd be interesting? If Faye Dunaway also shows up and brings a bulldozer to life.

[Zam]

Awwww.... when Lana obtained Clark´s powers, I immeadetly tought:

"Lana vs. Supergirl! This will be a a fanboy episode!" .........-_-

[The Penguin]

Once again, I feel like I'm on the opposite end here. It was the same way with the sixth season finale. I didn't hate this episode, but Lana being all evil just feels so wrong to me. Maybe it's because I don't hate 'regular Lana' I don't know.

I'm don't think it's intentional, but I found it interesting that in an episode that mentions Eric Summers and deals with the same problem as Leech (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=19713) that Jimmy Olsen (who looks quite a bit like Eric ;) ) did not appear.

The pre-Lana confrontation between Clark & Lex can best be summed up by a modified quote from Batman (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=40474):

'When I say you made her, you gotta say I made her first, I mean how childish can you get?'

It is an interesting thought, who is more responsible for turning Lana Lang into what she is today? I think Lex deserves more of the blame than Clark does, but that could just be me. Clark may have put her on the cliff so to speak, but it was Lex who moved her closer to the edge and then pushed her off.


Have we seen the new Daily Planet boss before? For some reason I seem to remember someone like him as one of Lex's security agents...New Daily Planet Editor-in-Chief Grant Gabriel first appeared in Kara (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=198602) and this was his fourth episode. Actor Michael Cassidy has not appeared on Smallville before that and neither has the Gabriel character. Grant apparently has some connection to the Luthors, based on that he was cleaning out that hard drive (rather than just giving it back?) but he has never guarded Lex.

[Jacob T. Paschal]

Once again, I feel like I'm on the opposite end here. It was the same way with the sixth season finale. I didn't hate this episode, but Lana being all evil just feels so wrong to me. Maybe it's because I don't hate 'regular Lana' I don't know.

I'm don't think it's intentional, but I found it interesting that in an episode that mentions Eric Summers and deals with the same problem as Leech (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=19713) that Jimmy Olsen (who looks quite a bit like Eric ;) ) did not appear.

The pre-Lana confrontation between Clark & Lex can best be summed up by a modified quote from Batman (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=40474):

'When I say you made her, you gotta say I made her first, I mean how childish can you get?'

It is an interesting thought, who is more responsible for turning Lana Lang into what she is today? I think Lex deserves more of the blame than Clark does, but that could just be me. Clark may have put her on the cliff so to speak, but it was Lex who moved her closer to the edge and then pushed her off.

New Daily Planet Editor-in-Chief Grant Gabriel first appeared in Kara (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=198602) and this was his fourth episode. Actor Michael Cassidy has not appeared on Smallville before that and neither has the Gabriel character. Grant apparently has some connection to the Luthors, based on that he was cleaning out that hard drive (rather than just giving it back?) but he has never guarded Lex.

I've been chalking it up to Grant being a man of morales but if he turns out to be another Super soldier by Lex...

...that might actually be cool.