I'm Loving It

[I don't mean to flood the blog with posts so you can never catch up, but this one was more than worth a comment. Contains another spoiler, in case you didn't watch Episode 5.1 of Smallville. Remember to also read the previous post while you're at it.]

Smallville, season 5, was a good one last night. Sure, I had an infinite amount of homework taunting me from the corners of my mind, but then I explained to myself that there's such a thing as TV-shows that are immune to reasonable time management. These shows include, of course, Smallville and Lost, and will always trump whatever else anyone, including me, had planed for the specific time slot.

It all started with Clark and his newly created Fortress of Solitude, getting instructions from his biological father Jor-El. He tells him he needs to learn all the important stuff in the world, and superimposes his special way of teaching on Clark, leaving him frozen while receiving the stream of knowledge from his dad. Chloe came with him to the North Pole, and was by now entering the fortress and confirming the suspicion of superpoweredness derived through many years of observation of Clark. He breaks off the fascinating study session to save her from freezing to death, and takes her to a hospital in Alaska. Before he leaves, Jor-El warns him to come back to the fortress before the sun sets, "or the consequences will be grave".

Chloe soon come to and confronts Clark with her newfound confirmation, leaving him no choice but to admit having superpowers. He then adds exactly how he got them, a feature Chloe hadn't seemed to consider before. He then takes off to the devastated Smallville, where 20-some people have died, his mom is in the hospital with a concussion and two fierce-looking Kryptonians are searching for him, to either join them in their quest to make earth "their utopia", or to stop him from stopping them. Lana has seen the aliens now harassing the city in search of Kal-El, and tries to lead them to the kryptonite chamber in Luthor Mansion. The plan fails, and Lana gets flung across the room (rendering her, of course, unconscious, right before Clark comes to the rescue).

The visitors from former Krypton tells him of their plans, he refuses to submit, and is flung into a big horizontal vortex, designed to keep him trapped and implicitly forever. He holds on, though, to a steel bar in the floor, thus escaping, and returning the favor by flinging the Kryptonians into their own vortex. They turn into a frozen picture, which disappears out through the window. As Clark props Lana up to wake her up, then sun sets on Smallville. Clark looks down at his finger, on the hand that held on to the steel bar, and discovers that it's bleeding. Clark's father had warned him, and now the apparent superhuman shield had been retracted.

Martha Kent comes home from the hospital, with Jonathan, and finds Clark is in the process of cleaning up by their destroyed farmhouse. Clark then unveils his recent loss of superpowers, to Martha's negative response. She now has to worry about him as a vulnerable human being, not just about his turning out a good person. The episode concludes with Clark and Lana kissing, before Lana tells Clark about what she's witnessed the past days. This included both aliens and spaceships, a something Clark had hoped to leave behind him. "Claaark, you got some 'splaining to do!"

posted by CK @ 16:03