Let me sum it up for you, Brooksie. Here's what you missed.Brooksie said:
After leaving us with a glimpse at the frightening Ares project last week, how does Smallville kick off its final three of the season? With a gimmick episode. PT Barnum would have been proud of this one, maybe not so much in what the Smallville crew accomplished, but in that the die hard fans no doubt ate this drivel and request second helpings.
Basically Lana gets shot, which is pretty intense in itself, which makes the perfect segue to … a 40’s noir episode that takes place in Jimmy’s cold cocked noggin? I mean, come on. We have more important things to do than endure Jimmy’s retro dream of the Daily Planet in the 40s being subjected to poor attempts to mock the poor acting and histrionics of that age.
If this episode had occurred earlier in the season, I probably would have thought it was cute, but at this point in the game it is a tremendous waste of precious build up time. Instead of setting the stage for the battle we know is coming in two weeks, we follow bizarre effigies of our characters through scenarios that seem, in some hallucinatory way, to be based on what is going on in the waking world.
All is not completely lost though, there is definitely time given to the present again and some interesting revelations are made. Most importantly, Clark finds out why Lana was forced to marry Lex, and he is not a happy camper. There is precious little more about the Ares project, and the setup for the next episode is light at best.
In short, definitely not one of the best episodes for this phase of the series, a nice diversion, but at a time when diversion should be the furthest thing from their minds. Next week, back to the story.
