Smallville: Bride

Chloe: "Our love has weathered federal arrests and heart attack-inducing kisses and a freakazoid bout of amnesia. I think that we'll survive this."Bride of Frankenstein. Beauty and the Beast. Let's go for the classics.I thought this episode was unexpectedly effective. The use of the queasy cam a la Cloverfield allowed them to zip past the pointless bits of the wedding that weren't important

Smallville: Abyss

Jimmy: "I just got hit with a major bridal wave."Bummer.I'm really sad that Clark chose to delete Chloe's memories of his secret. One of my favorite things about Smallville for the past few seasons has been Chloe as Clark's confidant, or as she once referred to it, his krypto-hag. I think Clark made a mistake. Chloe is right in the middle of meteor freak central and she works with Oliver

Smallville: Bloodline

Oliver: "Phantom Zone, huh? Seriously. Who names these things?"We got explanation and set-up for Davis. And resolution for Kara.So Davis Bloome is actually another Kryptonian. Sort of. An organic creation of Zod's, huh? That Zod guy just won't go away. And Kara, trapped in the Phantom Zone, was actually cooler and more fun than last season. Not that I want her to return to the cast. I

Smallville: Identity

Clark: "But it is me. People will know I'm out there."Chloe: "Why is that such a bad thing?"I'm feeling better about season eight. After a rocky start, they're making some more serious moves into Christopher Reeve movie territory, and it's fun to see.Like Jimmy's headline "faster than a speeding bullet" with the photo of the red and blue blur, Lois' determination to land the first interview

Smallville: Prey

Jimmy: "Whoever did this is beyond steroids."Clark was monitoring the police scanner and saving people! That was new, and way overdue. Clark even leaped a tall building in a single bound. He's finally embracing his destiny. It took eight seasons to get here, folks. Let's savor the moment.As Clark began his ascent toward his future persona, Davis began his descent. I just realized that

Smallville: Committed

Clark: "So you're finally on board with the happy couple."Lois: "Yep. All it took was them passing a madman's electric Cosmo death quiz and I am sold."Let me say once again that I've pretty much reached the end of my Lois and Clark patience. If this episode had ended with a clinch, I might have forgiven this episode a lot. But no. I'm not a shipper, honestly (okay, there was Buffy and

Smallville: Instinct

Jimmy: "Looks like I stumbled into the razor wires surrounding the Clark issue again."Nine-and-a-half weeks in an elevator. That was new. When Clark pulled out the Lana necklace, I actually moaned out loud. But this episode made me (again, because I'm gullible) take heart that Clark was finally, finally, FINALLY going to move on. Chloe's massive love note to Clark resurfaced and everyone

Smallville: Toxic

Lois: "Whoah. Who's he been partying with? Motley Crue?"This was a surprisingly effective combination backstory for both Oliver and Tess. I liked it more than I thought I would. Probably because I do like Oliver. (And does Justin Hartley have a chest on him, or what?) We always knew that at some point, Oliver decided to actively fight for justice instead of just enjoying his birthright of

Smallville: Plastique

Lois: "Omigod, my cousin's babysitting Psycho Spice."After seven years, we're finally in a new place. In Metropolis, with Clark working at the Daily Planet with Lois. And they went right back to meteor freaks. We even spent half the episode in Metropolis General, which looked an awful lot like a redressed Smallville Medical Center set with a couple of primary colors removed.I guess if you

Smallville: Odyssey

And it's a whole new show. With major cast changes. Big, huge cast changes. Series changing cast changes. Unfortunately, this episode felt like they were trying to pull all of last season's plot threads together, but half of the cast holding those threads were gone.I knew we were losing the Luthors (my two main reasons for watching, which is a bummer.) They finally dumped Lana, but seven

Smallville: Arctic

Lex: "I must admit, Clark, this is a big step up from the barn."Smallville is famous for its season finale cliffhangers. Dan and I had a bet on it. I thought there would be the traditional four cliffhangers. Dan went for five or more. In truth, we only got three. And they weren't what I expected. Kara in the Phantom Zone. Chloe arrested by Homeland Security. And Fortress go boom.Like

Smallville: Quest

Clark: "That's the last thing I need: someone going around killing people in my name."Chloe: "That's probably how God felt about the Crusades."Superman has always been something of a Jesus figure, but the symbolism is usually a bit more subtle than this.I was trying to figure out which member of Veritas could still be alive. It made sense that it was Edward Teague, whose evil wife and son are

Smallville: Apocalypse

Lois: "Luthor's not suicidal. Why would he want to hit Earth's delete key?"Nearly every genre series eventually does its own version of It's a Wonderful Life, and it is rarely wonderful. But this one was. In fact, I thought it was terrific. I love alternate universe stuff, and this episode was pretty nearly perfect. It just wasn't long enough.There was still a Clark Kent; it was

Smallville: Sleeper

Jimmy: "You can't reheat this stuff. It's never as good the second time around."Chloe: "It isn't, is it?"After an episode as heavy as "Descent," this one felt like substandard filler. Jimmy as James Bond and Chloe wanted by Homeland Security? Okay, but that's a B plot. Clark trying to find Brainiac was more like an A plot, and that was all set-up for the next episode. Not that I hate

Smallville: Descent

Lex: "I was raised in your shadow. Now you're going to die in mine."I'm really bummed.Yes, I am well aware that total evil was always Lex's ultimate destination. We're even near the end of the series, so it's the right time for it to happen. And granted, it was quite poetic and appropriate that killing Lionel was Lex's final, fatal trigger. But Lex and Lionel are two of my three favorite

Smallville: Veritas

Kara: "It's really easy. Just up, up and away."Or not. This was all windup and no pitch. I was sort of expecting something big to happen. Like, Clark flying. Lots of teasing, but come on: we didn't even see him jump out of the barn and plummet to the ground. Okay, so I admit that they probably didn't do much with Clark flying because this was Lionel's episode. There were lots of

Smallville: Traveler

Lionel: "I'm different now. I'm a different man."Clark: "No, you're not."They just took all the ambiguity and conflicting motivations that have always hovered around Lionel, ramped it up, and put an underlying structure at its core.It sort of felt like a retrofit to me, not like it was the grand plan all along, but I have to give them points because it did make everything pretty much fall

Smallville: Hero

Chloe: "Chewing gum? Is nothing sacred any more?"Ridiculously long-lasting Kryptonite gum? Come on. I don't care if it was well done or not (and I'm going for "not"); I resent being forced to watch a one-hour chewing gum commercial masquerading as a Smallville episode. That's not product placement; that's hijacking. Pete finally returned after a freaking long absence to discover that (1)

Smallville: Fracture

Lionel: "I love you, Lex. My son."Lex spent years waiting to hear the words "I love you" from Lionel. He just got them, but it was too late; Lex doesn't care any more. I have to admit that scene really got to me. We found out exactly what was in Lex's head: mostly dark, dungeon-like hallways full of anger and fear. Lex's mental image of himself was as that future president and world killer

Smallville: Siren

Lois: "I can't believe you didn't tell me you were Green Arrow."Oliver: "Hard to imagine why, when you're taking it so well."I think I just put my finger on why I haven't been that crazy about season seven. The Kents have been gone for awhile and Clark is an adult, but he's still on the Kent farm playing house with Lana. He's still not flying, and he's still not Superman. The straightjacket