7.13 Hero

[bagheera_san]

This episode had it all: Clarkdickery, Petedickery, Lanadickery, Lexdickery, random superpowers for one episode, complete lack of logic. Very Silver Age Superboy.



I think the only three people who weren't completely WTF this week were Lex, Chloe and Kara.

1) Grant is still unmentioned.

2) Clark and Lana are the dumbest of the dumb. Aren't they, like, the main characters? Then why do they act like complete asshats to everyone? WTF is their reason to keep the secret from Kara? That she won't believe it? OH PLEASE. Kara was so right to leave them, and, hello, they didn't leave her much of a choice than to go to Lex. I would say they're OOC because the producers want that Lex-Kara thing, but no. This is exactly how Clark and Lana would act.

3) I hated that they brought Pete back just to show us how lame Pete is. At first when he started to go around talking about how he was going to make his powers public I thought, "Wait... I wrote that fic!" It would have been perfect if they had used Pete's courage and, er, mutant pride to emphasize Clark and Lana's mean cowardice in this episode. Instead, they gave us patronizing asshat Clark and lame-o Pete.

Don't they realize that in the end, superheroes will go public in this universe? And then Clark will look like a complete idiot? And Pete will say, I told you so?

4) If Lex is smart enough to know Lionel has the bracelet, then why the hell has he still not... ah, forget it. At least he got some useful security guy and managed to ensnare Kara. Enough supervillain points for one week.

5) A new nonsensical storyline! Stars in the Luthor family crest! I'm sure eventually they're going to reveal Lex's evil destiny. And we're all going to be so surprised.

I didn't hate this episode, but only because it was so utterly ridiculous.

Comments

[lexii314.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! That bad huh??
I haven't watched yet only because my network was running stupid F@*$'ing basketball and didn't bother to move the regular scheduling down. Everyone that has written a version of what was aired I'm positive has done a better job then TPTB ever could.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh, just watched it, wish I could be as charitable as you. Every character in this show is detestable, except for Lex - who has the excuse that he's supposed to be evil and by this point has started embracing it, so more power to him (even if he did let Jimmy overhear everything. THE HELL? If this were JLU, letting Jimmy eavesdrop would've been a delightfully Machiavellian scheme, sigh) - and Kara, who has amnesia. I would be rooting for her and Lex to get it on, except I know it will just end as an exact retread of Lana, that she will turn on Lex for no particular reason and run back to the lying liars who lie to her. (okay, I was rooting for them to get it on anyway. Right now I think the show should consist of people coming into Lex's various offices and having sex with him. It would much more deeper and sensical than what we watch now.)

I will always love how the "good guys" know that meteor mutation tends to cause lapses in judgment and Must Be Stopped, but Lex is still Wrongy McEvil for trying to stop them. It never gets old!

ARGH! I have to hand it to Smallville. I've never had a show that's able to so consistently inspire emotional reaction. Right now it's mostly intense surprise that it's still on the air. On the other hand, at least it makes the sweetly incompetent writing of SGA look like Shakespeare...

[rosy5000.livejournal.com]

I didn't hate the ep either, but I was just left feeling very "meh" about it. But I totally agree with everything, especially Clark and Lana. Clark really annoyed me and got on my nerves, especially how he treated Pete when he first saw Pete's powers. Doesn't ask any questions, just tries to take control of Pete to get Pete 'better'. :P

[jakrar.livejournal.com]

I did enjoy Lex finally striking back at Pete, after Pete has bad-mouthed him for years, screwed up his DP computers, and then tried to murder him in cold blood for the SECOND time. Just as I loved the white-suited Lex in "Fracture" seizing Clark by the throat, after all the times Clark has grabbed Lex just that way. *sigh* It's rare that SV gives me something to smile about anymore.