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2.18 Visitor

Lex: "Clark, if you were really an alien, would you go around telling people about it?"
Clark: "Probably not."

This was a complex story with pathos and ambiguity, not just the usual monster of the week. Clark doesn't want to be the only one of his kind, and who can blame him? And we really didn't get definitive answers. Yes, Cyrus was most likely just a deluded and confused meteor freak, but what if he really was an alien? At the very least, being presented with the choice of "going home" made Clark certain that Earth really was his home. He told Cyrus, "Everything I care about is on Earth." Clark is starting to accept what he learned about himself in the previous episode.

Meanwhile, Dr. Helen Bryce started playing out the "Smallville" version of Bluebeard's curious wife. How about that Clark collection Lex has now? Lex actually believes at this point that the meteor shower may have covered the landing of an alien spaceship; he's way too close. I was surprised that Lex unbent enough to share his obsession with Helen. Maybe he really loves her.

And now, as a confidant of both Lex and the Kents, Helen has a very interesting dilemma. What will she do?

Bits and pieces:

-- The subplot about Cyrus healing Whitney's horse was kind of nice. Lana doesn't need any more grief in her life at this point.

-- National Inquisitor headline: "Gold-digging Doc Bags Billionaire Baldie!" Gotta love it. Alliteration and everything.

-- The plot gave the writers a chance to go nuts with the alien jokes. There were so many sly references that I didn't even attempt to record them all.

-- The meteor rocks were called "Kryptonite" for the first time.

-- Cyrus lost his mind and ended up catatonic. At least we don't have yet another person running around knowing Clark's secret. For now, anyway.

-- The crazy tower that Cyrus built was like Glory's tower in season five of "Buffy."

-- Clark torched a truck. One point.

-- Clark: "I think Cyrus is in his own world. Takes teenage alienation to a whole new level."

-- Lana: "Well, we all have our ways of escaping from our lives. I ride, Chloe writes, and you... you do incredibly strenuous farm chores by yourself."

-- Chloe: (to Clark) "I mean, can you imagine being from another planet?"

Another good one. Three out of four stars,

Billie





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