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2.5 Nocturne

Lex: "Who wrote this?"
Lana: "Either an admirer or a psychopath, depending on who you ask."

Love poetry. And yet another meteor freak obsessed with Lana Lang. (Why does this seem so familiar?) Poor "home schooled" Byron chained up in the basement seemed like an extreme case of child abuse, not Dr. Jekyll meets the Incredible Hulk. I guess context is everything.

I love Lionel, I do. He's so much fun. His arrogance has certainly returned with a vengeance. After running through assistants like used tissues, he managed to fixate on, of all people, Martha Kent. And he and Martha Kent just fit together, somehow. It's a fun relationship, and makes Martha a lot more interesting. (Plus it pisses Jonathan off, and that's always fun.) Lionel may have ridiculed Lex for being fixated on the Kents, but is Lionel falling in love with them, too? Lionel so obviously likes Martha, and says he thinks Clark is extraordinary. And Martha is already pushing Lionel to do good.

There was an excessive amount of tossing people in this one, even for "Smallville." Byron threw Clark across a yard. Byron threw Pete into a car, breaking the windshield, which actually meets all three of my "Smallville" greatest hits criteria. Then he tossed Lana into a gravestone, and Lionel across a lawn. Clark and Byron then threw each other around. Good lord, I think that's eight points. A new record.

Bits and pieces:

-- Lex quoted poetry to Lana, talked about seduction, and looked her right in the eyes.

-- Lionel's blindness again came in handy. He's seen some sort of super event in each of the past three episodes.

-- The cemetery was full of un-Kansas-like but suitably moody fog.

Quotes: (lots of good lines in this one)

Lana: "Clark Kent, man of steel." This week's requisite Superman reference.

Lex: "That's the fourth one you've devoured this month."

Lionel: "I wonder if your talents have been wasted on organic produce."
Martha: "I'm going to take that as a compliment."

Pete: "This place is like an NRA petting zoo." Good one, Pete.

Lex: "Hope your mom likes helicopters."
Clark: "My family doesn't fly much."

Lionel: "Lex, I can feel your smirk from here."

Two stars,

Billie





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