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3.22 Covenant Lionel: "Please. Don't let me die in prison." Lex: "Dad, this might have been more effective if you had a string quartet in the corner playing Barber's Requiem." I'm not sure how much I'm on board with the big Smallville season-ending cliffhangers. I didn't care for the whole Kara thing, even when it turned out that she was some poor kid named Lindsay who'd been in suspended animation for years and manipulated by Jor-El. I thought at first that Jor-El had indeed planned to provide Clark with a Kryptonian bride, which sorta kinda made sense in a perpetuating the Kryptonian race way. But no. Not that Clark had any interest in her at all, because he's still hung up on Lana, who just got on a plane for Paris. I love Lionel. Even from prison, he's manipulating people like mad. More interesting than Kara and Lana was Lionel Fedexing the key to Lex's secret room to Clark. Did he succeed in turning Clark against Lex? Is the Clark/Lex friendship over, at last? The operatic scene at the end where Lionel had his leonine mane shaved off (obviously not faked) was unexpected, and oddly fascinating. Why did he do it? Was he shedding the past? Showing solidarity with Lex, after apologizing for being such a terrible father? Except that it was implied that Lionel could have been behind the possible deaths of Chloe and Lex. Jonathan was also quite possibly dying. And what happened to Clark, with the nudity and being reborn and all? Does that make four cliffhangers? Bits and pieces: -- The Smallville color scheme is red, blue and yellow. Metropolis is grey and navy blue. Prison, interestingly enough, is white, with orange jumpsuits. -- Lana, with much luggage and strange hair, was off to Paris. And Lex saw her off, not Clark. -- Big Kara-created car wreck in the teaser. Then she completely dissolved the FBI guy's car, and the FBI guy with it. Lex collapsed into the glass coffee table (that coffee table's been broken before). Three points. Quotes: Lex: "You're a good friend, Clark. If you tell the judge what you just told me, my father will be exchanging his Armani for an orange jumpsuit." Clark: "I can't fly." Kara: "Not yet." Lionel: "As a father, I, um, I have failed you. I realize that now, and I'm sorry." Wow. Clark: "What kind of deal did you make, Dad?" Jonathan: "I promised Jor-El that if he gave me the power to bring you back from Metropolis, that one day I would return you to him." Chloe: "There he is, just in time to save the day." Three stars, Billie |
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