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3.9 Asylum Eric: "Save your strength, Clark. I'm going to need it." Poor Lex! Locked up in an asylum, torn with barbed wire, tasered, confined to what looked like a modern iron maiden, and he wasn't even crazy. Lionel was a right bastard to do this to Lex, and here I am, stating the obvious again. I knew (of course) that Lex would probably end up losing his memory because you can't have Lex remembering Clark crunching a car, but what just happened? Did electroshock turn Lex into a pod person? The "We hate Clark" club at the asylum was a truly excellent plot device. Usually in shows like this, bad guys just go away and you rarely find out what happened to them. But here we had meteor freaks and the meteor freak assassin creating an alliance to get Clark. And it even worked as a serious threat. Our three bad guys were from three seasons: Eric, from season one's "Leech", Ian from season two's "Dichotic", and Van from season three's "Extinction." Van, unfortunately, was my favorite of the three and got iced first. A stranger named Adam gave Lana a much needed push with her physical therapy. Unfortunately, it was pretty much a rerun of every other show with someone giving someone else a much needed push with their physical therapy. The actors did their best, but I felt bad for how cliched it was. I'm not into slash, but even I could see the intense slashiness of this episode. Clark tried to save Lex. Lex tried to save Clark. Both Lex and Clark were tied down and electrified at the same time. And when they hugged in the end, they actually closed their eyes. Yowsa. Bits and pieces: -- This episode was all about Lex and Lana recovering from stuff that was done to them, but in much different ways. -- Turns out that if Lionel had known Lex knew Clark's secret, he wouldn't have had Lex electrically realigned. How's that for irony. -- Pete is finally back. I didn't miss him much. Sorry about that, Pete. -- The three pots of paint in which Lex hid his pills were yellow, red, and blue. -- Adam was reading a book called "The Midwich Cuckoos." I've read it, and there have been a couple of movie adaptations. It's about all the women in a small town becoming mysteriously pregnant and giving birth to a bunch of very strange and powerful kids. You can draw your own parallels to the plot of this episode. -- Someone told me back when this episode aired that they had intended the Ian Somerhalder "Adam" character to be young Bruce Wayne, but couldn't get the rights. It's too bad. -- Eric picked Clark up and threw him, twice. And then he hit Ian across the room. Three points. I may have missed some there. -- Orderly: "Jeez, kid. You seem to know a lot of people in here." Three stars, Billie |
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