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4.3 Facade Clark: "You think I'm going to cheat? I won't cross that line." Jonathan: "You won't even know where that line is, Clark." Yes, it's that old saw: beauty comes from within. Really. It's senior year, so it wasn't surprising that Clark's longing for football finally overtook him in a great big gridiron way. And this was of course paralleled by poor Scabby Abby literally knocking the guys dead with her new face, courtesy of her psycho plastic surgeon mom. Who was, of course, obsessed with Lana Lang, because everybody becomes obsessed with Lana Lang. Gee, do you think there was K in that "special process"? Jonathan was (again) hot under the collar about the football thing, and I gotta say that Jonathan had a point. It wasn't just that Clark might inadvertently hurt someone. Clark playing football is just inherently unfair to everyone else. Clark can't possibly play without "cheating", even if it's unintentional. But Clark also had a point, that it wasn't fair to deprive him of what other kids were allowed to have. Not that every kid who wants to gets to play high school football. Lois flunked out and must repeat some classes at Smallville High. I was wondering what they were going to do plotwise with Lois' tender youth. Does this make her a year older than Clark? If we actually knew for sure how old Clark really was, that is, baby in a spaceship and all. (And I'm not talking about Tom Welling. As fond as I am of him, he has never looked like a teenager to me.) Bits and pieces: -- There was a flashback to freshman year, with Eric Johnson returning as Whitney. -- Martha is planning to run the Talon to help pay Jonathan's hospital bills. How mildly emasculating for Jonathan. -- Lois doesn't want to be a reporter. Surprise, surprise. But she certainly seemed proud of her first big story. -- More Buffy parallels. There were lots of episodes about Buffy doing stuff like trying out for cheerleading because she wanted to be a normal girl. There was also "Inca Mummy Girl," where a former mummy kissed guys and sucked the life right out of them. The effects were even similar. -- Lex and Lana, both in black, sure looked like a cute couple to me. Lex wasn't all that happy to see Jason at Lana's sickbed. Lex must be jealous. -- Abby kissing Lana was a pseudo-lesbian surprise. Sort of un-Smallville-like. -- Chloe gave Lois and Clark a look in the end. She was certainly seeing them as a possible couple, even if no one else has as yet. -- Lois hit Brett with her car, and he smushed the windshield. Two points. Lana broke a great big mirror, one point. Clark broke the glass in Abby's mother's office door, one point. That makes four. -- Hard to see last time what with the near death and all, but Chloe's hair is longer. No beauty salons when you spend two months hiding, huh? Quotes: Chloe: "You know, socially divisive cliques and hall passes aside, this place really isn't all that bad." Lois: "It's the varsity version of Dante's seventh ring." Jason: "I don't know if you can even hear me, Lana, but if you knew how much you meant to me..." Lex: "I guess the polite thing to do is cough and let you know I'm standing here, but that always seems so forced, doesn't it?" Guess Lex knows their little secret now. Clark: "It's a brain chemical..." Chloe: "That LSD and hallucinogens mimic. It's also the word Lois misspelled three times in her slander piece on extreme makeovers." Chloe: "Welcome to the bull-pen, Miss Lane. Now I'm off to see Clark Kent in a wet T-shirt. Care to join me?" Two stars, Billie |
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