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4.6 Transference Lionel: "With my mind and your body, the sky's the limit, Clark." What a wonderful episode. This is one of my very favorites. Lionel was completely and utterly despicable. He was going to steal Lex's body and leave his own son to die in prison of liver failure. But Lionel in Clark's body was just one fun scene after another. Lifting the tractor over his head. Checking out Clark Junior. Drinking scotch. The cruel, cruel thing he did to Chloe, even though he clearly digs her. (Well, she did put him in jail, after all.) I think my favorite was the delightfully incestuous scene where he hugged Martha and his heat vision went off. I often don't give Tom Welling enough credit, but he was certainly up the difficult challenge of playing suave Lionel Luthor in an exciting young body. He was even able to convincingly deliver a ridiculous line to the confused Lana, like, "I'm not surprised a man would travel around the world to... pluck your succulent fruit." He was much sexier than Clark. Of course, John Glover is sexy. John Glover, in turn, did just fine as forthright, upright Clark Kent. Lionel's black eye healed at the moment of transference, as did his liver. If he was sincere with the doctor, he's changed emotionally, too. Lionel a changed man? Well, he couldn't get more evil. Did "touching" Clark's essense have an unexpected side effect of making Lionel a better person? I don't usually mention stuff outside the episode itself, but this was so interesting: in the DVD commentary, they mentioned that John Glover was on set through most of this episode, and did Tom Welling's scenes before Tom did. That actually made a lot of sense, and partially explained why Tom was so spot on as Lionel. They also mentioned (a bit off topic, but fun) that Jensen Ackles was runner up to play Clark when they were casting Smallville, and that it was John Glover's suggestion to shave his own head at the end of season three because he was sick of dealing with all that hair. Bits and pieces: -- Bridgette Crosby was back. And Edgar was working for her. Now Dr. Swann and Bridgette Crosby have one of the three artifacts as well as the octagonal key. -- Lionel may not remember what happened during the transference, but he saw Clark run away very, very fast. -- Lionel's mother's maiden name was Meehan. I would have expected a name beginning with the letter L. -- Clark found out about Jason and Lana. -- Lionel burned up a truckful of hay bales with his heat vision. One point. He threw Jonathan across the kitchen, with much broken glass. Two more. Quotes: Lex: "Clark, since when did you become president of my father's fan club?" Lionel (in Clark's body): "If Lionel Luthor managed somehow to get out of prison, what do you suppose he'd do? About you, I mean." Chloe: "Why? Has the Lionel Luthor alert suddenly been elevated to orange?" Four big stars, Billie |
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