Friday, October 19, 2012

Smallville: Random, Awesome and WTF?! - S8E15: Infamous

Fresh off her showing at the Preakness, Tori Spelling is back to reprise her role as gossip queen, Linda Lake, once again trying to reveal Clark’s secret to the world.

And remember Davis?  Yeah, the dude who became Doomsday and nearly killed a bunch of people?  He’s finally resurfaced…

The Random:
1. Yay, Lois is back.  She’s fighting with Clark and all that, but at least she’s not Lana.  Unfortunately, Clark stands her up either way.  For shame.

2. Jimmy’s being transferred to another hospital and is apparently well enough for DVDs even though he’s not being shown.  Shouldn’t they have made a bit more of a deal about that?

3. Davis.  Dude.  Buddy.  Yeah.  Those anti-psychotics you’ve been popping?  I think they stiffed you on the “anti” part…

You’re probably gonna want to up those meds, bro.

The Awesome:
1. Clark is certainly starting to embrace this whole hero thing, contemplating beating Linda Lake to the punch and exposing the secret himself, even to Lois.  Naturally, it’s not going to last, but the moments we get, and the ramifications of them, are pretty interesting.

2. Watching Clark’s coming out party go from the highest of the highs to the lowest of the lows is a bit over the top, but really hammers home how media hype and misinformation can sway public opinion in a matter of moments as he goes from adored to hated.  It’s a good thing politicians never do that with the full support of their partisan followers, right?

3. It seems a little too neat and clean, but Clark’s use of the Legion ring to go back in time and head Linda Lake off at the pass was a damn good idea, even if he did it a second too early and failed to get the reveal that Davis was really Doomsday.  The plus side, though?  He tazed the crap out of Tori Spelling.

Face it.  We were all thinking about doing it.

The WTF?!:
1. I thought they learned their lesson last time out by giving Tori Spelling a chance to speak.  She couldn’t act then, she can’t act now, so please never allow Smallville 90210 to happen again.  Seriously.  For all of our sakes.

2. So Davis gets caught dipping into the medical supply room of the hospital while acting all shady and the nurse that stops him basically takes his word that he’s on the up and up, despite not seeing an ID of any sort.  Oh, you’re in a uniform and claim you work here?  Why, sure, help yourself to our pharmacopia, strange guy who claims he works here who I’ve never seen.

3. Is Linda Lake really trying to blackmail Doomsday?  Did she really think that was a good idea?  Somehow, yes, she did.  Oh well, thanks to the absolute zero in the way of hospital security, he was able to smother her, thus upping the mortality rate of our favorite medical establishments once again.

Oh, don’t be sad, Tori.  There’s no need to
have such a long fa…oh.  Right.

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