Smallville last night
The storyline that the Smallville writers came up with this week really got me excited. It was different, new, interesting, and explored Clark’s paranoia, which is always exciting to watch. It was this cutting edge episode, which begins with Clark getting attacked by some “thing” in his loft, which we later find out was one of the phantoms that he’d released from the Phantom Zone. However, when he wakes up, he’s rendered powerless, and the only one who believes him is Chloe. Also, Lex has no legs, Lana is in love with him, and his mother, is married to Lionel. Clark almost gives up everyone he loves to be with Lana, but at the last moment, he realizes what truly matters. The truth. Also, in this alternate reality, there is a man who says he’s from mars, and that to escape this hell, that Clark must kill the doctor. He does it, and just seconds later, he finds himself once again on the floor of his barn, with the man from his dream, standing above him, and pulling the phantom out of him into some sort of vessel. Chloe rushes in, finding him, telling him he’d only been there for a few seconds. Clark almost lost himself in that place, seeing items around him such as a brand of soap called “Jor-el,” a book named The Phantom Zone, a nurse named Raya, and a man in the institution named Professor Milton Fine. At the end of the episode, Clark, now in reality, runs into Lana, telling him of this dream he had about her. Lex then comes in, and Clark tells him it’s good to see him “up and about,” which Lex takes as a compliment. Clark left behind in that alternate reality the only thing he ever wanted - Lana’s love, but he lost so many things that were dear to him. His powers, his mother - to Lionel (his fathers worst enemy), but most importantly, Chloe’s life. As he says once he’s back, she means much more to him than she could possibly know. Cue the Barry Manilow music.
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