Smallville, Supernatural, and Viva Laughlin
Smallville: Cure
This show really is firing on all cylinders this season. I haven't been disappointed yet. I really enjoyed this episode -- seeing Clark save Lex was a neat blast to the past, and I adored that scene of Lana slipping into her secret spy cave where she's watching the mansion. No wonder she's got all the news! Lovely. Chloe has a good, strong arc going on that's quite Clark-eske.
Though Jimmy's reaction has a bit more power to me because, so often, Chloe really has explicitly left him hanging for Clark's sake and he's known about it (not to mention Chloe's defense of Clark post-Crimson).
Great episode, particularly for Chloe.
Supernatural: Bad Day at Black Rock
Well, after she took 46 thousand potential dollars off him and, you know, shot his brother, I don't see Dean and Bella jumping into the sack any time soon (unless it's hate!sex).
This episode was hysterical. I adored pretty much every second (and it's the first episode to make me physically jump in horror -- when the petty thief slipped on the beer bottle and was impaled through the face, I shrieked, man). Loved that Sam told Dean about Ruby (not thrilled that he's still holding back on the mom angle, though). Aw. And Dean totally knows that he's Sam's weakness. Adored Dean's reaction to both Sam's and his own lucky streaks.
I really liked Gordon in this episode -- his hate of Sam seems very pragmatic and not at all revenge-based, which raises my opinion of him (plus, his reaction to the other hunter being all "It's a sign from God!" was priceless. That 'okay' was brilliant, I loved it, and it made me want more of the actor).
Back to Bela -- I love that she has her own agenda and that she doesn't exist for the sake of the boys. Liked her random cat (yay, cats!). She has style. I approve. Yay on Bela.
Viva Laughlin
I absolutely despise that the son gets a new car with no strings attached while the daughter is told she only gets one if her dad can check out her boyfriend -- she only gets the perks of being his kid if he can control her sexuality. Also, son gets affection by doing a selfless gesture, while daughter gets affection because the father has successfully driven away her boyfriend (thus, controlling her sexuality).
Forty-two and eighteen is a large age gap, but she has the right to make her own choices (plus, nine hundred and nineteen is an even larger one, so I'd be a bit of a hypocrite to condemn Cheyenne's relationship while 'shipping Doctor/Rose).