Review for Smallville Fractures-7x12
Smallville Fracture-7x12
For the opening scene alone I would have loved tonight's SV. Lois/Lex doing their best impressions of Butch/Sundance is made of win. Be careful there are spoilers ahead, and lions, and tigers, and bears, Oh My! Here's the best of rest.
Lois/Lex: Why or why don't these two interact more, they are hilarious. Loved how Lois tracked down Lex to Detroit. It's a nice nod to cannon that she will forever be on his ass and as much as she annoys him I think Lex rather respects her for it. Also loved, Lois's look of disbelief at Lex low jacking Kara's bracelet. Lex's return look of Annnnnd.......while he tried to wank his way out of it was perfect. As was Lois return look of WTF at his reasoning that Kara had amnesia and might wander. I mean dude she's person not a dog. In fact Lex reasoning so creeped Lois out that she decided to leave Stalker!Lex alone and find Kara herself. Lois being Lois she of course finds her, only to be caught by Herion!Chic boy (or Finley as some people claim his name is but really I'm going to stick with Herion!Chic boy, Okeedokie). Lex being Lex walks right into the middle of this debacle and both men start waving their penises around or guns for those of you who want to be technical. Herion!Chick boy ask is Lois's death really worth it to get to him, as Lex ponders this question Lois's reminds him that it wasn't a rhetorical question. Ha! Lois certainty knows her Lexy. The men argue, they get all hot and bothered and their weapons explode. Herion!Chic is hit in the shoulder while Lex is hit in the head, (dead center) and we later find out dumped in a ditch. Since Lex is not only found alive in said ditched but rushed from Detroit, Michigan to Smallville, Kansas I'm left to wonder if I need to start sending medical journals to the writers. Because the idea that Lex is still alive after a bullet to head and the amount of time it took for Herion!Chic to load his body in the car, dump him into a ditch, then for someone to find his body, be raced to the hospital in Detroit and then flown to the hospital in Smallville stretches credibility to the point that it recoiled and slapped it's self in the ass. *Sigh* Oh SV. You wacky kid you.
The Doctor: In another case of genre casting we get Ned Malone (David Orth) from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World playing the doctor. Hi Ned nice to see you working again. In other news he's seems to be an ethical doctor.........on the Luthor payroll.............................Dude that's even more unbelievable then whole in the head Lex living for umpteenth hours with know medical supervision.
Clark/Alexander: There nothing to say. I'm filled with love for every moment these two interacted. To see the good in Lex manifest and still fighting even though Lex's darkness is in control filled me with glee. Even better is Clarks promise to always look for the Alexander in Lex. It gives a cannon reason why Superman never just gets rid of Lex besides moral righteousness that I adore. Clark whole interlude in Lex's head reminds me of a similar scene in the "Cell," staring Jennifer Lopez (yeah I know but hear me out). In the "Cell" Jennifer plays a psychiatrist who goes into the mind of a comatose serial killer, to find the location of his latest kidnapped victim. Once there, she's confronted by the dominant evil that is the serial killer and helped by his innocent alter ego. The abused boy he was, who begs her to take him with her. Then as now, I'm confronted by the truth that as a society we tend to make our own monster. Lex didn't start out a villain but was molded into one by the abuse and machinations of his father, and the sometimes cold excesses of an unstable mother who herself deconstructed by the very man who loved her. This doesn't mean that Lex gets a pass for all that he's done and will do. We all have trials in our life that are meant to teach, guide, or just be over come. In the end it all comes down to choice, and Lex unfortunately chose wrongly. It does however give Clark the incentive to look past what Lex is to what he was and what he can possibly become again. A trait that both Clark and Superman will need in the destiny that is ahead of him.
Lex/Lana: OK when did this memory happen? From what I saw, Lana like most trophy wives, pretty much stopped putting out once she was married. If Lexiana was having hot, four poster, fireplace sex, why the didn't they show it? I will never understand SV writers.
Lex/Lionel: Does anyone else doubt the Papa Luthor will soon be making a trip to the woodshed. Yeah, me either. For so long Lionel's love was all Lex wanted. Even as late as "Persona" it was still something that Lex craved. Yet when Lionel finally tells Lex that he is loved, Lex doesn't even bat an eye. It's not that Lex doesn't believe him, it's that he just doesn't care. With Julian's murder by his hand Lex crossed the rubicon of emotions and for now there's no coming back. Lionel's declaration comes to little, to late and set's the stage for what is looking to be Lex's inevitable patricide.