'Smallville': Love Potion No. 9 sets the truth free
"Smallville" invents yet another Kryptonite as a plot device to set in motion one ludicrous Valentine's-inspired storyline, while rocketing the larger Zod-driven plot to new heights.The RAO Corporation is very nearly done building the Solar Towers, with a very eager Zod ready to uplink it to the satellites and begin harnessing that yellow sun. In the meantime, Lois smells labor law violations and drags Clark to the worksite. For a moment, they completely forget it's Valentine's day... that is, until a cute street vendor sells Lois a box of chocolates and blows magical pixie dust. Real pixie dust? You better believe it, because when Clark begs her for a more traditional relationship, her eyes flash a mystic blue causing her to quit the Daily Planet.
Of course, the magic isn't just reserved for the cynical, as Clark's later wish for Chloe to really defend him more causes her to become quite the sidekick ninja. She transforms into a person hell-bent on keeping every distraction away from Clark... even the one Lois changes to: Martha Stewart-meets-Lassie's mom. When Chloe finds out that Lois has not only moved in, but is waiting for Clark to put a ring on it, they physically and verbally throw down until Lois melts into a nervous breakdown on the floor. Clark later promises not to leave Lois, fully restoring the crazy in her, even going as far as trying on Mama Kent's wedding dress and blabbing to family that she's about to tie the knot. The truth even sets Dr. Hamilton free as well, when Clark tells him to chill out, he does exactly that.
On the other side of town, Zod warns Tess that siding with Kal-El could be hazardous to her health, especially since the rest of his army was provided with legal documents to stay on Earth. He boldly tells her that once the Solar Towers are live, she's as good as dead. Tess let's Zod know that Clark is the bold future, while he's the stinky past. When Clark later confronts Zod at RAO, that wish-granting Kryptonite kicks Zod into revealing that Tess killed his father. Wow, Tess has really burned both her bridges in short order.
To hedge her bets, she proposes an alliance with Chloe (who she finds hacking her computer) in order to bring Zod down. Newly over-protective Chloe doesn't take kindly to siding with evil doers, so they also have knock-down, drag-out fight in her office just before Clark whooshes Tess out into a gravel lot. He forms a ring of fire to entrap the one who killed his father. Thanks to a little earlier persuasion from Zod, Clark is ready to exact some family revenge... if only Chloe hadn't been there to save Clark from himself.
Speaking of Zod, he's forced to deal with Alia after she reveals it was her that killed Jor-El. Doing what Clark couldn't, he kills her on the spot. In the end, she gets quite the Norse-inspired funeral, complete with on-site cremation. After the service, Clark confronts Zod once more about... well, everything. The Major cops to killing Alia and readying himself for the immense power the Solar Towers will bring him and his army. It's only later that Chloe realizes that it was Alia that kills her in the funked-up dream, which causes Clark to firebomb the Towers to collapsing.
Oh yeah, it's on!
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ihad it playing in the background while getting ready for work, so how did chloe manage to break the kryptonite hypnosis anyways?? i knew she was trying to mess with tess's comp but how did that save everyone?? and how did zod influence clark? did i miss a lot or was it sloppy writing?? i was hoping for more chollie, but oh well.
Last night epasode was realy realy great I loved it Renee cape cod
Did anyone else notice the huge vase of roses in Watchtower. I assume they were for Chloe from a certain Green Arrow
Chloe used Green K to stop Clark, with the byproduct that the spell he had them under dissipated.
AMAZING EPISODE LAST NIGHT!
An episode of 2 halves: the pixie dust/ domestic Lois was just daft but the stuff with Zod and the build up to the launch of the solar plant was quite interesting. Tess is an idiot trusting Zod in any way, but I did enjoy the Tess/Chloe fight!
A patchy episode.
I personally really enjoyed the episode!!! And i love lois lane - whether it be "in control" reporter or crazy stepford wife she is always fun to watch.
Lois and Clark's 'chemistry' has been off the scales lately, fantastic. Great episode
There were huge holes in the writing on this one. They never explain how Chloe knows where Clark takes Tess or how she gets there in time to stop him from killing Tess or why Clark was acting like such a jerk to Chloe causing him to demand she do nothing but watch his back or explain why he had been sitting on his rump not doing anything about the tower. Plus, after having Chloe call Lois on her inability to keep a secret, on her not knowing the real Clark, and her habit to run when things get weird --what happens? Lois runs, she still doesn't know CLark's secret and despite him saying he trusts her, he tells her NOTHING. Just a big mess. Oh, and no mention of how Lois gets her job back? And everyone just lets Lois think she went briefly crazy rather than mention the krypto dust? Why?
One Zod didn't influence Clark. I think Clark did it to himself. Chloe was a helpful plot device to wrap up the story line. Chloe could track Clark or Tess with Cellphones or Satellites or something else given her status as Watchtower. But she was there to stop clark and reverse the effects of the persuasion power using Green K, a gimmick used before with other colored Kryptonite.
Also to say Clark firebombed the Solar Towers, doesn't do justice to him using his heat vision from a mile plus away to cause a couple of skyscrapers to fall. Really showed some of Clark's power levels with that one.