Clark meets up with his Phantom Zone hottie, Raya, and he’s forced to battle another deadly threat from the Zone, played by the rapper known as Bow Wow.
At the Luthor mansion, Lex and Lana continue to engage solidifying the cornerstones to any healthy romantic relationship—distrust and dishonesty.
The Random:
1. Sure, a Phantom Zone criminal melting an innocent guy on the streets of Oakland is bad, but let’s face it—that’s not the worst thing to happen on those streets on a Thursday.
2. Jimmy goes to Chloe with a hot story, based solely on ambiguous pictures of a meeting that he has absolutely zero ideas about and thinks that’s enough. He’s got no proof or anything, no leads, nothing. Yup. He’s ready to work for any one of our major news networks.
3. Gee, I’m shocked. Raya, potential love interest who knows all of Clark’s secrets, is killed off and dies in his arms. I can hardly contain my surprise.
At the Luthor mansion, Lex and Lana continue to engage solidifying the cornerstones to any healthy romantic relationship—distrust and dishonesty.
The Random:
1. Sure, a Phantom Zone criminal melting an innocent guy on the streets of Oakland is bad, but let’s face it—that’s not the worst thing to happen on those streets on a Thursday.
2. Jimmy goes to Chloe with a hot story, based solely on ambiguous pictures of a meeting that he has absolutely zero ideas about and thinks that’s enough. He’s got no proof or anything, no leads, nothing. Yup. He’s ready to work for any one of our major news networks.
3. Gee, I’m shocked. Raya, potential love interest who knows all of Clark’s secrets, is killed off and dies in his arms. I can hardly contain my surprise.
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More basketball games than not end up like this in Oakland…
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The Awesome:
1. Raya does a good job of peeling back some of the mystique of what Jor El was really like and trying to set him on the right path to make sure what happened to Krypton doesn’t happen to Earth. And she’s not afraid to basically tell him to just man up and own his destiny.
2. All right, so Jimmy didn’t make the best move confronting Lex, but he gets props for tipping Chloe off that Lex still has Brainiac’s power source…even though he thinks it means Lex is working with the Egyptians. Sigh.
3. Clark having actual supervillains to fight that aren’t just freaks of the week gives a nice hint of what’s to come in his career and Raya’s death at the hand of Phantom Bow Wow seems to be the final push he needs to finally realize he can’t just lead a normal life after all. Even the Fortress glows in delight.
1. Raya does a good job of peeling back some of the mystique of what Jor El was really like and trying to set him on the right path to make sure what happened to Krypton doesn’t happen to Earth. And she’s not afraid to basically tell him to just man up and own his destiny.
2. All right, so Jimmy didn’t make the best move confronting Lex, but he gets props for tipping Chloe off that Lex still has Brainiac’s power source…even though he thinks it means Lex is working with the Egyptians. Sigh.
3. Clark having actual supervillains to fight that aren’t just freaks of the week gives a nice hint of what’s to come in his career and Raya’s death at the hand of Phantom Bow Wow seems to be the final push he needs to finally realize he can’t just lead a normal life after all. Even the Fortress glows in delight.
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Apparently, a fresh blood sacrifice was all the Fortress needed
to come back online after all.
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The WTF?!:
1. Jimmy may be sweet and all, but he’s dumb as a bag of hammers. Did he really just waltz into Lex’s office with a camera and flat out accuse him of wrongdoing and think it would go over well? I gotta see if he comes back, so Lex can make good on his threat to toss him out of a window next time.
2. Lana seems to have no motive for screwing with Lex except just being bored. Get a job or something and stop just being a dick for dick’s sake already.
3. Not for nothing, but Bow Wow went off the grid for SIX weeks and no one seems to have been concerned enough to look for him. We get no word of missing posters, family being worried about his wellbeing, none of that. Even Clark doesn’t bother asking him about how he’s getting back to California when he finally wakes up. That’s just good caring.
1. Jimmy may be sweet and all, but he’s dumb as a bag of hammers. Did he really just waltz into Lex’s office with a camera and flat out accuse him of wrongdoing and think it would go over well? I gotta see if he comes back, so Lex can make good on his threat to toss him out of a window next time.
2. Lana seems to have no motive for screwing with Lex except just being bored. Get a job or something and stop just being a dick for dick’s sake already.
3. Not for nothing, but Bow Wow went off the grid for SIX weeks and no one seems to have been concerned enough to look for him. We get no word of missing posters, family being worried about his wellbeing, none of that. Even Clark doesn’t bother asking him about how he’s getting back to California when he finally wakes up. That’s just good caring.
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“No, this won’t come back to bite me in the ass at all, no sir.
I am so smart. S-M-R-T…” |
