Smallville: Random, Awesome and WTF?! - S9E3: Rabid

It’s not a show these days without zombies so that’s exactly what Zod’s people are gonna give you as a virus gets loose that makes Metropolis go 28 Days Later.  Meanwhile, Ollie has ultra delayed guilt over killing Lex and continues to drink and mope his way through it all.

Dude, that happened like 8 years ago, get the net already.  There are zombies to fight.

The Random:
1. Man, I wish I was a drinker because if we were doing a shot for every time a window or something glassy got busted in the zombies vs. Tess with a samurai sword, I’d be so far beyond housed right now.

2. I never thought I’d find Tess unattractive, but I guess that’s what being infecting by a crazy zombie virus will do to a person.  Just so we’re clear, she's infected, not me.  I’m fine.

3. Ollie, dude, you had one job—keep Lois awake.  And you pulled a Lana and lost her.  For shame, man.  For frikkin’ shame.

The Awesome:
1. All right, let’s just come out and say it.  Zombies are hella played out in pop culture.  But even still, from the opening of the episode throughout the scenes with the infected, this episode does a good job of making things creepy and the sheer ferocity of those afflicted is genuinely frightening.

2. Not only is it good to see Dr. Hamilton’s role increasing as he learns that Clark is actually Kryptonian, but seeing Clark and Lois open up to one another during the quarantine keeps adding more to their character arcs as Clark comes to realize the impact he’s had on Lois both as himself and as the Blur and Lois starts to remember more of her visions of the future.

3. Clark’s rescue of Lois works on so many levels as he holds her out in the antidote infused rain until the virus is out of her system, saving her due his powers as the Blur, but to her, she only sees the Clark side of it all.

This is way more romantic than John Cusack standing there with a radio.

The WTF?!:
1. I really wish they would make up their minds on the friendship between Clark and Ollie because one second they’re verbally fellating one another and the next they’re at each others' throats with little if any provocation.  Are they friends, enemies, frenemies, unrequited lovers, what?

2. Chloe and Emil come up with a great plan, but they seem to be the only ones.  Granted, the CDC isn’t going to know a whole lot about Kryptonian DNA and the like but still, there doesn’t seem to be any real mobilization efforts in Metropolis like troops or men in white coats running all over the place.  And, really, how exactly do they have the tech to pull off making it rain antidote over the city anyway?  That’s a damn big endeavor to whip up in a few hours, no?

3. Ok, Clark, I know you and Ollie haven’t been on the best of terms lately, but clearly when he said he was fine, he really wasn’t.  Can you seriously be that naïve?  He was a copy of Twilight away from cutting himself and you just left him chilling there in the rain while he burned his suit.  Not your best heroing, man, not at all.