Another day, another mishap at a LuthorCorp facility, as this time some work with black Kryptonite splits Lex into two separate Lexes.The alternate title to this episode was “Clark’s Happiest Day, Ever.”
The Random:
1. Boy, did Smallville miss an opportunity to add Megadeth’s Sweating Bullets to the soundtrack of this one. Hello me, meet the real me.
2. The biggest ramification of EviLex’s rampage isn’t going to be Lana whining, it’s going to be snapping Lionel out of his philanthropic haze.
3. Clark sure is lucky that every time Lex figures out his secret he gets mindwiped and forgets. Actually, Lex is the lucky one because most of the other ones who find out get dead.
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Don’t worry, Clark, Chloe’s knocked out and EviLex will
forget all about this soon. Super away! |
The Awesome:
1. Lex’s dual role as his good and evil halves is handled with all the flair you’d expect from a Luthor, and the nod to the Man in the Iron Mask is a stroke of brilliance.
2. We haven’t gotten a good old fashioned fencing duel between Lex and Lionel in a while and it reinforces my belief that Ana and I should resolve our differences like this growing up. Oh, you want to borrow the car? Grab a foil, we’ll see about that.
3. EviLex is every bit the villain Clark needs, and knowing that he exists somewhere within Lex is a total game changer for the show going forward. Kryptonite ring, shooting Papa Kent, that’s all nothing compared to the line of the series: “I am the villain of the story.”
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Yes. Yes, indeed.
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The WTF?!:
1. Look, we all know people die in hospitals all the time, but seriously, if people go into Smallville General with so much as a paper cut there’s a pretty reasonable chance they’re getting killed by someone wanting to stop them from talking, all while the nonexistent security and hospital staff look the other way.
2. For high school kids, Chloe and Clark certainly act rather calmly at finding dead body after dead body in this town. “Wow, another dead body. That sucks. Wanna get a coffee?”
3. Jonathan reacts awfully calm after being shot in the leg. You’d think he twisted an ankle or something, and not, I don’t know, gotten frikkin’ shot!
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| “Damn, does this mean I have to go back to having only ONE Lex..?” |
