Smallville: Void

In last night's episode, Lana becomes addicted to flatlining so she can spend some quality time with her dead parents. Eh, at this point in the series, I find Lana-centric episodes only slightly more exciting than Chloe-driven plots. Plus, I was slightly disappointing with the lack of time that Lana was actually spending in the hereafter. From the previews, I thought she was going to be spending some quality time with her parents, not just 10 second teasers. I guess Lana felt the same way and that's how she became addicted to the kryptonite-serum that was inducing the flatline.

But still, for the sake of television...

I would have liked a little bit more time. Lana visiting her parents means nothing to me. But now, Lex seeing is dead mom is awesome. Lex ends up getting stabbed with the death juice when he comes to protect Lana from another flatline. (Plus, she stole one of his cars to pay for her next death fix.) Lex ends up (unwillingly) getting stabbed in the neck by the evil med student who invented the stuff.

Right when that syringe lunged into Lex's neck, I thought, "he's going to hell." I thought we were going to see another shot of him in that Colonel Sanders white suit standing over all those skeletons. Instead, his mom, Lilly, is waiting for him, and she's pissed off that he didn't take her advice in Lexmas, and stick with a righteous path. She also told him that one day his soul would be stained with the blood of the millions he will kill. When Lex looked at her in confusion, she held up his hand to reveal that he was wearing a black leather OJ glove. I seriously didn't get the glove bit, but I just hope it's explained later.

With Lex temporarily dead, Clark comes to Lana's rescue and also gets stabbed by the evil med student in the heart with the kryptonite death juice. When Clark dies he sees his dad, Jonathan Kent, who warns him that Lionel Luthor knows of his secret. Clark is able to pull himself out of the flatline (everybody else had to use a neutralizing serum) because when he died the kryptonite in his system naturally neutralized itself. The way Chloe explained this made it sound like this is a fact taken from the comic series. If any of you comic book nerds out there know either way on this than an explanation would be greatly appreciated. In fact, if any little nuances from the show ever relates directly to the comic series (like Lex's glove, perhaps?) than please drop some knowledge on me. I never followed the comic series, but I love finding out those little details, and so would others. 

A side plot  was Clark's quest to find Professor Fine in South America. Chloe digs up a news photo with Fine hiding behind some trees (we find out later that Lionel sent her the photo), so Clark takes a quick jog down to South America to look for Fine. Shortly after arriving, he finds a small boy who is widdling a depiction of the spaceship and Clark asks to be taken to it. But alas, no spaceship, only the impression of the spaceship remains.

The last intriguing subplot is between Lionel Luthor and Martha Kent. Lionel is wasting no time in pursing the newly widowed Martha, even though she bluntly told him that a romantic relationship between them would never take place. Regardless, Lionel escorts Martha to a political function, and when Clark (aware now that Lionel knows his secret) discovers this he looks enraged. 

Next week's preview shows Lex and Lana finally smooching. I'm super excited about this. If she doesn't go the way of evil Lex than I'm going to be very disappointed. Also, the episode was directed by Tom Welling, so I'm excited to see what he can do.