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Smallville: Fallout
(S06E06) The "fallout" of the title refers to the Kryptonian trash Kal-El brought back with him when escaping from his (approximately five-minute) imprisonment in the Phantom Zone earlier. In a good opening sequence that sets up the villain, a winged-creature thing possesses the body of the first Earthling unfortunate enough to encounter it. He's played by Bow Wow. However, from there on in, this hour of television is especially talky.Hey, I want more Green Arrow. Slinging arrows at Zoners would have made Ollie a pretty lame sidekick for Kal-El, I suppose, so I'll have to wait till next week. No matter, Zoner hottie Raya returns, bearing superpowers and many half-digested lumps of exposition about Jor-El and Krypton to pass alone. She speaks in a throaty, steady, monotone that's robotic, yet sexy: as if she studied elocution under Cylon Model #6.
Raya knows everything about everything from Brainiac's power schematic, to the nature of Clark's true destiny, to Jor-El's special plan for this world. I missed her old road-warrior Phantom Zone get-up however, which she traded-in tonight for clothes from the same outlet mall were every Smallville woman shops.
Jimmy's back, and his previous studliness seems to have been an put-on. He acts like a kid, and Chloe has no choice but to relate to him like one. Ah Chloe, not only is she stuck schooling Lois in journalism skills, she has to instruct Jimmy now too. When Clark decides he's going to be a reporter as well, I hope Chloe's head doesn't explode. It's the only head on the show that is consistently functioning.
The Lana and Lex show was almost too creepy for me to look at this week. Lex talks to his new girlfriend like he is her father. I know Lana is supposed to have issues, what with being an orphan and having that broken relationship with emotionally unavailable Clark and all, but come on, this is like watching a Vincent Price movie, or the adventures of TomKat, as Lex tries to shape Lana into a a creature of his own devising.
The way Raya, and also the character played by Bow Wow, were set-up I thought they were going to be around a little longer. Instead, the villain is defeated, in what has become signature season six fashion, within one or two brief encounters. Raya, having delivered all her dialog, is sacrificed to recharge Jor-El's crest, and set-up the rest of the season. First: catch all the zoners, then: begin Jor-El training regime (I'm guessing) over the summer hiatus. Even so, I felt bad for Clark: alone again, Kryptonian-ly. Still, that's a better fate than Raya's. Sad.
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