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Smallville: Rage
(S06E07) Green Arrow is injured when he intervenes in the world's slowest carjacking, which happens on the street below his penthouse.
Such is the danger of super-heroics without Kal-El's invulnerability, although a bullet-proof costumer would have been a good idea. I guess Ollie hasn't seen the Batman films. However, Ollie compensates for the injury with experimental drugs. Add in the prospect of the Kent's first Thanksgiving without Jonathan and there's your plot. Now that Jonathan's dead, Annette O'Toole's role as Martha has been steadily shrinking into non-existent. That might start to change now, but is Lionel working her, or is he sincere?
Lana is bristling over Lex's controlling nature. She goes so far as to ask him, "What is it with people feeling like they have to protect me?" That's a frakkin' good question, but I don't think an answer is forthcoming. She might start by not asking her boyfriend for permission to allow her to work at one of his foundations she likes. Lana's had three emotionally-stunted boyfriends, one after another, since her freshman year of high-school, maybe, god forbid, she should try to stay single for an episode. But now she needs to decide what to do about the bombshell she drops this week. Thanksgiving at Lex and Lana's is absurdly sad.
But Ollie wins the award for best question put to a series regular. He's been bearing the crime fighting duties of Metropolis alone while merely mortal. He asks Clark, "Are you 
ever gonna get off your ass and do something for a change?" Well come on, Clark, it's been six years. It's not as good a scene as, say, when Adama tells Lee to get his fat-ass in gear on Galactica but it's about as close as this show is likely to come.
To be fair, Clark and Ollie learn from each other this week. Clark has a chance to help out Ollie's reputation with Lois, as he knows the real reason why Ollie skipped out on their date, but that's not Clark's style. Instead he tells Lois she is better of without Ollie, not because he's interested in her himself yet, but only because he's got that protect everybody close to him from actually living their own life. He does this even before he finds out about Ollie's drug us. He and Lex are like that, but Clark eventually decides he can't assume Ollie and Lois are just like himself and Lana.
This episode, like some of the other Green Arrow-centric one seems like a tryout for a possible GA series. Ollie's hooked on the same healing drug that is being used in experiments at Lex's halfway house, so there's a good balance of powers there. I don't know if a Green Arrow series is in the works or not, but there's potential: a more mortal hero than Clark, and a darker setting than Smallville.
If Green Arrow stuck around and Kal-El decides what he needs now is a Bryan Singer-esque five-year journey to the wreckage of Krypton ... hey, I wouldn't be the first to object, that's all I'm saying.
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