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Smallville: Labyrinth
(S06E12) Or as I like to call it, "The Martian Manhunter Show!" All Martians, all the time. Either that, or "One Flew Over the Clark Kent's Nest," except we didn't get a Nurse Ratchett, unfortunately. You can tell right from the beginning that this is all taking place in Clark's mind, so it has the ring of "ripoff" to me. Basically, it's like holodeck episode of Star Trek: TNG. Although some good things came out of those (Dixon Hill, Moriarty, Minuet) so I'm not going to declare full shenanigans ... maybe only halfsies.
Someone needs to YouTube together all of the scenes of Clark working on farm equipment and make it a commercial for Clark's Tractor Repair. We must have seen him work on that thing a million times, but I don't remember him ever turning over any soil in the north forty. What gives, Smallville? The writers need to think about dropping the whole Kent Farm charade and just have them live on the land. Martha's a senator, which must pay fairly decent wages, right?
Did the feedback-like sound throughout the episode set anyone else's teeth on edge? We get it producers, something weird is happening. Just please don't drive it home with a background noise that is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard. It's enough to make you go ... well, mental. Thank god J'onn J'onzz is on the scene. Everyone's favorite telepathic Martian could really make a killing as a therapist. Dr. Melfi has nothing on him, plus he brings some much needed non-whiteness to Smallville since Pete Ross got relegated to the "remember him?" file.
Down the the nitty gritty of this episode. I actually enjoyed it, because you get to see the actors showing off their chops and stretching their abilities in order to portray wildly different versions of their characters. There's some real emotion going on here, and that's been missing from Smallville off and on this season. From Lex as Professor Xavier Jr., to Chloe's bang, bang scene, everyone gets to really push the bounds of the roles they've been in for years now. Plus the episode had a great color scheme to it that was really dark and disturbing. As much of a mindscrew as the episode was, it was really refreshing in a sort of shake up the etch-a-sketch and do-over kind of way.
Just one small thing I had a problem with (besides Clark swallowing things a bit too easily): apparently the leap to Clark slipping on glasses later in life to throw everyone off the Superman trail won't be too hard for people to buy, because he can just slap on a baseball cap and trained orderlies believe that he's the janitor. Super-Janitor just doesn't have the same ring to it, though. We've already got The Toxic Avenger cleaning things up in that department. Okay, I swear that'll be an end to the bad puns. For now. In the meantime, any idea where we can get some of that "Jorel" antibacterial soap? That Usual Suspects scene, while cheesy, was pretty darn cool.
Quotes of the show:
- Chloe: "Since your superspeed's out of gas, take my Yaris." OUCH for product placement extremeis.
- Lex: "Open your eyes you crazy son of a bitch!"
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