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Smallville: Cure
(S07E04) Okay, I have to admit, it took me a good long while to wrap my brain around this episode of Smallville. Not because of the schlocky "Cure" plot, but because of you-know-who. That's right ... Dean Cain. It was just more than a tad freaky seeing him go toe to toe with Clark, wasn't it? While this show is about a billion times better than Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was, Cain was still Superman. Throw in the fact that Christoper Reeve has been on this show, and you're just a couple of cameos away from having all of the living actors who have played the man (or boy) of steel on Smallville.
Admittedly, rather than looking a bit puffy-faced, Cain has aged pretty well. It's hard to believe that show premiered 14 years ago. Teri Hatcher has moved on to more "desperate" measures, but we haven't seen Dean Cain on the TV in awhile. While he wasn't too bad as the cure-all doctor, he was slightly over the top. Which is probably to be expected when playing a villain on this show. However, it was a fairly distracting with him on screen, and I kept waiting for him to slick his hair back (even farther) and pull open his shirt to reveal an S-shield.
Additionally, there's a much stronger Chloe/Jimmy subplot here than normal. Jimmy is the type of guy you kind of want to punch in the face a few times each episode. His cheese-eating grin and lame quips just sort of bunch up your neck muscles and you find your fingers curling into a fist. Okay, step back and deep breath. It's just Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter and photographer. Nothing to get bent out of shape about. No need to ... "I'll crunch a few pixels and see what I can come up with." GAAAAH! *punches TV*
Okay, back to the meat and potatoes. Dean Cain and his Doc Knox cure for meteor freaks sort of sounds like the "mutant cure" from X-Men 3. Although he's using it for much more nefarious purposes. At least he's a super-powered baddie, because having a powerless Dean Cain go up against Clark would be like having Mike Tyson fight a spectator from row 17. It just wouldn't be very fulfilling. Plus, toss in the fact that he's apparently immortal (sort of ... I mean, he bleeds from a few nine millimeters to the chest. Seems like a giant axe to the neck might actually do the trick, or maybe not), and you've got shades of Ra's Al Ghul ... or Kraven from the Marvel universe.
So, Dean Cain and his DIY meteor freak kit and assembly project are on the front burner, but then you've got Chloe seeking the cure, shades of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mister Freeze, Kara going after Jimmy with both guns blazing, Lana instant messaging someone about sums of cash and locations in Metropolis ... mix 'em all up and sprinkle in a dose of superpowers, courtesy of The Martian Manhunter (and woot, Kara calls him that for the first time), Clark, Kara, and the Doc. Is Smallville a magnet for amped-up superpeeps? Sure seems to be.
Plus, don't get me started on the purely gratuitous shot of Alison Mack in her bra. Plus, did you notice the red leather choker collar around her necklace while she was getting ready for the procedure? Hello Naughty Smallville. We haven't seen you for awhile, and welcome back. If your future plans involve Lois and/or Kara in a bikini, and some mud-wrestling, we won't be too upset.
And as a second plus, thank you dear sweet holy TV deities for letting Clark finally get suspicious of what's going on with Lana. It's about time he stopped being so dense when it comes to her and her shenanigans. Which apparently means setting up an uber-creepy surveillance system on Lex. Boy, he really needs to fire his security staff and look into some alternatives. Now, if we could just get Lana to exit stage left in a more permanent manner, we'd be set.
| George Reeves | |
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| Dean Cain | |
| Tom Welling | |
| Christopher Reeve | |
| Kirk Alyn |
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