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(S07E12) Finally! They've gotten back to the amnesiac Kara in Detroit. Unfortunately, Lex got to her first.

Along with the amnesia from the confrontation in the Fortress with her father, Kara has also lost her powers. As a result, she couldn't punch out a psycho stalker fellow employee in the diner who kidnapped her.

And Lois, being the ever-stalkery reporter herself, found Lex stalking Kara using her own resources. Oh what a tangled web we weave.

(S07E11) Black Canary has entered the universe of Smallville, and she's totally goth. She's a pawn of Lex Luthor, and in her secret identity she is apparently that universe's version of Ann Coulter.

I've read Black Canary in the comic books and in that medium she's never been a knife-thrower. She also apparently has super-leaping powers. Perhaps she gained them in the short-lived series Birds of Prey.

Here's a gallery of images from the episode. More review follows after the jump.

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(S07E10) In a triumphant return to television after a few months off, Smallville returns with Brainiac (played by James Marsters, best known as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and introduces a new Kryptonian named Dax-Ur (played by Marc McClure, best known as Jimmy Olsen from the Christopher Reeve Superman movies).

Has any actor involved with a previous screen version of Superman NOT been involved with this show? Anyone? Anyone? Okay, maybe Gene Hackman...

More after the jump...

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(S07E09) This is the last new episode of Smallville to be broadcast this year. Actually, if the writers' strike never ends, it could be the last episode ever. So, let's get to it.

When last we left our team of intrepid twenty-somethings, Clark had just defeated his evil uncle (with help from his cousin Kara who ended up in Detroit with amnesia as a result) and then vanished in a white light. Lois had a thing going with her editor Grant Gabriel (as discovered by her cousin Chloe) who ended up being Lex Luthor's brother Julian.

Somebody saaaaaaave meeeee...

(S06E03) It seems everyone's back to calling Jimmy Olson Jimmy again, though he tried to insist on James in the season premiere.

Chloe tells Jimmy that she wants to take any possible relationship between the two of them slowly. Fortunately for Jimmy taking it slow quickly turns out to include french kissing. Happiness is short lived, however, when a scream leads the cub reporters to a dead body that looks likes it fell into a tree after having been dropped directly out of a J-horror movie.

Despite a hoary costume-party conceit, and yet another mock crucifixion, when Kal-El gets himself vined-up in the woods, this episode was an improvement on "Sneeze" last week.