Mark Snow's score for Skinwalker is one of the worst things about it, with it's stereotypical 'native American' sounds. He did the same thing whenever anything remotely NA popped up in The X-Files and it just has a paint-by-numbers feel to it. Don't get me wrong. His music for the show is usually spot-on. He just stumbles here by being far too obvious.
Clark's relationship with Kyla is absolutely preposterous. We are expected to buy into the idea of Clark meeting, falling in love, and sharing his secret with a girl, only to be heartbroken when he loses her, all within the space of 45 minutes. He cannot even tell Lana how he feels after more than an entire season. The fact that we know who Clark is really destined to be with, and that Kyla is only introduced here, means that she is never someone that the audience is going to emotionally connect with or care about.
The cave idea is nice. It puts a good spin on the Superman mythology. If they could have just steered away from the love interest angle, and reigned in the native American stereotypes, then this could have been so much better.
A major disappointment. 4/10
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