Episode 2.6: Redux

The freak of the week element of this story is extremely dull, and almost seems like an after thought by the writers, in an attempt to shoehorn a reason for some action and effects work into the episode. It involves a girl, Chrissi, who is actually an old woman who is able to suck the youth out of teenage girls.

The prosthetics work on Chrissi at the end is dodgy as hell and she is dispatched with in a way that makes you think nobody in the writer's room could really be bothered.

The real story is that of Clark trying to connect with his Grandfather and Lana trying to figure out the identity of a man that seems very close to her mother in a photograph. Lana has started to trust Clark once more though she is adamant that their relationship can grow only if Clark is willing to share everything with her. She lets him know this in a rather indirect way.

The stuff with Clark and his new principal is quite entertaining. The fact that he has never been to the principal's office before was pretty funny.

A fairly average episode. 7/10