Three months after the events of Covenant,
Lois Lane comes to Smallville to find out who killed her cousin, Chloe
Sullivan. She sees a lightning bolt hit a corn field and finds Clark,
butt naked, wandering around with amnesia. She takes him to the hospital
where Martha sits at Jonathan's bedside. When Martha sees Clark she
persuades him to come home. It's only then that Lois realizes who Clark
is and goes to the house to question him. But he's not there. Clark, now
referring to himself only as Kal-El, has (literally) flown away on a
crusade to hunt down a kryptonian artefact that has been found by Lex.
He rips the door off Lex's private jet, mid air, and takes the artefact,
placing it inside the caves. It is then that Martha shows up with some
black kryptonite, given to her by Dr Swann's assistant, Bridgett Crosby. The black kryptonite separates Clark from Kal-El, returning him to his
former self, which in turn releases Jonathan from his coma. When Clark
goes to speak to Lois at Chloe's graveside he offers to help her find
out what happened, as well as offering her a place to stay on the farm.
Then he uses his x-ray vision to take a look inside Chloe's coffin. But
there is no body inside.
And so we are introduced to the amazing ray of sunshine that is Erica Durance as Lois Lane. Right off the bat she brings a whole new energy to the show with her plucky attitude and great on screen chemistry with Tom Welling. I instantly want these two to get together. There is a sense of playfulness and humour that comes out of their relationship. The fact that he is naked the first time she meets him is pretty funny in and of itself given how long it took Clark and Lana just to get to first base.
But Lana is most definitely not out of the picture just yet. She has a new boyfriend in the shape of Jason Teague, played by Jensen Ackles, an actor once in the running to play Clark Kent himself. He too is fairly likeable off the bat, though I am much less interested in Lana's plot, especially on a repeat viewing when I know where it's heading. The whole witches thing with her that is going to run across the season is about as tedious as her Whitney plotline, as pointless as her Henry Small plotline, and as convoluted as her Adam plotline.
Seeing Clark, or should I say Kal, flying and ripping the door of an airborne jet is very cool and such a badass moment. The special effects still hold up pretty well too.
I love how we get a callback to the idea that Lex is a meteor freak, having such a resistence to death that not even the poison that he was dosed with at the end of the last season was enough to kill him. But the need for a blood transfusion every 72 hours does add an interesting dynamic to the character whereby he has to depend on others, at least for now, if he wants to stay alive.
I also really love Martha's reaction towards Clark, referring to himself as Kal-El, who needs to "fulfill [his] destiny". Once again, Annette O'Toole nails it and shows a really honest portrayal of a desperate mother at the end of her rope, essentially lashing out at Jor-El but unable to break through.
Some great lines of dialogue in here too, whether it's Margot Kidder as Dr Swann's assistant, telling Martha that, "the only thing that can challenge a father's will is a mother's love", or Lex telling his father that, he "shouldn't wound what he cannot kill".
Speaking of Lionel, there is a really great scene between him and Lois, when she goes to confront him in prison. Glover is always a formidable presence on the show but Durance more than holds her own here.
A very solid start to the season.
9/10
And so we are introduced to the amazing ray of sunshine that is Erica Durance as Lois Lane. Right off the bat she brings a whole new energy to the show with her plucky attitude and great on screen chemistry with Tom Welling. I instantly want these two to get together. There is a sense of playfulness and humour that comes out of their relationship. The fact that he is naked the first time she meets him is pretty funny in and of itself given how long it took Clark and Lana just to get to first base.
But Lana is most definitely not out of the picture just yet. She has a new boyfriend in the shape of Jason Teague, played by Jensen Ackles, an actor once in the running to play Clark Kent himself. He too is fairly likeable off the bat, though I am much less interested in Lana's plot, especially on a repeat viewing when I know where it's heading. The whole witches thing with her that is going to run across the season is about as tedious as her Whitney plotline, as pointless as her Henry Small plotline, and as convoluted as her Adam plotline.
Seeing Clark, or should I say Kal, flying and ripping the door of an airborne jet is very cool and such a badass moment. The special effects still hold up pretty well too.
I love how we get a callback to the idea that Lex is a meteor freak, having such a resistence to death that not even the poison that he was dosed with at the end of the last season was enough to kill him. But the need for a blood transfusion every 72 hours does add an interesting dynamic to the character whereby he has to depend on others, at least for now, if he wants to stay alive.
I also really love Martha's reaction towards Clark, referring to himself as Kal-El, who needs to "fulfill [his] destiny". Once again, Annette O'Toole nails it and shows a really honest portrayal of a desperate mother at the end of her rope, essentially lashing out at Jor-El but unable to break through.
Some great lines of dialogue in here too, whether it's Margot Kidder as Dr Swann's assistant, telling Martha that, "the only thing that can challenge a father's will is a mother's love", or Lex telling his father that, he "shouldn't wound what he cannot kill".
Speaking of Lionel, there is a really great scene between him and Lois, when she goes to confront him in prison. Glover is always a formidable presence on the show but Durance more than holds her own here.
A very solid start to the season.
9/10
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