Episode 6.7: Rage

This episode has a lot of great ideas to explore but I'm not sure it covers them in the best possible way. Characters just do things that seem... well... out of character. For example, it's a great idea to explore Oliver's desire to be as indestructible as Clark, given the line of work he's in as Green Arrow. But even with him being on the drugs, he just leaves Lois after ploughing her through a table. There's no way to read that as him being anything but douchey! When Lois does eventually find out that he is Green Arrow she should be pissed!

While I'm on that subject, man alive, how dumb have they made Lois recently? Considering she is the future star reporter for the Daily Planet she is showing absolutely no evidence for why that might ever be the case. Ollie may as well be walking around with a neon sign that reads, "I am Green Arrow", because all obvious clues point to him. But Lois is just embarrassingly oblivious to what is right in front of her.

I really don't know how to feel about Lionel and Martha. On the one hand there was a spark between them, as far back as season 2, when she worked for Luthor senior. On the other, I can never bring myself to believe that she would ever act on that spark, no matter how much she might think he has changed. It's too much of a betrayal of Jonathan's memory even just to have her openly admit there is something between them.

The thanksgiving meal at the end just feels proper wierd. Oliver hates Lex. So most likely he wouldn't be too fond of Lionel either. Lionel once tried to kill Chloe and has on multiple occasions deceived Clark. And yet, here they all sit, laughing together like they're in a Hallmark Christmas special. It's just far too wierd!

The distrust between Lex and Lana increases and they do a great job of showing Lana as someone now realizing that she may have trapped herself in a relationship she can't get out of. The scene where they eat dinner together, separated by the super long table, feels like it is laboring this point by laying it on a bit thick. So much so that I actually laughed when I saw it. But the scene in which Clark tries to get Lana to open up to him is really well played, with Kreuk's body language subtly conveying the walls closing in around Lana, isolating her from the world outside the walls of the Luthor mansion.

I also love the scene where Jimmy tries to snag an interview with Lex. Rosenbaum is truly great here. I love the way he dismisses Jimmy in such a blatant way. Lex is full-on villain these days, having people killed or maybe even doing it himself, as is the case of Doctor... We don't see him kill her but it is certainly implied. Either way he is responsible for her death.

6/10