Product: Smallville: The Complete Ninth Season (2009)
Rating: 5.0
Light & Dark
I used to comment on another series, Bones, regarding how they were able to make you laugh one minute and cry the next...how it was rare to make you feel a multitude of emotions in one episode. Smallville does this a lot...and this is one episode representative of that. It just shows me how good the writers are...how they can have such an imagination to include light hearted moments with dark moments in 43 minutes. I simply like good storytelling and Smallville has it. People may judge and say...oh...it's silly or overly dramatic...but you need to sit back and just take it all in and enjoy the wide range of emotions they bring out of you. Don't be critical of it...don't dissect it...just enjoy it for what it is a story that is dramatic, romantic, funny and silly and just plain fun. Lois provided the light hearted moment as she was hypnotized by Clark accidentally into becoming a 1950's domesticated woman who's only purpose was to take care of her man. Erica Durance pulled this off pretty darn well and Clark/Tom Welling struggle with the craziness of it all. Meanwhile...Zod is never far from providing "danger" and darkness to this drama. Clark having to navigate between Lois and Zod in one episode was a pretty difficult thing to do...but he did. And it culminated in Clark taking matters into his own hands...destroying Zod's tower. That final scene with Clark destroying the tower with fire flowing out of his eyes...is one of my favorite scenes in the series. He is rarely pre-emptive in handling danger but this time...he did it. Whether it was the right thing to do..i.e. destroying property...is probably debatable in his eyes...but he did it nonetheless. To some..it was the only solution to Zod. I loved the special effects...I love the music in the background...I just loved how powerful Clark Kent seemed in that final scene...it was exciting. Truthfully...I don't know how you can't enjoy this series...you have to be hyper critical to not enjoy it...because it is simply good storytelling...some of the best in TV land. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS SHOW.