Is it really conceivable that Clark could have gone in with the money and just purchased a class ring?

It took me three weeks to get mine, and then I had to send it back 'cause it was incorrect. I don't believe a reputable class ring dealer of any sort would just have in stock the right sizes and number for the class.

Good point.

My only beef with this episode was the fact that it was basically the opposite of the first season's "Nicodemus." That time around, everyone else suffered a personality change, and did things acting out of character. Clark was persoanlly affected by two of the cases, both his father and Lana.

However, this time around, when it's Clark's turn to act out of character, it takes both Johnathan and Lana a LOT longer to forgive him then it took for him to forgive them.

I'm reminded of Superman III. Wacky variety of kryptonite turns our mild-mannered hero into a big jerk. Although in that movie, I don't remember drunk-beer-nut-flicking Superman ruining Clark's love life.

I liked this episode. I like the way they incorporated red kryptonite. I also like the fact that Pete is given more to do as a character, now that he's privy to Clark's secret.

But I am wondering now if the fact that Clark exposed himself to so many people will come back to haunt him, or if the writers will gloss over it. Sure, maybe those people in the bar might forget what he looked like and don't know who he is or where he's from, but he also exposed himself to a federal agent who saw his strenth, speed, and imperviousness to bullets.

A federal agent who is dead now I might add Luigi. And of course Lionel Luthor suspects something.

Is anyone else uneasy at just how many people the producers feel it is necessary to kill to protect Clark's secret? Even though he's not killing them all himself, you'd think eventually Clark would notice that after a while, the only reason why half the people in Smallville don't know about him is because the people who find out tend to die. I should think that would cause him more guilt than the original meteor incident, to be honest.

Maybe I misinterpreted some dialog, but I was under the impression that the "federal agent" was not a federal agent at all, but someone who was pretending to be as a means to get at Jessie and her father (did he ever get a name?) I do wonder, though, if some real law enforcement types might have shown up at the bar, taken statements, etc. I can't imagine they wouldn't. Someone should be on Clark's trail for that little incident.

I didn't recall him dying. Either I wasn't looking at the TV, or the swiss cheese side of my brain was in control.

What I do remember that surprised me was that the episode was written by Jeph Loeb, author of the Superman for All Seasons miniseries, and I believe the current writer on one of the Superman titles.

The agent had his gun pointed at Clark, Clark was daring him with Jessie looking dumb, then we hear a gunshot and the agent falls over. Jessie's dad shot him from the stairs.

Kinda reminded me of Nixon's death.

I have to say the ending was pretty harsh. I don't see why he couldn't explain that he had a strange reaction to the meteor rock in his ring, thus causing his odd behavior. It wouldn't give away anything about himself, since the meteor rocks have strange effects on everybody, and it wouldn't be a lie.

Mylan: I thought that too. A 'confession' to Lana that he has nasty reactions to the meteor rocks wouldn't be a lie, and most importantly, it would be beleived by (almost) everyone. After all, both Lana and Chloe noted how weird they thought it was that Clark was immune to to the Pheremones in the episode Heat. This was just be another selection for Chloe's Wall of Weird.

"Is it really conceivable that Clark could have gone in with the money and just purchased a class ring?"

At our school, we measured our fingers and ordered our rings on one day and then later when the rings arrived, we paid for them and picked them up.

Really?

At ours, we got measured and paid up front, then picked them up later.

But this episode made it sound like the whole class just bought them off the street. Even if they had done what your school did, wouldn't Bo and Martha have known about it beforehand?

Bo? LOL.

Now that we've seen both green and red kryptonite, will we see blue or gold?

Well, probably, not gold, since that would end the series.

I'll only approve of a Blue Kryptonite episode if they do it with Ambush Bug.

When the "agent" asked that boy in the lab
who was in the tub,
he threatens him with his Glock pistol.

But the pistols slide is in the unloaded position,
meaning there was most certainly no magazine in the gun and even if, it would make no sence to carry the gun like that. That boy knowing that the guy was unable to shoot at that moment, could just take the pistol and throw it away.

Why that he in that tub anyway?

Poor man's hot tub?