Fatal Attraction, Smallville style. I hope Clark doesn't have a bunny.
Should splashing lead paint all over teleport-girl (name?) really stop her from escapeing at the end? A lead room I can buy, because she'd actually surounded there. But the pain was just on her face and chest. Couldn't she have teleported backwards?
Once again, the metero rocks only decide to pick on those with emotional disorders.
The writers really outdid themselves with the Clark/Lana exchange this time, didn't they? Normally, I zone out during the pattened "Clark pushes Lana away" moment, but this one even made me go "ouch".
Should splashing lead paint all over teleport-girl (name?) really stop her from escapeing at the end? A lead room I can buy, because she'd actually surounded there. But the pain was just on her face and chest. Couldn't she have teleported backwards?
Well, if she can't teleport out of a lead room where the door isn't a perfect seal, then she probably can't teleport when she's effectively surrounded by lead paint like that. Maybe it's the contact with lead that's a part of it. But yet again we have someone who still has plenty of opportunity to cause trouble later, perhaps the next time Lex gets sent to a looney bin.
Smallville really does have its own version of Arkham, hm?
It sucks that this episode pretty much kills the Adam Knight=Bruce Wayne theory, though.
Feh.
The idea of Clark feeling a rapport with someone like him is a good idea for a story, but it’s a shame that it had to lead to a cheap Fatal Attraction-like storyline. Still the plotting was tight, I couldn’t notice any huge plot holes, and the ending was a usually excellent Smallville shocker. I also was disappointed that they copied Nightcrawler’s teleportation signature from X-Men2, except that Alicia’s is green rather than blue.
Great Line on which my friend Chris Lopez tacked on a Sally Field Reference:
Alicia to Clark in Act 1: “I just can’t believe that you’re like me…I mean, you’re not exactly like me, but just…like me, you know? You like me! You really, really, like me!
At the end of Act 1, the camera is on Alicia as she stands just inside the front door of her house looking at Clark leaving, pans up to her bedroom window, and there she is too, apparently having teleported during the panning shot. Nice touch.
In Act 2, Lex tells Clark that in his experience, people like Alicia don’t develop this type of fixation without some type of encouragement, implying that Clark led her on. Really, Lex? What about all those celebrity stalkers suffering from erotomania and other mental illnesses who believe that the color tie the celebrity chose to wear when appearing on The Tonight Show was their way of signaling their love for the stalker? What “encouragement” did they give?
Lana tells Lex in Act 2 that it can take up to six months to evict someone. Even if the guy isn’t paying rent, isn’t a tenant, and threatened you on last week’s episode?
Did anyone else, when Alicia kept holding that butcher knife up to Lana’s face in Act 4, keep screaming “Grab the knife, Lana, grab the knife!” Or perhaps, “Give the little psycho with your karate like you did Chloe and Adam in Delete”?
How is Clark able to use his heat vision to simply tear open a can of paint without igniting it?
How can Clark be certain that Alicia won’t reveal Clark’s secrets to anyone?
When Lana goes looking for Adam at the end of the episode, she calls out his name, wanders around a bit, and then Lex appears behind her. He apologizes for scaring her, saying he didn’t mean to scare her. Well gee, Lex, if you didn’t mean to scare her, why didn’t you simply call out to answer her when she first called out Adam’s name, with something like, “Hi, Lana, I’m here!”?
Okay, Adam is DEFINITELY not Bruce Wayne.
Blitz: Should splashing lead paint all over teleport-girl (name?) really stop her from escapeing at the end? A lead room I can buy, because she'd actually surounded there. But the pain was just on her face and chest. Couldn't she have teleported backwards?
Luigi Novi: You’re positive it didn’t splash onto her back?
Lines Not Spoken: It's good that Alicia can teleport, it's real good.
I meant that it didn't COVER her back, a few drips here and their doesn't seem like enough to hold her in place. I admit that they hardly explained this whole thing in detail (maybe to dance around just this), but I just don't see how the lead would work unless it totally covered her. Does she still take up space even while she's slinding around in the underbelly of this space/time continuum and can't fit through a gap that's more than a certain size?
I can't believe I missed this: Apparently, they celibrate Christmas in Febuary in Smallville, either that or Alicia's family takes a VERY long time to take their lights down.
My mom just dismantled her nativity display this week.
As for the paint, maybe Alicia has to generate some type of field effect to envelop her, and couldn't with a sufficient amount of her body covered in lead paint. She tries to, but the fields she tries to generate are aborted ones, much like when Jean stopped Kurt from teleporting her back into the Blackbird in X2: X-Men United.
Just once, I'd like one of these meteor freaks to turn out to be a future Justice Leaguer (though done in way so that only the fans will know ). Once is all I ask. Hell, even a non-powered future member (Hmm, Clark meets a rich boy named Oliver Queen. I think I'll write that script right now!) would be cool.
Adam is definitely not Bruce Wayne. It was pointed out to me, however, that he could be on track to becoming the first Bizzaro.
As for the paint, maybe Alicia has to generate some type of field effect to envelop her, and couldn't with a sufficient amount of her body covered in lead paint. She tries to, but the fields she tries to generate are aborted ones, much like when Jean stopped Kurt from teleporting her back into the Blackbird in X2: X-Men United.- LUIGI NOVI
That would explain a few things, I guess.
Just once, I'd like one of these meteor freaks to turn out to be a future Justice Leaguer (though done in way so that only the fans will know ). Brian Webber
"But what about all the uneducated Dawson's Creek crowd who don't read comics (in other words, everyone else who watches The WB), how will they enjoy the show?" This dose of unpleasent reality brought to you from a WB exec
Well, Brian, it's not like they haven't been putting in references to such characters, even if they haven't appeared, like the Green Lantern reference in Redux, and the allusion that Wonder Woman exists in Asylum. Between this and appearances by people like Perry White who'm I'm not sure should be meeting Clark as a teenager, I think such references are at the right amount, if not too much. I don't want to see people show up that Clark didn't meet until as an adult as Superman.
Please pardon my ignoracne, but what Green Lantern reference?
Yeah, I was just about to ask that myself.
As I mentioned in my nits for that episode, Clark tells Lana that his grandparents retired to Coast City.
Oh. OK. I forgot about that one.
Once again, the metero rocks only decide to pick on those with emotional disorders.- Blitz
I'll spot you that most of those who have gained powers from the meteor rocks are young and loner-types. But I tend to think that the powers make them nuts. Why listen to teachers, or cops, or anyone else? Being invulnerable, invisible, etc has an effect on the mind.
Did anyone else, when Alicia kept holding that butcher knife up to Lana’s face in Act 4, keep screaming “Grab the knife, Lana, grab the knife!” Or perhaps, “Give the little psycho with your karate like you did Chloe and Adam in Delete”? - Luigi
I sure did. Then I realized that, if Lana grabbed the arm holding that VERY PAINFULLY OBVIOUSLY PLASTIC KNIFE, she would have negated Alicia's ability to teleport. Remember, Alicia teleports what's touching her. If so, Lana would have appeared in the same position with Alicia and gone, "Wow! What just happened? Whatever, time to get ninja on you!"
Should splashing lead paint all over teleport-girl (name?) really stop her from escaping at the end?- Blitz
I doubt it would matter how much of Alicia was covered in the lead paint. Imagine if Transporter Chief O'Brien has lost 20% of Captain Picard's matter during transport, it would be pretty fatal. I'd assume that all of Alicia would have to be free and clear to teleport for her ability to work. She's fortunate that, when she tried to teleport, it just failed to work. It would have sucked if only half of her showed up on the far end of her teleport.
I didn't particularly care for Alicia's very sudden emotional turn in this ep. But I gotta give this one a thumbs up. Alicia is by far the hottest lady featured on this show. The business suits and boots just do it for me.
While touring the Luthorcorp Building, Clark tells Chloe that he could climb down all 39 floors. Moments later in the elevator, you can see a button for the 40th floor on the control panel.
I suppose this is a general, series-wide nit, but since it shows up again here:
Why is it that kryptonite doesn't have any effect on Clark until the people using it against him pull it out of their pockets? Related question: What are the shielding properties of denim?
Actually, Clark began feeling week before she pulled it out, IIRC.
But shouldn't he have started stumbling around the momment he and Alicia were in the same room?
Actually, Clark began feeling week before she pulled it out, IIRC. - Luigi
"Feeling week," huh?
Is this a time-displacement phenomenon?
Yeah, he was flying really fast around the planet.
*insert "ZING!" here*