I just noticed while waiting for the next Enterprise episode that they are in holiday break til next year.

tvtome.com hast no airdate for this one Smalllville ep here. Are they in vacation too?

My guess, yep.

I found it a little too convenient that Alicia knew about red kryptonite. "I'm your girlfriend, I know everything about you." Pretty weak explanation, IMHO.

Boy, I could use a cigarette right about now…

Yeah, but I’ll bet he turned into a real perv when he took out his camera to take pictures…
Comic Reference of the Week:
(As Chloe reveals to Lana that she’s no longer a virgin…)
“Yeah. During my internship a the Daily Planet. His name was Jimmy, he was very cute, in a bow tie kind of way.”

Seriously, it was a pretty good ep. It further explored Clark’s loneliness, and how he could otherwise be draw to someone potentially dangerous as Alicia. Chloe’s advice to Lana came off as sincere without being too preachy. It does remind us of the oddness of having to be reminded that these characters are supposed to be still only 17, but her “I don’t mean to get all Afterschool Special on you” comment was a nice humorous way to bring her point across, even if does underscore the fact that it was written by a writer much older than 17 (I mean, do they even show Afterschool Specials anymore? Or is Chloe really into the TV of yesteryear?). I was glad that they brought back a prior “villain” in order try and show her rehabilitation, and that even the other heavy was misguided, rather than megalomaniacal. I was afraid that with that gunshot they’d kill her off, but when I saw that there was still 15 minutes left in the episode, I was glad, since it indicated that they were going to save her.

---COMIC BOOK DIVERGENCE:
If (and only if) the Jimmy that Chloe did the horizontal mambo with is Jimmy Olsen, then it would mean that he is either the same age as Clark and Chloe, or perhaps older, whereas in the comic, I always got the impression that he was considerably younger.

---NITS & NOTES:
After getting married, Clark speeds off with Alicia to their honeymoon suite. Wouldn’t she be damaged by air friction? And at the very least, dead bugs in her hair? If I were the writers, I’d have her wear goggles and a face mask, and possibly a helmet. This is actually what Peter David did with Quicksilver, a speedster character, in a backup story in an issue of X-Factor. (Or maybe it was just the artist who decided to draw it that way.)

Why, after Alicia gets shot, does Clark just stay there staring at her instead of immediately rushing her to the hospital?

One thing I can’t stand about both this series and the comics from which it is derived is how insanity is used by the writers in order to cheat the viewers of logical consequences, usually when it concerns villains learning secret identities. It happened recently in the conclusion to the Identity Crisis miniseries, and it happens here when Clark tells Alicia that the Shrink is in Belle Reve for trying to kill one of his patients. Why does trying to kill one of your patients automatically make you insane? Why does everyone seem to think that every bad guy (from Shawn Ashmore’s character to Jonathan Taylor Thomas’ character) necessary must be mentally ill? Shouldn’t the shrink just be in jail?

My mom and I both had a problem with Clark’s parents continuing to be upset with him at the end of the episode over what happened, even though Clark flat-out tells them that he was on Red K. He tells this to his mom, and she still chews him out for what he did, going on and on about the sacredness of marriage. I suggested that while this was a contrivance, it was to give Clark a reason to open up about how lonely he felt, which dramatically at least, was powerful. Then again, a cynic might suggest that it was to give another moment in the episode to drive home the message about the sanctity of marriage, albeit one that was less subtle than Chloe’s.

Jimmy should be at least around 10 years younger than Clark and Lois. Chloe is such a perve. She did it with a first grader!

Not a bad ep. It was nice to see a villain who wasn't so bad after all. But if Clark was so lonely, why didn't he accept the invitation to the party?

I was also surprised that his parents were so angry with him about the marriage. This is the kid that went on a crime spree in Metropolis under the influence of the same stuff.

Luigi Novi: I mean, do they even show Afterschool Specials anymore? Or is Chloe really into the TV of yesteryear
I'm not much older than Chloe's supposed to be, but I know what they are, even though I've never actually seen one. I don't think that it's too much of a stretch.

Because he's lonely by virtue of his being an alien with super abilities.