I found the scenes with Lionel, Genevieve, and Lex way more entertaining than the real story of Ryan, er, I mean Evan.

Chloe was able to track the cell phone to the mother, but they still didn't know who the father was. I was wondering why they didn't just go the mother's family for a bone marrow donation. Wouldn't that have worked? And once they knew who the babydaddy was, couldn't they have asked his family as well?

Nice effort and good intentions, but the episode suffered from the need to speed everything up, which meant that I never really got to know Evan. I understand that they were trying to depict Clark learning what things are like from his father's point of view, but I wish there were more fleshing out of Evan as a character than as just a fast-growing, fast-growing character who then spends the rest of the episode scared of death.

What happened to Evan's mom? Shouldn't there have at least been pieces or traces of her body?

Where did the extra mass come from when Evan grew?

If I were Clark or Lex or Lana, I would've suggested that Evan work on the cure with Lex's scientists himself. Since he can assimilate information from books so quickly, who knows what fresh perspective he might bring to the problem?

Evan's shirt tore just a bit too easily when his father grabbed at him at the end of Act 3.

When Evan's final growth is heralded in Act 4, the lights go out, but the change doesn't immediately happen like it did the previous times. In fact, it doesn't happen until the next day.

My mom caught this one: How did Lionel poison Genevieve? It was her wine, and he never had contact with her glass.

>> When Evan finally explodes, Clark is kneeling right beside him; however, his clothes are stil perfectly intact.

>> Did anyone else think that the thing that Evan's father impales himself on didn't look very sharp?

>> Clark seems to share his secrets with more than a few meteor freaks. Why not comfort Evan by explaining that he is also not normal? I mean, the kid's going to die anyway.

>> A NIT I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE: While on the windmill, Evan and Lana see a large city in the distance. A previous episode has identified this city as Metropolis (A late season 1 episode, I think). Previous episodes, however, have stated that Metropolis is pretty far away. It doesn't look like it's more than an hour away here.

It's that time again...
TIME FOR A TUE RANT:
Clark must be a complete idiot. In the last episode, Clark lost his memory and Chloe guided him around. The episode ended with Clark asking Chloe if he did anything differently during his time without memory, and Chloe replies, "You trusted me."

Now, let's assume you are a reasonably intelligent being with superpowers. Your friend says, "You trusted me." How do you not assume that you trusted her with YOUR BIG SECRET!??

I guess I could swallow that Clark is naive enough to think that Chloe doesn't know, but this episode doesn't follow up on last week's story AT ALL!! This agitates me to no end. Last week's ending was BEGGING for a followup that never came. In fact, after developing the Clark/Chloe friendship last week, this episode did a complete 180 and focused on the Clark/Lana doomed relationship. WTF???

Thank god for the Lionel/Genevieve interaction and the scheming Lex ending. That really brought up the episode. The plot we saw wasn't too bad, but I'm still steaming about the lack of development from last week.

You can't just leave a thread like that hanging.

Grar.

Okay, I'll calm down now.

New Enterprise tomorrow. I'll be able to go to my happy place!

TUE

"I feel..."
"What do you feel, Lal?"
"I love you, father."
"I wish I could feel it with you."
"I will feel it for both of us. Thank you for my life."

So, where exactly did Evan get his rapid-development powers from? I know they droped a line in about his mom possibly having some electro-whatsit powers, but shorting out computer screens and experiencing years of physical and mental development in a flash are very different things.

Where'd Lois run off to for this episode? Was she out walking Shelby?

I was disappointed big time by this one.

There was just absolutely no explanation why things were happening.

His birth vaporised his mother,
a car and some tons of dirt.
Why doesn't his growth of a couple of years
destroy nothing?

Why doesn't Lana wonder where Clark comes from
in the end.

How come people never wonder how Clark goes from one point to another without any vehicle?
Maybe he should take a bike,
he could still speed with that ;)