Okay. I want to know what the writers on Smallville are thinking. Do they really have no clue what they are doing? Are they aware of all the plot holes and rehashed story lines they are using. I must say that there were really two scenes that were any good and they both involved Tom Welling. Everything else was unnecessary fluff.

Let me explain. Tess is nothing more than Lex. It is like a rerun. Tess is basically picking up where Lex left off. The thing that is interesting about her is you have no idea what her motives are. Is she good? Is she bad? Take tonight’s episode. She talks Clark into flying to LA with her under the guise that it will help his career. They talk on the plane and she tells him that Lex had a diary about him and he wanted Tess to tell him more about what it said. Now she goes and tells her father beat her when she was a child and of course you know why. This was a tit for tat. I’ll tell you my secret if you tell me yours kind of thing. Only Clark isn’t telling anything. I found it a little odd that in the middle of the conversation Clark offers to get them a drink ‘of the good stuff’. He doesn’t drink and if he did no effect on him. Would he really ask such a thing? Well at any rate, once she realizes that he is not going to tell her anything, she blows up the plane. They both are, or at least he is, trying to find parachutes and check on the pilot. Tess sees two parachutes and tells Clark there is none on the plane. In the end, the plane is going down; Tess needs oxygen and Clark cuts off some of the air to the hose leading to her mask to knock her out. Okay here is cool scene one: Clark punches the door out, grabs Tess and jumps out of the plane before it explodes. Once back in Smallville, Clark comes to check on Tess. She asks how they survived and he says he found a parachute. Of course she knows it is a lie because she saw the two. Tess tells Clark that because she lives in his house and works for his company, doesn’t mean she is Lex. Clark is not sure if he should trust her or not. During the ending montage we see Tess paying the missing pilot off. She planned the explosion to learn more about Clark. I am so not sure what her deal is.

Jimmy is recovering from his injuries

And that was all that was going on. Kidding, I’m kidding of course. There was a Chloe, Davis, and Jimmy triangle thing going on. Basically Jimmy is still in hospital recovering from his injuries and Chloe tells him that maybe some of his pain is in his head rather than physical. She says this while Jimmy is trying to get more morphine out of the pump. Jimmy sees what he thinks is Davis killing a man. Later the next day, Davis rights it off that Jimmy had done something to his pump that made give out more than the recommended dose so that meant he was high and didn’t know what he was doing. Chloe goes and apologizes to Davis outside Jimmy’s room. Look, if you are going to hug a guy who your husband says killed someone the night before, could you not have picked a better place to hug him than in front of the window. Also, why was that hospital that is in Metropolis so dead the night Davis killed the man? No one was around when Jimmy was calling for help. Odd if you ask me. Jimmy will not let this go. He is insecure, you know. Well, he steals a paramedic’s jacket and looks in Davis’s truck and finds the dead man. Davis finds Jimmy and basically said that the man pretty much deserved it for being drunk and killing a mother of two children. Jimmy is appalled and Davis injects something in Jimmy’s neck. When he wakes up, or so he thinks, Jimmy sees the monster with Chloe again and he kills her and he knows it is Davis and then he chases him but when he comes around Chloe isn’t there and he is banging his fist on a locked empty room. Chloe doesn’t know what to think. Jimmy later follows Davis as he knows he is the one killing people. He knocks Davis in the head with an iron bar and handcuffs him to a fence. Davis is about to change and he tells Jimmy to get away from him. Jimmy doesn’t and Davis breaks on side of the cuffs. Jimmy is about to hit him again when Chloe tazers him. Okay right here is when I go ‘WHAT’! Look, she just knocked her husband out and saved the man who is trying to kill her best friend. He was changing right there, of course she could not see him but he was all the same. You know, I was a little glad that Jimmy told Chloe it was over and marrying her was the biggest mistake he ever made. Glad to see him grow a spine only now it looks as though he may be addicted to pain pills and he quit the Planet. So no Jimmy at the Planet, Chloe has been abandoned and where was Davis? Was he under Chloe’s window or what? And you know what I want to know, if she had a husband like Jimmy who was in such bad shape, what was she at Clark’s house most of the time rather than with Jimmy.

One of the really rich conversations is when Chloe is warning Clark of trusting Tess sighting that she is getting way too close to his secret. So she cannot be trusted because she is too much like Lex. But here is where she leaps; she goes on this tirade on how you really should be more careful about trusting people. Right. Like I am going to take advice from a woman who just tazered her husband and makes nicey nice with one of the worst killers, since he does actually kill Superman one day, of all time. I think Chloe was having a delusional moment.

There's a little bit of wardrobe malfunction, Clark.

The second cool scene came at the end where Clark changes from his suit and into his red and blue in a PHONE BOOTH! That was cool I must admit. You know Tom has to be happy being able to dress nicer now. But seriously. Anyone who knew Clark from Smallville should be able to put the whole Red and Blue thing together. That was all the poor boy wore. Lois lived with him long enough to be able to pick up on that. I did like while he was showing Chloe how fast he could change from one thing to the other how he had the blue shirt under his white dress shirt. That was priceless.

All in all I was left with a sense that I wondered why? Why did we need this episode? I get that Davis does not really want to be Doomsday but it is too late for that. He is going to go full on one day anyway. If we wanted Lex, we should have kept Michael Rosenbaum. And the Jimmy/Chloe thing, I knew it had to come to an end at some point because in the mythology Jimmy was never married to Chloe Sullivan. In fact, Chloe does not even exist. Look, I like how Clark wants to embrace the dual role thing. Focus more on that, less on love lives, and you should have never had Doomsday yet. Clark is nowhere near ready for him. I will stay with this til the end if nothing more than to support my Superman and his hard work. Whether the show is so so or not, Tom Welling is always a work of art.

NEXT WEEK: will there soon be a fight with Clark and Doomsday? STAY TUNED!!

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