Smallville Rewatch Continued: Episodes 1x05-06

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I've defenitely forgotten how much I liked old school Smallville.



1x05: Cool

• Is the sound effect that we hear when we see meteor rocks, just meant for the audience? Or can the people in the show hear it too?


• “If I recall you’re the one who wanted to come to this party.” –Clark to Chloe, forgetting that she’s a Metropolis girl who enjoys a good party, sadly Smallville is seriously lacking them. Also sadly, this is a side that slowly gets forgotten/mentioned less as the series continues. I love party girl Chloe, who might not be into the right scene or anythng like that, but sneaks into night clubs in Metropolis and goes to raves with Pete and just wants to have fun.


• “Wow, I can’t believe you delivered that line with a straight face.” –Chloe, to Sean who doesn’t buy what he’s selling but like any fifteen year old girl, likes the attention anyways. This episode was probably the first hint that Chloe’s love life would not go well.


• “Did you just write your phone number on Sean Calvin’s hand?” –Clark, and his first 'jealous about Chloe and another guy but unsure of why' face appearance. It makes a lot of appearances over the years and I don’t think Clark ever really figures out why seeing Chloe with other guys makes him uncomfortable. Whether he’s just protective (overly so) or if there’s something more to it than that.


• You punch your way out of a lake and turn a fire to ice…You’d think it would cause a bit more of a reaction. Sean doesn’t seem all that bothered by it, other than being cold.


• Clark being all show-y off-y about his powers and number skills to his parents makes me giggle.


• “And both of you, treat me better.” Chloe, not afraid to tell off her best friends when they’re being dumb and treating her like she’s not even there. I think she especially didn’t appreciate Pete suggesting that Clark ask her out. (If he’s going to do that, he has to come up with the idea on his own.) These are the things that make me love her.


• And Martha almost chainsaws Lex to death, how different the story might have been. LOL. And then he starts to help her with it, picking up the wood she dropped, and you can see why Martha always had a soft spot for Lex in the beginning.


• Lex’s dislike, his such obvious dislike, of Whitney makes me laugh. He’s subtle in so many things, but he doesn’t even pretend to be in this. And Lana calls him out on it, but still, some of the things he says sticks and you can tell she resents him for that.


• “Actually, Chloe, I have you to thank.” –Clark tells her about his date with Lana, and you can see the tiny bit of hurt there. Because she’s happy for her friend, impressed that he finally moved passed just talking about Lana, but still, she doesn’t want his thanks. Doesn’t want to be part of the reason why it happened. Because she can be happy for her friend and still hurt at the same time, it’s just harder to hide it when he’s telling her thank you for something she wished for herself. And its so subtle (A+ acting Allison), Clark never even notices, because he’s not looking over at her, and she tells him what he wants to hear, but it’s still there in the tone of her voice and the way she looks at him. And then Sean shows up, and she looks at Clark and she thinks maybe he’s not okay with her dating other people either (he has that look again), but then Sean turns her down so quickly, in front of him, and it makes it worse on both fronts. Because she thought maybe this popular guy liked her, thought she was beautiful, and she thought maybe Clark didn’t like the idea of it. But then, it all started falling apart. Again. And she probably shouldn’t be surprised, but it still hurt.


• Pete was good though, Pete wrapped his arm around her and lead her away from Sean and comforted her. I miss that Pete, the Pete that put Chloe first and didn’t look back while doing it. If only we could have kept that.


• Shower attack scenes are always creepy and this one is no exception. And it’s made so much worse by her shattering on the floor after he’s killed her.


• “I’m not familiar with this child. Where’s the moody one? Lives upstairs, runs real fast.” –Martha, funnier than people give her credit for.


• I love that Chloe’s over helping Clark get ready and also making fun of him at the same time. Reading him his horoscope, criticizing his wardrobe choices, etc. Supportive, but not so supportive that she won’t be sarcastic. (“Burn that.”) He really should listen to her clothing advice though.


• Oh, Lex. The way to the Kents heart is not lying to them, somewhere in that big brain of yours, you have to know that.


• “Whenever the world gets disappointing, you retreat into a book.”—Clark, who should be happy that Lana didn’t find this stalkerish or creepy. Because, well, he delivered it that way. But his magic line and then magic trick afterwards, full of game.


• -Poor Chloe, excited for the hot guy who might like her but just wants to suck her body heat. And it starts off romantic, with rose petals and promises, but then it all goes to hell. Which again, a hint of her romantic life to come.


• -Chloe’s first full-fledged Clark Kent rescue.


• -Pete and Lana’s conversation, about Clark and his Clarkness, but also a hint of things that could have been if the show had let them go there. I have no problem with Lana being Clark’s first love, but I think it would have been interesting if they had developed a closer friendship between Lana and Pete, considering comic book canon.


• -I kind of like that in this episode the villain didn’t just go after one character (though he prayed on Chloe specifically, the rest was more convenience or retribution in his mind), he went after so many of the main characters in the episode; Chloe, then Whitney and Lana, then Clark, and Martha.


• “Sorry about your date.” –Lex to Lana about Clark right in front of Whitney. So obvious. So not even trying to be subtle. And I love it. I don't even hate Whitney or think he deserves it necessairly, I just love Lex's approach.


• Again, the final fight with the bad guy confuses me. Did he die when the lake froze over, like he was supposed to the first time? Was he just stuck? Did he thaw out eventually? Did people come cut him out and he eventually end up in some place like Bell Reeve? Its kind of ambiguous and I’m not sure if that’s because they don’t want us to think Clark killed him (because he’s Superman in the making and there’s always another way), or just because the writing could have been more clear.


• “Believe it or not, Lex, some things actually have nothing to do with you.” –Jonathan lies, because it has everything to do with Lex. It has to do with his last name and his father, it has to do with his interest and budding friendship with Clark and what that could mean. It has to do with his pride about accepting another Luthor’s offer for help. So yeah, it has everything to do with Lex, just not in ways Lex will ever understand.


• I like that though it doesn’t continue after the episode, this one does let Chloe grieve and consider the possibilities about what could have happened. (“Just think that could have been me.”) And she does what so many victims do; she blames herself, because she should have known better. But really, it’s Smallville and its so early on that she hasn’t learned to be weary, to be careful who to put her trust in yet. She doesn’t give it away freely, because Chloe’s always been a cynic, but she’s so more open, so young, and so wanting to be happy. And she blames herself for that and its incredibly sad. (“I thought I was stronger than that.”) Clark tries to be supportive and Pete tries to make her smile, but she’s still thinking about the pool and the memorial service the next day for a girl that could have been her if someone else wasn’t there to save her. And it’s the first of many scars, of many moments, she’ll never be able to forget.


• “I’m sorry, I wanted things to work out differently.” –Clark and Lana’s relationship summed up really.

1x06: Hourglass

• I love Pete’s knowing smile the moment he sees Lana and suddenly them being there makes all the sense in the world. And he just shakes his head because after all these years, why hadn’t he figured it out that it was Lana’s presence that brought them there in the beginning.


• “You don’t look that scary to me,” --Lana, to a serial killer grown old. That’s a common theme, no one on this show (no one in Lana’s life) looks like the bad guy, until suddenly they are.


• -Deeks! Aka Eric Christian Olsen. Its so interesting to see this episode, after watching NCIS: LA, because here he’s so full on villain, evil laugh and all, and on the other, he’s so loveable (though still dangerous). Also, this makes me want someone from Smallville to appear on NCIS:LA so we could see interview/tweets about meeting up with them again.


• Clark lecturing his parents on safety habits is kind of adorable, as is there confusion.


• I love Chloe and Lana’s reaction to Harry and the little look they share, like ‘who is this guy?”, smiling and all together rolling their eyes. Chloe thinking he’s too interested and Lana’s mind working when he knows who she is (even if he had an excuse) and the way he called the waitress ‘doll’. They realize there’s something off about him far before Clark does.


• Oh, Lex, denying his interest in knowing the future, but wanting to know it all the same. Even Clark was on to you, buddy.


• Clark’s vision of the future is so heartbreaking, the look on his face, as he looked at all the gravestones, all the people who will die before him. (“I don’t want to be alone.”) And he’s scared and so young and he doesn’t want it to be true, doesn’t want to live a life where he loses everything and everyone. He’s so young and so not prepared for the life that awaits him.


• “Does that include me? I’m up there with the three headed calf and the monster from crater lake.” –Lana, with such anger in her voice as she looks at the Wall of Weird. She’s usually so soft spoken, but she hates the idea of being included on that wall, hates that picture and what it represents, hates the idea that the meteor shower is still the cause of so much pain in her life (and will continue to be). All she ever wanted was a happy life, with her parents, and the meteors took that away, and now she finds out their changing people too, making them into something other than human; that the meteors are still altering her life. And she hates it. It was supposed to be over. (“I thought high school would be different, that I could finally start putting it behind me. But everywhere I go, there it is.”) That day that plays over in her mind was just supposed to be a memory. But if these rocks are still causing damage, if they were what effected Greg and Tina, then there still affecting her, still changing her life, still taking things away from her. And she hates the very idea of that.


• And on the flip side of that, you have Clark, constantly racked with guilt over all the damage the meteor shower caused. About how it affected Lana herself. And despite everyone keep telling him that it’s not his fault, it still feels like it is. Clark’s guilt sets in very early on in the series.


• “How about we don’t get seen?”–Clark, right before he gets caught by a blind woman. He needs to work on his stealth skills. Even if Cassandra is kind of magic.


• Cassandra, the first person to tell Clark he was sent there for something more, to become a hero, to save people. She shows him the victims he’ll protect, tells him that he brings happiness and safety when there once was only fear and despair and she gives him faith in himself. But I still think she’s one of many people to put too much pressure on a young kid. He doesn’t want to save the world, he wants to date the girl he likes.


• Poor Zoe the waitress, she was so nice to Harry, she seemed to genuinely like him, and then he turned so quickly against her.


• Clark’s first citizen arrest.


• Lex finally tells Clark about his obsession with the accident, shows him the Porsche, and tells him a story about another eccentric billionaire that couldn’t let go. And this is the first time Clark really lies to him about it, but also dodges the subject pretty well.


• Clark interrogating Harry, staring at him unflinchingly, and not backing down. I actually really do love the moments Clark goes all badass for all the right reasons.


• I like Lana walking in on Clark, Pete, and Chloe figuring out the murder mystery of the week, like this is just a normal thing. I like that it doesn’t faze them at this point that there’s a guy time-warping and killing people and that their actively trying to figure out what he’s going to do next, because they basically have no faith in the police.


• I love that they showcased how smart and resourceful Martha is; she isn’t just anybody’s victim. She asks the right questions when Harry shows up at the door, claiming to be the gas man and she gets one over on him when she knocks him over the head with the vase. And despite it ending semi-badly (she doesn’t die but still trauma) she finds a pretty decent place to hide. And when he’s trying to kill her, she fights back with everything in her. And when she wakes up, her first words are to reassure her son and husband (“you think I’d ever leave you two alone.”) Basically, to sum everything up. Martha Kent is a badass and a survivor and deserves far more credit then she gets.


• “See I don’t want to do good things, I want to do great things.” –Lex, talking about his greatest strength and his biggest downfall. Because he desires to do good, to be a great man who changes the world, but he operates under the illusion that it doesn’t matter how he gets there, that the ends justify the means, and that’s what’s ultimately his downfall. Because once he starts down that slope, leaving gray morality for something much darker, he never does come back.


• Lex’s reaction to Cassandra’s death, to the idea of his future being the reason she died, what that meant; its all so heartbreaking. The way he wipes his hands repeatedly, trying to get rid of the feeling of death, to forget what it feels like to watch someone die (because this isn’t the first time and won’t be the last). And there’s the lingering question of, is it his fault? Because he came there, because he asked her to tell him his future, was it all because of him? And I love the ambiguity they leave for the viewers, was it just her time? (She predicted it.) Or was it because of what she saw that she died?