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Spoilers for tonight's episode
Well, that ending was a twist. I was completely convinced that Lionel had set the whole blackmail scheme up to win Martha's trust, so now I'm confused. The guy wearing Lionel's body clearly set it up, but was it Lionel or Lion-El? Is it Jor-El who has been romancing Martha this whole time? Or did Lionel set it up but Jor-El intervened? Or does Lionel have memories from being possessed by Jor-El?
I'm actually leaning in the direction that Jor-El has been in the driver's seat the whole time, and *did* cause Jonathan's death and is now the one romancing Martha. Which is twisty and perverse and I kind of like it even better than Lionel doing the same thing.
I don't think I'm going to write a lot more on this episode right now, because I want to go see everyone's comments on Lex finally taking the gloves off. You *go*, Lex! Way to get your evil on! Ok, Victor was damn hot, and I disapprove of you experimenting on him (not just because he was hot, but because experimenting on innocent folks is not cool, which I feel necessary to write because I was enjoying evil!Lex probably a little *too* much), but I do love Lex *finally* being bad, and in a competent way. I loved how he responded to Clark's angry entrance (no smalltalk, no pleasantres, straight to accusations), and how well he deflected CLark's suspicions both in that scene and later in Dr. Hong's garage.
Oh, and the six million dollar man references were hilarious! "I have the technology."
I thought with Victor we *finally* got an actor with the chops to make us sympathetic to visiting superhero of the week. He's the first one I've actually been interested in this season, and even though the parallels between Victor/his girlfriend and Clark/Lana were a little annoying (break UP already! I'm ready for the Lexana!)I still thought that TW and KK were both bringing their A game to their scenes with him. Despite the fact that I'm really, really sick of the dead romance plot, I really did like KK's acting in this episode, especially in her scenes with the guy playing Victor.
Well, that ending was a twist. I was completely convinced that Lionel had set the whole blackmail scheme up to win Martha's trust, so now I'm confused. The guy wearing Lionel's body clearly set it up, but was it Lionel or Lion-El? Is it Jor-El who has been romancing Martha this whole time? Or did Lionel set it up but Jor-El intervened? Or does Lionel have memories from being possessed by Jor-El?
I'm actually leaning in the direction that Jor-El has been in the driver's seat the whole time, and *did* cause Jonathan's death and is now the one romancing Martha. Which is twisty and perverse and I kind of like it even better than Lionel doing the same thing.
I don't think I'm going to write a lot more on this episode right now, because I want to go see everyone's comments on Lex finally taking the gloves off. You *go*, Lex! Way to get your evil on! Ok, Victor was damn hot, and I disapprove of you experimenting on him (not just because he was hot, but because experimenting on innocent folks is not cool, which I feel necessary to write because I was enjoying evil!Lex probably a little *too* much), but I do love Lex *finally* being bad, and in a competent way. I loved how he responded to Clark's angry entrance (no smalltalk, no pleasantres, straight to accusations), and how well he deflected CLark's suspicions both in that scene and later in Dr. Hong's garage.
Oh, and the six million dollar man references were hilarious! "I have the technology."
I thought with Victor we *finally* got an actor with the chops to make us sympathetic to visiting superhero of the week. He's the first one I've actually been interested in this season, and even though the parallels between Victor/his girlfriend and Clark/Lana were a little annoying (break UP already! I'm ready for the Lexana!)I still thought that TW and KK were both bringing their A game to their scenes with him. Despite the fact that I'm really, really sick of the dead romance plot, I really did like KK's acting in this episode, especially in her scenes with the guy playing Victor.