[Inspector Hammer!]

Not much to say except I liked it.

[Greg_S_H]

Yet another episode with a Clark/Lex confrontation where I'm wishing they could patch it up. Then I remember Lex beating a dude to death last season. Funny thing that he now trusts Lionel, but Lionel just beat someone to death, too.

I was hoping Clark would laugh in Lex's face when he was talking about Clark being Lana's original betrayer. No, pal--she now knows everything you only wish you could know.

[JohnS]

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Originally Posted by chris

How did I ever get convinced to watch this? I really enjoyed some of the middle seasons (2-5) but this has been really... blah. And the writing of Lana this seasons is unbelievably terrible.

If any show may benefit from a break by the writers, this might be it.

see...thought you would hate it.
As soon as I read the spoilers for this episode, I knew alot of us were going to hate this episode.

I really didn't care for it either.

I hate the way Lana learned to use heat vision so quickly.
Clark learned to use it by thinking of Lana(love) and even Kara first learned to use it by thinking of Jimmy.

I'm just sick of lana all together.

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Originally Posted by jason v

Oy. At least next week looks good.

from kryptonsite.com
Yes it does, this is where we find out

Spoiler:

what's really inside the blue crystal

if you want to know a MAJOR spoiler from the above secret read here.

Spoiler:

It's Lara, that gives clark a blue kryptonite ring, but it's really a trap set by Zor-el that strips Clark of his powers

Next weeks episode is the last one before a holiday break.
Then Smalville comes back Dec. 13th for one episode
then goes on Christmas break and comes back Jan 3
and then due to the writers strike(if prolonged to the end of the season) Episode 15 will be the last episode, ending with cliffhangers
Here is a statement from Al Gough from the picket line Al Gough's statement

[Patrick Sun]

This was an oddly constructed and not all that compelling of an episode, plus the silly Lois/Editor subplot just wasn't working for me. Zor-el was a dud of a bad guy. So Editor Boy is a Luthor, though Lionel is in for a surprise when he finds out about him. Having an amnesiac Kara in the middle of Detroit waiting tables, did the writers just run out of things for her to do? How many times has Lana been thrown around like a rag doll?

[Inspector Hammer!]

I liked this episode, I actually felt that Zor El was a very dangerous individual and needed to be put down quickly, this was the first time i've felt that way about a villain on this show in a while.

There were two "holy shit!" moments in this episode, one was that we learn that Lionel wasn't Lionel all along, he was Jor El, I knew this good Lionel was too good to be true and the second was that Julian Luthor is alive and well and is currently the editor of the Daily Planet!

I'm also glad that Zor El and Lara are gone, there were far too many Kryptonians presant in one ep for my liking.

[Chris]

The discovery in regards to the editor came across as too cute by half. It just struck me as really goofy writing more then a "wow" moment, I was just thinking about how it's a rest of so many concepts forwarded in earlier seasons, didn't care for that at all.

But I did like the entire Zor El bit, who is definitely a villain without a light side or a reason to really see them as anything but what they are.

Better by a good margin then the rest of the season has been.

[Adam Lenhardt]

Didn't they already do a big revelation with Julian? And wasn't there a bastard son of Lionel's that disappeared circa season two? This show's starting to lose me again. The only big shocker was Kara popping up in Detroit.

[Greg_S_H]

Didn't Lex used to think he had smothered Julian, but it turned out he hadn't?

I guess Cleveland isn't Hollywood's whipping city any more, but I almost wish Kara had asked, "Where am I?" and the woman had answered, "Cleveland," and Kara had repeated, "Cleveland? CLEVELAND?!" and then turned around in a circle yelling, "NOOOOOOOOO!" while the camera did that Shawshank rain crane shot.

[Jason_V]

That was SO not Detroit. Not even close. Not run down enougn, for one thing. Kara would have been run over in a heartbeat if she was laying in the middle of a Detroit street.

I'm just "ugh" about the Julian reveal. More and more characters keep getting piled into the show and the regulars aren't being serviced like they should. Two Lana scenes? A dopey "subplot" involving Chloe? Lionel in a couple brief scenes? At least Kara was halfway watchable this week.

[MishaLauenstein]

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Originally Posted by Jason_V

That was SO not Detroit. Not even close. Not run down enougn, for one thing. Kara would have been run over in a heartbeat if she was laying in the middle of a Detroit street.

I'm just "ugh" about the Julian reveal. More and more characters keep getting piled into the show and the regulars aren't being serviced like they should. Two Lana scenes? A dopey "subplot" involving Chloe? Lionel in a couple brief scenes? At least Kara was halfway watchable this week.

Well we've been waiting for Julian's return for what, like 5 years, and with Lex leaving the show after this season, there's not much choice about when to bring him into the show.

And also, when Lex leaves, Julian can take his place on the show for all the arguing with Lionel scenes.