Shattered

DVD, Smallville S3 (Shattered)

An uncomfortable episode and a sad one. It's not good to see Lana mashed up, Clark revealed to Lex, Lex crazily babbling, or... what a surprise, no Pete! At all. No wonder the guy left, he isn't in the series anymore! For it's faults you still watch it, and this was a better episode. It may not have been a positive experience, but at least it was an experience, the same couldn't really be said of the last few episodes which you could fall asleep in.

This one twists you up. It's a relief to find Lex' madness was all engineered as it gives some hope that we could go back to how things were to some degree. I should have expected he wasn't really insane from Lionel's blindness last season, but there you go. I didn't like the Morgan Edge side to it all, because it seemed like they couldn't afford to bring back the big name actor who played him before (and in fact they kill him off in the deleted scene on the DVD), which seemed a bit cheap. And would the guy have made a video with his new face? I should think he'd want to create a new identity after going through all that surgery.

There was enough to make for a watchable episode though, with Clark believing Lex, despite all the facts, and you come to sympathise with the poor guy (both of them, as Clark is left pretty down too). You get a reasonable hero moment with the car going into Clark, and the end scene is more haunting than anything else so far in S3...

Knowing what I do about Lionel from accidentally seeing bits of later episodes, that he's behind it isn't surprising, but it was sad that the lady that helped Lex through his 'illness' was working for him. Still not much humour or adrenaline, but at least it was marginally more engaging.

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