Calling

DVD, Smallville S2 (Calling)

I'm glad it didn't end with Chloe walking away, sad, but with the exciting cliffhanger. A proper two-parter at last? There's a lot happening here, as a whole, despite the slightly overmuch soap stuff. I didn't expect Dr. Walden to come back, and he gives a different challenge to the meteorite-infectees of old, although of course he is neatly tied up. Lionel shows once again his truly evil self, Chloe her truly loyal friendship and yet he was closer than he knew perhaps, and the price of her friendship is deep sadness. That aspect of it is so sad.

Pete walks in for his one and only scene (which was a funny one), but he felt like a stranger almost, it's so rare to have him in the series, it seems. Definitely an underused character. And I was surprised that Lex really had been the one to have stolen the vial of blood. It shows he is actively, if not against the Kent's, not willing to miss the revelations about Clark, by now he must have a fairly rounded picture of Clark's secret. Like Chloe I think he feels that once again, even the most trustworthy of people are not to be fully trusted. He only truly has himself. And that's very sad, but at the same time comes from his own choices. Chloe could choose to give up all hopes of love from Clark, and Lex could give up all claim to knowledge. Yet he must now compete on his Father's terms in his eyes, deceit becoming his friend, lies his shield as others have to him. For the first time he lies like his Father - calmly, coolly, to his bride to be, with the same kind of manner.

It's all so sad, but at the same time it has enough mythology stuff to keep the interest piqued (and it made me jump a couple of times!), so although it's not one of the better ones it's kind of important to the ongoing plots even if events are not panning out as one would like... (My DVD played incorrectly so I started with the scene when Lex shows Clark the empty cell, and it was only after a while I realised it hadn't started at the beginning!).

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