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DVD, Smallville S3 (Delete)

This episode is worth watching purely for the fight between Lana and Chloe! I know this is a comic book series, but really they have gone into a new kind of unreality. No one even bats an eyelid at people being taken over by email. And it's really not nice seeing Mrs. Kent get kicked in the face. It feels... very wrong. Lionel isn't in it, Pete barely gets two lines, and you wonder if this was the best they could do with an out of character storyline where everyone tries to kill Chloe.

But then again there is that super fight, Dr. Garner and the Summerholt Institute are back (and a mention of Ryan), and while the episode doesn't live up to it's full potential (I can imagine the paranoia level being upped as Chloe tries to track down the culprit alone - in the end she takes a back seat as Clark and Lex do the leg work), it's a fine episode for this season. Even if awful Adam is in it again. How I wanted Lana to let him walk out the door, but alas, I knew she was going to call after him!

I hadn't watched an episode for a few weeks, so it was a little confusing when a truck that looks like Clark's tries to run down Chloe, an ankle that looks like Clark's gets out of the truck and... it is Clark. I was wondering if I'd forgotten an important plot point. Did he really not like her that much! It was a good idea to start with that, although I couldn't remember why Chloe was at the Daily Planet, and clearing out at that. Of course she refused to work for Lionel any more in a previous episode, so that'll be why. I'm amazed Pete didn't get a turn as a killer, but then again I'm sure he did that before. Hate the fact that Adam's still in it, with his pink, made-up face. Like the mention of Lois Lane, a cousin of Chloe's who's not interested in journalism at all! On balance, it's a good one.

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