(Season 8, Episode 10, “Bride”)
“Why do these terrible things keep happening all around us?” – Lois
Last week‘s warning that Doomsday was coming came to fruition in the final 2008 episode of The CW’s Smallville. Doomsday officially arrived, thanks to the increased budgets for Sweeps episodes! Sweeps also means surprise guest stars … so we were sadly treated to Lana’s return. Luckily, she didn’t make everything about herself and actually helped Clark move on a bit more. She also is involved in a mysterious storyline that could turn out to be interesting, especially if she is working with Lex.
Oh, and Lois? To answer your question, terrible things keep happening all around you because: 1) You are on a TV show, 2) it’s November Sweeps!
Here are my random thoughts about this week’s Smallville episode.
Back to the topic, Lex is alive. As Lana said, it’s not because the leader is gone, it’s that the empire is too. It’s clear that some Luthor Corp. employees found Lex and are helping keep him alive with all those wires and gadgets. Since Lana is pretty resourceful in that area, as we saw during her time at the Isis Foundation, it wouldn’t be surprising if she is the one helping keep Lex alive. Lana may even be the one who found Lex or be one of the first person who was contacted by some random Luthor Corp. employee who didn’t read the memo that Lex and Lana were no more. No matter who’s behind Lex being alive, the person doesn’t want anyone and everyone knowing that Lex is alive, including now-in-charge-of-Luthor Corp Tess. It’ll be interesting to see what they do next with Lex now that they’ve confirmed to us that the man is not dead.
At first, I thought that Davis tapped into his Doomsday persona, even if not totally willingly, to get the woman he wanted. However, after seeing Doomsday bring Chloe to the Fortress of Solitude, taken over by Brainiac in the last episode, I’m wondering if Doomsday wasn’t guided a bit to Chloe by Brainiac wanting his human host back. Chloe’s eyes and smile at the end of the episode made me believe that Brainiac went back inside of her. What will he do when he notices that Chloe doesn’t recall who Kal-El is? Unless Chloe saying that “Nothing is going to make me forget” to Clark is foreshadowing the fact that somehow (maybe with Brainiac’s help) she will get all her memories back?
Let’s face it, Clark needs someone else living in Smallville and/or Metropolis besides world-traveling Oliver that knows his secret. Lana proved it when she grabbed the meteor rock from the floor.
That’s it for the first half of Smallville‘s eighth season. The next new episode will air on January 15 and will feature three League of Superheroes characters: Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy.
What did you think of “Bride” and the first half of the season? Let your voice be heard in comments below!
I hope that Chloe gets her memory of Clark’s powers and she (when Brainiac gets deleted from her head again) gives him alot of shit over erasing that from her head. Because lets face it with the major problem of Kryptonite just randomly lying around Smallville and Metropolis someone is going to have to help Clark out once in a while.
I wish they bring back lana and lex for the hole seson 8 please put them back on and will clark and lois get togther for the first time and make go all the way until season 11 and stop and will clark get his superman sulit the end from johnny griggs and jonathan griggs I a big fan of smallville it is a great show to watch I love lois she is hot and choie is to from jonathan griggs.
i hope doomsday and clark kent have a little showdown with the legions and justice league…