Mania Grade: D-
Episode: Quest
Starring: Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristen Kreuk, Allison Mack, Erica Durance
Directed By: Kenneth Biller
Written By: Holly Harold
Episode: Quest
Starring: Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristen Kreuk, Allison Mack, Erica Durance
Directed By: Kenneth Biller
Written By: Holly Harold
TV Review: SMALLVILLE - Quest
By: Stephen LackeyReview Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
So, it’s confirmed that Michael Rosenbaum is leaving the show after this season. Knowing this information now is actually adding a bit of excitement to the final episodes. When he’s attacked early on, it’s possible that he could have actually been killed. You might disagree and say that such a decision would be really dumb. My reply to you would be to take a look back at the last couple of seasons and check out the myriad of dumb decisions made by the creators of the series now saved for posterity on DVD. At any rate, the only really interesting thing about the show at this point is just how Lex will finish his run on Smallville.
Lex is nearly killed over the artifact he now has and Jimmy supposedly stealthily gets some really close up pictures of the odd wound. This starts the trend of bad logic that just runs rough shot throughout the running time. Poor Chloe, she’s the coolest character on the show and she is saddled with the bulk of poor logic in the episode. She starts off her share of dumb logic by giving Clark a GPS, held just so we can get a look a good look at it. Could a GPS device keep up with Clark when he’s running full out across the country? The answer is a resounding no. Sure, there’s ways to argue out of this complaint but this is just the start of poor Ms. Sullivan’s ridiculous scenes.
Clark and Lex are both chasing down the answer to Veritas and “the Traveler” and the mystery brings them to the holographic doctor from the U.S.S. Voyager. Well, it brings them to a fanatical monk played by Robert Picardo anyway. Clark arrives first and because he doesn’t immediately accept what the monk believes is Clark’s destiny the monk whips out the kryptonite. It’s better to kill Clark than take a chance on letting Lex control him. Here’s a question; if this guy has so much kryptonite around, why isn’t he a meteor freak?
Chloe discovers that Clark is in jeopardy and is able to appear in Montreal in the church within minutes, just in time to save him. While there, she is easily able to bust up the concrete block Clark is lying on and drains off the kryptonite. You’d think with a near murder of Lex, Lex and Clark globe trekking for the truth, and a battle at the end typically ended by Clark in invisible high speed mode would make for at least an action packed episode but it just isn’t. The episode is actually fairly slow and boring. On top of tha,t the more screen time Jimmy gets the more uninteresting his character gets. He’ll soon be taking the place of Lois as the most boring character on Smallville. The story falls flat with its terrible logic and anticlimactic finale and the action, what there is of it, is warmed over garbage from previous episodes. Next week looks to be pretty exciting. One can only hope it is to make up for the very poor quality of the last several episodes.
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The writers had a golden opportunity to fix everything when they had Clark go to a version of Earth where he never came to Earth and Lex was President. The writers could have had him return to his world but some things were changed and everyone remembers him wearing glasses so he can become Superman and have a secret identity. I guess that was too easy or too much to ask. Now we have to wait and see how this trainwreck will end next year and how will he become Superman if everyone including his worst enemy knows what he really looks like.