Television Review


TV Review: SMALLVILLE - Quest

By: Stephen Lackey
Review 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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Comments/Responses
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mike10 • May 13, 2008, 05:10am •
I don't know about a D-, I think this episode was average for Smallville. Trust me, I have seen worse episodes that made no sense at all.
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.

fft5305 • May 13, 2008, 08:41am •
Ok. a) Just because someone is near kryptonite, doesn't mean they will become a meteor freak. Usually, someone has to get exposed to it in some unusual way (inhaling dust, drinking irradiated water etc) to gain powers; b) His exposure to the rock was limited anyway because it was all encased in lead, otherwise Clark would have been able to see it.

I'm guessing that at the end of the series, Jor-El will lay some sort of super-memory-alteration whammy on everyone to alter their memories of Clark, so that no one correctly remembers what he looks like. That's the only way I can figure that they can end it without everyone who had ever lived in Smallville seeing Superman and saying, "Hey! That dude looks just like Clark!"

Btw, how cool was it seeing Clark in the suit & glasses on the show in the previous ep? That made the episode for me!

jedi4sshield • May 13, 2008, 11:15am •
Seeing Clark with the Glasses was awesome. They should have took that direction a long time ago. He should have been establishing his identity. Alas we have to deal with the terrible hand we are given. As for this episode I have to absolutely agree with the stupidity of it all. Who needs a regular GPS from Chloe when you have a Kryptonian GPS from Lex hahahahah how funny is that. Who needs to control Clark when you have so much Kryptonite around that you can just kill him. I said it many times already Kryptonite should have been rare. Even if the meteor freaks that weve seen in the series were infected by a sliver of a fragment that would have been okay but no we have freakin bolders and piles of it.

I think I officially hate this show and yet I still watch to see how things play out of having seen so many Episodes already. Other than this I would have given up on it already. It seems there are so many ways to kill a Kryptonian in this series its mind boggling. I mean WTF even his own father Jor-EL is willing to freakin hurt Clark or put him away or build something that might neutralize him. Who the F#$k does he think he is? I swear to God that If I were of Kryptonian decent I would disown the whole F@#kin Family of El or any other Kryptonian House. This is the role model of an advance Civilization? I think not. I think, no better I know Kryptonians as portrayed in this series, are morons. All of them.

WISEGUY562 • May 13, 2008, 04:08pm •
jedi4sshield, I'm with you on that. I stay with the show because I need to see how much they're going to mess up the SM mythos, because I've been with it since the beginning and need to see how or when they're going to wrap it up. Plus is really the only live action superhero series on tv, so that's my fix for the week.


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