Smallville Season Five: Splinter

[butterfly]

This may be my favorite episode of Smallville ever. Just... wow. I loved seeing into Clark's fears, seeing how they progressed from panic to hysteria to near-madness. Tom Welling continues to absolutely knock my socks off (in the commentary James Marsters talks about how impressive he finds Tom, as an actor, and I am definitely agreeing). I mean, wow.

I feel a teeny, tiny bit dirty about finding Clark incredibly hot when he's in the last stages of his paranoia. He looks anxious, broken, and more than a little insane, but, wow, he's pretty. When he smiles at Lex holding a gun on him -- that's so freaking hot, man.

And the things that he says to Lana before he tries to choke her make him sound so much like the many, many meteor mutants who have attacked her over the years. The ending, where she tells him that 'she knows' that he would never hurt her, is very creepy, made more so by the way she says it. I can't really describe it, but it's just...

KK is really spectacular in the this episode. The drawing together of Lex and Lana is feeling very natural to me, because the two character are really so much alike in their fascinations and fears. Their mutual obsession with Clark, everything they both lost with the meteor shower, the need to never be lonely, their driving need to know what's going on, no matter what the cost -- they are well-suited to each other.

Comments

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Part 1 and Part 2 :-)

I thought the exploration of Clark's dreams and fears was incredibly good--one of those eps that made me think: see! the writers DO know their characters!

[pep-singer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I really enjoyed that. :)

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Thanks for letting me know. *g*