This week's episode starts off with Lois walking into Clark's place on the farm with some boxes with her belonging in them, This should be uncomfortable for Clark, but hey.. he did invite her to move in right? Along with the boxes Lois brings with her, Clark receives a gift box, with no markings as to who it's from, he open's it - it's Tess' missing Blue Crystal. He picks it up and before you know it, Clark and Lois are trapped in the Phantom Zone, flying through space. (now come on Lois, Clark TOLD you to back away, WHY do you never listen to something someone tells you, instead doing the total opposite and decide to latch onto Clark as the crystal was lighting up?? what if it were to blow up???)
Lois and Clark wake up in the PhantomZone, and she naturally freaks the hell out because they're on another planet. Clark tries to calm her down, but she's certain they've been abducted. Maybe Clark is so calm because he wouldn't mind a good probing....Hey, its been a while since he's gotten any, of anything right?
They get attacked by a masked woman. It's Kara, Warrior Princess, wearing one of the silliest, worst looking costumes I've ever seen used on Smallville. Where did she get all of that in a place with nothing anyways?? And i'm pretty sure she would have been watching them before pouncing... She didn't recognize her own cousin and someone she's seen before..and instead thought they were zoners? don't those things look like demons??
Clark tells her that they've got to find a way to get out of here and back to Earth, Kara tells him that she knows of a portal back to Earth, but she hasn't used it out of fear the Zoners would get out like they did when Clark last used a portal to escape the PhantomZone. Lois comes to and is stunned to see that Kara is there, but she's dumb enough to believe that all three of them were abducted by aliens (That's it! she got her job as a reporter based on her looks! her interviewer ignored everything else!!) . Kara opens the portal for Lois while Clark fights off the Zoner, But one gets through and jumps into Lois' body once she gets back to Earth.
Back on Earth, Chloe shows up to Kent farm and only finds a broken windown and the Blue Crystal. She pockets it before Tess shows up, searching for the source of a power surge she detected. As always, Tess is quite the bad-ass with an icy cold stare.
In Metropolis, Chloe tries to reach Oliver, but he's busy in Venezuela. I thought he said he went to Europe for a Justice League summit on the last episode of Smallville? was that over already and he's already darting to some other far off place instead of home? Maybe he's just picking up Cyborg and Impulse...who knows...
She eventually finds him and convinces Oliver to steal a generator from Tess so she can hack the Blue Crystal. (on another side note here, why does ANYONE need 3 cell phones? 1 is understandable, everyone should have one.. 2..pushing it, but some people want separate ones for business and personal...but 3??)
The Green Arrow breaks into Luthor Manor and steals the generator, but gets busted by Tess just as he gets it. He paralyzes her with an arrow (wicked quick throw too!), somehow she doesn't seem to recognize the lips she's kissed so many times (punchline here can be that's she's kissed so many so she can't be expected to remember them all) yes the voice is different..but combining the lips, and body figure,hmmm at least put some of it together?. Anyways... Green Arrown brings the device to Chloe, who uses her super Brainiac hacking skills to get into the Blue Crystal, which scares the heck out of Oliver.
Zoned out Lois (whose Kryptonian name is Faora) goes to the Daily Planet to search the records for her son, that she had with General Zod. They attached their child to the spaceship that brought baby Kal-El to Earth. (Have to say, Lois as Faora looked really HOT!!! that was a great look on her) Tess comes into the office and offers to help if Lois can help her find the missing Blue Crystal. Zoner Lois says "No deal." Zoner Lois will be NOBODY'S pawn!!
She then tracks down Chloe and asks for her help finding her son. Chloe accidentally helps when she knocks over a file about Davis. Awesome, Doomsday is General Zod's son! This is a departure from the comic mythology for the character, but one that I kind of love. Zoner Lois goes out and finds him at the hospital, and is disappointed that he's HELPING humans.
Back in the PZ, Kara wants to sacrifice herself so Clark can go through the portal, but when Chloe reverse activates the Blue Crystal, Clark grabs onto Kara's hand and the two get zapped back to Earth. Chloe gives them the 411 on Faora, wife of Zod.
Back at the hospital, Davis thinks Lois is just drunk, so he dismisses all this talk about being his alien mother. Zod and Faora apparently created a son by sending their genetic matter to Earth so it could evolve and become the world's greatest destroyer. So it's the classic story of how baby's are made: two aliens put their sperm and egg onto a spaceship and when it gets to Earth, a baby boy is born.
("Mom, where do babies come from?" "From outer space son")
Faora's disappointment leads her to stab Davis through the chest with a metal rod to prove his true nature. Clark speeds into the hospital and grabs Zoner Lois, but she swats him aside and proceeds to choke the life out of him until Kara uses a red crystal to zap her back to the PhantomZone.
The next morning, Lois gets a mysterious raise from Tess, which means she can afford to find her own place to live. She's also delusional enough to accept that her trip to the PhantomZone was nothing more than a crazy whacked out acid trip.
Tess calls Clark in to pry about what Zoner Lois told her about an alien spaceship carrying a baby named Kal-El. She also shows him a photograph of a boot print she found on Kent farm that matches the one she found in the arctic where Lex disappeared, but he denies any knowledge about what she's talking about, "lots of people have the same shoe".
Oliver stops by the Kent farm to voice his concerns about Chloe's super-powered hacking that caused her eyes to turn white. Oliver demands that Clark helps her out to cure her of this dangerous Brainiac disease.
Kara tells her cousin to just admit the truth to Lois because she's strong and can handle it. She also tells him that shes' leaving town, because she heard rumors that a lost Kryptonian city is still in existence while in the PhantomZone, so she wants to find it. She flies off, never to be seen on Smallville again.
Back to the hospital, Davis takes off his shirt to admire the fact that there's no gaping hole where Faora ran a metal pipe through him. The man has abs of steel, and I mean that in the literal sense.... He experiments with stabbing himself in the chest, but the knife just shatters. It looks like Doomsday has arrived!.
All together, a pretty decent episode, as the majority of this season have been...8 episodes in, we're about midway there... so I things should REALLY get exciting from here with things wrapping themselves up, sort of a shame Doomsday wasn't brought in a bit earlier, as I think things with him would be a little rushed now to really have any decent impact..Guess we'll have to wait and see...
Not really sure how I feel about this changing of Doomsday's lineage, as in the comic...
Doomsday was created in the distant past on the planet Krypton (so far I guess this part stayed the same in this story?) , long before the humanoid Kryptonian race had gained dominance over the planet. It was a violent, hellish world where only the absolute strongest of creatures could survive (at the time, the world's dominant lifeforms were said to be the most dangerous creatures in the universe).In an effort to create the ultimate lifeform, the alien scientist Bertron (not General Zod and his wife) sent an infant who was born in vitro—in order to make it develop resistance to the harsh environment to the surface of the planet—- where it would be promptly killed by the vicious creatures inhabiting it.
When someone was finally able to destroy him, Its remains were harvested and used to clone a stronger version of it, a process repeated countless times as a form of accelerated natural selection. The agony of these deaths were recorded into its genes, driving the creature to hate all lifeforms. Eventually, it gained the ability to adapt, to overcome what killed it in its prior life without the need of Bertron's technology. "The Ultimate/Doomsday" hunted and killed all of the lethal creatures that then inhabited Krypton, including Bertron, who he had come to identify as hostile due to his research having 'killed' him hundreds upon hundreds of times. (wouldn't you be upset at someone killing you or trying to kill you lots of times?) .
So there's a brief summary for the creation of Doomsday...Different as you can see from what's been played out on the show...not really sure if what's being played on the show is good or bad though? any thoughts?
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