Smallville Season 8 episode 14 recap

This weeks episode of Smallville was titled "Requiem"

To start this weeks episode, very creepy Winslow Schott is shown having a conversation with a ventriloquist's dummy about the joy of toys as he works on a model of the Daily Planet. Meanwhile, the LuthorCorp Board of Directors has a meeting to hold a vote of no confidence for Tess Mercer, Not happy with the way she's running things, and believing she is out to ruin the company.. but Oliver Queen busts in to say that he bought a controlling interest in LuthorCorp to the shock of everyone in the room.

The Board isn't too pleased at this news, but Oliver is distracted by clicking balls which he figures out are a bomb, so he ducks and tells everyone to get down, while the board gets blown up. In a brilliant bit of editing, the falling, flaming debris smashes into the comet of the opening credits....swwweeet!

In the Kent house, the bed is broken by the super-powered sex of Clark and Lana. Rather than go another round with Clark in the sack, Lana wants to go out patrolling with him. I know quite a few ladies who would disagree with her decision. He puts on his clothes faster than a speeding bullet because he's always dreamed of having a partner he could work side by side with.

Chloe arrives to spoil the mood and tell the lovers about the explosion at Luthorcorp that killed everyone except Oliver. Clark and Lana speed into the hospital to see the fallen Queen, who looks better after being in an explosion than most people do at their absolute best.

Clark and Lana suspect Lex so they go to investigate and find one of the clicking balls filled with Kryptonite. Lana removes a microchip to diffuse the Kryptonite and is confused by the fact that the chip has a Queen Industries logo.

Winslow (aka the Toyman) is still talking to his dummy, angry that neither Tess nor Oliver were killed in his explosion. Inside the dummy, we learn that the Toyman is working for Lex and he promises to start phase two, which involves an explosion at the Daily Planet. This dude is seriously deranged, and he has a pretty great evil laugh that would rival Bad Horse's terrible death whinny.

At the hospital, Oliver flirts with a nurse before asking Chloe for the address of a disgruntled employee named Winslow Schott with a penchant for toy bombs. Oliver suspects Winslow is working for Lex, and he wants Clark to stay out of it so he can kill Lex.

Chloe goes to Oliver’s private plane to get the address and Clark shows up wondering why she’s there. She claims it’s because even a bomb can’t stop Oliver’s work ethic.

Once Clark figures out the real reason, Chloe tries to defend Oliver’s desire to kill Lex since he’s pretty much turned 100 percent evil, but Clark’s goody-goody nature still thinks it’s wrong to kill him.

The Toyman visits Oliver in the hospital and handcuffs him to the bed. Oliver taunts the Toyman, who gets agitated and starts going crazy. Chris Gauthier is doing an absolutely fantastic job playing a campy, over-the-top villain.

The Toyman has a cymbal-crashing toy monkey and after he slams his cymbals together 53 times, he’ll explode. Oliver gets the Toyman to come close enough to grab and force into releasing him and telling him where Lex is.

Thanks to a quick trip to the patent office, Clark and Lana find Winslow’s home and spot the dummy with Lex’s wireless video camera inside. They also find a model of Metropolis with the Daily Planet destroyed.
They make their way to the Daily Planet and find a massive Kryptonite bomb on the roof. Lex uses his Phantom of the Opera intercom system to tell them that Lana’s super suit has the ability to absorb all the Kryptonite’s energy and diffuse the bomb, but it will leave her lethal to the touch for Clark.
After sharing one final kiss, she goes for it and does some weird flying, glowing thing that looks surprisingly good by Smallville’s visual effects standards.
Clark flees to go after Lex, but Lana stands in his way because she doesn’t want Clark to kill Lex because that’s wrong. I really hate noble super heroes. If given the chance, any reasonable human being would kill Hitler, and Lex is just about on par with that kind of pure evil.
Lucky for Clark, he doesn’t have to make a choice because Lex’s hideout truck explodes. Later Chloe does research and learns that the dead body in the truck was identified as Lex’s. The cops think the Toyman did it after turning on his boss, but Chloe knows the that Oliver was really responsible, and he has no remorse about what he did.
Then we get an absurdly long montage of characters looking sad that’s boring and an obvious indication that this episode’s final version was about one minute too short, so they had to pad it as much as they could.

Lana visits Clark one last time in the barn to say the Kryptonite absorption is irreversible so she has to leave, but Clark still struggles to reach her for one final makeout session, even though it saps him of all his energy and nearly kills him. NO chick is worth that dude!!!.

She says she loves him one last time, then leaves his life forever. Now can Lois and Clark hook up finally?? Can we get on with it??

I'm not really a fan of Lana, I never really have been...but i didn't mind her in this episode, i dont know if its because i knew it was her last one, and was extremely well acted from both clark and lana or what, either way, the story can move on and I thought it was a superb last episode for lana! ALSO, superb eye double for lex, thought it was nicely done!

All this Clark/Lana stuff also hurts the overall Superman story, it definitely cheapens what Lois and Clark will now share. It's like Clark's true love is Lana, But Lana is "untouchable" and out of this world, and neither of them are apart willingly, so one can't help but notice that Lois has just indirectly become..."the other woman" that he will "grow" to love..What? Anyway..I think what they should've done was have Lana come back not only physically diff. (as in a well-trained fighter), but someone who emotionally had just moved on as now they are in different places..the first way she left was actually preferable to me. I also don't much like how she became a super power with abilites close to Clarks..I honestly thought she would lose them, that is so far from the comics it's just a little stupid..What was the point of doing all that? why move that far away from the comic storyline?

Smallville, Season 8, Episode 10

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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here on today on for this 10th edition of the 8th Season of Smallville, to witness the union of James Bartholomew Olsen and Chloe Anne Sullivan. If there is anyone here who objects to this marriage, may they speak now, or forever...HOLY CRAP, there's a giant alien creature destroying the wedding!

That's right, tonight's episode of Smallville brought us the wedding of Chloe and Jimmy, the return of Lana Lang, and the arrival of the gigantic alien destroyer called Doomsday. Short of Lois Lane performing as the stripper at Jimmy's bachelor party, what more could you want from an episode of Smallville?

Taking a page out of Cloverfield, The episode opens with home video footage of the wedding of Jimmy and Chloe. There are plenty of cuts and very grainy video footage, but even more depressing is the fact that the wedding is taking place in Clark's barn. The nuptials go off without a hitch, and there's a big kiss and cake, and everything's fine until...THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

If you've seen Cloverfield, you know what happens next. There's a loud, scary noise outside, the electricity goes out, people panic and run, trampling over one another while screaming "WHAT IS THAT?!" We see Chloe cradling an injured Jimmy as a monstrous thing shows up.

Frustratingly, the episode then rewinds and actually begins eight hours earlier. Lois has taken over the wedding planner duties and is running the day with an iron fist, trying to turn the barn into a suitable place for a wedding. She should've started eight days ago, not eight hour, why wait until the last minute to do things? you're just asking for trouble, ITS A WEDDING PEOPLE!!!!.

Jimmy takes some time off from rehearsing his vows to tell Lois that Clark likes her. He ducks in to see his bride-to-be, (was just asking for trouble huh) followed by the annoying videographer. The two lovebirds fall even more in love, but that's ruined when Chloe gets a voicemail message from Davis, making her question in her mind whether she wants a boy or a man.

Oliver arrives at the farm to let Clark know that Lex is alive, and that he can track him, but he needs Clark's help. Clark refuses to help on Chloe's special day, even though Lex is a huge threat.
Oliver guilts him into helping, Clark returns to Oliver's plane but Clark still provides some warnings about going after Lex as vengeance for his parents. Clark doesn't give him the stolen router, but one of Oliver's cronies used wifi to download the info.

Back at the barn, Chloe tells Lois about Davis' kiss. Chloe needs something borrowed to complete her tradition (something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue), but Clark doesn't approve of her decision to snoop and borrowing his Kryptonite rock. If he didn't have Jor-El wipe her memory of his secret, he wouldn't have to worry about these problems. Instead, Clark lets her borrow a flower she gave him when they were freshmen in high school, both Chloe and Lois are touched that he had kept it all this time.

Oliver tracks Lex to Cuba, so the Green Arrow shows up, sees a bald man, and shoots him with an arrow. It's a mannequin, and while investigating it, the Green Arrow gets his ass kicked by a girl. But it's not just any girl, it's...LANA LANG! Wow, that's not how I expected to see Kristin Kreuk again. Suddenly Lana's a vigilante also going after Lex to protect Clark. It's a bit surprising how nonplussed she is to discover that Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow, on a side note, her new changed look, with the hair and everything... looks great on her.

Shortly before the wedding, Lois acts a little goofy when she sees Clark in a suit. She helps him put on his cufflinks, Clark reads Jimmy's vows that were handed to him, but a mistaken Lois thinks that Clark is confessing his love for her, she's heartbroken when she turns and learns the truth. poor girl.

Now back closer down the timeline to where this episode started, Davis is on the phone leaving a message for Chloe, covered in blood and throwing out two trash bags full of guts. A cop stops him, and Davis warns the cop to leave because he's having another one of his blackouts. Only by "blackout," Davis means "turning into a giant alien Ultimate Destroyer." We see the start of the transformation as Davis' hand has black spikes popping out of it.

The wedding reception, meanwhile, gives Lois and Clark an opportunity to slow dance and SLOWLY move in for their first kiss. By slowly, I mean at a snail's pace, because they spend about one whole minute getting their lips closer and closer until, just as they're about to kiss, Lana shows up. Perfect timing, as usual.

Shortly thereafter, Oliver shows up and finds an increasingly drunk Lois. Against her better judgment, she decides to confess her emotional turmoil to her ex-boyfriend, who thinks that Clark feels the same way about Lois, even if he (Clark) can't say it.

In an even more awkward encounter of the exes, Clark and Lana reconnect. She's proud to see he's living up to his potential and saving people in Metropolis, and she doesn't regret the choice to leave. More importantly though, she doesn't respect Clark's decision to wipe Chloe's memory, because Lana never would have been able to forgive him if he did that to her.

That's when Doomsday showed up, and now we get a much clearer look at it. Doomsday is a giant, terrifying, spiky alien creature resemsembling a cross between Alien and Predator. Personally I think the Smallville version was too thin, granted he was shown in the dark primarily, and we mostly saw just his eyes, but the comic version, he was a lot bigger, a more imposing figure...just nitpicking though..anyways... It throws people around, destroys everything in sight, and generally kicks a lot of a*s. Clark tries to punch it, but he gets flung across the barn like a rag doll for his troubles.

Doomsday approaches Chloe, and Jimmy tries to fight back, but gets slashed across the chest for his troubles. That's what you get for trying to be a hero buddy! Oliver finds Clark to tell him that Doomsday has taken Chloe.

In the aftermath, Clark travels through the suddenly very popular hospital and tells Lana that he and Oliver are tracking the monster. Lois goes with Jimmy to see a specialist surgeon after having a tearful farewell with Clark.

Up at the Dark Fortress, Doomsday carries Chloe across the threshold and when she opens her eyes, she doesn't look all that disappointed.

If that wasn't enough excitement, someone is watching the video footage from Chloe's wedding. It's a man hooked up to a whole lot of machines....and he's bald....who can that be? ;-)


What an episode! Smallville is now going on there mid-season hiatus, We'll have to wait until January 15th, 2009 to find out what Doomsday has done with Chloe, is Jimmy ok? what's next for Lois and Clark? with only a few more episodes remaining in the season now, Clark's training should really step up.. which should promise some really exciting episodes in the final half of this season!

What did you think of this episode? leave me your comments and reviews....