Smallville and Toys

I love, love, love this show. It's Superman on TV. However, it is getting pretty hard to defend these days. Before the winter break, I was so happy with how this season was going. It hasn't been this good in years. Lana was gone, and even though Lex Luthor was as well Tess Mercer is an interesting addition to the cast. Plus, we now have Doomsday, which I was worried about at first but he hasn't disappointed me yet. Then for whatever reason we got a series of episodes with Lana in them, which set the show back years. This week's episode was suppose to the bounce back episode.

A few good things happened here. We got the return of Erica Durance. Her Lois Lane is very captivating, plus she's very nice to look at as well. I loved the use of Doomsday in this episode, and I also liked the tension between Lois and Clark towards the end of the show. Although, Clark did pull a d-bag move by standing Lois up at the cafe even though he was in full stalker mode across the street. I think it's strange that Superman stands for truth, justice, and the American way, yet Clark is constantly lying. D-bag!

So what didn't work here? The rest of the show. The return of Linda Lake, a water powered news reporter that knows Clark's secret, was something that most people weren't demanding in high volume. She threatens to reveal the truth about Clark Kent unless he helps her get back to the top of the game. Clark refuses and decides to expose himself (not that way ladies). With the help of Lois, Clark becomes an instant celebrity. Then Linda Lake tells the press that Clark killed Lex Luthor and just as instant becomes public enemy number one. When I say instant I mean instant. As soon as Linda Lake's press conference was over, the Feds show up at Clark's home. They question him and when he refuses to go with them they open fire. LOL. What?

Now all of Clark's friends are in danger, yada yada yada, Clark uses the Legion flight ring to go back in time and erase the past few days. This device is getting old fast. He has done similar things several times and they always end up making things worse. He never learns. This is our Superman folks. He now finds Linda Lake and electrocutes her so she can't use her water powers. I had never seen Clark like that and I was convinced that he killed her. Luckily I was proven wrong when a few minutes (our time) later, Davis Bloome smothered her with a pillow. Hey, I don't care if Linda Lake dies, just not by Clark's hand.

Anywho, I give his :
Only because I did like a few things in the show.

On to better things: I was able to pick up so sweet action figures from the DCU Classics line from Mattle. Some of you might be like, that's no big deal, but let me tell you that it is. The stores around here either all have the same figures or they don't have any in. This makes collecting extremely frustrating, because that leaves ebay as my only option. Even if you find a great deal for figures on ebay you still have to pay up the wazzu for shipping. So luckily I found these gems the other day and I snatched them all up.