The Daily Smallville 02:21 Accelerate

02:21 ACCELERATE

Prologue

• an actual movie at the Talon. Is she licensed for this? Is it that easy to just show a movie?
• Of course they have Pete screaming at the screen. Stereotype much?
• Wait. I thought Clark and Chloe weren’t friends anymore
• Evangeline Lilly behind Clark!
• Yes Lana. After everything you’ve seen don’t tell Clark anything about a creepy girl from your past. Ugh.

Act One

• Story by Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer. But the teleplay is by Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders. They love supernatural stuff with a historical aspect so I imagine they punched up those elements. / director James Marshall
• Is this a season one KMOTW come back to mess with Lana?
• Oh now Lana tells Clark
• Wow they really are hitting the ‘everyone around Lana leaves or dies’ with this.
• A Caribbean honeymoon gift from Lionel and use of the private jet. This won’t end well.
• Clark: “It’s not like people haven’t come back to life around here.” Always appreciate when they don’t ignore the town’s weird history.
• Ew the little girl is like a little speed demon

Act Two

• did someone even have a zombie theory, Clark?
• Speed mode. Zach Snyder style. Just how fast is Clark at this point he can have a whole scene while the rain stops?? It’s one thing to run distance but he’s in place scoping out the little speed demon. That’s like Flash level
• Lionel has definitely changed a bit since season one. Less bombastic and more calculating and reserved in his interactions. Which means he’s up to something. Some long game.
• Why is the Smallville hospital always so dark? Who could get better in there?

Act Three

• Clones and meteor juice and matrix pods, oh my.
• Either this ep just went janky or is it possible this could be a basis for later cloning storylines?
• No doubt this is funded by Lionel

Act Four

• Here’s your expected Clark and Lex scene
• Yea I’m out on this episode. Again, the tone feels not Smallville.
• Of course it’s a deep dark secret Lana has lived with every day but has never said anything about it ever.
• “She has no concept of right or wrong. She’s dangerous.” Is this setting up a ground rule for clones in Smallville?
• Uhm. Can’t Lana just swim?
• The amount of trauma Lana goes through, by this point, is unsettling. Especially watching episodes close together. It’s a cycle at this point.

Act Five

• another Level 3 mention.
• Genetically engineering human beings. Lionel wants to create a Clark doesn’t he?
• And out of nowhere Lionel now has control of the caves. Wait. Who was even talking about the caves?!
• Yea that looks nothing like a crib, Pa.
• uhm. Are they not going to wrap up the Emily stuff?
• Lana: “You’ve created the perfect picture of who I am”. This is an echo of Lana wanting to shed the Fairy Girl on the magazine cover image
• This song is Lana’s subtext
• Lana: “Maybe I need to start believing in you, Clark”.
• Emily is a prototype. For what?
• It’s weird that KMOTW feel logical in this show. But this cloning angle feels weird.
• Okay. Weird tea party ending. I don’t remember how this all comes back.

Next episode: Calling!