Club Dead
Updated 2007-03-26 17:00:00
You know, I used to really dread those villain-of-the-week episodes, but now I crave them like high-calorie candy to cut through all the liverwurst we've been getting lately. And it helps when the villain is a hulking mass of hurtin' for our hero. Clark and Chloe (with Oliver's offscreen help) find an online fight club that broadcasts Kryptofreak fights that go to the death. The snuffy site is locked up behind proxy servers, but they manage to track it down to a guy at Belle Reve who's funneling fighters to compete in cage matches that utilize their powers. Clark figures out that one of the fighters, a Mr. Titan formerly of the Phantom Zone, is competing in the blood sport. Clark finds a way to get himself into the ring, but is surprised to find Lois there. Leading up to that moment, Lois finds a crumpled of piece of paper from Chloe's files, follows the tip, and red-latex-jumpsuits her way into the broadcast. (Though the fact that she has no powers leads one to wonder why they let her in.) Titan enters the fight, and he and Clark have a pretty awesome mano-a-homo, breaking walls and such and bloodying each other up but good. Titan impales himself on his own body's steel spike and says, "Good fight!" which is, all things considered, pretty cool. Clark whines to MamaKent about killing the guy, but she tells him that the fact that he's feeling bad at all shows that he's human. Still, the whole Lana marriage thing is making Clark mean and angry! GrrrClark! Speaking of that whole distasteful Lex/Lana arrangement: Lana mopes about and gives Lex the cheek when he tries to kiss her. Then she loses the baby. Then she sits in the nursery all day and gets suspicious because she's found out Dr. Langston died on her wedding day. While these would be bombshells on most any show, why does it just feel like tying up loose ends and pushing a fruitless storyline along on this one?