Win A Car While MamaKent Dies
Updated 2005-11-21 16:00:00
The show is giving away a car, as well as other prizes, and they're not going to let you forget it: they mention that Lois has a brand-new car so many times that you forget that it's a show and start thinking maybe you're watching an infomercial, only with worse acting from Erica Durance. Nevertheless, there's a real episode here, and a good one. (The car stuff gets a separate rating: D. Unless I win the car -- in which case, B+.) MamaKent is infected by some sort of bright light that causes her skin to start turning moldy. Clark, desperate to help her, trusts Professor SoFine, who claims that it's a Kryptonian disease inflicted by Jarnnelle -- who, by the way, was a dictator responsible for the deaths of billions on Krypton. SoFine and Clark go to the Fortress of Solitude to take out Jarnnelle and his stupid House of Ice Dildos, bu then SoFine double-crosses Clark, pinning him down with some Kryptonite and revealing that he's not a Kryptonian at all, but some sort of robot there to free Zod, the real evil deathbringer. Luckily, Chloe -- who gets a tip from Papa Luthor that SoFine is not what he seems -- follows SoFine through the Caves of Contrivance portal and saves Clark. Clark throws SoFine the requisite thirty feet across the ice chamber, and SoFine lands nastily on some sharp ice dildos. What a sexy death! Only SoFine disappears (as does, very far away, his spaceship), so we're not sure if he's dead or regenerated somewhere else. After giving everyone a good scare and sharing some emotional scenes with Clark, professing her deep love for her son, MamaKent is cured by SoFine's sudden disappearance. Lex, meanwhile, is super-pissed that his ship is missing, and blames Papa Luthor. Lois spends time with Chloe in the newsroom and thinks maybe this reporting stuff's not so bad after all. Especially if, say, Chloe were to die and Lois had to take her place somehow. Hey, I don't like it either, but I must speak of painful truths.