Outside of the egregious boob shot of a drunk Lois at Chloe’s engagement party, this season of Smallville continues to disappoint.
The rundown on this episode, a psychotic jeweler abducts Chloe and Jimmy and subjects them to a kryptonite-enhanced polygraph. Long story short. They love each other.
Now here’s the interesting part. Clark and Lois go undercover as a newly engaged couple. When Lois gets kidnapped Clark storms in to the rescue only to fall victim to Kryptonite poisoning. Wow… big surprise. The psycho jeweler asks Lois if she really loves Clark. Forced to answer - she says yes to a dumbfounded Clark Kent.
Of course when Clark is posed the same question, he’s able to muster up enough strength to pull off the miracle escape. I guess if this was the world of DC Comics and not network TV Clark would be Mr. Miracle on one of the 51 other Earths, in the multiverse, instead of Superman.
I’ll give it to the writers on this episode. “Committed” had a classic Smallville flavor. The last ten minutes were worth watching. Well, that’s of course if we bypass the Chloe/Jimmy barf scene. Jimmy reveals to Chloe an absurdly boring secret about his upbringing; he barely knows his mom and his father is drunk mechanic. Big wow there. And follow that scene up with an Oliver Queen “Whipped” moment, where he gets the boot the morning after he and Tessa have their fling.
Back to what was good about those last 10 minutes. The sexual tension is rising between Clark and Lois. She lies to Clark about the polygraph test, claiming she unhooked herself, leaving Clark to wonder if she’s telling the truth. He also is beginning to question his own feelings for Lois.
We had a great Superman reference at the end of Smallville. When Lois is dodging Clark, he holds the elevator open for her and says, “Statistically this is the safer way to travel.” This is a great reference to the original Donner Superman movie, when Christopher Reeves saves the airplane.
They’ve departed from the Superman mythos and pushed up the awkward romance between Clark and Lois. It’s a little heavy handed, but I’ll buy it. Why not? Everything else is so terrible, at least this gives me an excuse to keep watching.
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