Smallville: Bride

Season 8, Episode 10
Original Air Date: November 20, 2008

We start with a handheld video camera view of Clark and Lois giving their well wishes to Jimmy and Chloe. We then cut to Clark walking her down the aisle to an eagerly awaiting Olsen. They held the wedding in Clark’s barn, which to me seems ridiculous, but that’s Smallville for you.

They marry, and then we cut again to Lois introducing them and then cut to them cutting the cake. Strangely, there is then a noise, and we get all bad horror movie as the lights cut out and everyone starts screaming.

Another jump cut and we see Chloe over Jimmy saying, “please don’t leave me.”

Could this be an interesting episode where we finally see Doomsday, better known on the show as the lovable Davis Bloome? I hope so.

The biggest issue I have with episodes like this though is always, will the show end on a climax of Clark wins, bad-guy looses?

The introduction credits roll, and then on finishing, lead us into a scene eight hours earlier which is thankfully devoid of the shaky cam.

Lois is getting everything organized for the wedding in the barn. Jimmy tries to hook up Clark and Lois, but they exchange some witty banter and move on. Lois smiles a bit at the thought of Clark and her together.

Jimmy gets all nervous about seeing Chloe before the wedding, and sets up the stage for his fear to be silly at the coming “doom” that we as viewers already know about.

The video camera, that is being held by some random guy catches many interesting moments and facial expressions going forward, but in the end, does it matter?

“Lex is alive!” At least that’s what Oliver Queen says jumping into the wedding blitz. It looks like Lex is handing information to Tess Mercer, the new “Lex” of the series. The whole Lex plot is one that I wish would be forgotten.

Oliver Queen shows his sensitive side again as he focuses on trying to kill Lex for his parents death. Another silly side plot.

We get some Lois and Chloe exchanges that are supposed to be all girly and sensitive, but come off a little silly. Then Clark comes into the scene and almost sweeps both women off their feet by giving Chloe a flower she had given him and he had held onto for nearly a decade to complete the tradition of having something borrowed.

Lana Lang shocks everyone as she comes into the picture when Oliver Queen tries to find and kill Lex Luthor. Lana shocks us with news saying that “Lex Luthor isn’t alive.”

As the episode progresses, we catch up to the start. Where we then see Davis cleaning blood off himself and his ambulance, and then tossing two garbage bags full of stuff into a dumpster. Someone catches him, and he blacks out once again. We finally get to see Doomsday, at least his arm, in his “true” form. He’s quite the monster.

Cut back to the wedding and Lana shows up and Clark’s old feelings quickly resurface, only seconds before he could have kissed Lois.

Oliver and Lois then share a moment where she confesses about her “feelings” without saying who. Oliver was able to figure it out quite easily though and attempted to put Lois at ease.

We then see Lana texting to someone in response to “did the archer believe you?” Looks like Lana isn’t telling the whole truth about her intentions. Where does she lie on the good person and bad person scale?

“Maybe Clark Kent and Lana Lang weren’t meant to end up together.” - Lana Lang at the wedding before everything bad starts happening.

Doomsday crashes the wedding, and Lana gets hurt. We get to see some shadowy forms of what Doomsday looks like, as everyone tries to get out of the barn.

Clark then starts his superhero routine, without much effect. He gets tossed through the floors of his barn, only to end up next to a small rock of Kryptonite. Jimmy then tries to hit Davis with a log, only to have himself clawed open in half a dozen places along his chest.

Lana comes and removes the Kryptonite, allowing Clark to get up, only to find out that Doomsday had already taken Chloe away.

We end with Doomsday in the Fortress of Solitude holding Chloe who then, waking up, looks up and smiles with glassy eyes. It then cuts to a bald man, watching the video of the wedding and attack with wires coming from his head, chest, and back, no doubt trying to show us Lex.

This episode had many interesting things happen during it, but nothing that really rocked my world. I was hoping to see more of Doomsday, but find it interesting that he went to the Fortress. I wish they’d drop the whole Lex thing, and move on with the plot.

I give Smallville: Bride, 3.5 out of 5.

Tagged as: doomsday, green arrow, lana, lex