I guess you either love the prom or hate the prom. I personally loved my prom(actually, I loved my senior prom - junior prom wasn't as great). Had a ton of fun, my date was cool, and the party afterwards was a blast. Some people hate proms, and they include the random girl at beginning of our episode. She's obviously upset about something, because she breaks the "In Case of Emergency" glass to grab an axe, and we think she is going to go all helter skelter on people. Luckily, when she encounters Jonathan Kent, she only knocks him out cold and doesn't chop off his head. The girl makes it to the boiler room, uses the axe on the heating oil tank, and is about to light it in flames. The oil tank is below the gymnasium, and if it starts to get hot, stuffs gonna 'SPLODE. The girl reaches into the boiler with a mop to light it a flame, she turns around and it's.....Chloe?

I know Chloe has had bad luck on proms, including getting left on the middle of the dance floor during her freshman year by the man of her dreams, Clark Kent, but she wouldn't resort to such violence, would she? To get the whole back story, we flash back to the previous day. All of Smallville High is getting ready for the prom, or at least the prom committee is getting ready. Chloe and Lana are walking down the hall, taking it all in. Chloe has always been one of those mature high school students who doesn't necessarily believe every single school tradition is important, especially if it is largely exclusionary. For that purpose, she doesn't really like the prom, and can't stand the prom court.

Imagine Chloe's surprise when she found out that she was nominated.

You sort of had the feeling that either Lana or Chloe would be nominated. For the interest of the show, one of them has to be involved in the prom in some way, just as one of them probably has to be either the valedictorian or salutatorian. For prom, it was Chloe, and she is not very happy because she sees it as nothing more than a popularity contest. What makes it worse is that it looks like Lana is not going with Jason. Something about taking the ex-coach of the football team that was fired for having a relationship with you seems a little strange.

Luckily for Chloe, there are people out there that have more of their life invested in the prom than she does. In particular, there is one person, Dawn Stiles, who is absolutely mortified that Chloe is on the prom court, and can't stand the fact that Chloe doesn't think the prom is the culmination of four years of hard work in high school, and would dare to badmouth it. Dawn is a stereotype, the school spirit, ra-ra, popular girl, who has nothing more to do than to date popular boys, wear the best clothes, and walk around with her little posse (which includes Kandyse McClure from the Battlestar Galactica series on SciFi - yes, I love it and am dying for the second season). Although Chloe could care less about who wins, and actually hopes that she isn't the winner, Dawn says it's on anyway.

Poor Ms. Sullivan, at least she knows that Clark will be at the prom to keep her company, right? No, she's wrong. Clark also decides to skip out on the prom, even though he admits that he might have had a small part in getting Chloe nominated for the prom court. He says that many students are looking for an alternative after four years of having the same people rule the school. This was very true at my high school. Neither the girl who was homecoming queen(we'll call her JM) or the girl who was prom queen(her name was EB) were the most popular girls throughout their four years at HHS, but they were friendly and nice to everybody and so I was very happy to see them win.

Posted by J-Unit on April 24, 2005 7:30 PM