When we last left our not-so-caped crusader, a meteor shower had just hit Smallville. Lex had almost figured out his secret after following him into the cave, Lana almost died after her helicopter crashed; then there was a huge black spaceship, and his parents were buried somewhere under the rubble of their house after a meteor hit it. Although, to be fair, they were likely going to be shot or something by Jason Teague, so maybe that meteor hitting the house was a blessing in disguise. Lois made her way to the Kent house, and she found Jonathan there, looking for Martha. They found her under a pile of debris. She was hurt badly, but it looked like she would make it, and they took her to the hospital. The whole time I was waiting for Jason to come out and make a last gasp or something, but he didn't show up. He couldn't have made it out, could he?

As for Lana, after the helicopter that was supposed to take her to safety crashed, she found herself in a field looking at a black spaceship in a huge crater. She was trying to see just exactly what it was when she sees a huge flash of light and has a vision of these two people coming out of the ship. Some people would say that she should be thankful that she wasn't getting an anal probe, but what came out of that black spaceship could have been worse. Lana's vision wasn't so much a vision as it was reality. This black guy and a brunette friend of his came out, and they looked like they wanted to ask Lana some questions. Lana doesn't wait to stick around because, well, they are wearing black, so they must be evil. No hero would dare ruin the über-hues of Smallville, Kansas with such drab and dreary clothing.

Before these two people could do any damage, it looked like the Smallville first responders found out about the crash or saw the spaceship on radar or something, because there were a lot of them. It became clear that the creepy couple, as I will call them for now, were not interested in any "take me to your leader"-type pleasantries. When the police and rescue asked them the normal police-type questions, the brunette, who had sort of a Linda Carter thing going, hit one of the helicopters with heat vision, blowing it up. This prompted everybody they knew to fire at will, and wouldn't you know it; the bullets weren't doing any damage. It is customary for the invulnerable villain to allow the people trying to kill them enough time to properly bask in their greatness, but after that time elapsed, the creepy couple began to destroy the rest of the police vehicles and kill everybody in the vicinity, although it looks like that stupid sheriff wasn't among those that were dispatched to that wonderful Krispy Kreme in the sky, so we'll have to deal with her for another year. Lana used this destruction time to hide, and the two aliens do nothing to stop her, saying they must find Kal-el.

Now we all know that Kal-el is Clark, and we knew where he was off to. After putting the three pieces of the sacred stone together, he was sent to the Arctic - North Pole to be exact. Instinctively, he knew what to do when he got there: throw the sacred stone as far as you could and watch as it buries itself into the ground and builds an Arctic Circle version of the "crystal cathedral." Now obviously this whole thing had to be done using CG, but when I saw the sequence when they were building the ice palace, it looked really poorly done, or at least done on the cheap. And also, if I were building a secret ice palace, or what I am assuming is going to be a secret ice palace, because why would he build it in the arctic if he was planning on charging commission, I would make less obvious. I mean, how can you NOT notice that thing? You'll be able to see it from space.

Clark makes his way into the cave, and using those great instincts, picks up a big icicle which speaks to him. It is his father, Jor-El, and he says that one journey has ended and another one is about to begin, which they timed conveniently to coincide with his high school graduation, just in case the whole "transition period" thing was lost on everybody.

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Posted by J-Unit on October 2, 2005 12:25 PM