And Baby Makes Three

clark_lana_babyI have to say, the fourth season of Smallville has really left me underwhelmed. As we push on towards the last three or four episodes of the season, I am going to admit that I am not as eagerly anticipating what will happen at the end of this season as compared with the first three. As a reader e-mailed to me, I even let the television calendar lap me by not getting this recap up before a new episode aired. So please forgive me, as I never intended to adopt a Television Without Pity update schedule, it just happened. Anyway, on to the recap.

As the episode starts, we see two teenagers speeding down the road in a vintage muscle car. The girl in the car is pregnant, and the guy driving her looks absolutely lost. There is a little bit of a problem with the pregnancy, and he is on the phone with 9-1-1 saying that he needs help. As many of the problems in Smallville, the trouble they are about to have is something that you really can't fix in a hospital or by calling the police.

Taking another look at the young woman, her stomach is starting to move around like there is something big in there. Don't laugh, I know she is pregnant, but this baby doesn't look like it is just going to be a tough labor, it's trying to break out of mama like something out of Species II. When the guy sees that this is happening, he pulls off to the side of the road, and like any responsible father-to-be decides to leave the mother of his baby alone while she deals with the pregnancy. I am going to take a wild guess and say that he really wasn't that excited about being a father.

Just as our model parent is running off, the baby decides it is coming out, and it must have been one hell of a labor, because instead of a little crying, there was instead a huge explosion of energy. Needless to say, it looks like the mom did not make it. The explosion was so powerful, it sent a bunch of debris onto the road nearby, just as Clark and Lana were driving by. I am not sure where these two were going. Last episode we were led to believe that maybe they would try a relationship again, but wherever they went it look like they were driving Lois' GMC Envoy and not the Jeep Liberty Lois has had since last season. Actually, it looks like an Envoy in the color of Lana's Liberty from last season. Consistency writers, consistency.

As they go to investigate the scene, Clark and Lana find the baby, and see that nobody else is around. Let's see. Baby? Check. Explosion? Check. Crater in the ground? Check. Clark is gathering the evidence and to him it looks like it might be another baby from Krypton. Even though Lana says "Babies just don't fall out of the sky", Clark knows better. They take the baby to the hospital, and it seems fine, but since there is no sign of the mother, the Kent's decide to take the baby home with them so it won't have to spend it's time in a foster home.

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Since Lana and Clark are both foster children, they seem to have a particular attachment to the new baby. In a bit of a surprise, Clark really takes to parenting. He's feeding, burping, changing diapers, the whole nine yards. The two of them name him Evan, since he was found in Evans Field. I bet the boy was glad he wasn't found in Big Pussy Field or on the side of Herpes Avenue, those names would have sucked. They are both enjoying the baby, but Clark is concerned about how attached they are getting and that Evan's real father is out there somewhere. Lana says that maybe the maybe the father is not around, and they should get used to having Evan around.

As much fun as a baby was, they didn't get to keep him that long. No, there wasn't any luck in finding who his father or other relatives may be, but something strange happened to the baby. When he was born, he came into the world with a sort of energy pulse, obviously caused by some sort of kryptonie something or other happening. Just after Clark laid him in his bed, another sort of energy discharge happened. It didn't hurt Lana or Clark, but when they looked over, Evan was no longer a baby, he was a seven year old boy.

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Comments (6)

meg22:

why clark MAY be worried on sex:
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Victoria:

This episode seemed pointless and needlessly depressing. Other than furthering the "stones" storyline a tiny little bit, the only other purpose it seemed to have was to bring Clark and Lana closer together, which quite frankly, I am not really interested in seeing. Clark and Lana together are boring. They are boring virgins. I suppose they have to remain virgins until they sleep together-BORING! I am still pulling for Clark and Chloe to get together. One thing we can say about this season: No matter how boring an episode is, they can never go lower than Kryptonite Dogs, where they actually hit rock bottom.

Lady J:

Apparantly there is no last three or four episodes of the season. The finale is Wednesday.

Lady J,

When I started the recap, there was still three episodes left in the season for me to watch. It just shows how far I got behind.

Lady J:

I feel ya. Been watchin' lost myself. Not really interesting anymore.

Victoria:

Since it doesn't seem like we'll EVER get another Smallville recap, I'll have to ask my question here: When did Smallville turn into the X-Files?

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