Don't Get Her Mad - 
by J-Unit
After last week's episode of Smallville broke new ground for unoriginality and general lack of excitement, it almost seemed like the writers were just going to pack it in for the rest of the season, knowing that they are probably going to be picked up for next season since a new network is going to take the last season of a show that's getting worse rather than taking a bet on what will be the next Pepper Dennis. This week, I they advertised the episode as Tom Welling's directorial debut, and nothing says "jumping the shark" than having your actors start directing. That being said, I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this episode. Perhaps Mr. Welling just had better material than some of the past episodes, but there was a great eery feel throughout most of the thing. I'm even looking forward to what will happen in the next episode.
Throughout the history of the show, Smallville has been known for some gruesome deaths. There were way too many good ones to even begin mentioning, but I would count this latest episode as one of the best. After getting off the phone with Martha Kent, an unidentified woman is trying to get her daughter Maddie to come and eat dinner. Maddie bears a striking resemblance to Conchita Campbell, who plays Maia Rutledge on The 4400, in that they both have that "seven year old Matt Dillon with long blonde hair" look going for them. It takes about two seconds for use to realize that Maddie has the special ability to break glass, and it appears like it happens whenever she gets upset, and when her mom tells her that she has to put down her crayons and start eating vegetables, well, wouldn't you be pissed off too?
So Maddie breaks glass, and then we soon learn that the woman is not her mother, but her foster mother. When this woman sees that Maddie is breaking glass, she starts to get freaked out and says she is going to call children's services and have her taken away. Well, being put back into foster care is enough to really piss off anybody, and so Maddie starts breaking more glass, even though she is now upstairs hiding under her bed and doesn't appear like she wants to hurt anybody.
I admit, it's gotta suck to be a foster parent when your child can inadvertently kill you, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for this woman. Maddie breaks some glass, which should freak you out, but hey, if you lose some of that shitty china you mother in law gave you for your birthday, who the hell cares? However, when your little girl conjures up enough energy to blow out all of the windows in the house, you either letter her draw during dinner or get the hell out of there.
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