Smallville's Spell...

[ivyfic]

A few quick thoughts and then the one highlight of the episode for me:
First, what was with the piano playing? That wasn't even remotely convincing. Of course, it didn't help that the footage of the hands had nothing to do with the music we were hearing. Everytime the hands did an arpeggio up the scale the music was going down and vice versa. Also, doesn't Lex have, y'know, servants that would have noticed their master maniacally playing piano for twenty hours straight? When Clark walked in, I half expected there to be a puddle under the bench. (Hey, let's be realistic here!)

All the plot of the episode was D-U-M-B, I have to give it credit for a few things. One - in the comic books there was magic, so they weren't being uncanonically dumb. Two - visually the witchcraft was kind of cool. Three - Isabelle!Lana was actually pretty decent in her first scenes. Then she degenerated. Four - this was the culmination of the Lana plotline they've been building for months. So they must have been planning this. Wait, no, that makes it worse.

And wasn't Halloween a week and a half ago?

I'm annoyed by the Lana scene at the end. She hasn't even been remotely civil to Clark for months, let alone acting like a friend, and all of a sudden she uses her apology as a sneak attack I'll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours attempt to uncover his secrets. WTF? Why would she tell this to Clark? They broke up! She has no responsibility to him and it's quite odd actually that she feels obligated to tell him her deepest darkest secrets.

Clark and Lana are still virgins? Whatever.

The highlight of the episode
The one redeeming spot in the whole thing. And it's in a Lex/Lana scene. What a shock! I am of course referring to Lex's confession of guilt at the end. And I can easily see this from a not Lexana perspective (because that just squicks me). How, you ask?

Lex says something to the effect of: "You're still young and I don't want to see you exploited by someone in a position of authority." He is of course, right, which is why the rule exists in the first place. When he said that, I giant plot bunny came up and bit me on the ass. I expected him to finish the sentiment, "like I was." I'm seeing young!Lex now as having been in a relationship with an authority figure - whether this be his father or a teacher at Excelsior I leave to the imagination. But it seems to me Lex was speaking from a position of personal experience. The equivalent of, I've been down that road and it doesn't go any place pretty.

I can't see any other logical explanation for his actions. Especially since every time he's spoken about it he's seemed a wee bit unhinged.