Hey, look, Clark (Tom Welling) gets affected by Red Kryptonite again.
Written by Kelly Souders and Brian Peterseon. It debuted on 1 February, 2007.
It’s Valentine’s Day, and Jimmy (Aaron Ashmore) thinks Clark and Lois (Erica Durance) would make a great couple. Chloe (Allison Mack) scoffs. But when Lois uses a meteor-rock-infused lipstick and collides with Clark, wackiness ensues. It doesn’t help that Jimmy think Chloe is still harboring feelings for Clark.
After they kiss, Lois recognizes his kiss from pretending to be Green Arrow, and the two of them together under these conditions is pretty entertaining, but predictable, as we know where the episode has to end – Lois won’t remember anything.
Clark then expounds on everything from Lana’s (Kristin Kreuk) pregnancy and impending marriage to Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) to Lionel’s (John Glover) interest in Martha (Annette O’Toole). He does this at their engagement dinner, and it goes badly for everyone involved. There are illicit kisses, more heartbreak, and guns.
His mother is able to save the day, but once again, he’s going to leave lots of emotional wreckage behind him.
There’s nothing really new here. Sure, it throws a bit of a crimp in the Lex/Lana relationship, though probably not enough to stop it, but there’s not a lot of new things here. Though we finally get a glimpse of how Lois and Clark might be together.
Once again, the episode, and most of the season, feels more like treading water. It’s not moving things forward enough; it’s just keeping the characters and the narrative in a holding pattern.
There is, however, an interesting tag following a doctor, hired by Lex, who checks on Lana’s pregnancy, and something happens to the instruments.
Trespass was written by Tracy Bellomo, and it first aired on 8 February, 2007.
Jimmy breaks up with Chloe over his belief that she still has feelings for Clark. Lana flees to the Kent farm when she discovers she has a stalker, after she’s convinced Lex that everything is fine.
And what has Lex done to Lana’s pregnancy?
Lana isn’t even safe at the Kent farm. Someone is intent on getting to her, and with neither Clark nor Lex around, Lana and Kristin Kreuk are center stage. Kreuk is more than capable of carrying he episode; the story, maybe, isn’t.
Clark and Jimmy, who, after a conversation about Chloe, get things sorted, are trying to hunt down Lana’s stalker, but it’s almost a B-story. Lana gets the majority of the screen time, which is nice for Kreuk. And as Lana, she gets to save herself (mostly) in the end and not have to hope Clark or Lex shows up.
But, sadly for all involved, we’re well into soap opera territory here, and the baby thing, the stalker thing, the love triangle thing- it’s all getting a little silly.
