FotW: Greg Arkin, nerdy bug collector is being sent to military school by his mother for secretly videotaping Lana (Kristin Kreuk). While driving too fast while going to release his bugs these meteor infected bug get loose in his car when he hits a pole driving too fast turning Greg into a “bug boy” who begins to move through the bug phase with his intention of making Lana his mate.
Last episode he saved Lex from drowning this time he saves Whitney from an accident and explosion caused by Greg, played a little clichéd by Chad Donella. The episode establishes that even when he has great power to affect his world Clark would rather keep it level than use that power to his advantage. This is something that in the future makes his world and saving people way more complicated that it should have been for the future Man of Steel.
It’s technically not on par with the previous episode. Many of the special effects in this episode are showing their age. I felt Greg’s death was too convenient of an end. Once again Clark is left in the shadow after saving the heroine. *Spoiler Alert* After returning the necklace Lana smile is just because her necklace is back or because she knows Clark returned it. *Spoiler Alert* She just seems too calm for the ordeal that she just went thru.
I think the nugget of this episode is that Lex and Lana previously met before he saw her in the stable. Their first encounter was memorial or more traumatic for Lana. Realizing who she was and now is intrigues Lex, you can tell from the way he looks at her at the farmer’s market and how he talks to her in the stable.
It surprises me how passive Clark has been in these first couple of episodes. I think it’s something to pay attention too: How Clark transitions from this passive hero to the active hero persona of Superman.
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