FotW: Coach Walt Arnold (Dan Lauria) looking for his 200th win is infected from meteor rocks in his sweat box. He finds out that 7 of his players are ineligible for the “big game” coming up by Principal Kwon and Coach wants him to deal with it after the season.
It was funny to see Pete (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427389/>Sam Jones) look puny against all this bigger players. Clark saves Principal Kwon from a burning car started by Coach Arnold. There a in-joke there that I won’t spoil. This episode sees Clark join the football team and end up not playing a single game. The coach kills himself in a rather cartoony way. Lana quits cheerleading to become a barista. Lex and his father guest John Glover have a duel to decide the fate of 20% of the Luthorcorp Smallville Plant workforce.
It wasn’t that dynamic of an episode even though the Freak of the Week controlled fire. This episode showcases Chloe as the intrepid reporter that will inspire Lois to her height. He’s supposed to be 14 or 15 years old interfering and taking on adults. This is one of those Smallville episodes that plot really takes the imagination to a place far, far away. It’s the character interaction outside of the football stuff that holds this episode together.
In these early episodes every time John Glover comes on the screen he steals it. It’s these scene and his presences that he brings that didn’t surprise me when he was later promoted to a series regular. Lionel Luthor is a complicated character that brought so much to the story early on in developing Lex Luthor’s character foundation.
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