"Smallville" Returns This Thursday With A NEW Episode Featuring Brainiac And Tensions Boiling Over Between Clark & Lex!

““Smallville” Returns This Thursday With A NEW Episode Featuring Brainiac And Tensions Boiling Over Between Clark & Lex!”

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright March 25, 2006

The March 27 through April 2, 2006 issue of “TV Guide” features an excellent article “Smallville Smackdown!” highlighting the return of “Smallville”, from its break/hiatus in the NEW episode, “Hypnotic”, which will be broadcast, this Thursday, March 30, 2006!

Expect “Hypnotic” to feature the return of mysterious alien with a nefarious agenda, wolf in sheep’s clothing, Professor Milton Fine (aka villain Brainiac!), portrayed by “Smallville’s” most popular asset this season, actor, James Marsters!!!!

We can’t wait to see what otherworldly, treacherous, villainy, Brainiac is up to, and what he has in store in this episode and upcoming episodes for our Clark.

The article, on pages 40-41, tells us that the March 30, episode will further detail the unraveling friendship, that once was, and is now on an unstoppable, downward spiral of destruction, between former pals, now enemies, Clark Kent (aka “Superman”), and Lex Luthor.

The article features Super Cool, color photos of James Marsters as Brainiac with actor, Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor, actor, Tom Welling as Clark Kent about to punch the daylights out of Lex, and a photo of actress, Kristin Kreuk (aka Clark’s true love, Lana Lang)!

So what’s all this chaos we hear about that happens in “Hypnotic”?

Lex, feels frustrated and betrayed by Clark, that Clark won’t reveal his secrets to Lex….so Lex keeps trying, sometimes by rather nasty methods, to find them out for himself.

Clark on the other hand, understandably, feels frustrated and betrayed by Lex for going behind Clark’s back and trying to expose Clark’s secrets, which Clark feels he needs to protect from Lex.

Actor, Tom Welling tells “TV Guide”, that “Now there’s complete mistrust between the two of them.”

Their tensions and infighting comes to a boiling point in this week’s episode.

First, as “Smallville” Executive Producer, Al Gough, tells “TV Guide, “You find out that it’s a scheme of Lex’s to not only try to find out about Clark, but also to break up Lana and Clark.”

Making matters worse, Lex tries to blackmail, Simone, a mysterious newcomer to Smallville, with a secret of her own. It seems Simone committed a crime that Lex knows about and is holding against her. In retaliation, Simone casts a “hypnotic” spell over Clark, that causes Clark to actually try to kill Lex.

Subplots of course surround the further tensions of Clark’s and Lana’s mutual love for one another.

In a “Smallville” episode in January, Clark finally revealed his “Superman” secret identity and powers to Lana, only to have it backfire in a car crash that killed her. Clark pleaded with his biological Krypton Dad, Jor-El to intervene and resurrect Lana. Jor-El helped Clark turn back time to save Lana, and THIS time, Clark thought it best to NOT re-tell Lana his secret to protect her.

Now, Clark is worried that Lana may never be able to accept Clark’s extraterrestrial heritage, and he is also, actually worried about getting romantically busy with his lady love, fearing as “TV Guide” says, that his “supersex may prove fatal”!

Welling tells “TV Guide” that, “I think Clark will always love Lana, but what he realizes is that he may never be able to be with her, for her safety.”

“TV Guide” ponders if this will turn Lana at last, towards Lex’s own hypnotic charms, to which Al Gough says, “You’ll definitely see them getting closer towards the end of the season. Look he’s rich and he’s sexy and there’s always been an attraction between Lex and Lana. Whether or not she wants to admit it, Lana has always had some feelings for Lex”.

Of course, we can’t wait to see the further adventures, the thickening plot, and the intertwining characters (and their development) of “Smallville” in “Hypnotic”, and as the rest of this season plays out!

Lana and Lex as a canoodling couple though? We agree. As Al Gough inferred, it HAS to be the money. SECOND, greatest aphrodisiac in the world!

But….Virtuous Super Powers are the FIRST!!!!

That’s why for OUR money, we’d go for the man of steel, “Superman”/Clark!!!!

And so somehow we feel, that as “Smallville’ continues its epic story, the epic romance of Clark and Lana WILL triumph!!!!

Muse News And Micro Muse March 25, 2006

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright March 25, 2006