"Smallville" Fierce (2007)

Director:

Whitney Ransick

Writers:

Joe Shuster (characters) &
Jerry Siegel (characters) ...

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

11 October 2007 (Season 7, Episode 3)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Kara desperately wants to make friends and fit in on Earth, but Clark tells her to keep a low profile until she can get her powers under control...

Plot Keywords:

Hospital Gown | Bed Scene | Smallville | Power | Kansas

Cast

Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Michael Rosenbaum	...	Lex Luthor
Kristin Kreuk	...	Lana Lang
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
Erica Durance	...	Lois Lane (credit only)
Aaron Ashmore	...	Jimmy Olsen
Laura Vandervoort	...	Kara
John Glover	...	Lionel Luthor (credit only)
Michael Cassidy	...	Grant Gabriel
Eva Pigford	...	Tyler Crenshaw (as Eva Marcille)
Kim Coates	...	Special Agent Carter
Christine Chatelain	...	Tempest Grace
Robert Thurston	...	Contest Emcee
Peter Bryant	...	Lex's Assistant
Peter LaCroix	...	Sheriff

Runtime:

41 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

Smallville Films

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Kara comes downstairs when Clark is talking to Lana, she super-speeds to get changed. But she did not know at the time that Lana knew Clark's secret.

Quotes:

Clark Kent: Lana, I thought you were gone. If you knew how that felt...
Lana Lang: Clark I am so sorry. I never wanted to hurt you.
Clark Kent: But you didn't trust me enough to let me help you.
Lana Lang: I was trying to protect you. Clark I know you. You gonna rush in there and save someone even if it means putting your own life in danger. And when Lionel threatened to hurt you... O couldn't take that chance.
Clark Kent: You know, it's a little ironic to hear someone else say that. I guess I'm just not used to be the one that needs to be protected. I... I can't wait to see the look on Chloe's face when she finds out you're alive.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References "Beauty and the Geek" (2005)

Mainly an Eye-Candy Presentation, thats all

This episode had less to do with Clark- and now Kara's- story than with giving Kara Zor-El actress Laura Vandervoort screen time to display her body, along with a couple of other women. A couple of other plot points keep this episode afloat, however.

Kara is desperate to fit in. To do this, she enters the Miss Sweet Corn Beauty Pageant. However, also in the pageant are three kryptonite-infected vixens, two of which see Kara display her superhuman strength power to save Jimmy Olsen from freezing in his car. They use Kara to help them obtain a Smallville treasure map located inside the town's time capsule. However, Kara double-crosses them, since they were so brutally mean to her already. In the meantime, Lex figures that Kara is the "angel" who saved him from death, and confronts her about that.

The plot point involving Lex thinking that Kara is the "angel" is what gives this episode any purpose. However, when Lex has to say a line involving not only being saved from death by Kara but also "from his evil ways," obviously Lex actor Michael Rosenbaum, who is usually the best actor on the show, didn't buy it, because he acted it so flatly that it was corny. The "vixens" were an annoyance. But it's good to have Kara "Kent" in the show.