This episode starts weakly and ends strong in the seventh episode of the seventh season of "Smallville."
During a lightning storm, a high-voltage bolt mixed with kryptonite transfers Clark's powers to Lana, making her as super as Clark. With this new strength, speed, and every other power, Lana gets increasingly corrupt until she wants to get revenge on Lex for every despicable thing he has done to her. In this time, with Chloe's help Clark comes to understand that in her vengeance Lana has become a secretive, deceptive liar. Clark learns that she has been spying on Lex, and was the reason behind Lionel's kidnapping. Clark stops her, after being told that he has wasted his time on the farm with so much more potential due to his abilities. These discoveries about Lana cause Clark to be reluctant to continue the relationship that everybody increasingly realizes is keeping him from his destiny.
This episode gets better as it goes, starting with lame, inappropriate Clark-Lana super "action," but eventually getting to the core of the series by the end of the episode. It's interesting to see that Clark would not have killed Lex already because he believes so much in the goodness of man and that it's not his right to decide their life, contrary to Lana's belief which is warped by her vengefulness.
During a lightning storm, a high-voltage bolt mixed with kryptonite transfers Clark's powers to Lana, making her as super as Clark. With this new strength, speed, and every other power, Lana gets increasingly corrupt until she wants to get revenge on Lex for every despicable thing he has done to her. In this time, with Chloe's help Clark comes to understand that in her vengeance Lana has become a secretive, deceptive liar. Clark learns that she has been spying on Lex, and was the reason behind Lionel's kidnapping. Clark stops her, after being told that he has wasted his time on the farm with so much more potential due to his abilities. These discoveries about Lana cause Clark to be reluctant to continue the relationship that everybody increasingly realizes is keeping him from his destiny.
This episode gets better as it goes, starting with lame, inappropriate Clark-Lana super "action," but eventually getting to the core of the series by the end of the episode. It's interesting to see that Clark would not have killed Lex already because he believes so much in the goodness of man and that it's not his right to decide their life, contrary to Lana's belief which is warped by her vengefulness.