Smallville (TV Series) Wrath (2007) User Reviews

Gets Better as it Goes Along

[Rcwilkinson123 · 8/10 · 8 November 2007]

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.

Are there any hospitals in Metropolis?

[saracarlos-1 · 8/10 · 23 July 2023]

Several people already talked about the main topic of the episode. Lana gets accidentally Clark's powers for a while and starts abusing them. Clark also finds out some of the things Lana has been doing, and starts having doubts about her motives.

I just had an observation, when Lana hits Lois at the Daily Planet in Metropolis, why is that when she is taken to get medical attention, she is in Smallville? I know the series is called Smallville, but if someone is hurt, it is normally taken to the closest emergency room. It could be that her insurance is only accepted at the Smallville clinic. Who knows?

lana's superpower is that everyone loves her unconditionally for no reason

[joh03096 · 5/10 · 27 December 2012]

What's the worst thing we learn about Lex in this episode? He's doing science on the alien tech? He's tracking aliens? I guess we "know" that Lex is evil, and therefor anything he does is clearly for no good. It'd be nice to see Lex do something that's actually bad. There was 33.1 last season, which was pretty bad, but that's really the only truly bad thing we've seen Lex do. It's hard to keep blaming Lex for everything bad in the show when we never see him do anything wrong. But maybe that's the magic of Lex Luthor. Nothing bad can be pinned to him, but you know in your heart that he's committing all sorts of atrocities. Somehow I don't think that's what the show is going for.

The Lex-blaming is almost comical in this episode. Clark blames Lex for Lana getting violent with her superpowers. In this show's deluded world, it is Lex's fault that Lana is obsessed with revenge, and it's Lex's fault Lana would resort to violence to get vengeance.

Of course, despite breaking into Lex's mansion, stealing his stuff, punching a hole in his car and threatening to electrocute him, nothing bad happens to Lana. Lex decides, conveniently, not to press charges on Lana after she attacks him, so at the end of the episode Lana's back in Clark's barn. Lana gets a stern talking to from Clark, and then asks him to love her no matter what. We're right back where we started. An entire episode has gone by and, once again, nothing has happened.