Early in this episode, I was joking with my wife Kim that working for Lex Corp security had finally supplanted the worst job in TV land, the Star Trek “Red Shirt."

As the episode wore on I was proven painfully accurate. Not only is Lex Corp security staffed by tall, lean, well groomed bumbling idiots that couldn’t keep a 5 year old out of a cookie jar, but they are also psycho stalker types as likely to kill each other as accomplish any security duties. Luthor needs to institute psychological screening tests stat.

Sadly this episode wallowed in mundanity and cliché. No humor, mystery, intrigue and most importantly no Super Hero goodness. Hell, this episode isn’t even a shipper episode. This episode is about Lana getting stalked by one of her security guards. Woohoo, break out the party hats, never seen that one before. I am at a loss to understand why, with all the dangling plot lines to address, they chose to insert this bit of mundane filler.

The only item of interest in the entire show was Clark engineering a rekindling of the relationship between Jimmy Olsen and Chloe…

That’s it; the rest of the episode does nothing to advance any of the intertwined mysteries in Smallville. Oh, well there was one good moment at the very end of the episode as Luthor delivers a wedding invitation to Clark, twisting the knife by pointedly mentioning “Lana would want you there."

At this point I sadly realized that the season finale was not going to be Clark resolving the Phantom Zone crisis but rather the Lex/Lana wedding. Sad. (Yes I realize this is a no brainer, but I never stop hoping)

My apologies for the short review but unless you are fascinated by lurid local news stories about love triangle murders and stalkers this show was rather weak.

Nothing to see here, move along…

Ron Talbot