Smallville Plot Holes (minor spoilers for 2-18)

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A few episodes back Daredevil, I mean, Clark went blind. By the end of the episode he had recovered his vision, though he needed glasses, but his vision recovered seemingly by the minute and he didn’t need them in the last scene. I can buy that; however, he mentioned that he had lost his x-ray and heat visions. Two episodes ago he planned to use his heat vision. In this past episode he used both heat and x-ray vision. Did I miss something? Was there a passing line that mentioned him recovering fully?

Also, I enjoyed the lover’s spat between Clark and Alicia in this episode where they used each other’s weaknesses. That was very cool. My problem is that Clark neutralized the kryptonite by covering it with paint. Was it a lead based paint?

All and all a fun episode.

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Yeah, it was lead paint. When they first got in the room, she looked around, saw that the entire room had been painted, and said, “Oh, lead paint.”

As for the vision thing, if he had continually been regenerating his eyesight, why is it hard to believe he’d completely healed?

Can anyone explain the ending to me? I received a phone call, and had to mute it. I saw Alicia get covered with the paint, but did she die? And what was Lionel saying to whatshisface down in the basement?

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Lionel had sent Adam to Smallville to become friends with Lana in order to get info on Clark, but since he’d let himself be exposed and alienated Lana, Lionel had no more use for Adam and stopped giving him the drug he was using to keep him alive.

As far as Alicia, they never really wrapped that up. She kept trying to teleport but couldn’t due to the paint, but they never said what happened afterwards. Did they jail her in a lead room? Do they keep painting her daily? (I want that job!) Did she only partially teleport and kill herself? What’s to keep her from exposing Clark’s secret now?

Alicia could have easily killed or crippled anyone she wanted by grabbing a leg or a head and then teleporting 6 feet away. Surprised she never did that.

I do like her choice in sleepwear though.

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Oh my lord yes. I certainly hope she makes more appearances. Absolutely dynomite.

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Indeed.

But at first, I was worried about Clark. I mean come on, there’s a girl in your room and you freak out. Lana has nothing on this girl. Well, maybe her body-double from that one ep with the near-extinct flowers, but still… c’mon.

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Was anyone else bothered by the fact that Clark’s freshly-shaped eyebrows and bowl-cut made him look like he was five-years-old for most of the episode?

Make-up person should be shot. Normally I think he’s good looking and this ep I kept thinking “Aren’t those Lilah’s eyebrows?.. Guess she doesn’t need 'em if she’s not on Angel.”

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Makes it a little more easy to believe he’s a 16 yr old sophomore (is that right?) though. He always looked like the world’s oldest freshman that first season.

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I want to say they’re juniors now.

But I have to say I was a tad unimpressed with Clark’s initiative when a beautiful, barely-clothed, nubile teenage girl teleported directly on his crotch.

I was also a little disturbed by John Kent’s barging into Clark’s room. Uh, John? It’s midnight, you heard an odd sound coming out of your teenage son’s room. The last thing you want to do is barge in there without knocking, else you’re going to see the brain-burning image of your son spanking it.

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No kidding! That’s basically a perfect teenage-male fantasy (er, maybe not just teenage males either!) A beautiful and sexually aggressive female teleports to your room in the middle of the night wearing a t-shirt and undies. . . It might have taken me a minute to get over the surprise, but that’s only because no-one I know teleports. Clark doesn’t even have that excuse.
Of course, since we’re in TV Land here, she turned out to be complete nutcase almost immediately. I wish they had kept her around for a while. Instead of having her devolve into a Freak of the Week in one episode, it would have been interesting if she had been a good and normal (except for her abilities) person who was simply more ready for a relationship than Clark. There were some hints of imagination, like when she teleported to the upstairs window just to watch Clark leave her house, but there were alot of possibilities wasted in that quick dimissla of the character.

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I could have sworn she said “Red paint.” Meh. Lead paint makes more sense. I’m on a Green Lantern kick, so I was half expecting a color weakness when I saw the monocolor room.

Me too, but I think they’re trying not to pin themselves down with dates.

Considering Clark’s history its fesible that a loud bang in Clark’s room might mean that he was fighting an extra-dimensional wolf-hound; however, upon seeing what was really happening he should he stepped out quietly, trusted his son to do the right thing, and got started on another son with Martha. I’m going to be a great dad. :slight_smile:

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I agree with you completely. If this were a Static Shock episode (a light half hour show aimed at younger fans) it would be fine. For Smallville (full hour darker show) it does suck. I wish she had stuck around and showed Clark happy away from Lana for a little bit before she died/moved, either way keeping his secret. Kinda like the Native American girl in the second (?) season. She only lasted an episode too. Man, is Clark a black widow?

I’m not saying Static Shock sucks. Its’ great in its own way. I’m not saying this episode sucked. It was great by itself. Maybe we’ll see a reformed Alicia later. One can hope.

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Hmm, nice choice in sleepwear, eh?

Sucks that I missed it, too bad there is no way to get pics of this beautiful and sexually aggressive female (in sleepwaer. What a shame.

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I also didn’t really get what happened to Alicia at the end. Is she in the nut hatch now?

Incidentally, I’m starting to think that Lionel Luthor isn’t always a nice guy.

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Lesson learned from this episode: never use Clark for an alibi, because he’s an idiot and a terrible liar.

Elevator crashes. Clark and Alicia stand outside the doors, unharmed. Teacher appears and runs up to them.

Teacher: “Are you two all right?!”

Clark: “Um, yeah, yeah. We’re okay. [Looks at Alicia] Um, the elevator crashed just as we got out of the doors. It sounded like the cable broke?”

Chloe: “How did that happen?!”

No kidding. What Clark describes is impossible. An elevator cannot crash after you get out on the ground floor.

In order for Clark’s story to be the truth, the elevator would have had to have paused itself mid-plummet a few feet from the bottom for just long enough for them to escape, and then resume plummeting without any loss of force. Or else, it plummeted down the shaft but suddenly slowed and landed softly on the ground floor. Once Clark and Alicia were out, it wrecked itself and made a tremendous crashing sound just for the hell of it.

In the few seconds this took, one of them would also have had to pry the elevator doors open, and they both would have had to leap out of the car with fractions of a second to spare. In all likelihood, they’d still be on the floor and a bit disheveled and shaken when the teacher and rest of the class showed up seconds later. But they weren’t.

(Speaking of which, where had the teacher and rest of the class gone that they had to come down a flight of stairs to join Clark and Alicia in the lobby?)

To be fair, the event really defies reasonable explanation. I didn’t see another elevator nearby, so they couldn’t say they came down on another one. They can’t admit they have superpowers. Clark’s explanation was weak, but probably the best they could have done.

With the benefit of hindsight, they would have been best off if they’d hid for awhile, and then reappeared nearby and said the elevator took too long so they took the stairs down. It’s way more believable that they walked down 39 flights of stairs than they survived a falling elevator.

I’m hoping Lionel discovers that his busted elevator has a melted camera and a gaping hole above the console. He’ll be intrigued by this, especially if he knows or finds out Clark was in it at the time.

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I wondered about the X-ray/heat vision thing, too. But I figured there would be a restored scene explaining this in the third season DVDs.

My explanation for Clark not jumping at the chance when an eager, barely-dressed girl teleports into his bedroom is because he’s basically a boy scout. He will become Superman, after all, the biggest do-gooder in the history of Metropolis. He wasn’t sure that tapping that ass would be the right thing to do, especially with his parents downstairs. (as proven by Papa Kent walking in on them)

Plus, Clark is totally in love with Lex. I think so, anyway.

My biggest disappointment with this episode is that Lex was only in three measly scenes. And two of them were with Lana! C’mon, writers! Where’s the meaningful Clark/Lex soulgazing I enjoyed in season one, hmmmm? At least have Lex doing something morally ambiguous or downright evil to give us Lex fans our fix.

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Speaking of Clark’s blindness, why did it bother him to have a blowtorch waved in his face? This guy has emerged from furnaces unscathed (tho naked!) Are his eyes vulnerable somehow? Would he be susceptible to a Moe Howard special?

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I have a feeling we’ll see Alicia again, in the thrall of Lionel Luthor. Anybody else notice how she was staring holes in him (while smiling broadly) at the beginning of the episode? A foreshadowing!