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Lex Luthor, U.S. President?

May

A frightening thought, right? But that’s what happens tonight on “Smallville,” on the Tom Welling-directed episode “Apocalypse.” Fueled by his guilt over his belief that Smallville would have been better off without him and that he inadvertently caused of the deaths of Jonathan, Lionel and that Swann chick, Jor-El arranges for Clark to see what life in the little Kansas town would have been like had Clark never crash-landed there (kinda like an Kryptonian version of “It’s a Wonderful Life”)

But before his vision (dream, whatever) Clark discovers that long ago Kara had sent messages from their home planet that indicated that Brainiac wanted to kill baby Kal-El, which would prevent Clark from existing in the future (kinda like Marty McFly and his siblings in “Back to the Future”).

The outcome? Lex is the president of the United States (Who’s his v.p., Donald Trump?), Kara was raised by the Luthors, Jonathan (yea! John Schneider returns!), Lana is happily married and Misses Lane and Sullivan are star newspaper reporters. And Jimmy? Probably the same dork but in a different line of work.

And speaking of the photog, last week he wanted to re-ignite the spark in his and Chloe’s romance. Oh, brother…. Despite the fact that Clark and his true love, Lana, are pretty solid (even though she is, at the moment, catatonic), if I were Chloe, I’d still be pining for the tall dark and handsome one. Short and pale Jimmy is about as sexy as a glass of water, especially when he thinks he’s James Bond. (And to think that in real-life he’s got an identical twin….)

(Photo courtesy of The CW.)

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm by Jenny Higgons.
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One Response to “Lex Luthor, U.S. President?”

Jayson Peters May 2nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I thought this was a great episode. And I've really been souring on Smallville lately. But for some weird reason having Kara back, and seeing Big Clark send Baby Clark to safety – then the epic destruction of Krypton – really seemed to reboot the show for me – at least my interest in it.

Let's hope the departure of Lex next season and the two new villains can keep up the momentum.

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