http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/05/SMALLVILLE----Kara.aspx You can almost hear the writers of SMALLVILLE sitting around the table, thinking out loud, asking, “What is it we need this season?” Family’s all weeded out, it’s too early to bring in Doomsday, and the rights to Batman are likely locked up so tight they’ll never get sprung … what to do, what to do? I know, let’s steal a page from one of the ret-cons and bring Kara (Laura Vandervoort) into the mix! Hey presto, so shall it be written, so shall it be done. Yes, that’s right: The blonde “angel” that saved Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) from drowning last week was the only other survivor of Krypton not sporting a Phantom Zone address, and Clark’s (Tom Welling) cousin to boot. She spends a good chunk of the episode being surly, as she thinks Kal-El is a baby still, thanks to her spending nearly 20 years in suspended animation. But, once she clues in to the facts, a new mission crops up: Get to Kara’s ship and prevent the self-destruct sequence from vaporizing a large chunk of Kansas. Meanwhile, Lois (Erica Durance) is wooed by the new editor at the Daily Planet, who wants to take the paper in a more tabloidy direction, leaving Chloe (Allison Mack) in the dust. Lionel (John Glover) is still missing, and Lex manages to track down Lana (Kristin Kreuk) for a confrontation that doesn’t go the way either of them suspect, probably due to the writers’ breaking out a cliché that soap operas would be ashamed to use. However, the extreme silliness of the Lex-Lana plot is balanced out by the gentle touch used with Kara, who has been left out of the loop on some things, like the extermination of Krypton and all its inhabitants. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/05/SMALLVILLE----Kara.aspx 77 60