The Man with the Kryptonite Heart

Friday night the second episode of the ninth season of Smallville was on. The title of this episode was Metallo. This episode was about the creation of the villain Metallo. Metallo is a character from the Superman comics who is a Kryptonian cyborg sent to Earth to kill Superman, he is supposed to be able to kill Superman because he is powered by a Kryptonite power cell. In Smallville Metallo was not a Kryptonian cyborg he was just a human who was made into a cyborg. This episode was better than the first of the season because Lois is starting to remember what happened to her for the three weeks that she was missing.

At the beginning of this episode the new reporter at the Daily Planet, John Corben, was hit by a bus. When he woke up he was in a warehouse somewhere in Metropolis with mechanical arms and a bunch of metal tubes in his chest with Kryptonite in the centre. Later Tess Mercer, the CEO of LuthorCorp, found out that it was Zod and the other Kryptonians who came from a crystal that she found did this to Corben. When Corben got to the hospital one of the doctors explained to him that a cybernetic matrix has been implanted into his chest and powered by Kryptonite and his heart has been removed. The mechanical parts of him gave him similar powers to Clark, super strength and speed. With his new powers Corben decided that he was going to go seek out the Red-Blue Blur and kill him. The Red-Blue Blur is the identity Clark uses so that he can protect Metropolis in secret. While all of this is happening in Metropolis Lois was in Smallville because she went to Clark's farm and found that he someone was feeding his dog and she thought that he was back from supposedly visiting cousins in Montana and was secretly hiding from everyone. Corben finds Lois latter at the Daily Planet and thinks that if he kidnaps her that the Red-Blue Blur will come to save her or she might know who the Blur is. Once he takes her back to the warehouse Clark finds her and starts to fight Corben. When the fight was almost over Clark heated a piece of lead with his heat vision and attached it to Corben's chest to block the Kryptonite radiation. When Corben removed the lead the Kryptonite power source broke off with it. Without the power source Corben died. After talking to Chloe about Lois, Clark decided that he was not ready to say goodbye to her yet and went and got his job back at the Daily Planet so that they could work together again.

This episode was better than the premiere. I though that it was better because Clark finally realized that he has to finish his training or have a life, not both. Clark decided to go back to being Clark Kent instead of the Red-Blue Blur sitting on roof tops listening to other people having a life. i thought that it was good that Lois is starting to remember her trip to the future because it is insane that someone forgets that the went into the future. I thought that it was very good for Chole to get in Clark's face about not being the hero that he was meant to be and that they both gave up important pieces of their lives so that he could become a hero and he was not doing it, Chloe lost her husband Jimmy and Clark left Lois behind. I thought that there were some parts of this episode that were not as good to. i thought that it was the wrong decision for Clark to go back t his normal life because he is not normal and has a higher purpose in life and it is not right to put his feelings for Lois above the lives of everyone else. I thought that it was suspicious that Zod and his army of like 100 Kryptonians were able to break into 15 LuthorCorp facilities and steal a lot of classified top secret research equipment without being noticed until days later. Overall this episode was still better and i would give it a rating of 4 out of 5.