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This is a good episode even though it's not quite on my favorites list, though one of my favorites for this season. The episode is pretty much "Smallville" doing "Daylight" well sort of but it's the same entrapment circumstance like in that film where both Clark and Lex are trapped in a tunnel.
Just to get the elephant out of the room, the only weakness of the episode is whenever the episode cuts away from both Clark and Lex and just goes to the characters outside, those scenes really disrupted the momentum of the episode but also really weren't interesting nor did anything for the story. You can always fast forward or skip over those scenes and just tune into the scenes with both Clark and Lex which are the real draw of the episode anyway.
What's happened to both Clark and Lex is pretty much the last thing any of us want, being trapped in the same room with the person you hate. It's like putting certain opposing predatory animals in the same cage together it's not pretty. But due to their circumstances both have no choice, either they work together to survive or die.
I really like how the episode is a slight character study on both. Which at times gives your insight on different perspectives on how both see each other and makes them question if their view on the other is correct and if they only came to their conclusions about each other just to fit their own narrative. It's actually surprising and strangely touching seeing both of them working together to save one another, it really gives you that feeling of both being friends once more, which in a way makes it all the sadder once they have to resurface.
But also shows how despite being on different ends of the spectrum both have a sense of honor, there were opportunities one could have left the other to die but much offing an unarmed opponent is a highly dishonorable act and brings great shame upon one; which is part of why both won't do it because if their going to go down it will be in the battlefield in honorable combat.
Like some conversations which were also good character moments but also gives everyone a lot to think about. The talk Clark has with Martha, where he questions if he's given up on Lex and why he's might have turned to bad. But Martha says no and she's right; personally, I never felt Clark has even given up on Lex, it was really Lex has given up on Clark and worst of all is coming dangerously close to giving up on his own conscious. In the end both Clark and Lex have a lot to think about, on their own perspectives on good and evil, each other, and what the future holds for them.
Out of the deepest darkness emerges certain truths one has keep hidden from the light.
Rating: 3 and a half stars
This is a good episode even though it's not quite on my favorites list, though one of my favorites for this season. The episode is pretty much "Smallville" doing "Daylight" well sort of but it's the same entrapment circumstance like in that film where both Clark and Lex are trapped in a tunnel.
Just to get the elephant out of the room, the only weakness of the episode is whenever the episode cuts away from both Clark and Lex and just goes to the characters outside, those scenes really disrupted the momentum of the episode but also really weren't interesting nor did anything for the story. You can always fast forward or skip over those scenes and just tune into the scenes with both Clark and Lex which are the real draw of the episode anyway.
What's happened to both Clark and Lex is pretty much the last thing any of us want, being trapped in the same room with the person you hate. It's like putting certain opposing predatory animals in the same cage together it's not pretty. But due to their circumstances both have no choice, either they work together to survive or die.
I really like how the episode is a slight character study on both. Which at times gives your insight on different perspectives on how both see each other and makes them question if their view on the other is correct and if they only came to their conclusions about each other just to fit their own narrative. It's actually surprising and strangely touching seeing both of them working together to save one another, it really gives you that feeling of both being friends once more, which in a way makes it all the sadder once they have to resurface.
But also shows how despite being on different ends of the spectrum both have a sense of honor, there were opportunities one could have left the other to die but much offing an unarmed opponent is a highly dishonorable act and brings great shame upon one; which is part of why both won't do it because if their going to go down it will be in the battlefield in honorable combat.
Like some conversations which were also good character moments but also gives everyone a lot to think about. The talk Clark has with Martha, where he questions if he's given up on Lex and why he's might have turned to bad. But Martha says no and she's right; personally, I never felt Clark has even given up on Lex, it was really Lex has given up on Clark and worst of all is coming dangerously close to giving up on his own conscious. In the end both Clark and Lex have a lot to think about, on their own perspectives on good and evil, each other, and what the future holds for them.
Out of the deepest darkness emerges certain truths one has keep hidden from the light.
Rating: 3 and a half stars