Kim on “Committed”
Smallville continues to shock us all and the fifth episode is no exception with “Committed”. Check out SHoE’s latest site review by our very own Kim J!
Click the jump to see what she thought of Lois having to make their feelings known, Tess vs. Oliver, and the Chimmy shipper!
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Hey there, SHoEligans! The episode up for review tonight is “Committed” (why in the world did I almost type “Crimson” there?). I’m a couple episodes behind on reviews but bear with me. I’ll get caught up sometime in between mid-terms and the Holiday Season. Overall I thought “Committed” was a wonderful episode. It was much better than I expected, and the amount of Clois in this was just amazing. Stay tuned until the end for my rating. I am interested in seeing how much further the show is going to develop the Lois and Clark relationship. If the series is supposed to leave off where Superman begins then I hope they don’t develop things too much too soon. You don’t want them practically together before Lois even sees the tight-wearing, cape-donning Superman, but that would be the only worry that this episode left me with. Although, there was something in this episode that I’m not too keen on at the moment, and I’ll share that toward the end. As for my favorite moments in the episode I would count Lois’s speech at the engagement party among my top five. I loved when Clark pulls her off the stool and sets her down on the ground. The look on Lois’s face when he sets her down and she does that little spin was classic. I also loved the scene with Lois waking up at the Kent Farm. There was a small amount of dialogue and that means that the facial expressions from both Tom and Erica made that scene so wonderful. Lois and Clark’s run in with Oliver at the Jewelry store was inspired, and who ever came up with the concept for that scene deserves LOTS of love from the fans. You just can’t help but laugh out loud at the situation.
Yet another episode that’s underscoring played up the right moments in the perfect places. In an episode as suspenseful as this one underscoring is very important and in that moment where the jeweler was questioning Lois about her feelings for Clark the underscoring was PHENOMINAL!
While all the actors on Smallville are amazing and did a great job in this episode Erica Durance stood out from the others in this episode in every way. Erica did an outstanding job whether she was handling humor or drama. I found myself not wanting to see the other characters as much as I wanted to see her. She seemed very real and very Lois in this episode. What I like about Erica’s portrayal is that she seems to take all of the previous incarnations of Lois and wrap them up into one package, and then adds her own Lois into the mix. She pays tribute to other actresses while establishing her own style, and that is a mark of an excellent actress. I want to give Aaron Ashmore praise for this episode too. Jimmy is becoming more and more likeable as this season goes on. Jimmy is clearly on his way to becoming the faithful pal of Superman that we all know and love, and Aaron is doing an amazing job with that transition.
There was a storyline in this episode that I wasn’t completely fond of, and that is the Tess and Oliver relationship. I like Tess a lot. The character is becoming an awesome Smallville villain while still staying a likeable character. I like Oliver a lot as well. I have since he was introduced in season six, and I like the idea of the two having a past relationship. But I think it should have STAYED a past relationship. Oliver putting on the mask of a truce in order to ask Tess out to dinner, and then buying her a DIAMOND bracelet made my stomach churn. I wish they had left out the jewelry and just had the dinner. Buying Tess jewelry after getting her to agree to one dinner date seems hasty even for Oliver and even for the history that the two characters seem to have. I realize that him buying the bracelet is what lead us to that awesome scene with Clark and Lois bumping into him at the jewelry store, but Oliver buying Tess a bracelet reminded me too much of Lex and Lionel giving their one night stands diamond earrings. The offering of the bracelet on Oliver’s part annoyed me and I actually found myself happy that Tess refused not only to take the bracelet but to take Oliver as well.
The only other thing that bothered me about this episode was the fact that the engagement party was at the Talon where Chloe and Jimmy live and yet their cars were parked somewhere where they could be impounded. If they had the party at the Talon then they should both have a permanent place to park their cars.
Overall I felt this was a great episode. It was much better than I thought it would turn out to be, and for that I’m going to give it 3 and a half pairs of fuzzy handcuffs out of 4.
I didn’t think about the cars being impounded, but that’s a pretty valid point to be sure.
As far as the diamond bracelet, I wouldn’t let that one bother you so much. Just think about Oliver’s mindset as opposed to the average person’s. If we take someone out on a date – the first date we’ve had with them in years, no less – we’d likely give them flowers. To Oliver, a diamond bracelet is the equivalent. He’s super rich…and trying to impress someone equally so.
also on the car being impounded, it said metropolis impound not Smallville because if they live at the talon why would they be leaving.