Smallville (TV Series) Fanatic (2006) User Reviews

Crazed Lex fan goes to great lengths

[Rcwilkinson123 · 7/10 · 1 December 2007]

Sometimes political races can get desperate, insane and dirty. And that's how a crazy Lex Luthor supporter, the president of "Students for Lex" at Central Kansas U., gets in this tenth episode.

Lex Luthor is campaigning when he speaks to the group at his mansion. Going by his saying of "go the extra ten miles" and "do whatever it takes to win," the students go after Lex's opposer Jonathan Kent to effectively give Lex the seat. The president goes even further than her fellow supporters would like, to radical lengths of support of Lex, when she learns that Jonathan survived their attack. Clark must stop her and an attempted assassination of his father at Jonathan's main rally meeting.

This is a pretty exciting episode. It is not at all a weak episode, definitely worth watching, while not one of the three or four best of the season thus far. It is interesting to see more of the increasingly heating Senate race between a man who steps further and further into darkness against a man who is the father of his former best, and only, friend.

Disappointing Lack of Ethics

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 2 June 2007]

While running in the campaign to the senate, Jonathan hires Lois as his adviser. Meanwhile, his opponent Lex is visited by a group of fans leaded by the fanatic Samantha Drake, and the deranged woman threatens the safety of Jonathan. Lana discusses with Clark their sex life, and Clark exposes his innermost fears to Chloe. Lionel eliminates the dossier Griff has prepared to Lex and offers his financial support to Martha.

I did not like this episode since the disappointing lack of ethics of Martha Kent spoils the integrity of the Kent family. One of the best things "Smallville" offers to the fans are the moral values of Clark, raised by a simple but honest family, explaining how he would become the greatest American (and why not worldwide?) hero. However, the behavior of Martha accepting the support of the greatest villain of the show, the Machiavellian Lionel Luthor, is absolutely inconsistent with her character. The good moment is the discussion of Clark and Chloe about his sexual relationship and fears with Lois. But unfortunately I was upset with the amoral attitude of Martha. If Lex read the Art of War, it seems that Martha read The Prince. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Fanática" ("Fanatic")

This is about Sun Tsu Art of the War

[jennyxj09 · 8/10 · 4 March 2007]

Being a Chinese, I just know Sun Tsu wouldn't take sides of good and evil when he wrote the book the Art of the War. Neither would he know that thousands of years later one or two of his battling techniques became a basis in an American script that mainly tells stories about aliens. There is no black and white in AOW, but winning and losing. Fanatic adopts this idea in a convincing sort of way.

It is more interesting to see that Clark chose Chloe for advice on his relationship with Lana, and disappointing that Martha finally went to Lionel in a very un-Marthaish way for the money needed in Jonathan's doomed election, which is the part that annoys me greatly. Two stars were cut off for this inconsistency of Martha's personality.