Smallville (TV Series) Lara (2007) User Reviews

Lara

[Colcatron · 8/10 · 18 April 2011]

Kara's storyline up until now has been revolving around her search for her missing crystal, with a few subtle teases being put in place regarding a questionable history between Jor-El and Zor-El. In this episode the storyline is taken to the next level. To be honest this is more of a transition episode than anything else. Nothing particularly interesting happens, but a few new twists are thrown into the story regarding Kara's father Zor-El, and Clark's biological mother Lara.

The real appeal in this episode is the brief flashback to the destruction of Krypton. This is one of the first real scenes we've been shown on Smallville of Krypton. For the first time ever we also see Lara, played by guest star Helen Slater, also known as the original Supergirl. How the flashback occurs ties in directly to an experiment in the 3rd season episode Memoria. It's always nice to have those loose connections to past episodes. While I like the unexpected direction they're taking the Zor-El and Lara characters, and I loved the one fantastic dramatic exchange between them, the downside of this episode is that it's basically nothing more than a set up for the episode of "Blue" still 2 episodes away. Not a bad episode at all, but not nearly as exciting on it's own. It's much better when viewed with "Blue" later on.

Family Rifts Abound

[Rcwilkinson123 · 8/10 · 2 November 2007]

There's a mix of dazzling scenes, important bits of mythos, and plot holes in the sixth episode of "Smallville's" seventh season.

Clark's biological cousin Kara feels a longing toward her home of Krypton, and knows that the only connection that she can still make with her home is by recovering the crystal taken from her destroyed ship by the government. She goes on a journey to discover the crystal's whereabouts, and finds it in Washington, D.C. However, when Kara locates where the crystal should be, it is gone! The government then captures Kara and injects kryptonite in her bloodstream as a sort of truth serum to learn about her past. As Clark arrives to save her, a touch to her injection allows him to see the same thing.

There were so many exciting moments to this episode, like a near-collision with Kara and an airplane in the sky, and a surprising development of plot at the end of the episode. However, there was one major plot hole involving Lionel arriving to Washington in time to save Clark and Kara, both weakened by kryptonite. How did he know that they were going to be there at that time? This is a point that was unexplained. However, it was interesting to see Kara learn that her father was indeed dangerous and a threat to the House of El, as Clark had been telling her.

lara

[joh03096 · 5/10 · 27 December 2012]

Some Krypton back story. Kara learns an important lesson from some kryptonite memory drug, which shows her that her dad was a jerk/maybe-rapist. This convinces her that she should be looking forward to her future on Earth and not her past on Krypton. That's nice.

The rest of the back story we're shown in the episode isn't particularly revelatory. We learn that Lara had visited Earth before the meteor shower and chosen the Kents as the future home for Clark. Supposedly the Kents were chosen for their capacity to love, which seems at odds with everything Jor-El has said in previous seasons. The fortress of solitude version of Jor-El spends most of his time trying to convince Clark to be Kal-El, the Kryptonian, instead of the weak and emotional Clark Kent. So this episode is delivering some mixed signals.

The Lana storyline moves forward imperceptibly. Lana basically sounds like a female Lex Luthor at this point. Lex, meanwhile, hasn't done anything bad this season yet everyone is still yelling at him and blaming him for everything any time anything bad happens. It's as if every character in the show is determined to turn Lex into a monster. Sorry, Lex, you can't escape your destiny.

That major plot hole again

[LittleStorpingInTheSwuff · 4/10 · 28 September 2018]

The major plot hole keeps popping up. All of these Kryptonians visited Earth before Krypton was destroyed. So why didn't they come to Earth (back to Earth actually, since they were here once already) when before Krypton was destroyed? Even Lara knew Krypton was going to be destroyed, and yet she went back to Krypton to have her baby son so that he could be sent to Earth. Seriously? I know it's only sci-fi (a poor imitation of the Superboy comics I grew up with in the 50's, btw), but geez, this plot hole is just too huge to ignore.