Smallville (TV Series) Fierce (2007) User Reviews

Mainly an Eye-Candy Presentation, thats all

[Rcwilkinson123 · 6/10 · 12 October 2007]

This episode had less to do with Clark- and now Kara's- story than with giving Kara Zor-El actress Laura Vandervoort screen time to display her body, along with a couple of other women. A couple of other plot points keep this episode afloat, however.

Kara is desperate to fit in. To do this, she enters the Miss Sweet Corn Beauty Pageant. However, also in the pageant are three kryptonite-infected vixens, two of which see Kara display her superhuman strength power to save Jimmy Olsen from freezing in his car. They use Kara to help them obtain a Smallville treasure map located inside the town's time capsule. However, Kara double-crosses them, since they were so brutally mean to her already. In the meantime, Lex figures that Kara is the "angel" who saved him from death, and confronts her about that.

The plot point involving Lex thinking that Kara is the "angel" is what gives this episode any purpose. However, when Lex has to say a line involving not only being saved from death by Kara but also "from his evil ways," obviously Lex actor Michael Rosenbaum, who is usually the best actor on the show, didn't buy it, because he acted it so flatly that it was corny. The "vixens" were an annoyance. But it's good to have Kara "Kent" in the show.

Fierce

[Colcatron · 8/10 · 14 April 2011]

I'm not going to lie, this is a cheesy episode. The premise is a little cheesy, the villains are beyond cheesy, and the Kara and Jimmy Olsen story never really worked, yet I can't help but kind of like "Fierce" Here's the reason why. Seasons 5 and 6 got so dark and so serious, that it was kind of nice to have the show get back to the basics. I like heading to Metropolis and bringing in more complex stories, but particularly by the end of season 6, it started to feel like this show forgot that it's about fun entertainment, and is supposed to be about SMALLVILLE. It's back to basics here, with Kara entering a Corn Festival beauty pageant. Some of the writing for Kara is a little too modern in her dialog. I would have liked to see her having a harder time adjusting to everything on Earth. If everything Kryptonian seems foreign and strange to Clark, then logically Kara should be portrayed as more of a confused outsider. Nothing special here. The end action sequence is cut way too short, and in a way the whole premise reminds me of some of the cheesier episodes in earlier seasons, but I still think it's nice to be reminded of the simplicity of the earlier seasons every once and a while.

At least one episode had to be... good

[benone-marcos · 7/10 · 20 May 2013]

I had to come back years after the show ended to give my compliments to whoever wrote this episode... for one simple reason that needs to be explained: In general, I don't really like Smallvile, but being a huge superman fan, I just had to watch it :) The thing that really made my sacrifice be worthy is Lex slowly going to the dark side through 7 long years... (painfull). Now, in this particular episode they managed to create a very special scene by the end of the episode, when Lex give his 'cry for help'. "Gained the World" by Morcheeba as soundtrack for that moment just made everything even more... perfect, as the lyric kind of reflect what I think Lex was passing through by that moment when he desperately ask for 'his angel' Kara's help to save him from the dark side. I think that was really the turning point from Lex being a 'wannabe good guy' to a really bad guy.

nothing ever matters

[joh03096 · 5/10 · 26 December 2012]

There are no consequences in this show. At least, not for the good guys. Lana faked her death at the end of season 6 in those most audacious manner possible when she rigged her own car to explode (in public, no less) with her dead clone in the driver's seat. And what comes of it? Nothing at all. Three episodes into season 7 and she's already back in Smallville as if nothing has happened at all. She admits that she committed "a serious crime" and that she has to wait for her name to be "cleared," but that's it. Three short episodes and she's back, same as she ever was, ready to continue on with her mind-numbing, stunted romance with Clark.

We've been watching the Clark/Lana romance go back and forth for six seasons already. There has got to be something better to do with Lana. It would almost be acceptable if we knew Lana and Clark were meant to be, but it's the exact opposite. We know Clark and Lana are not meant to be. Everyone knows this. And having us suffer through six seasons of a romance that we know will never work feels like a punishment, and a waste of a character.

The rest of this episode had a frivolous story about a beauty pageant. There were lots of shots of Kara in a bikini, and other girls in bikinis. We got to see Kara balance a book on her head in preparation for the beauty pageant, so it felt really deserved when she won the competition. I knew she could do it. Yay.

Typical of the Series

[fcabanski · 1/10 · 10 October 2015]

This episode, like most of the series, is un-watchable.

Three girls with weather powers want to steal a map to find a treasure - that belongs to nobody.

They could have opened the time capsule containing the map under cover of darkness. Nobody would have known who did it.

Why does the heat girl decide to take the treasure on her own Who knows? Why doesn't she use her heat powers to protect herself from freezing? Who knows? The big fight of the episode sees wind girl create a small tornado. It wouldn't hurt Clark on its own, but mysteriously it kicks up some kryptonite.

The episode is crap. The series is crap.