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It’s Chloe and Jimmy’s wedding and Davis has a big surprise for them—turning into a monster, beating up the groom, and kidnapping the bride! Well, he WAS invited you know…

As Jimmy and Chloe prepare for their wedding in Clark’s barn (?), Oliver has info on the possible whereabouts of Lex. But when he shows up, the place is full of bald mannequins and he’s greeted martial-arts-style by Lana, who was on the same trail. They go back to the wedding, where Lana makes her big entrance just as Lois and Clark are about to kiss. Lana and Clark have a talk and decide it’s really over, then Lois and Oliver have a talk and Oliver admits he knows she likes Clark. But before anyone can do anything about it, Davis shows up as Doomsday, a super-powerful alien monster, knocks Clark through a wall, nearly kills Jimmy, and carries off Chloe.

This episode was a blatant attempt to copy Cloverfield, but since I haven’t seen the movie, I don’t know how close it really was. Maybe the video camera stuff was just an “homage,” but I really wish they’d stay away from doing these movie rip-offs. It’s like they’ve gone from freak-of-the-week to movie of the week.

I don’t know what I was expecting from Lana’s return, but I wasn’t all that impressed. I mean, was she really just there to prevent Lois and Clark from getting together? She didn’t seem to serve any other purpose. On the other hand, I’m really glad they didn’t immediately rekindle the old Clark/Lana roller coaster relationship that I grew so weary of over the years.

Of all the changes in the characters from the original versions in the comics, it seems like Jimmy may be the most different now. He started out very similar to his DC Universe counterpart—innocent, starry-eyed young photographer with a “gee-whiz” attitude. But now that he’s actually married to Chloe. (I can’t believe they actually allowed the wedding to happen!). That changes a lot.

And speaking of characters being like their comic versions, this show did a good job with Doomsday, who could have looked really hokey. It helped that they pretty much kept him in shadow, but I was afraid he might look too much like a guy in a rubber suit—which was probably what he really was. They matched the look of the comic book Doomsday pretty closely, and he appears to be just as powerful as he was in print—where, by the way, he was the one who killed Superman.

Now that Chloe’s at the Fortress, which was apparently taken over by Brainiac, it looks like she’s been fully taken over by him. But that wasn’t enough of a midseason cliffhanger for them—they had to add the scene at the end, with Lex watching the video from the wedding while hooked up to a bunch of machines. Interesting…

[NOTE: I apologize for this review being so long after the airing of the episode. My Tivo fried and I wasn’t able to see it until I finally purchased it online.]

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