Review “Committed”
By: Celia
After a lot of self-control and three whole days of being glued to my TV set, I’ve finally manage to get my face of the screen and begin to write this before my friends make me an “Intervention” because I’ve been watching this episode too much. *looks anxiously to her TV* … ok! just one more time!*…
*42 minutes later*
Its soooo beautiful, I’m feeling like a flee looking a shiny light right now. Well, let’s leave my fangasm for a while and focus in the episode in itself that is what people actually care about.
“Committed” tells the tale of three couples in different stages of development, we have Chloe and Jimmy, an established couple that is about to get married, Lois and Clark, a future couple that is realizing about their feelings about each other and Ollie and Tess, a former doomed couple who is dealing with the issues of their failed relationship. The episode begins in the Talon where we found a very drunk Lois in Chloe and Jimmy’s engagement party being very vocal about what many of us have being thinking for a while, this Chloe and Jimmy marriage… is a good idea? The lovebirds are too young and Chloe’s behavior has been so erratic to be sure of where her heart actually lies. Some days it seems that she is madly in love with Jimmy, some others seems like she is just settling with him and there’s times when it seems that she is fooling herself about how she feels. One of the purposes of this episode is to answer to that question once for all when a crazy jeweler abduct them to rate their level of commitment.
In some twisted creepy way, it’s true that he made them a great favor by kidnapping and torturing them, because on one hand Jimmy confess what happened with Maxima the week before (yay continuity!), which is important because even when Chloe already knew about that is always better that Jimmy tells her so she won’t be resentful because of his lack of honesty, besides that probes that Kara was just the rebound girl to Jimmy whom heart just belongs to Chloe. And on the other hand Jimmy hears from his fiancée connected to a lie detector that she isn’t in love with anyone else. I think that this is important not just for Jimmy, but to Chloe too, since being connected to a lie detector she actually knows that it’s true. The jeweler said that sometimes the heart and the mouth weren’t in the same place, now Jimmy and Chloe know that this is not the case.
Anyway, let’s say that the jeweler wasn’t that worried about “Truth” as a whole but by honesty about how the couple felt, since we all know that Chloe keeps a lot of secrets and they passed the test anyway. So, if your intention it’s to honor the promise you’ll make in the weeding you are safe, period. Few later, we learnt that Jimmy was keeping a father who is a drunk in secret too and that helped to explain Jimmy’s eternal insecurity, since he believes that he doesn’t deserve a girl like Chloe, mostly if she has as best friend a guy like Clark whom she was in love with.
Jimmy: Chloe, we need to talk about something related to me, I’m not who you think I am.
Chloe: I KNEW IT! you are Eric Summers, aren’t you?
Jimmy: What? no, I just have a drunk father because the CW cut our budget and there’s no money to get an actor to play him at the weeding.
I really hope that now that the jealousy from Jimmy is over for good, we’ll focus in the beginning of the friendship between Clark and Jimmy already, since this is what I want to see the most about Mr. Jimmy Olsen. He is not “Chloe’s husband”, he is Superman’s best pal and I want to see how that iconic friendship births.
Another relationship which found a renewed life after two years full of disappointments is Lois and Chloe’s. In the end of “Committed” we saw the cousins I used to know and love of previous seasons, without any competition between them. They are family and the actresses are able of showing a relationship that yells honesty and true love like Chloe and Lana’s never did. Sadly, in the last two years, we haven’t seen this kind of love from Chloe to Lois if her cousin is not in imminent danger of death. If the ‘Chlo-Lo’ scenes are going to be like this one, I want a lot more of those. It’s true that Lois get her feet into her mouth in the reception, but she did because she fears that her cousin will suffer because this weeding is a mistake and because she is still angry with Jimmy for lying he about Lex’s purposes in the Arctic. If Jimmy can’t be trusted as a friend, how could he be a good husband? However, in the end of the episode we see how Lois choice to leave all this issue behind because now that she talked with Chloe she believes that Jimmy makes her happy and anyone who makes Chloe happy is good in Lois’s book. This is also a relationship that holds a lot of importance for me, being Lois Lane’s friend and partner is a big part of Jimmy’s purpose in the mythos, so it must be fairly developed in “Smallville”.
If Chloe shone in this episode making me think that her weeding is not a flight towards ahead after all, and make me feel a love that I hadn’t feel since the fifth season… all the opposite happened with Ollie. I guess that we could think that after being poisoned, remember the events that leaded him to become a hero and found that Lionel Luthor killed his parents which Clark knew it and didn’t tell him he is reconsidering his choices. Right now he is focusing in his former fail relationship with Tess. All this seems just an excuse to have him busy for a while and for Tess to shine al Ollie’s cost so we can know her better, but in the end, Ollie looks weak and I’ve never thought that my less favorite scenes in this season would be Ollie’s related. It’s not a casual thing that he is now desperate holding to a woman whom he cheated and left without a goodbye when he himself told that until he met Lois he never cared about leaving people. Tess was the very first person he left behind because of Green Arrow, now he doubts about if being a hero is his true destiny, he gets obsessed with all he lost. However, I loved Ollie’s face in the jewelry, it was so funny and I hope it’ll be addressed in future episodes by Clark and Ollie.
Tess is an interesting character, I like what I’ve seen about her so far and I think she won’t disappoint me, but, please, enough with telling everyone “find Lex Luthor or find a new job”, it repetitive already. Talking about Lex, what would he think about what Tess did with Ollie in the bed he used to share with Lana…? It’s almost as uncomfortable as imaging poor Lois sharing an apartment with just one room with an engaged couple. It’s normal that the poor thing says…
Lois: Pants! pants on everyone!
For all the episodes of the season we’ve been how Lois has been developing and accepting her feelings about Clark, how she believes that he is still in love with Lana and how, even when she tries to deny it, she admits to herself that she is in love with him. However that’s not easy for a person like Lois whom hides behind lot of emotional barriers, it’s pretty clear how hard is for her to say that when the jeweler makes her to, but, she prefers to give an honest answer because she doesn’t want Clark to be hurt again. The fact of Clark being her friend, partner and her cousin’s former crush don’t make any easier to Lois to let her feelings about Clark be without resistance. I can’t choose what I loved the most in that scene, if vulnerable Lois admitting her feelings against her will or Clark “shocked of not being shocked”.
We could wonder why the jeweler keeps asking when Lois tells him that she and Clark are not a real couple. Maybe it was because he could feel the attraction between them, or maybe it was because of the ring they chose in the shop, the one which represented a perfect circle and fit perfectly in Lois finger. I think that maybe is because of the two reasons, or maybe he was just a gossip whore. About Clark using his heat vision in front of Lois, it seems that tptb said some time ago that heat vision is invisible to human’s eyes, so there’s not any mistake in the scene.
Of course, event like these must have an impact in the relationship between Lois and Clark; firstly, Lois is avoiding Clark since she feels uncomfortable now. In the opposite, Clark wants to find her so they can talk about the tests and what it meant. When he gets into the elevator Clark is confident and happy, he tells Lois that she beat that machine but later he is very surprised and disappointed when she tells him that she slipped the sensor off her finger. But the most important thing about that scene it what it means. It’s a transition between Lois turn to realize about what she is feeling to Clark’s. There’s no doubt that Lois Lane is able of falling in love with Clark Kent and not just with Superman. Now it will be our beloved alien who’ll search in his own emotions to determinate what he would have answered to the question that the jeweler made before he “used his head” to escape.
So, the time to rate “Committed” is already here and I’ll give it a [B]4.5[/B]. It deserves 5 points, but something tells me that I’ll need those five points later in the season because Smallville is getting better and better this season. Meanwhile… I’ll remain watching this episode like a junkie.
