MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological*
And just like that, we're back to the old status quo, all the cosmic revelations forgotten.
I don't know if the writer(s) thought the audience wanted a new take on the over-abundant 'meteor freaks" that plagued SMALLVILLE's first season. But now it comes to pass that a "freak-killer" has begun pot-shotting those given special powers by kryptonite radiation, and at the episode's opening, he kills a fellow assaulting Lana Lang.
This is a very talky episode, in which various regular characters discuss the rights and wrongs of vigilantism, with Clark being totally against the practice of assassination while other Smallville students are not so condemnatory. Clark soon learns that the killer is student Van McNulty, who nurses a grudge against the freaks. Though Van doesn't know Clark's true nature, he figures out how to use kryptonite bullets, which is almost the only engaging section of the episode. The conclusion is very low energy though Lana gets to do a little kung-fu again. The Lex subplots are a similar waste of time, leaving me to guess that the writer was told to just keep things on an even keel for this story, with no contribution to the greater mythology.
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