Smallville 10x17 Kent Review

Clark Luthor is back and he is not alone.Clark once again visits the parallel earth(or Earth-2 as they call it) only to run into a very pissed of Jonathan Kent.
Watching Tom Welling play the evil and dark Clark Luthor gives you a feeling that they are really played by two seperate actors who look the same.When he plays Clark Kent, he's good and...superman-y, but when he takes on Clark Luthor than we're talking about bussines, he's just awesome.
As the third quarter of the final season takes flight we're getting closer and closer to see Clark(Kent!) finally embrace his destiny and become the hero he meant to be.So the countdown for the 2-hour finale began with this episode and before the show takes off forever from the big screen we will see some new and some old faces. This week we saw John Schneider to play a very different Jonathan Kent we used to(but he will be back in the finale), than next week we will see the smallville version of Blue Bettle and Booster Gold(Boo$ter xD) and of course in the pre-final two episodes(lol that came out interesting) Kara Kent(^.^) and General Zod.And in the finale Martha Kent,Johnathan Kent,Chloe Sullivan,Lionel Luthor and...Rosenbaum aka Lex Luthor, the one and only.Seriously.
The episode was a hit as the show returned from the 6 week hiatus and as first many thought that the episode will be a filter I assure you they were wrong.The face off between Clark and Jonathan really had an impact on Clark upon returning to his world.Sure, Jonathan Kent stepped to the light in the other world thanks to Clark, but will Clark Luthor find redemption?The answer is yes, we finally get to see a showdown betwen the two opposite Clarks and at the end of the day it is really proved that no matter how evil CL was he still has the heart of a hero and can choose the right path.Of course as they say,things always get worse before they get better and the case is the same here.CL arrives to CK's world and sends him back to Earth-2 so he can take over this earth and rule it but first he needs to have Tess by his side to help him track down and kill Lionel. Tess confesses CL that he turned her back on the so called Luthor Legacy and won't help him kill their father to which CL get's a bit angry and tries to kill her, but CK returns(thanks to Emil and Lois' help) and saves her.CL and CK have a showdown at the fortress where CK tells his doppleganger that he saw that he hesitated when he tried to kill Tess to which CL seemingly realises that he has been on the wrong side this whole time and chooses to return to his world where he calls out for Jor-El who greets his son and finds redemption for his past actions.

John Schneider also was fun to watch and see him play a very different version of his character.This Jonathan had a harder life.He lost everything when the meteor shower occured and his wife,Martha left him too, Oliver Queen bought his farm but turned his back on him and decided not to let him have a chance to buy it back. When CK arrives to this earth to Oliver Queen's funeral, so does Jonathan who splits on Oliver's grave and blames him and Ultraman(CL's identiy which is not so secret anymore as he is the most wanted man alive) for taking everything from him but in the end it is proved that ultimately he is not so different from his other version and finally listens to CK and visits Martha because as he said "Home is not the place,but the people who live in it".

It's been long since I gave an episode on either show this high score but this one really deserves it.And it's what we expect from the last episodes of a decade long show.

RAZOR rating : 10 (out of 10)