Smallville: Episode 7.14 "Traveler" Recap by Groshan Fabiola

For those who missed Smallville's 14th episode for season 7, below is a recap of the "Traveler" episode.Clark is in the barn when he gets shot by a SWAT team. The bullets are actually spikes covered with Kryptonite. Later on, Lana andChloe arrive and see the destroyed barn. Lana notices one of the spikes and worries about Clark . When Clark wakes up, he's already inside a kryptonite-walled cell. Pierce hold on to a handle that increases the kryptonite's power and Clark 's pain.Patricia Swann, daughter of Dr. Swann, talks to Lionel about searching for an extra-terrestrial. This Traveler supposedly came to Earth during a meteor shower. She thinks Lionel got rid of the Queens , the Teagues, the Swanns and the Luthors just to possess the Traveler.She demands that he takes her to him.Lana and Chloe suspect Lionel but Lionel pointed the finger to Kara. The ladies believed him. At the Daily Planet, Chloe researches and finds out about the kryptonite-walled cell. To get in, they made up their mind to take Kara to the Fortress of Solitude, in the hopes that she'll finally remember everything.Lionel hears of Patricia's demands and schemes to give her the Traveler himself. The two have a deal.Chloe and Lana sneak into the Manor and successfully take Kara to the Fortress. They persuaded Jor-El into restoring Kara's memory.After having a glimpse of Clark 's face, Pierce knocks Patricia out. Lionel takes the documents and orders Pierce to put Patricia on a plane and send Clark home. Pierce puts a gun in Lionel's face and double-crosses him. Kara arrives just at the right moment and fought with Pierce.Patricia and Clark finally face each other and she tells him that he can live up to the prophecy of bringing great change to Earth. Little did they know that this would be their last conversation. On her way home, Patricia gets shot by her driver and Lex arrives. The last scene is that of Lex holding Patricia's necklace.

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All smallville Season overviews

Season one sees the introduction of the regular cast, and storylines that regularly included a villain deriving a power from kryptonite exposure. The one-episode villains were a plot device developed by Gough and Millar. Instead of creating physical monsters, the kryptonite would enhance the personal demons of the character. To prove the show was not simply about a new kryptonite monster every week, the writers attempted to craft episodes that had nothing to do with kryptonite, like "Rogue". The first season primarily dealt with Clark trying to come to terms with his alien origins, and the revelation that his arrival on Earth was connected to the deaths of Lana's parents. Clark develops X-ray vision this season, and, unlike his super strength and speed that he was already aware of, is forced to exercise his new ability to gain control over it.

Season two has fewer villain of the week episodes, focusing more on story arcs that affect each character and explore Clark's origins. Several key plot points include Lex becoming more entangled in conflict with his father, Chloe digging into Clark's past while dealing with Lionel, Martha and Jonathan Kent's financial troubles, and Lana and Clark's vacillating relationship though they end the season apart. The main story arc, however, focuses on Clark's discovery of his Kryptonian origins. The disembodied voice of Clark's biological father Jor-El is introduced, communicating to Clark via his space ship, setting the stage for plots involving the fulfillment of Clark's earthly destiny. Christopher Reeve, who portrayed Superman in the 1970s and 1980s film series, appears as Dr. Virgil Swann to provide Welling's Clark with information regarding his heritage. Season two saw the emergence of heat vision, as well as a new form of kryptonite. Red kryptonite causes Clark to set aside moral compunctions and act out on his impulses and dark desires,, unlike green kryptonite, which physically weakens him and could possibly kill him if he is exposed to it for too long.

Season three focuses on loyalty, betrayal, and new revelations involving Jor-El. Early in the season, Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole's real-life husband, portrays Clark's future Daily Planet editor Perry White; from this point on, other major characters present in the Superman mythology and the DC Universe are introduced to Smallville. Pete Ross' inability to deal with keeping Clark's secret causes him to move to Wichita, Kansas with his mother after his parents' divorce. Season three introduced Clark's "super hearing", which developed when his heat vision accidentally blinded him.

Season four ventures further into the Superman mythology by creating a story arc that runs the length of the season; it involved Clark seeking out three Kryptonian stones, at the instruction of Jor-El, which contain the knowledge of the universe. The majority of this season revolves around Lex trying to rekindle a strained friendship with Clark, Lana dating Jason Teague (Jensen Ackles), a young man she meets in France, Clark and numerous other characters vying with one another in attempts to obtain the stones, and Lionel's ambiguous transformation into a good father and person. This season introduced Lois Lane (Erica Durance), Chloe Sullivan's (Allison Mack) cousin, as well as Bart Allen. The season began with the appearance of a new form of kryptonite; black kryptonite held the ability to split Clark into—and merge back together from—two separate beings exhibiting two personalities.

Season five brings in more elements of the Superman mythology, including the Fortress of Solitude,^[28] the Phantom Zone, and Zod. The villain Brainiac, in the guise of Professor Milton Fine (James Marsters), becomes a recurring antagonist. The season's central plot revolves around Clark using the knowledge contained in the Fortress of Solitude to train for an impending doom that will befall Earth: the release of Zod from the Phantom Zone due to Fine's machinations. Clark and Lana finally begin a relationship with one another. Season five featured a gradually unveiling storyline in conjunction with multiple minor story arcs running in parallel, mid-season and season finale cliffhangers, and cameos from two other notable DC characters, Aquaman and Cyborg.

Season six takes Clark inside the Phantom Zone, inhabited by a society of exiled criminals from the "28 known inhabited galaxies".^[34] The destinies of Lionel and Lex play out in the aftermath of Lex's possession by Zod and Lionel's adoption as the "oracle" of Jor-El. Several prisoners escape the Phantom Zone with Clark.^[34] Clark acquires "super breath", after developing a cold from over-exerting himself cleaning up Lex/Zod's destruction in Metropolis, and having no abilities while in the Phantom Zone.^[35] DC Comics characters Jimmy Olsen,^[34] Oliver Queen (and his superhero alias Green Arrow) and Martian Manhunter are introduced this season, and many of them unite in Smallville to fight a common threat. Clark promises to continue his training, at the Fortress of Solitude, once all the escaped Phantom Zone criminals are either returned or destroyed. Other storylines involve Lana and Lex's marriage, Lex's secret "33.1" experiments, and the introduction of Clark's evil doppelgänger.

Season seven introduces Clark's biological cousin, Kara as a main character of the series. Her storyline focuses on Clark teaching her to blend in to society, controlling her powers, and learning to cope with the destruction of Krypton. Her trust in her father Zor-El inadvertantly causes her to betray Clark. Lana, after faking her own death and moving to china, begins stalking Lex in order to find incriminating evidence against him. Clark help's Lana with her obsession. Chloe, who learns she has kryptonite-induced abilities, struggles to keep her power a secret from those around her. Lex's younger brother Julian, who was believed to have been killed in his crib when Lex was a young boy, becomes the new editor of the Daily Planet under the assumed name Grant Gabriel. "Grant" subsequently hires Lois as a new reporter, based on some of the stories she wrote for The Inquisitor, with the two beginning a romantic relationship afterward, until Lex hires someone to kill him.

Smallville - The Complete Fourth Season

Clark Kent will have plenty of reasons to remember his senior year! The thrilling reinterpretation of the Superman legend evolves in Season 4, whose 22 episodes include the quest for 3 Kryptonian crystals and Clark's bold attempt to keep those mysterious stones from destroying Earth. Clark also becomes a highly recruited football star. Lana gets a boyfriend. Lois Lane smart, opinionated and entirely annoying to Clark comes to Smallville. Chloe learns the scoop of the century. Lionel becomes a straight-up nice guy. Lex steps further from the light into darkness. New characters (Krypto, Mr. Mxyzptlk) and a new power emerge. The calling awaits Clark an awakening to a destiny that only he can accept and fulfill.

Season Five

In Season Five, Clark Kent found himself without his most beloved "guiding light" when his father died. The feelings of loneliness grew as his relationship with Lex Luthor crumbled, rebuilt as a bitter rivalry, and Clark was forced to push the love of his life, Lana Lang, away. To make matters worse, Lana took refuge in Lex's open arms. By the end of the season, Clark had learned to deal with his grief and had a better sense of who he was, but he still had a long way to go before becoming the Man of Steel. In Season Six, Clark's destiny grows a lot nearer. Season Six revolves around Clark's discovery of who he is through two major storylines: 1) the tormented relationship between he and Lana Lang (which should have ended seasons ago and has now reached the point of absurdity), as well as Lana's potentially strong affections for Lex, and 2) Lex Luthor's rapid loss of morality and Clark's realization that he alone can stop him. There is a third major storyline as well, dealing with a number of alien ghosts which escape from the Phantom Zone in the season premiere; Clark must round them up before they wreak too much havoc.

Lana Lang

Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang: The girl next door. She is the "beautiful, popular girl who is really lonely."She has a "hole in her heart," because of the loss of her parents, and feels empathy for everyone. She feels connected to Clark.Gough and Millar were initially trying to find someone for the role of Clark Kent, but Kristin Kreuk was the first to be cast, as Lana Lang. Casting director Coreen Mayrs sent David Nutter, the director of the pilot episode, a tape of 69 people and the second person on the tape was Kristin Kreuk. They loved her audition tape so much they immediately showed her to the network

Clark Kent

Tom Welling as Clark Kent: A young man with superhuman abilities, who tries to find his place in life after being told he is an alien. He uses his abilities to help others in danger. Clark's problem in season one is not being able to share his secret with anyone. He just wants to be normal. Clark is afraid to open up to Lana, for fear that she will not accept him if she knows the truth. After months of scouting, Tom Welling was cast as Clark Kent. David Nutter was looking through pictures of actors and stumbled upon Tom Welling's image. When he asked about Welling, the casting director said Welling's manager didn't want him to do the role, because it could hurt his feature film career. After a conversation with Welling's manager, Nutter got him to read the script for the pilot, which convinced him to do the part. For one of his auditions, he read the graveyard scene with Kristin Kreuk; the network thought they had "great chemistry". Welling believes his lack of knowledge of the Superman mythology helps his performance because Gough and Millar have set up the series so that the previous mythology is not important.

SMALLVILLE

Smallville is an American television series created by writer/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and was initially broadcast by The WB. After its fifth season, the WB and UPN merged to form The CW, which is the current broadcaster for the show in the United States. Smallville premiered on October 16, 2001, and completed its sixth season on May 17, 2007. A seventh season was officially announced by The CW on May 16, 2007, and premiered on September 27, 2007. It is produced in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The plot follows the adventures of a young Clark Kent's life in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The first four seasons focused on Clark and his friends' high school years. Since season five, the show has ventured into more adult settings, with some characters attending college. Recent seasons have seen an increase in the introductions of other DC comic book superheroes and villains.

Smallville inspired an Aquaman spin-off pilot, which was not picked up by The CW network, as well as promotional tie-ins with Verizon, Sprint, and Toyota. In other media, the show has spawned a series of young-adult novels, a DC Comics comic book and soundtrack releases. The show broke the record for highest rated debut for The WB, with 8.4 million viewers tuning in for its pilot episode