“Open your eyes, you crazy son of a bitch!” - Smallville

Spoilers follow.

Few would look to Smallville for examples of how best to pull off a high concept episode – certainly not an alternate reality one. The last time the show attempted one of these was last season’s underwhelming ‘Lexmas’, a Christmas-themed fantasy where Lex found himself married to Lana and living the perfect life; until she dies giving birth to their second child. It was a pretty pathetic episode, not to mention completely pointless. “I want it all!” proclaimed Lex at the end of said episode, hinting at the evil coming up the surface; only for that plot to fall on the backburner for the rest of the season.

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