Magnetic

Season 3, Episode 7, Aired
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Clark is suspicious when Lana suddenly becomes attracted to a fellow student and begins to act rebelliously, which eventually lands her in jail. Clark's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Lana's new boyfriend has magnetic powers that can move objects and alter human emotions, but when he tries to free Lana from the paranormal hold that is controlling her, she tries to kill him. Meanwhile, Lex discovers Chloe has been delving into Lionel's past and tries to get her to join forces against his dad.moreless
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  • this was a good ep

    8.5
    "Great"
    By cube2k8, May 11, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of smallville lana is suddenly attactied to this kid as school and is fallen maddly in love with him and even murdriously . clark goes and does some digging and learns that he is attacting her by using maganitism that he uses to attract lana. clark must get there in time before it is too late and in this ep we learn that cloe is investgatin linel luther and lex finds out and wants her to join him to take his father down. this was a great ep i thought and it had a very interesting story and i enjoyed it.moreless

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  • Classmate Seth, who's had a crush on Lana for years, develops magnetic powers, which he uses to influence her feelings. Clark sees the truth, but has difficulty convincing Lana.

    6.8
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    By cxtasy, Sep 04, 2008 Report Abuse
    At the county fair, Lana's classmate Seth is popped on the head with a kryptonite-laced snowglobe by a tattooed thug. During an MRI diagnostic, the magnetic field goes awry, energizing Seth with krypto-magnetic powers, which he uses to influence Lana and to control metal objects. Lana goes to the closed fairgrounds with him under the influence of his touch, but they're followed by Clark, who sees Seth manifest his powers. Nice camera work on Lana and Seth while the ferris wheel operates, and so does Seth. Clark warns Seth to stay away from Lana; Seth responds with a school-lockers slamming demo.

    Lex continues working with retired cop Mason on an investigation of the tenement explosion which killed his grandparents many years ago. On learning that Chloe, too, is looking into the Luthor famiily history, he confronts her in the Torch office, implying that Chloe's has been subverted by Lionel getting her the Daily Planet column.

    Chloe and Clark ransack the hospital files on Seth, but when discovered, Chloe covers up their burglary by laying a big one on Clark, who soon has no luck persuading Lana about the danger Seth poses. Things heat up between Lana and Seth, and she cleans out the Talon's cash drawer with Lex in pursuit - but Seth and Lana leave town in a canary yellow Mustang convertible. Clark slows down that trip by heat-vision on the asphalt road, turning it into a soft tub o' tar, entangling that beautiful Mustang. Seth latches onto a passing semi, leaving Lana to cool off in jail - for what? Who filed?

    Chloe finds that investigator Mason has broken into the Torch office, and he casually walks out with her computer. Why wouldn't Chloe report this theft? Too much questionable material on her hard drive? Chloe confronts Lex about the computer theft, but Lex takes her to the morgue - Mason is dead - and Lex implies that Lionel was behind it and offers to protect Chloe.

    Seth springs Lana from jail, Clark finds them at the fairgrounds, and Lana gets a chance to take a shot at Clark. Seth and Clark battle until Seth is electrocuted and ends up in an off-screen coma. Chloe later accepts the offer from Lex for help, and she fills him in on Lionel's plot to have her investigate Clark, and his blackmail when she balked. She reveals more - crimelord Morgan Edge, missing and presumed dead in "Phoenix," was a long-time friend of Lionel. The news article we see must have been written by someone on the production staff with limited grammar and spelling abilities, and the headline reads that Edge is missing - the article says his body is being examined that day. They just don't realize how picky we Smallville fans can be!

    We get some intriguing developments on the Lex-Lionel conflict in this episode, but the rest is pretty routine meteor-rock-mutant and Clark-Lana relationship fare. Re-run rating C-.moreless

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  • Another one of those Smallville weight-watcher episodes - light on plot, character devlopment and action.

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    By MovieMark, May 21, 2008 Report Abuse
    You'd think, with the wealth of mythology from comic books etc., Smallville would have enough material to mix it up almost every episode. And yet, beyond my comprehension, in season three alone, we have yet another Lana-item-of-obsession episode. Enough already! Feeling very much like a missing season one episode, "Magnetic" sees a guy who has the hots for Lana acquire new, you guessed it, magnetic abilities. Explained through dire techno babble, we find out he's changing Lana's feelings, making her do out of character things and such nonsense, making Clark a very jealous guy. A bottle episode in every sense of the term, "Magnetic" lacks Smallville's habitual fall-back, that if the story isn't up to mediocre-par, at least it all looks good. But no, there's very little FX here and the denouement is both predictable and underwhelming, even for such a ropey episode. While I'll always consider Smallville an enjoyable show at heart, when it's bad, it's truly dire stuff. This episode being a prime example.moreless

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  • "I'm a Freak and Obsessed with Lana" Part 6

    5.1
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    By lenzinoH20, Apr 17, 2008 Report Abuse
    Magnetic-Clark is suspicious when Lana suddenly becomes attracted to a fellow student and begins to act rebelliously, which eventually lands her in jail. Clark's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Lana's new boyfriend has magnetic powers that can move objects and alter human emotions, but when he tries to free Lana from the paranormal hold that is controlling her, she tries to kill him. Meanwhile, Lex discovers Chloe has been delving into Lionel's past and tries to get her to join forces against his dad.

    After a string of great episodes since the premeire, Smallville runs into it's first bad episode of the season and of course, it's focused around Lana and her newest meteor of the freak stalker. There's nothing remotely interesting or life threating about Seth Nelson and his Magento-inspired power as he can control metal. Kevin Zegers just bores in the role and doesn't make any impression showing that his different from any other meteor freaks. The most lame aspect of his power to control Lana by just touching because...wow...opposites attract like a magnet! Kristin Kreuk is unbearably bad throughout as she plays Seth's bad girl. I mean Lana, bad?...never! This is one of the few times where you just can't wait until Clark saves the day so the whole episode can be over already.

    But it's actually not all bad, I like the development that Lex asks Chloe to help him take down Lionel. It's a great team up as they are about to get the truth of Lionel's murder of his parents which continues to imress as a storyline. All and All, Despite a brilliant sub-plot, "Magnetic" is sub-par and a funless filler!moreless

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  • Great Episode

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    By Beer75, Aug 22, 2007 Report Abuse
    When Lana starts seeing a new guy, and begins acting out of character, Clark Kent investigates. Clark's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Lana's new boyfriend has magnetic powers that can move objects and alter human emotions. When he tries to free Lana from the magnetic hold, she tries to kill him. Lex discovers Chloe Sullivan has been digging into Lionel's past and tries to get her to join him in his fight against his father. Lex offers his protection to Chloe. In this episode, again Clark Kent does not date Lana Lang, although they have a crush on each other.moreless

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    • The article on Morgan Edge that Lex shows Chloe has several incomplete sentences and misspells the word "thief" as "theif." It also declares that Edge's body has been recovered and will be examined before being put to rest in the cemetery. However, despite that he reappears in the next episode. Edit
    • In this episode, Lana tells Clark, at the end, that one day, someone will come along who is right for her, and Clark will just have to deal with that. Yet in the last episode, Lana stated that she would wait as long as he needed for them to be together. Edit
    • Why did the police not think that Lana had something to do with the stolen car? She was the only one on the scene when the sheriff pulled up... no one saw the boy run off, and it was never mentioned that the car was stolen by a male. It seems like the police see or help Lana everyday, but never ask her how she got into that position. Edit

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    • The Lowell County Fairgrounds scenes were filmed at the Playland Amusement Park in Vancouver. Edit
    • We see another reference to Lowell County (on the fair sign), a fictional county in Kansas. Edit
    • We only hear Camille Mitchell as Sheriff Adams over the loudspeaker and maybe see her at a distance in a police car - she doesn't actually clearly appear on screen. Edit

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    • Jonathan: Something must be wrong if (Clark) just stuck his head in the refrigerator and didn't eat the last piece of cherry pie. Edit
    • Martha: What did Lana say? Clark: She said yes so fast it gave me whiplash Edit
    • Jonathan: Look, Clark, jealousy is a tough emotion. Clark: Dad I'm not jealous! Jonathan: Huh.... Clark: Well, maybe a little bit. Edit

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