Ep 3.13 - Velocity

[yellowqueen22]

Pete gets involved with Kryptonite-enhanced street tracing, and finds himself threatened when he fails to do as he is told. Lana learns some secrets about Adam.

Notable Guest Stars: Moneca Delain as Mara, and Ryan Merriman as Dante

[Samara]

On this episode did anyone feel like they were watching the Fast and the Furious? LOL reminded me so much from that movie.
I felt bad for Pete at the end, where he realised he made a mistake and Clark was still really angry. I would be too but poor Pete. At least he's learnt his lesson.

[red-K glory]

the end of the episode made me feel sad. pete asking clark if he wants to shoot hoops and clark says "not today pete" and walks away and the music in the background always makes me kind of sad for some reason. anyway, i have always liked velocity among my season 3 favorites. and yes "samara" the episode definitely reminded me of fast and the furious, even though i have only scene it once. maybe smallville was trying to make a FATF ripoff? he he just kidding!

[THEOMYS]

Did anyone else feel that Pete's actions at begining of episode came out of the Blue. He has been racing for two months and Chloe and Clark don't know?

[jdot]

Originally posted by THEOMYS
Did anyone else feel that Pete's actions at begining of episode came out of the Blue. He has been racing for two months and Chloe and Clark don't know?

This episode was a total "Hey! We haven't done anything with Pete in a while!" episode. I really didn't like it. Pete already should have know better than to do what he was doing. And he's never been played before or after as having a cavalier attitude towards his own safety or the safety of others. The setup made no sense, and the overall repercussions of what happened just disappeared into the ether. I suppose that could be a good thing, since I have a tendency to avoid this episode like the plague now.

[greggbray]

^ While I don't necessarily avoid it like the plague, it is one of my least favorite episodes of Season 3. That and Talisman.

Still, it's better than Lana being a witch, or an exploding fast-aging baby, right? ;)

[jdot]

Originally posted by greggbray
Still, it's better than Lana being a witch, or an exploding fast-aging baby, right? ;)

I actually didn't mind the latter of those two. I can stomach Spell if I watch it with commentary on, because the actresses obviously had so much fun shooting the episode and doing the commentary. They're hillarious to listen to during it.

[vyperman7]

This episode is very underrated in my opinion and not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I like the fact that it examines Clark and Pete's friendship. I also really liked how it takes a look at how knowing the secret weighs on Pete. While the street racing angle was not the greatest, this episode definately had some good things in it, and I enjoy it.

[F-Stop Blues]

Originally posted by vyperman7
This episode is very underrated in my opinion and not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I like the fact that it examines Clark and Pete's friendship. I also really liked how it takes a look at how knowing the secret weighs on Pete. While the street racing angle was not the greatest, this episode definately had some good things in it, and I enjoy it.



I totally agree.

[vyperman7]

Parker,

I think that there are a few other people on the whole site besides me, you, and Mel (Summers) that would agree. I am glad that we are on the same page with this one though.. :)

[red-K glory]

like i said this is one of my favorites of season 3 and i like the whole street racing plot.

[Watching Smallville]

Originally posted by vyperman7
This episode is very underrated in my opinion and not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I like the fact that it examines Clark and Pete's friendship. I also really liked how it takes a look at how knowing the secret weighs on Pete. While the street racing angle was not the greatest, this episode definately had some good things in it, and I enjoy it.
I felt the same. I got a completely different view of the dynamics of their friendship, not only that Clark's secret weighs on Pete, but that it makes him feel inferior and jealous -- a perfectly natural reaction. There was also an interesting reveal on Clark and Lex's friendship, when Lex basically told Clark "not my problem." He didn't even try to advise him.

Not a bad episode at all.

[LanaandPete]

Originally posted by vyperman7
This episode is very underrated in my opinion and not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I like the fact that it examines Clark and Pete's friendship. I also really liked how it takes a look at how knowing the secret weighs on Pete. While the street racing angle was not the greatest, this episode definately had some good things in it, and I enjoy it.

Word

This is a very underrated episode, like Rogue

[OutlawAngel]

Jonathan has his stupidest quote ever in this episode when he tells Clark that 'It would take much more than a heart attack to bring your old man down' I was like *dude what will it take then? A tractor running over you? a tractor falling on you? a direct hit from a meteor? what is it going to take Bo?*

[Rosey]

Dante was quite poorly written. What a total waste of guest star Ryan Merriman, and I like Ryan, especially as he is from the next town (Choctaw) East of here. Clark and Pete can't do anything about Dante because he is such a bad-ass? Well, they didn't really show that did they? The plot seemed contrived to me. And yet another case where Clark doesn't notice the Kryptonite until it's too late. :rolleyes:

[vyperman7]

Originally posted by LanaandPete
Word

This is a very underrated episode, like Rogue

Hell yeah.

Rogue is the most underrated episode of the show in my opinion. It is on my top 5 list in terms of all time favorite episodes.

What cracks me up about this thread is that Velocity is considered by many to be one of the weakest episodes of the show, but yet the thread has more response than any other episode in the S3 forum.. :lol:

[Rosey]

Here's an article from The Daily Oklahoman on local actor Ryan Merriman, who played Dante in this episode, and what he's up to these days.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9029/ryanmerrimanarticlep18pt.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/48/ryanmerrimanarticlep20bt.jpg

[UpandAtom]

This episode could've been done better. All it did was ripoff The Fast and the Furious. They even had the guy making phony license plates.

[RedKalEL]

Originally posted by vyperman7
This episode is very underrated in my opinion and not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I like the fact that it examines Clark and Pete's friendship. I also really liked how it takes a look at how knowing the secret weighs on Pete. While the street racing angle was not the greatest, this episode definately had some good things in it, and I enjoy it.


I agree. I think it a good epsiode cuz i like pete being involed and also it gives a break from the darkness of this season (i'm not a huge fan of this season cuz it was a little too dark for me)

[mech-anic]

Originally posted by OutlawAngel
Jonathan has his stupidest quote ever in this episode when he tells Clark that 'It would take much more than a heart attack to bring your old man down' I was like *dude what will it take then? A tractor running over you? a tractor falling on you? a direct hit from a meteor? what is it going to take Bo?*
Not so stupid, but ironic now that he did die of a heart attack.

[UpandAtom]

Season 3 definetely had a lot of foreshadowing that Jonathan would die of a heart attack.

[Firebunny]

Pete didn't do well knowing Clark's secret. This was the second time he exploited Clark and his powers. (Granted, the first time was in 'Rush' when Pete is under the influence of a Kryptonian parasite.)

Chloe has dealt with the knowledge much better. I'm not sure if it's because of her personality or because she was older and more mature when she found out.

[LexLuv180]

Originally posted by red-K glory
the end of the episode made me feel sad. pete asking clark if he wants to shoot hoops and clark says "not today pete" and walks away and the music in the background always makes me kind of sad for some reason. anyway, i have always liked velocity among my season 3 favorites. and yes "samara" the episode definitely reminded me of fast and the furious, even though i have only scene it once. maybe smallville was trying to make a FATF ripoff? he he just kidding!

I always thought Clark was a bit too unforgiving in the end scene. Pete did make a mistake and it did end up terribly badly, but geez, Clarks done the same thing. Other than that it was good. Pete's a good character and they never explored him much.

[Welling_is_pretty]

Originally posted by jdot
This episode was a total "Hey! We haven't done anything with Pete in a while!" episode. I really didn't like it. Pete already should have know better than to do what he was doing. And he's never been played before or after as having a cavalier attitude towards his own safety or the safety of others. The setup made no sense, and the overall repercussions of what happened just disappeared into the ether. I suppose that could be a good thing, since I have a tendency to avoid this episode like the plague now.
I agree. Pete seemed very out of character, though I do like how they finally seemed to approach Pete's feelings about Clark. (So obvious Pete was thinking about Chloe in that one scene!)
But mostly not a good episode to me.

[tallville]

One of my least favorite episodes. i did like the end with clark and pete though.

[D.M.A.]

Tho I did feel alil bad for pete in the end at that moment it was understandable wit clarks behavior towards him.Tha first time(In Rush)he was under the influence so clark let it go quick,even tho Bo wasn't goin to be as forgivin.But this time he wasn't under any spell and he wanted clark to use his powers to rob banks/steal.I understand that was his fam that was bein threaten but HE made the decision to race(And to not lose also but mostly race period).While Clark told him that they could find another way true or not,he was still tryin to use clark abilities.Imo this was my setback on pete's character like sum had for chloe in truth.Yea u get over it soon but it makes u look at em diff,chloe was wrong for dealin wit lionel/diggin for info on her bestfriend.But Pete(Knowin the secret/seein what abusin those powers do to clark's fam)tried to force the issue on clark,so I agree wit clarks reactions at that time.While it was sad it was meant to show how seriously that changed their relationship.I for one already thought that in s3 they really didn't have too much for pete anyways(He was closer to clark imo in s2 then ever),so it didn't suprise me when he left.This episode was just the beginnin of the end for Pete character,but yet this was a decent episode imo.

[Ilovebeinglost]

It was all fine but needed about another 30 mins. LOL

Pete is racing, if he reaches 100 he blows up, the green stuff (krypto gas lol ) runs out, Clark somehow slows the car down, I didn't understand how and Dante's car flips? Was it because he tried to avoid crashing into Pete's car?

And the thing that got me was......what? no one talks about Dante dying? What happened? Who drove the red car? Sheriff not investigate? Sure Dante wasn't a good guy but there's a death here. That whole explaination about Lex's porche we could have fingured out ourselves. ;)


writters I thing sometimes they want to get home. lol

[Jill]

I liked it, but not so much like other episodes of season 3.

[supertun]

Dudes I just watched this episode like two minutes ago it was so awesome!!! I need more Smallvilleeeeee!!!!!!

[bball44j]

This episode was good in the sense they used Pete as a main character in it, but it came out of nowhere because Pete is not that crazy in the other episodes.

[genvillewars92]

pete annoyed me in this ep

[LanaandPete]

Originally posted by vyperman7
Parker,

I think that there are a few other people on the whole site besides me, you, and Mel (Summers) that would agree. I am glad that we are on the same page with this one though.. :)

I as well believe this is underrated episode. It really showed the pressure that Pete was under. Always it really enforced that Pete was "us" as that was the purpose of his character. I mean how would we react if we all had a super friend. It would affect us greatly for sure, and this episode did a good job of showing it.

[tibbit78]

What did I think of Velocity?


1) I liked this episode a lot. I really like Pete Ross (he's my second favorite male character that is Clark's best friend). This story was about Pete Ross and him racing his car against Dante (using meteor rocks to make the car go faster). In this scene is Clark, Jonathan & Martha. Clark feels really bad about his Dad's heart-condition, and blames himself for it. Jonathan tries to tell Clark it isn't his fault. Clark says to Jonathan, "The last time you were at the doctor's, they said you had a heart of a 20-year-old just before I went to Metropolis. This is all my fault." Poor Clark. Jonathan & Martha are very loving parents, and really care about Clark's feelings. I just love all the Clark, Martha & Jonathan scenes.

Clark: Dad?

Martha: Sweetheart? How are you feeling?

Jonathan: Are you two still here? I think you need to go back, back home and get some rest. Hey, Clark, don't worry about me, son. It's gonna take a whole lot more than a heart attack to keep your old man down.

Clark: I just feel like this is all my fault.

Jonathan: Hey, come here. Look, there's a lot of things that you can do, but causing cardiac arrest is not one of them.

Clark: The Last time you were at the doctor's, they said you had a heart of a 20-year-old just before I went to Metropolis.

Jonathan: If you're suggesting that your biological father has anything to do with this--

Clark: He gave you powers to bring me home that no human was meant to have, and I don't think your heart could handle it.

Martha: Clark, no. There were other factors.

Clark: If I hadn't put on that ring and abandoned you and mom when you needed me most, you wouldn't be lying here in this bed.

Jonathan: As hard as this is for you to believe, not everything that goes wrong in Smallville is Clark Kent's fault.


2) This next scene that I like is the Clark & Pete scene. Clark tries to stop his best friend from racing the car (that is using Kryptonite). Clark tells his best friend that it's too dangerous for him to race cars. Clark even super-speeded and stopped Pete's car. Pete forced his car to stop suddenly by screeching it, so he wouldn't hit his best friend, Clark Kent. This is one of my favorite Clark & Pete scenes. Especially the short speech Pete gave Clark about his super powers.


Clark: Pete, listen to me. There have been a series of fatal car accidents this year in Lowell County. They were all tricked out with the same kryptonite booster tanks.

Pete: Clark, any car can be dangerous if you don't know how to drive it. But I do.

Clark: That's not the point!

Pete: Yes, it is! For once in my life, I finally found something that I'm truly good at.

Clark: What are you talking about? You're good at a lot of things.

Pete: Like what?

Clark: Like basketball. You got a killer jump shot. You've beat me plenty of times.

Pete: Yeah, when you're not using your powers. Clark, I'm okay at hoops. I'm a decent photographer. But you saw that crowd last night. You heard them chanting my name. And for once in my life, I finally get to feel what you feel like every single day. I get to feel special.

Clark: Pete, I'm not special. I'm different.

Pete: Clark, who do you think you're kidding? You can do things that I could never even dream of. And ever since we were kids, even before I knew your secret, I've always been walking in your shadow.

Clark: Pete, that's not true.

Pete: Clark, don't get me wrong. It's not a bad place to be. But I'm growing up. I'm realizing that I got my own talents.

Clark: Pete, as your friend, I can't let you race anymore. It's too dangerous.

Pete: Clark, what are you gonna do? Physically stop me every time I go to race?

Pete opens the car door and Clark slams it shut.

Clark: If I have to!

Pete: Fine, Clark, you win. I guess I'll just keep living vicariously through you.


3) I liked this scene with Clark talking to his father about his best friend, Pete Ross. Jonathan is always filled with wisdom when talking to Clark about his feelings, problems, friends, etc., or whatever Clark chooses to talk about. Jonathan Kent is the kind of man every father wishes to be. Jonathan & Martha are the parents everyone wishes to have. It's always great to talk to your family about real issues, problems, feelings, etc. That is why I love this scene.


Jonathan: Clark, sit down. Listen, son, it doesn't take a genius to realize that something's been bothering you other than my health lately. What's up? Hmm?

Clark: While you were in the hospital, Pete got himself into a bind. I did some things I'm not too proud of.

Jonathan: Well, your mother and I trust your judgment. We did raise you to know the difference between right and wrong. Clark, one day when we're not around anymore, I'm sure that you're gonna remember it. Look, in the world, things aren't always black and white. I mean, sometimes you got to just wander out into the gray areas and do what you think is best.

Clark: What do you mean?

Jonathan: Clark, I did go talk to Jor-El, and I think maybe that is why my heart gave out. But listen, son, I went into that cave knowing full well that there were risks involved. And I'd do it again if I thought you were in trouble.

Clark: Dad, I promise I'll never put you in that position again.

Jonathan: Clark, that's not what this is about. You're different than your mother and I. Son, you're gonna have to make choices in your life, moral choices that she and I will never have to make. But we both know that when that time comes, you'll do what you think is best. What's right. That's what's important.


4) I love this last scene, especially what Pete said to Clark. This is one of Sam Jones III best moments and one of his finest acts. (I really wish they haven't let Sam Jones go. He was one of my favorite characters). This is one of my favorite Pete Ross quotes:


Pete: I know. If I had listened to you from the start, none of this would've happened. Clark, listen, you told me your secret because I'm your friend, and at times, that's not an easy thing to be. But it doesn't give me the right to do what I did. I just want to say that... Clark, I swear it will never happen again. Clark, I know I let you down. But I promise you until the day that I die, I will never disrespect your powers again.

[Rosey]

Originally posted by Rosey
Here's an article from The Daily Oklahoman on local actor Ryan Merriman, who played Dante in this episode, and what he's up to these days.

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9029/ryanmerrimanarticlep18pt.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/48/ryanmerrimanarticlep20bt.jpg Update on Ryan from today's Daily Oklahoman.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1086/merriman24aug07p1ei5.th.png (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=merriman24aug07p1ei5.png)

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3646/merriman24aug07p2jg7.th.png (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=merriman24aug07p2jg7.png)

[meteor_phreak]

there was one thing that really threw me out of the feel of this episode...sorta like if an episode dealt with your favorite hobby...i have a heavily modified car, and i'm a bit of a car guy. if they're gonna run with the old mustang, (this episode aired in the early 2000's and the mustang was around a 94 or 95...) they could have at least found a used GT. it would have only cost them another couple dollars, and all that paint effect stuff, and they couldn't even be troubled to put a bigger exhaust tip? they could have at least tried to fool people...

okay, nitpick over...i actually liked the episode. sure pete came out of nowhere with his behavior, but sometimes high school kids under a lot of stress can get in trouble really fast...

[A_Chloe.S._Fan]

Not so stupid, but ironic now that he did die of a heart attack.
Wow, that is ironic... :p

[Nimkong]

Not one of the best episodes of the season.Liked how clark helped out his friend.But dident like the plot and even though it was about pete still very stupid.