I agree it was definitely scary for Clark to lose control of his facilities like that. I could understand his guilt at handing back the kid to kidnappers, not to mention almost drowning Lois. Not being a fan of magic myself, I understand Lois's hatred of it.
It was naive of me to think that hypnosis wouldn't work on me. My powers are all physical, so why would they protect me against something that isn't? As for being an alien... Well, so much of me works like a normal, human male that it makes sense that my brain does, too.
Good point. It shows Clark that Kryptonians aren't that far removed from humans. I like episodes where Clark learns something new about himself and his limitations.
This episode isn't in my least favorite list, though, it's more in the middle. The least favorite episodes are the ones that don't make me excited when I have to watch them to do research for a story, usually because there's something so heart wrenching in it that it makes my chest hurt (or that there's something so out-of-character, such as freezing Lois for a SECOND time). Or ones, where there's more scenes that I fast-forward past to get to the good L&C scenes. I liked that in IoG the bad "guy" was the magician's assistant, not the magician himself. I know it's almost cliche nowadays, but it was fairly new concept back then. Plus I love Ben Vereen! I could have done without Penn, from Penn & Teller though.
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), this was such a great way to convey Clark's thoughts, and how they so often circle back, relate to Lois. The line seemed very appropiate to end with as Clark relived what he had just dealt with. 
. But, some of that probably has to do with the amazing episodes that precede it--GGGoH, MOSB, PML, HIM, ASU, Witness. These are some of my 
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