I'm too lzy to look it up and I don't remember if it was a spoiler or not. But didn't we have the name of the actress playing her and a link to her imdb page at one point?

Okay. I'm not that lazy. It's in the CW description.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Oh, it's so true. Such a unique appeal, IMO. He's definitely a welcome addition to my Thursday nights, hehe.

I know, right?! Makes no sense. None. I like AA (a lot, actually), but Jimmy vs. Davis is a non-choice (I say before we've even seen one minute of Bloome footage, let alone Chloom footage, and knowing full well he is going to be Doomsday).

I'm squeeing with you. She's so pretty.

And ITA with everyone who thinks the darker hair looks better on Erica. That and the cut are very flattering. She, also, is very pretty.

I don't even think it's necessary to state how good Tom looks in those dress clothes. Because really? It goes without saying. I really hope we never return to THRJ, because wow.

Yeah..I can guess which one. (*pats on the shoulder*) But all in all, these are some great pics.

I got a good chuckle out of Clark coming to work, not only with the plaid, but with the red bookbag of highschool!!! Seriously, Clark? Seriously? You're not in high school anymore buddy.

My first assumption: Lois will apparently have to teach him how to dress. Again. I think I see her pulling him along with some dry cleaning in her hand. :/

Actually no. Maybe Clark just brought the dry cleaning with him to the DP instead of wearing it, and Lois makes a comment about how he dresses in the workplace.

(Anyone want to bet $1 that Clark will change in an office, and we get something like peek-a-boo Lois from Apocalypse?)

On that note, Lois' jacket is great. Maybe the days of tank tops are over. Well darn it-if Clark has to loose the plaid I guess Lois has to loose the tank tops.

Second: I'm a bit confused about 2 of the Clois shots that look the same. The "compromising position" and the "clois direction" one. They seem to mirror each other..just with different clothes. So are they in a similar position twice in an episode?

"Up up and away." pic: You can't scream anvil anymore than this shot. Well, no. Unless you're watching The Leap from Crimson. Blue is such an amazing color on this man.

Always with her hands on him. What's up with that?



Thanks. And yes, they are. This is going to be one pretty season to look at.



God, yes.



He! Clark being a dork is always fun.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. I'm getting the impression that Clark shows up in plaid, but has a change of clothes in the knapsack, which Lois insists he change into immediately. It would explain the "before and after" shots of Lois with Clark in plaid, and then in almost the same position with him in the blue shirt.

"From now on, do what I do, bring a change of clothes to work." - THLois, LnC Pilot

=( I can't take the anvils anymore. I'm seriously considering taping Plastique to watch in the next week, right before Toxic, where at least I have Chloe in a pretty dress along with the other spoilers for it that make it a bit better...

A couple of things strike me

First - they're trying awfully hard to make Lois into a "serious journalist" with serious journalist hair and clothes. Unlike previous seasons.

Second - SW - from the stills - not that sexy to me - too much forehead, among other things. Of course, he may improve on further exposure, but since I don't remember him from BSG, I'll reserve judgement. I actually find "Regan" better looking in the stils.

Nice to see they're letting Clark look like a grown-up since they consider he has a "grown-up job" now. Cut "farming gets no respect" rant that others have said better.

re: Clark and the new DP = which is where Chloe is. He has all the resoruces at the DP that made her his crutch (when she was there), but he still chooses to go to Isis to work with her there. Where Chloe is=truth=the DP=where Clark will be.

re: EDLois at Ollie bedside: I don't understand how dismissive ED can be of Ollie - you don't sit at an ex-lover's bedside as he's dying to reassure yourself that you made the right decision in breaking up with him. You do that when you begin to second-guess your breaking up = IMO, Lollie is so back. They don't need to be in a relationship, but it's definitely back.

But, it's his cape! :)



You know, I hadn't even thought about that! You would think they would use that bigtime in their promotional materials.

As I said in the spoiler thread, how can they Clois after those Lollie stills?

As for Clark's outfit It is Apocalypse all over again but this time, Clark has his own Press Pass.

I saw a trailer for Smallville Season 8 on Space network yesterday. I'm pretty sure it was all new footage. One of the clips showed an upset Chloe bending over a bleeding (and dying?) Clark.

Are you sure it wasn't from Hidden?

Chloe is quickly wisked away by Gabriel when he shoots Clark, so I don't think that's it.

Gah! Why do these things never get onto YouTube??

I can't imagine they're releasing footage from very far into the season, though, so I doubt he's dying somehow.

Since she's not on any of their frenemy slut shows, no promo material, but here are pics of the actress: http://www.kingtalent.com/headshots/kennedy.jpg, http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1481937152/nm2498781

That occurred to me but I'm fairly certain it wasn't from Hidden. Clark's clothes were dressier and it looks like Chloe is bending over him. (Although that could have been an editing trick). I'm pretty sure it wasn't from Apocalypse either unless it was an editing trick.

There was also a shot of Tess making herself comfortable behind Lex's desk in the mansion.

It was a decent trailer. Wish I could remember more. I'm pretty sure it's different than the CW trailer. Space does a good jop of promoting its shows.

I just saw this too. I don't think it's from Apocalypse either. Chloe's hair was like it's been in the stills and most of the trailer was the new season bits. I think Clark is shot when he comes to save her (I think AM hinted that Clark would save Chloe at some point in her interviews) and I can't think of how else the two meet from the Arctic to where she's been held prisoner and then he gets shot. Seems like they might save each other, so to speak.

I'll have to keep an eye out for this. Space generally has better promos than the CW, IMO.

Speaking of promos, I can hardly believe that they had the gall to run yet again another 90210 promo over the credits of Smallville last night. I thought with the new episode being next week they might, you know, promote that fact. Was a fifteen second spot in the fist half hour really all we get?

I was resigned to the fact they barely promote this show, but in the past hasn't there always been a promo or preview over the end credits when there is a new episode next week? Are they possibly going to start shoving GG down our thoats even then? Ok, end of rant.

re: Toxic official description.

It sounds like Chloe uses "new" powers to save Oliver. They still have to be somehow related to healing, then. Maybe it's not so much empathic anymore as it is just... healing.

We have an official description for Toxic? Anyone has a link?

Bah! Crazy me. I totally forgot. Unfortunately, it's not on K-Site yet, but you can find it at DTS.

It also sounds like the whole Warrior Angel thing has been scrapped, instead replaced with a charity event.

Thanks Scry.

I agree, it sounds like they dropped the WA part. How sad.

Huh. Sounds like the same old, same old powers. I mean, she's obviously thinking about healing him, which isn't "new." Maybe she doesn't die anymore? I don't see why that would "shock" Clark, though.

Boo on getting rid of Warrior Angel! I think it was always supposed to be a charity event surrounding the WA movie's release, so maybe we'll still get some reference to the movie. I hope so!

Thanks for the info, Scry!

I hope the Tess thing isn't as lame as it sounds from that. I thought Oliver was supposed to be there by himself. Perhaps he ended up on Gilligan's Island :)

Or Elly he could be shocked because she's doing it for someone who isn't him.

I don't think it necessarily have to be the same old powers. The description says:

It doesn't mean she has to heal him, IMO. I think she can use some quite different power "to help save" him (e.g. she could read someone's mind and find some crucial info on the cure and she would still be helping to save Oliver - just an example, naturaly). I somewhat fear what her new powers will be though, with the "shocking Clark" bit.

No, apparently not, since it specifies "new" and says Clark is shocked. I just think it's odd that she'd use a "new"power to do what her old power can do-- but maybe whatever she does now means that she doesn't have to die.

I wonder why Clark is shocked. Because he didn't realize she has new powers? Because it means she's putting herself in danger again? Because her powers resemble someone else's? It's an interesting way of putting it...

Also, KSite back in July posted, "Oliver is poisoned and collapses at a fundraiser tying in with the release of the Warrior Angel movie." I guess we can't really say if it still relates to WA or not, but the underlying concept doesn't seem to have changed-- it's a fundraiser/charity event.

Healing power with 100% less death?

Also no Warrior Angel? I'm sad. Maybe they can put up some WA's in post.



Clark's always shocked at her powers. Which is fine but it doesn't give us a lot of new information.

I don't think it's gone just because it's not mentioned in the OD. It still says "charity event", which matches the original spoiler of it being a fundraiser tied to the WA movie release.

It certainly could be any of the above, but because of the undermentioned post by SueB from the Spoiler thread (it is from an interview, so I hope it is OK to post it here) I think it could be something else too:

Due to that I think Clark could be shocked because of the side effects Chloe's new powers have and therefor I fear what they will be like and what they will do to other people. I really don't like the sound of it.

In two photos from "Toxic" a couple of Isis screens spotlight an area in the South Pacific just north of Australia. Might that be where Ollie was marooned, apparently with Tess? Why would Clark and Chloe focus on that, since it happened years ago?

In the stills, it looks like Ollie was sick on the island, too. Maybe it's the same thing.

Re: WA. I hope it's not gone. I mostly just want a Lex mention, but I enjoy the WA stuff whenever it comes up.

This and Kelly Souders answer about Chloe's new powers got me thinking. And I know this has been proposed before, but what if Chloe's new powers are a variation on healing that instead of killing her, kills others? I mean, maybe not kill, but in a sense she's a conduit for transfering someone's lifeforce to someone else?

Instead of giving her lifeforce to heal and paying the price herself, she can now choose to take from others as well. So, that's a "new" power that won't kill her, brings ramifications for other people and brings a ton of ethical issues here: is one life better then the other? Can you choose between two people? Is it ok to hurt someone in the process of saving another? I think it would parallel Clark's choices and questions this year, but on a much more personal and direct level, I think.

My spec, going from what seems to be on the Space Channel trailer, is that it first manifests itself during Odissey. Clark is shot, powerless in her arms and to save him, she tries to heal him, but instead of taking her life, she takes the lives of her kidnappers. Could be an accident and not exactly her fault...

And this scenario could set the stage for other things happening latter on, including maybe giving Clark a certain advantage at his fight with Doomsday latter in the season, making Chloe a part of it, but not the direct cause of Doomsday's demise.

Healing Oliver by borrowing part of someone else's lifeforce could really shock Clark. Even crazier, what if she's taking Clark's lifeforce for it? He has plenty. He's theoretically immortal. And wasn't that part of a LnC episode? And taking a bit of Clark's lifeforce could possibly not make him that much immortal anymore? Is that TPTB's answer to that problem?

Or maybe he's just feeling not so special anymore, that Chloe would risk her life for Oliver (!), when she previously did it for him. I mean, is Oliver as important to Chloe as Clark is? Yeah, that would shock him.

Personally, I would really hate this to be the case. I hate Chloe's power, but I would rather it kills her than she takes someone else's life-force, killing them. I am quite disappointed that they are changing her power actually. I was looking forward to her using it one more time on Clark and getting healed and rid of it once and for all. Plus how exactly does she master her "new" power? Does it again happen in offscreenville while she is kidnapped/in prison/ in 33.1?

I wish they would stop jerking Chloe around. First they lightswitch her from Journalism to Isis without any warning and now they change her old power to some lame (I'm convinced it will be lame) new power? Why does she even need a new power? It's contrivance to the highest degree because how does the old power change to a new power? If they are setting her up to make some unethic judgements on who to save and who not to, I would totally hate that because she is the same girl who told Clark that he can't choose who to save and who not to.

The power to throw people. Man, it just doesn't get better than that.

I'd actually love for EDLois to get some powers too. It seems like she and Jimmy are overdue.

Press Release for Toxic found on Spoiler tv

Maybe it's just as simple as Chloe exhibiting the powers where she can be seen, thereby making her a target.

ROFLMAO. I know!!! MWhaaa. OMg.

Considering Clark has never witnessed Chloe use her power before period, I would think he'll be shocked at how it looks.

I think it would be interesting should Nois get a power, her power be something Chloe's already done.

But I actually like Durance's suggestion, that she can throw people. Maybe that way she can force Clark to fly and it would be ICONIC!

Naw, the powers have to reflect the character. That's how Smallville does it. So the power to "throw people" is perfect. Lois is all bull in a china shop, it would work for her.

It's enough that it will now be Lois like to have a power. Assuming it turns out to be true, which is a stretch.

Thanks, this just made my day Black Panda.

Yes, EDLo pimped a battle of wits that never materialized, unless you count the Grois arc as battle by proxy. The funny thing there was the contenders in the promised but never delivered "intellectual battle" seem to have been Grulian vs. Lex. Lois played the role of Slutty McGuffin
.

TPTB and ED's reports lead the fans to mistakenly believe that Lois might actually figure out Grant's role and turn the tables on Lex. No such storyline was delivered. I didn't buy it then, and I don't buy newly smart Lois now. She says she will think she's saving herself and it's really Clark. TPTB have commented she will get in his way.

But then it's forgotten that this was their plan for season 7. They started off well enough with Bizarro, Kara, Action, Wrath, Gemini, and Fracture, and by that point, the writer's strike halted everything. They had to rush to make a pseudo-finale in Veritas. When the strike ended, they had to edit Veritas and quickly stretch the season with filler episodes until Arctic. I have every belief that they would've gone further into the Lex/Lois story if the season had played out regularly.

Al Gough was pimping it because he clearly intended to do it. Erica Durance pimped it because that's what TPTB told her they were planning for the season. I don't see what the problem is here, and randomly inserting Lois insults that make no sense to throw the topic into another direction is just odd. YMMV.

Well I believe ED believed it because that's what she was told, and that's what she'd like to believe. That is much the impression I get from this interview as well.

As to Al planning it, Gemini pretty clearly made a mockery of ED's battle. Check out the Gemini deleted scene which just further reinforces that. Arctic had Lois hand Lex her evidence without figuring anything out. Fracture she did it again. Then when a battle of wits came back, well Chloe had more time with Lex and Jimmy played Grant's role of playing his girlfriend in Sleeper (I do think Lex was behind that) and again playing Lois in Arctic.

So Al got us thinking about how iconic Lois should be going head to head with Lex (which Chloe has been doing for seasons), then delivered a season that emphasized Lois' incompetence over and over. I believe Al wanted us to watch for a "battle of wits" and notice the lack of wit.

So these interviews promise an "iconic partnership" and romance with Clark. Yet many of the interviews also point all the focus back to Chloe and her trials. Notice too the hint that Lois may get a power, now it will be iconic... So I believe these writers want us to watch for the "iconic partnership" and romance...But Lois won't be delivering.

I think its pretty obvious that Erica is talking about getting a temporary power, that has nothing to do with being Lois Lane in general. Its just a staple of being a character on Smallville usually includes getting a temporary power. Lana had it, Chloe had it, Pete had it, and even Johnthan had it. In Aarons interview, he is even asked about getting a power. I don't see what the whole ICONIC thing has to do with it.

Not sure, but I think my response belongs in the Chlois thread, so that's where I put it.

I'm glad it's Lois AND Clark are rescuing Chloe, I would have been quit bummed if it was just Lois. I'm just hoping they aren't "flirting" the whole time they are searching for Chloe. You know like they did over Chloe's grave in Crusade (that still ticks me off)



So why wouldn't he just become a policeman?

[snip]



Is Exhibit A for the prosecution. Clark could have come to this realization in ANY episode post Reckoning. If all it takes is a sudden "realization" then WTF are we watching the show for? It would appear Clark changed personalities in OFFSCREENVILLE. The excuse the writers are using is that they are moving him to his iconic self. That's it. He went from "I only care about Lana" to proactive guy in one month. The entire defense is that it's iconic. Rather than build a case, lay out the character development and move forward, we lightswitch to a spot in the plot because it is iconic. Sam Witwer's interview actually points out that the value of Smallville is that it shows how the characters got to the end state. Well, in the case of Clark Kent journalist -- blink, you missed it. Well damn, no wonder we are now treating ICONIC! as a joke.

ICONIC! has become the equivalent of "a wizard did it".