I hate Chloom, so I'm glad to see that clip and know that she's the one upset and panicky, not comforting him or anything, which is what I thought when I saw the promo pics. Thanks for posting the clip, though. Against my better judgement to not get my hopes up, I'm super-excited to see this episode. I blame the promo pics and the Forehead Kiss. I want to see Chlark at the Fortress! ::whines::



ITA. I think it's funny that as many times as they say this, Clois is really not that much closer. Sure, they don't hate each other, but I still don't see them voluntarily spending time with each other. If they release a Clois forehead kiss promo pic, I might be more convinced (and blindingly, inconsolably sad). But I think Clois will have a conversation in "Bride" like Chlark's in "Devoted"-- "I don't feel that way, Lois" which will set her off on a bender. Ollie will arrive at the wedding with Lana and upset her even more, until he sets her straight and collects her drunken self to "take care of her" for the next three episodes. I will make Lollie happen through sheer will!

I can't believe it's only two eps till Bride!

It's really the only explaination for why she is talking to Davis like he is Clark in the clip.

That was a really juicy clip. Love the chance to see AM act -- her voice cracking when she said, "I can't remember any of my friends!" reminded me of Veronica Mars at her best.

Moved to the Spoilers thread, as I was quoting a (former) KSite spoiler.

Just looked up the promo and good god, could it be any more obvious that whoever did the forgetting sequence just watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and ripped it off for all it was worth? SV has no shame.

I love Chlark but after watching the clip I must say I love Chloom too! The chemistry between Allison and Sam is amazing.

Bride stills are out. Man, everyone looks awesome. And I have to say, Lana especially. The new look really suits her.

Thanks for the link jimmy4!

Chloe looks awesome in her wedding dress and I like Lana's haircut, it looks good on her.

Spoilertv link. Wow, Lana is really looking very grown-up. I love the new look. Everyone looks great. The brides looks beautiful.

1) The photographer took a picture of the bride, Chloe, with her eyes closed. Come on. Isn't he suppose to be a professional? Surely he has another shot of the same sequence of Chloe walking down the aisle? I know a lot of people *WANT* that still. They need to put out some better ones.

2) Looks like Clark is giving Chloe the white rose boutonneire from their Tempest date as her "something old." Clark held on to it for all these years. Nice touch by the writers. Classy even.

3) Lana and Chloe are wearing bracelets. Lana on her right hand. Chloe on her left. This situation is so messed up.

4) Lana in black. Chloe in white. Their hair is curly. They're opposites.

5) Clark is looking WAAAAAAY too happy walking Chloe down the aisle to her freaking doom given what happens in Abyss. I don't care if he is suppose to be putting on a brave face. He should show some hint of remorse for what he did. Be torn up about it, dummy. Your best friend is getting married not in her right mind and you know this even if no one else does.

And yes, everyone looks good. But, a wedding in a barn?! It would smell bad. Although I guess that fits since the whole situation stinks.

Are they getting married in Clark's barn or its just where the wedding party will go down?

The minister's there, it looks like Clark's walking her in, so...they're getting married in Clark's barn. They're getting freaking married in Clark's freaking barn. That's what they get for spending so much on an engagement party and driving from Smallville to Metropolis every single day.

Getting a plastic ring for your engagment to getting married in an old barn. How much should we expect from Chimmy?

Lois seems to be putting on Clark's cufflinks!!! ICONIC!!! TRUE LOVE!!!

That's my big sappy alien.

And the whole Chloe in white/Lana in black? That's fabulous.

And I totally called the orange dresses; I need to make my brother pay up now.

Am I the only one nonplussed at Chloe's wedding actually taking place in Clark's barn? What kind of fuckery is that? I thought it was only a rumor. Granted, she and Jimmy aren't bankrolling, but seriously? I swear she's the only character left affected by any sort of sensible financial reality. Even so, no self-respecting, self-proclaimed city girl is swapping nuptials while breathing manure. And her wedding dress is nearly as tragic as the event itself... massive failure. Oh, well. Her hair is pretty.

Speaking of, I don't like Lana's hair. It's mature, yes, (and oddly news anchor-y) but in a literal aesthetic sense. She looks 10 years older. Then again, she does pair better with TW now.

Wow, everyone looks great in those stills. This cast is so ridiculously attractive, especially when they get to play dress up! I like KK's hair better without the extensions, but I think the curls could grow on me. It's kind of surreal to see Lana in episode stills again, hehe.

Pretty much my thought.

Seriously, it would make more sense to have it in the Talon. *sigh* This is just silly.

You're not the only one, people talk about how lame it is at another board. Chloe the once resident city girl getting married at a smelly barn. But since sporting the 0.25 platic ring Jimmy gave her, I shouldn't be surprised.

So those are extensions on Kreuk? Because there's no way her hair grew that fast.

I love Chloe's dress. She looks amazing. Is Lana at the wedding? Or does she show up after? Because she's not in any of the group shots.

In all my mooning over Sam Witwer I forgot how pretty Justin Hartley is.

I guess Ollie is still living on the Fakest Plane Set Ever.

Dagnabbit, I was hoping Lana would come back with the super-short hair. Another hope dashed.

And, oh, goody, looks like more of OQ dissing Clark and telling him to get off his butt and be a hero.

And: getting married in the BARN? I...have no words.

1. Barns tend to smell of animals and manure: very bridal, no?

2. The barn belongs to the guy Chloe's been crushing on since age 12. Is this supposed to be proof that they're "just friends" and everything's a-ok with the Chimmy nuptials?

I repeat: no words. First they stick Chloe with a sleazy, doofus BF, and now this. No farm animals better be hurt during this activity.

I thought "Promise" sucked big, fat donkey balls--can't WAIT to see this one!!

The barn is such a dumb place to get married, but then again Chloe did accept a plastic engagement ring from Mr. Wholesome Olsen so clearly Chloe's standards are not very high.

The cast looks great in the stills...

Lana... doesn't look like Lana to me though. Maybe it's because I'm currently watching from the beginning, so I'm kinda thinking of KK in S1-3... But when I first saw her, my first reaction was that it looked nothing like her. Maybe it's just me....

I don't know why... But I don't have a problem with the wedding being in the barn. I think it's kind of... comforting to know that even when she's getting married to someone else (in post-Abyss condition), it's in a place that is connected to Chlark, in a relatively significant way.

Given what we know, I don't see the barn as proof that everything's good to go with Chimmy, and Chlark is on a "just friends" basis....

Again, maybe it's just me....

My problem with the wedding being at the barn, besides smelling of animals and so on, is that it is so on par with everything they do for Chloe. The plastic ring is one of the biggest example. Lana had to get perfect rings from both Clark and Lex, but Chloe gets the stupid plastic ring and wears it for days, not just for a short while. She was arrested for over three weeks, wasn't that enough time to get her a proper ring?

It's just that with Chloe the standards are always so much lower than anything else. The "Tempest" dance she had to drive her and Clark to the dance. No limo, no guy picking her up. I know the explanations are there, but sheesh, it's her wedding! Have it at the Talon or outside on the farm near the pretty flowers. Ollie can give her a nice wedding gift and let her have the wedding in one of his mansions (I'm assuming he has one in offscreenville?). Poor Chloe!

Someone posted this TV Guide blurb on K-site.

Oh, Kelly Souders. Why don't you get it? No one wants to hear that "Chloe and Jimmy will make it down the aisle" at all. Why are you letting this happen? Why?

I'm sorry. It's just that the closer it gets, the more I am filled with both disbelief and despair.

Can't she join a convent instead? Anything but Chimmy.

I know. Show something ya goof!

This will never stop bugging me. I swear. Even if the Chimmy wedding stands, it will always seem tainted by Chloiac. I mean, really... I fthey wanted us to buy this pairing, couldn't they resolve or defeat Brainiac first?

I'm still giggling at how constipated Clark looks with Lois. And how big his smile is when he walks Chloe down the isl.. stairs. I'll fanwank it as him having to spend all day with Nois and then a chance to spend time with Chloe so he's happy despite the Brainiac business...

I suppose having memory wiped Chloe borderline Brianiac getting married to Jimmy inside of a barn is sorta appropriate. It all reeks of utter horse shit.

Lana is looking very Louise like in those stills and in one of the Chloe pictures the pearls in her hair strongly reminded me of the electrodes on Brainiac's head.



Yes they make it down the aisle, but please don't let it stick. It just is all kinds of wrong.

The TV Guide blurb seems to indicate a few things. Lana shows up toward the end of the episode, the word perish in the title indicates at least a fake out death and that Smallville is going to be back in January. Is the Jan return just TV Guide's speculation based on past years or has there been a change in scheduling?

Isn't this the whole point of Abyss, though? That they (read: Clark) thinks Brainiac has been dealt with and that Chloe's okay at the end? That's the impression I've been getting based on stills and the OD. Obviously, that's not the actual case, but I can see Clark being happy for Chloe on her wedding day if he believes she's really all right, slight memory loss or no.

Clark and Lois both look handsome in these pictures, but they still look much too much like brother and sister for my liking - especially in this shot.

My own brother gives me sceptical looks like this all the time.

Totally Massena! It is painfull to watch :(

I'm thinking that maybe they (the writers) are doing all of this on purpose. I mean c'mon who gets married on a smelly barn??? Like someone else wrote, they could have been married at the Talon. Who gives his fiance a plastic ring? Who married a person when you know deep down, that person is in love with someone else? Chlimmy is wrong and they know it and they are giving us all the examples of why that relationship doesn't and will not work.

Call me naive but I still have faith that everything is going to work in favor of Chlark.

Allison, Tom and Erica look great but Kristin's hair looks simply horrible.

And I think that there's a strong possibility that Chloe will be alright, at least at the beginning of "Bride". I'm starting to wonder if Chloe will use her power on Doomsday and in the process, it will allow Brainiac to take control over her by the end of the episode. Maybe Clark will make Chloe forget that she has the power in "Abyss" but she'll realize that she has the power again in "Bride" after inadvertently using it on Doomsday.

The whole "big freakin' chunks of her memory are missing" thing causes me to disagree, but YMMV.
Didn't one of PS3 say the ToS are gone? If not, Clark is directly risking Chloe's life the next time she touches a seriously injured person. Which happens about once a week on this show. Not a great choice, IMO. The alternative, that Clark causes to forget her Chloiac powers, is almost as irresponsible - the first time she starts surfing the Internet - bam, hello powers! I would hope is shown to be smarter than this, but YMMV.For me, it depends on how slight the memory loss really is. Chloe forgetting she has powers could potentially put her in danger. Chloe forgetting The Secret reeks of suck, IMO, and it means Chloe is hardly in her right mind. After all, she would be missing huge chunks of the last four years of her life. Ditto for forgetting any lingering Chlark love, with an added side of unnecessary angst and SWF-ing for Boobstein. YMMV.

That's in "Abyss". I don't get the impression that Clark is going to erase big chunks of Chloe's memory. He's just going to make her forget a thing or two. This is how Chloe will start out in "Bride".



I'm talking about the power that she was given due to the Brainiac infection. I don't know about her other power to heal.



I agree, but this might be Clark's only choice. From what I recall from last season, there is no cure for anything that Brainiac does. I suppose Clark could just let Chloe die in "Abyss" and not bring her back, but if he is going to bring her back, making her forget certain things might be the only way to keep Chloe out of trouble.



I don't see any of that happening. In those "Bride" pictures, Clark is still giving Chloe away at her wedding, which means that Chloe must still remember how close she has been with Clark. That closeness, IMO, is a direct result of Chloe learning Clark's secret. Plus, erasing the secret would mean erasing Chloe's life over the last four years. If Chloe was experiencing significant memory loss, I don't think that she would be going ahead with the wedding. YMMV.

Chloe looks beautiful. Too bad she's a hollowed out meatsuit.

I love the image of Chloe and Clark in tux and wedding dress. I'm sure they can remedy the problems with the groom confusion just as soon as they give Chloe a couple brain cells back.

I love the flower, it's touching imagery. Too bad Chloe has no soul left to appreciate the moment.

Correct, CHLOE wouldn't if she were in her right state of mind. This is Smallville, so I fully expect them to treat the audience like we're a bunch of stupid "Look its iconic whoo hoo to hell with the plot and all logic!" mentality. When you remove something major (and we all know they will by the end of Abyss) memories in one's life you irreversibly screw up memories directly connected and associated. It's like a domino effect, a certainty.

But again, mentally remembering this is Smallville.

They wouldn't be showing that early chlark flashback for nothing. All signs point to Chloe's romaclark history with Chlark being wiped (again, sole freakin purpose of showing that early chlark scene in the first place). Add in the removal of the secret I'm assuming for more drama. Therefore the wedding happens with Chloe seemingly stepford wife happy, having no lingering feelings for Clark and can live happily ever after not in her right state of mind. Ain't life grand for a Chloe supporter?

First she gets fired unfairly by the villian for helping out the hero, and gets married while possessed, and her best friend glowing over the fact that he just mind raped his best friend for "her own good" in the previous episode. I don't really give a crap if Clark thinks at this point he saved Chloe's life, she is missing chunks of her life. His expression should be of bittersweet, not like he won the damn lottery. Tone it downsome, Clark.


As to the image of Chloe with the boutonniere from Tempest, I don't know what the hell to make of it. Given the fact that in the previous episode, they'll be showing a flashback of Chlark's first kiss in that very location...

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::sigh::

Such a shame, as they all look so pretty. Well, apart from Lana. Her hair is messed up. I think this may be the best I've seen Lois. Clark looks great in a suit as we already know.



Yeah...

:(

And Clark does look way to happy walking Chloe down the aisle. ::sigh::

Maybe I'll be happier if/when we get to see some shots after the carnage begins...

If that's the case, then why would Chloe want Clark to give her away at the wedding? Since all of the Chlark history will be wiped away, that doesn't make sense to me. Also, if that much of Chloe's life is going to be erased, wouldn't Chloe be a little freaked out at the fact that she can't remember her life? So then she goes and marries Jimmy anyway? I don't see that happening, to be honest.

gds - Do you read spoilers? Just asking because if you don't, I think you'll get your answer at the end of Bride and in Legion as to what has been going on. Although I'm glad to see that you agree with a lot of us, that if Chloe was mindwiped of Clark's secret and all the experiences that went with that, and is basically Brainiac in a Chloe suit, that she shouldn't marry Jimmy and the marriage is null and void as to the real Chloe.

Dooms likes to go after religious women, right? He killed a nun. Maybe he'll kill the female preacher before she can fill out the marriage certificate so the whole thing is never legal just like Clark and Alicia. Off the hook due to a technicality.



Yes, *Chloe* would be too freaked out to go thru with it. I think you answered your own question.

I still think Abyss will end with her remembering everything because I'm so used to this show hitting the reset button. We'll find out in less than 12 hours.

CTUN - I'll reply in the spoiler thread.

That would be a befitting fate for a lady that tried to tied Chimmy together forever.



Yes. But a pretty meatsuit.



I'm actually wondering if the flashback will be to Obscura with him asking her out as his date, and then of her pinning him for the dance/at the dance, so there is no confusion by the audience just what that flower means.

Looks like it will be a Clois kiss that Lana might interrupt, or I am guessing she will interrupt since clearly Clois are about to kiss. I'm talking about Bride, of course.

The Bride trailer was pretty freakin' exciting, I must admit. The Chloe/Doomsday interaction is reminding of Brundle/Veronica in The Fly. Although of what I could see, Doomsday looks slightly less disgusting than Brundlefly.

After watching the trailer for Bride.

Doomsday looks pretty cool.

WTF on Clark and Lois almost kissing. I honestly didn't believe that they would progress this so fast. I'll admit that I was wrong about this one. I had mentioned in other threads that I didn't believe that there would be a significant Clois moment in this episode given all the other shit that was going on but alas I was mistaken. It's still bullshit but it looks like nothings sacred to PS3 as this scene is clearly a SWFing of the Tempest Chlark almost kiss. Granted it will be interrupted by Lana just like the Chlark kiss was interrupted by(Clark left Chloe at the dance to save Lana)the storm.

Doomsday still looks badass though. I might have to cave in and watch this one despite other bullshit in it.

I can't forgive them for that Clois at Chloe's wedding right after he mind-raped all her beautiful memories of them. Can.Not.Do.It.

Did they really need to do that? Really? WTFever.

I am really going to have a hard time with that one too. Like a lot.

From Clark's perspective, I can. He thinks what he did for Chloe was the right thing in order for her to have a safe and happy life. Seeing her in all her exuberant glory on her wedding day is only going to reinforce to Clark that it was the right thing to do. I also think it's going to remind Clark how lonely he's been and how now that Chloe's moving on with her life, he should too. Clois is really Clark's only option at this point, especially when he knows there might be something from Lois' side and he apears to be viewing her somewhat differently as well (although certainly not to the same extent), so I can see how it might culminate in a kiss at what appears to be a very romantic event - before the carnage starts, anyway.

Did TPTB have to do it this way? Of course not. They don't have to write anything any specific way. But they do only have ED for so many episodes, and the best way to stall is to almost get someone somewhere and then throw a wrench into the deal, which is what Lana will be, and frankly KK deserves a wrap up to her character without any new triangle crap, imo. I imagine once Lois returns to episodes, she'll have backed off and will be all business with Clark again until we find out if we're winding down to the end of the series or just the season.

I respectively disagree. Chloe specifically stated that she would not trade those memories for anything. Clark had absolutely no right when Chloe stated that in no uncertain terms. Happiness when one is not one hundred percent, is not real. Chloe deserves to be happy as Chloe, not as half!Chloe, or any other type of Chloe. All memories, the good and the bad shape us for who we are today. Erasing a big chunk of Chloe's memories does not really give her any new sense of safeness. The evil villains will still think she knows Clark's secret, or will still go after her simply because she knows Clark and she's Clark's BFF. Unfortuantely without Clark's secret, she wouldn't know to call Clark for help or wouldn't know how to protect herself. IMO, she's more vulnerable without the memories.

Clark moving on to Lois so soon is just so tacky, IMO. Why so soon? Can't he wait at least until Chloe's wedding is over? So so tacky. YMMV