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Hi, everyone, I would like to start my first post by introducing myself. I am a BIG Chlark fan and I loathe this season as a Chloe fan. And she better not die!

Now on to this episode:
I thought this episode was ok. The only parts I liked were the Chloe/Davis scenes. Sam Witwer is an awesome actor. I really wish Davis wasn't Doomsday.

Deconstructing Superman? On my Smallville?

It's more likely than you think!

Okay, seriously now. That whole "No-one can ever know my name," scene was so Watchmen-esque that I thought a giant cerulean wang was going to show up any moment.

Positives:

• Chloom. I loved how Davis was trying to save Chloe even as Dooms was coming out to [strike]kill her[/strike] give her pie. It does my Chloom-shipping heart good to see such things.
• ED's hair, makeup, and wardrobe have been very nice this season, and tonight was no exception.
• Chlark interaction was was all "I can't lose you omg!" It was sweet.
• Linda Lake: "LEX WUZ AN HERO"
  Me: "YES!!"
• Meta, Meta, Meta, Meta-cakes. Yum.

Negatives:

• I actually found EDLois and Clois tolerable, if not borderline entertaining. WHAT HAVE I BECOME?
• Clark is getting more douchey as the season wears on. WTF, Clark?
• No, really, the "No-one can ever know my name," scene was creepy as hell.
• Did Clana happen this season or did I hallucinate that? I"m hoping for hallucination, not only because those episodes were awful, but because tonight made no damn sense if they really happened.

You know what's the worst of it? If the writers weren't such fucking pussies, they'd put Lois in the Lana arc and let their two favored girls battle it out for Clark's True Love. This way just makes Clark look like a gigantic Man Whore.

I mean, how were we supposed to take the last five episodes? Was it an AU within an AU? WHAT. THE. FUCK.

I HATE THIS FUCKING SHOW SO FUCKING MUCH GAAAAAAH.

On another note, Davis smothering Linda Lake was truly dark. Once again, the only arc worth a damn.

Okay, first off Linda Lake, dumber than a box of watery rocks.

You don't threaten the guy who turns into a homicidal monster. That's just common sense.


Second, what exactly is keeping Clark and Lois apart? (Except for the obvious lack of chemistry between them. Those scene were such a borefest.) It's not like Lois rejected him when she found out he was an alien. It's not like learning his secret put her in danger. Why didn't he want to meet her for coffee?

Oh, maybe it's because he didn't want to be near her.

"Lois, you're the best reporter for the job!"
Honestly, why didn't he just slap Chloe in the face?

Also, why is Clark wearing red and blue? Does he WANT everyone to know he's the RBB? It's blatantly obvious.

Third tier villains like Linda Lake can be handled, without friggin' turning back time. And then to destroy the ring? Oh, Clark...

The low budget really showed on this one.

Well that was a boring episode.

I did like the Chlark scenes for the most part. And the Davis scenes. Everything else though, meh. Couldn't care less. So much for Special EDLois' return.

This episode really cemented to me that Nois is just a bitch. Pure bitch for thinking she's entitled to the secret. I get great pleasure at her ego getting knocked down when Clark told her that Chloe and Lana already know.

I loved the people's reaction to Clark being the Red Blue Blur. That's pure Superman, and it was awesome to see. It was also awesome to see them bring up the Birthright storyline, of Lex saying that Supes was part of an alien invasion.

The Davis stuff was awesome as well. Clark was so close to finding out Davis was Dooms, but he put on the ring too early. The episode should have ended with Davis killing Linda, tossing the meds in the trash, and walking out of the hospital. That had more oomph than Clark and Lois not getting together at the coffee shop.

So Lois is bitchy because she was a dumbass and stood in the rain for 3 hrs waiting for Clark intead of waiting IN the airport? Special indeed.

Isn't it astounding that after all these years of practice, Tori Spelling STILL can't act?

Were we supposed to think that Linda Lake was deliberately courting suicide in her last scene with Davis? Or did she seriously believe that the monster would daintily break her cuffs and carry her off?

ED's acting has improved somewhat, to the extent that she's outdoing Tori, at least. Progress is progress.

Not a terrible episode, but what really bugged me was the 'solution' to the problem. Linda Lake said clearly at the beginning of the episode that a judge cleared her of crimes (I think). So what does Clark shocking Linda really do to help? He doesn't have the authority to have her put away anywhere, so the fact that she can be confined without the aid of a screwtopped bottle isn't useful. Stupid writers.

I liked it. Cringed at the "Best Reporter" line, but I thought it was good episode. Played out like I thought. I'm still not getting any romantic vibes from Clark with Lois. She's got them coming out her pores but he seems to not really get it. The end scene was the first time that it looked like Clark realized just how much she liked him.

Glad they had Clark talking to his mom and that they showed the consequences to her for his coming out publicly. Would have liked to see a scene with Jimmy and Clark. It would've been neat to see his reaction. All in all not a bad episode to come back from.

Oh, and is it any more obvious just how much the Lana arc threw this storyline completely out of whack?

God I hate her.

As for next week? Loved the trailer but I don't think he's going to fly. More like glide to the ground. His first flight really needs to be for something other than saving Tess. Oh, and since it's in the trailer it's not spoilers right?

Ok, where the hell did the Clois come from?

Lois's speech to Clark implied like they were already dating.

Why can't Lois learn the secret? Her life wasn't in danger, Chloe was more so. In fact I'm pretty sure Doomsday killed Chloe.

"Last time I checked you were too busy sticking you Stiletto heal into your partner's back" HAHAHA, could this be foreshadowing?

I actually liked the Chlark in this episode, they showed how they are partners, and Chloe saying how she doesn't want to Lose Clark. Awww

Now for the Clois.

Ok, first half it was typical Clois, siblingy but then they skewed it as if they were a couple.

I mean Clark is coming from having bed breaking sex with Lana, and he offered to have a date with Lois? Was it to let her down?

At least Chlark had the coffee date with Clark paying and Chloe drinking the coffee, that's a good thing, right Sue Denim?

Also Lois not knowing the secret because she's special?

I thought knowing the secret was special.

Take the Clois crap out and this episode was pretty good.

With it...meh.

That was just brutal. I thought Clark's whole thing was 'no violence', so IMO at least, he shouldn't have done that.

Which is a mark against her because despite what happened, Clark still could have told Lois the secret without unleashing to the world who he was.

That would have been a cool scene. I love puppy dog Jimmy.


Question: Why didn't Clark go further back in time to when Linda found out his secret and kept her from ever learning it? That seems to me to be a better solution.

Yep! And I cringed because I'm hoping that it's not foreshadowing for the finale.

I'd love to know how they're going to pull that off, since the pressure would crush her skull.

Manwhore & Disloyal bastard to the best friend who was fired because of his secret. Cartoons have more depth & credibility than Smallville after this crap.

Because Lois wasn't at the DP then, only Chloe, and Lois is the better reporter for the job. *sarcasm*

No. He doesn't kill. Which he didn't. Violence at least "action" is part of Superman and always will be.

As far as Clark's article, I think it was more of a "You know shit about me, I know shit about you. Your move." type of thing. The public didn't know what she did and I'm guessing that since she was tied up in 33.1 that LexCorp had the judge paid off.

Nothing is keeping them apart except that Clark's just not into Nois, imo.

I agree. It looks like Davis figured out that killing is the way to stop the Beast. How chilling!

I absolutely loved the scene with everyone around Clark asking for autographs (that kid as the RBB and Clark saying he likes his outfit), and the teen telling Clark to catch her. So so Superman.

Yeah, but it's not for her, they changed time, they don't know what's been altered.

It was a reset episode but damn it, I really enjoyed it! Everything was rushed but it was fun to see Clark reveals his identity and go from media star to public menace. It was surreal. So was Lex being declared the hero. Not to mention contained some good FX with the cops shooting at him. What an idiot though to not wait two seconds to hear what Chloe had to say. It wouldn't have killed him.

Big fan of the Davis stuff. Sam continues to knock those scenes out of the park and his stuff with Allison is good. Loved the Doomsday bit and the end was awesome, with him doing to Linda Lake what David Silver should have done years ago.

We get a Martha reference. I was stunned and Clark should have been too.

"Mom? Oh, my God. You're alive!"

Chloe's response to Clark telling her the Feds were after her should have been "Again?"



Not only that but her face looks horrible. Had enough plastic surgery, toots?

It's sad isn't it.

Actually I'm hoping she 'blackmailed' Davis to commit suicide. She was chained to the chair so couldn't do it herself (and maybe didn't bite off her tongue because she couldn't bare to part with it).

All in all the episode was meh. What's more sad is that I keep coming back to this show. I feel like Rihanna.

And I bet he used Chloe's information as evidence.

He just got dumped by the love of his life because she's deadly poison to him and she couldn't deal being around him? I'm glad to see they're making it obvious Clark is the one keeping the distance even though it was also clear Lois has no idea what happened with Clana.


Chloe isn't a reporter anymore and I didn't see her show any interest, jealousy or upset that she wasn't going to be given the scoop. I don't see why Clark should coddle feelings Chloe doesn't have.

I was wondering about this too. With Chloe's speech about turning back time and balance(I didn't imagine that did I?) if she did die then there must be balance right? Last time we had the turning back of time didn't Lois almost get electrocuted?

Clark got his mommy fired.
Bad, bad SuperClark.

If that happened, the timeline changed and thus just like in Reckoning, than someone else has to die in Chloe's place. So it wouldn't be Chloe.

And thus, Linda got smothered.

So, this was an overall rushed and confusing episode. I think they would have really needed a couple episodes to deal with this. Also, the Lana arc seems as if it was filmed at a different time as the rest of these episodes; it's odd that she wouldn't have come back for this.

Liked the Martha reference; it would have been horrible if we hadn't heard anything from her, but they actually managed not to screw that up.

Did anyone else get a Vessel vibe from the Cnois conversation? Not only that, but they referenced Blank twice; once with Nois' first line due to the super strength, and once with Nois' reaction to the X-Ray vision.

I don't really think this is what the balance intended.

Linda Lake was connected to a Stiletto heal, who's going to be dealing with those?

It stops Linda from turning to water. I don't know if it's permanent or not however.

Wow... this was much better than I expected. Aside from the annoyance of Nois being handed a story she didn't earn and never even suspected, and Clark pimping her as the Awesomest Reporter Evah!, it wasn't half bad.

It was nice to see Chlark working together (although of course he should have asked Chloe to write the story, the big idiot). But she was the one arguing against him exposing himself, and then the one suggesting his alternate identity-- basically encouraging him to be Superman. Also, it's worth noting that when he realized his friends were in danger, he went to Chloe first. And Chloe's fear of losing him was lovely, as was her concern ("what did they do to you?") and his assurance that he'd find her. Her desperation to get away from Davis and warn Clark was great, too.

The romantic vibe between Cnois is, well, not really there. Nois is tapdancing around it, and Clark seems more worried about hurting her than anything. I do think it was smart of the writers not to go for anything more-- we DO remember that Lana arc, even if they wish we didn't. Thank you for avoiding Clark Kent, manwhore, guys. We Clark fans appreciate it.

They are focusing on the Cnois relationship, such as it is, enough to keep it visible, but leaving it very, very obscure what Clark thinks about her. As Firebunny said above, there is nothing keeping them apart if Clark wants to go for it. He apparently doesn't, judging from the way he blew her off at the end. I was amused by his telling Nois that she's too special for his secret-- considering Lana and Chloe already know it, that's something of an obvious obfuscation. It would have been a little kinder to tell her it was about her safety. Instead he pretty obviously blew her off and implied he couldn't trust her. Also, Nois was a major bitch at the beginning of the episode, and pretty rude about it when he told her his secret. How nice that the second time, he was able to pick her up from the airport, but I couldn't help wondering how many people died or were injured because he decided to pick up Her Ladyship rather than go on patrol again.

Yay for the fact that they remembered Martha! I was delighted to see that issue be addressed. The first half of the story seemed like it went much too quickly, however; I would have liked a bit of development, a slower change in public opinion. It seemed that the people of Metropolis went to "yay for our hero!" to "he's going to kill us all!" a little faster than was believable.

Sam Witwer was, as always, awesome. I actually like Tori Spelling and didn't have a problem with her, although yes, she chews scenery quite energetically. And the City Editor was pretty good-- I wouldn't mind seeing him again.

Good that they remember that going back in time and altering things carries a payment with it. That's a nice bit of continuity, and probably sets up the end of the season.

The restraints looked "special" in some manner; I assumed they were her lead bracelet.

Man, this show kills off all the wrong blondes wearing the bracelets, doesn't it?

You know what, Chloe just got the Action meta fulfillment on her. She learned the villain's identity and is trying to get a hold of the hero but can't and she tries to expose him and then...dead.

I guess we'll never know. Thanks so much, Davis.

I found it interesting.

I liked the reference to Hero!Lex (I joked to myself like they were ever going to go there), but why Linda? What did she know about Lex. Maybe she was working with Tess?

Also liked reference to Martha.

SW is great and I want bitchy doctor lady to return.

So Lois is just needy and wants to be special?

It was pretty bad. I was worried for Tom there for a minute at the beginning when he started picking up on her stilted dialogue groove, but it only seemed to happen whenever they were interacting. And can I just say that I PRAY that Chelsey Handler watched. Her random digs on Tori Spelling will never stop being funny.

I almost didn't mind the Clois this episode, because at the beginning, Clark and Lois had a genuine friendship vibe going. I believed it. But then the ICONICness came rearing its ugly head, and for whatever reason, Lois has to be panting after Clark. They need to slow it down. It's not like it's ICONIC for Lois Lane to be interested in Clark Kent anyway. Damn stupid backwards show...

But yikes, did the Chloe/Davis scene scare me. I was freaked out, and so was Chloe. Up until the point where they showed the thing ripping her door off with its rubbery, rubbery arms, my heart was in my throat. And way to show respect for your friends Clark - Blow off Lois when she's in the middle of telling you something important that Chloe said. But it's not like either of those yammering nags have ever had anything worthy of your time to share anyway. So stupidly out of character and one of the most contrived, blatant stalls since... well, at least a few episodes.

I really liked the directing in the scenes where Clark and Chloe were framed by the trees and lights in the forest, and when Doomsday's shadow loomed on the wall as Chloe ran away.

And hee, they mentioned Martha! I'm so surprised/suspicious now. What are you doing here, continuity, and who will have to pay in blood as sacrifice for your summoning?

I don't think Linda Lake counts on the balance. At least not by what was said last time.

We knew already from her relationship with Ollie. She hasn't changed much it would seem.

What pissed me off what Clark's look of annoyance when Lois told him Chloe was in trouble. I know he was going to reset things anyway but couldn't he have waited two seconds? He might have been able to prevent whatever was causing Chloe trouble later on. What an ass.

Yea, what's up with that? We are constantly getting this "I want to be special" crap from Nois. It's anything but endearing, and I just can't believe the writers expect me to like her when she keeps making those type of speeches.

Not sure whether we are to take it that Linda dying was the "balance" for Chloe, or whether or not that scene with Dooms tearing off her car door is just pure foreshadowing to the end of the season.

Yes, I get that part. What I meant was that it doesn't help Clark to turn Linda solid if he doesn't have a plan for what to do after that. If Linda was really cleared of suspicion by a court, then Clark can't get her put in jail even if he CAN slap a pair of cuffs on her no-longer-liquid wrists.

That is, unless he collected a heap of evidence condemning her in the final seconds of the episode in Offscreenville.

And, yeah, Luna, I agree that it was startlingly brutal of Clark to do that to Linda, murderer or not.

Maybe he was just annoyed at having to listen to Lois' voice.

But actually, I think he didn't hear her. He was focusing on getting the ring on and resetting things.


And he didn't tell Lois the secret because she's special? As special as the 6 billion other people he hasn't told.

The plan, I believe, was to out Linda as a murderous MF to discredit her completely. As someone said above, he could have used Chloe's evidence against Linda to prove his claim.

I don't remember her saying Chloe was in trouble. I think all she said was that he wouldn't believe what Chloe just told her. I could be wrong though.

I felt the sting of a slap in the face. Does that count?



Can we file a police report on the writers for assaulting our intelligence and causing emotional distress?

The special excuse is really bewildering to me. Lana, Lex, Lionel, Chloe, Kyla, Alicia, and Pete all knew. Is that why she is special? For being the one person who doesn't know?