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How can there be Bluretto sites when the Stiletto story hadn't been printed? Unless Lois created them. And just imagine how many Blarrow sites there are.

That episode wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. It really wasn't, as much as I hate Lois.

Lois, by the way, who is ridiculously damaged. Seriously disturbed. And I hated that she got rewarded for her lies, deceit and unethical behavior. I hated that the episode ended on the phone call. She should have been fired.

Jimmy was pretty composed for a junkie. (Though I would have loved for him to pop up when Chloe said "some mysterious heroine" in the hospital.)

"I haven't heard you talk about Lana since she left." Good for bringing that up. I mean, I hate Clark pining but it would be nice to know what she is up to.
"That's because I have you." Interesting.

I was glad that they changed the AJ death scene. But they shouldn't show AM crying after ED. It just makes ED look worse. I was also happy that Chloe recognizes how much it sucks to be "smiles all the time."

Dear Counterfeiters,

American Money doesn't glow. I don't know about your crazy Canadian dollar bills.

Where was the super romantic moment?

I was intrigued by the Lana conversation. Even more intrigued by how...okay...this episode was.

Why do I have the feeling Jimbo is gonna pay for using counterfeit money?

That wasn't really a super romantic moment, but rather a sweet moment.

See it depends on what POV you're going for, Clark already stated he has Chloe meaning Lois's offering to his loneliness really is mute.

I say it was a sweet moment, has a more friendship feel with potential Friends with Benefits. What Clark did was really sweet IMHO.

Clark taking a bullet for Lois...he'll take a bullet for anyone of his friends so nothing should be taken from that IMHO.

Chloe- Thank god she didn't feed AJ to Doomsday and you can tell she's regretting her decision. I feel really bad for her.

I think that the first story WAS printed; when Lois was seen talking to her editor, she complained of the story getting dropped to page 10, and the editor told her she had to get a picture if she wanted a better placement for her next story.

Sam Witwer's absence was really felt here. AM got a nice blood-on-her-hands scene, but it looked uncouth for Davis to leave her the cleanup duties, even if she didn't want him seen outside.

I'm glad Chloe only has the blood on her hands in a literal sense - though she is still somewhat blameworthy by concealing Davis, at least she didn't deliberately throw AJ to Doomy. Even Davis doesn't come off too badly - he grabbed the dude while he was in the process of cutting Chloe's throat, hence it can be read as a legitimate defense of her.

Really messy, though.

I guess the previews confirmed that Chloe and Davis really are sleeping together. Hm.

Thankfully, not as bad as I was expecting. Liked seeing another side of Lois and liked seeing Clark enjoying himself, just a little. And as much as I know Chloe has put herself where she is, hell if I didn't feel for her kneeling by the dumpster.

A glimpse of Tom-belly makes any episode worthwhile!

All the mobsters & drug dealers looked like fresh-faced, clean-living Vancouverites - only scary if you're a plate of vegan lasagna.

I liked the Chloe/Lois scene but my favourite moment was Clark milking his injury - heh. Least favourite: Jimmy's "addiction."


As colourful as Christmas tree decorations!

Lois is so damaged beyond repair. It annoys me that, she'll be ending up as THE Lois Lane. Stilleto? What a joke! krypto money, what the hell is the point of that? alison's acting is so much better than Erica's as highlighted again tonight. Best Line: Clark to Chloe: "That's because I have you" right after the Lana stuff.

BTW, I loved the fact that the show kept the city editor guy. Almost likel having Kahn back....now if only he actually had power over the newspaper rather than just one of the divisions, we'd be set...

I didn't hate this episode as much as I thought I would, but damn that last scene. Is it still going on? Because it never felt like it was going to end.

I liked the Jimmy scenes. He's sooooo much better when he isn't tangled up with Chloe. And Chloe broke my heart. I liked how Clark finally wanted her to open up to him. He's finally seeing that Chloe's in deep shit. I wish he wouldn't let it drop, but finally he's being a friend again.

And the preview for next week looks intense.

Crap -

To make us root for Nois have Chloe hold her hand and pimp her before the carjacking

Intergang owns Ace of Clubs?

Chloe couldn't tell Nois, her cousin some freak slit her throat due to Stiletto? And that

How'd Clark explain the wound healing before the ambulance came? They took him out of the room and the second outside it'd have healed.

Okay-

Atleast the beast 'just appeared' and Chloe didn't lead AJ there knowing it was there. She was only running to get Davis to help her.

Even Jimmy thought Nois was ignorant
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Basically after this I'm so not into watching SV anymore. I don't root for Nois and I can't stand the hole of pathos TPTB have left Chloe thinking it's vunderful storyline while Lois Lame gets happy RBB ego fluffing and Clark gives puppy eyes cuz she jumped through a window. Nois is SO deserving of RBB story.

SHIT SHIT and more SHIT to the Nth power just to see the end of the Doomsday arc. Not watching S9. I see the writing on the wall from this and other info circling about all things and actors SV, I feel PS3/P-S are playing Chlark fans as patsies who'll crave the meager crumbs thrown ('I have you' to Chloe aftr Lana) we can fanwank til the end of time 'Chloe coulda been a cuhtenda for ILL'. It makes Clark a multiple wife husband telling all the ladies what they want to hear.

eta - Clark isn't being the friend I used to remember. He'd have walked up to Chloe and gently touched her or caressed her face to force her to look at him. She was pleading weeping a bucket, but he didn't want to press th issue?! Chloe's not married now, is Clark feeling it's voerboten to be tender? Or just acting wise TW/AM have been told to quit it.


Oh gawd, just put a bullet into Chloe's head now. I truly hope she's the SV vet that's dying now in the finale. So after all of this time being Clark's BFF ad rock/soul now like Lana she's fucking his 'dopple ganger'?! If only it was a FULL SWF of Lana from being willing to kill for Clark, screw his twins, ATLEAST give Chloe the bed breaking sex before dying. I'll take any dumb excuse.

I actually liked this episode. It got stronger as it went on. It started with Lois at her worst as a reporter, manufacturing a story and withholding evidence from Clark. But the last sequences, particularly the conversation with "The Red-Blue Blur" turned out to be really strong.

Did think the Doomsday cameo was awesome but I don't like the direction Chloe is going here. Some good dialogue in this one too, with some clever ties to other comics and Lois asking Clark if he stood up every female in his life because he was supposed to feed Shelby. Bluretto was amusing too.

Firebunny, I'm in total agreement with you that Jimmy is a lot better without Chloe. Those two are NOT made for each other.

I rewound and rewatched this. Perfect.

Yes, that's what I thought too.

I'm glad they left Nois' cluelessness at the beginning. She also admitted she wasn't doing that great at the DP (even though it's corrupted) hence the Stiletto caper.

I found it funny that Clark is doing better than Lois at the corrupted Planet. Then I remembered who the president is. Good continuity anyways.

This episode further highlighted why ED's version of "Nois" is an insult to the name & show, IMO. Nois dresses up like a hooker, for shallow reasons (fame) is shown to lack ethics, Lies & she's rewarded? No Truth or Justice prevailing with that. At all.

Yes, that line got my hopes up, too, but Chloe's reaction seemed to indicate she wasn't buying it. Too bad, another potential romantic Chlark moment goes by the wayside. They keep pushing this "best friends" vibe, but I'm not buying it. There's just too much history between those two.



I really wish they did a better job of showing the Planet is corrupted. I think the casual viewer might be left with the impression that it's still a respectable newspaper and the hero of the show is still working there without giving a second thought to how "corrupt" it is. It's like the writers just don't get it sometimes . . .

I'm not so sure its a reward. She just got a phone call with no promises and alot of ego boosting. Clark just gave her the runaround with the added bonus that she didn't want the story anymore.

Giving Lois an ego boost and a phone call making her feel she is special is a reward.

Lois Lane never would have manufactured a story like that. Nois would definitely.

More annoyance...Clark complaining that Chloe isn't answering his calls. Asshole.

Funny bit...the doctor saying that Chloe should stay in the hospital because she received a hard blow to the head. Uh, doc...check her ten-mile long medical record. She's received about 120 hard blows to the head!

Not as much as it could have been though. I'm counting my blessings where they lay.

BTW, this episode practically telegraphed that Lois isn't immune to the possibility of no longer being affiliated with the planet. First Chloe, then Jimmy, then Lois and finally Clark. It seems they are going in order of talent/experience....

I feel like I missed parts of the episode. (edit) In which I did because of a storm in my area. I didn't realize it till now because of SV's track with plotholes.

Anyway the part I caught, I'm glad they cut that Chloe scene though. I really felt her tears. Even with Clark (nice chest BTW), you could tell she was freaking out inside.

Oh and Lois annoyed me.

I thought that's where the episode was going, too, but then they gave her yet another front page headline and had Clark say that, when he's ready to go public, he wants Lois to write the story.

She's even been declared dead!


Pretty much, I find it funny we got her serving him Coffee and food, she takes the food back and then he doesn't drink the coffee.

So where's the generous side of Lois? Cause giving Clark treats after taking a bullet for her IMHO isn't generous but a given.

Also I find it funny that this season is basically Season 5 all over again.

Clark was normal but died
Time Travel
Someone dying in one's place
Brainiac

and several others, including Clark showing Chloe where the wound was supposed to be from the bullet completely healed.

When Clark got shot and Nois went to him I thought, hopefully we won't get that scene again in the finale. It belongs to Chloe.


That was my favorite part of the episode. :) I too thought of "Hidden".

I think that was just meant to be a call back to Infamous and to remind us that there was a reset and death on the way. This episode was virtually an unofficial sequel/redo to the episode Infamous.

I don't see how it's a reward when Lois realized and made up for her mistakes beforehand. She risked herself to help save Clark and Jimmy. She dropped the Stiletto story and wrote one about Truth and Justice which got her on the front page. The phone call was Clark realizing that Lois is actually very insecure about her job and is seeking recognition for being good at something, not fame mongering. So yes, Clark was trying to cheer her up by letting her know that she is good at her job, and she doesn't need to pull stunts like she did to prove it. I don't see what's so wrong with that.


Offering to simply listen to the RBB if he ever wants to talk and not get a story out of it.

I categorize the story more of...written out of revenge. They did her and her friends wrong, so she wrote about them.

But I don't fault Lois totally, she did learn but she should face the consequences.

However this episode did put a glare on Chlo-Lo wrt Clark.

Lois basically wants to be to the RBB, what Chloe is to Clark.

I doubt it was truth and justice that got her the story, since the Planet is corrupt. More likely Tess let that print cuz Clark was involved as a victim.

Yeah but...ok I yield ;)

Save the snark for the show.

Regardless Chloe is still Clark's backpocket girl. Lana leaves, he's got Chloe! Play footsies as RBB with Lois and flirt, but real work partnering he's got Chloe! The only good thing was that he dropped Nois when she tried to bogart being his superior or lead to search for the bad guy, Malrone? Mancini?

On the subject of the Daily Planet, my wife (who hates Smallville, but is sometimes forced to watch with me) said today after Lois' recital of the story she needs to land ("pregnant man" and so on), "Wait. Isn't the Daily Planet supposed to be a real newspaper, not the Weekly World News?"

Otherwise...yeah, not as awful as I expected. The character assassination of Chloe continues apace, but that's predictable these days. I'm not sure if I'm angrier that she is now deliberately covering up murders or that she is depicted as stupid enough to have the resumes of the damned Justice League on her laptop.

Of Lois and her "hundreds of articles"...feh, continuity, who needs it? I find it difficult to care one way or the other anymore.

Which she happens to travel with?

Seriously.

What the fuck, show.

Actually I see her lapse in judgement coming from her preoccupation with Davis. No one is perfect 100% of the time...

Word. I think I zoned out twice. And it still wasn't over when I came to.

It seems Lois is more tolerable to me when she is with Chloe. And I even believed that she experienced real emotions in the scene with Chloe in the Talon. But WTF is with Chloe's constantly changing cars?! Oliver must give her his old ones once he's driven them more than three times.

The Stiletto stuff was a dumb as I expected, but did anybody else give a deeply conflicted and disturbing "Hee!" when Lois was like "Surprise!" and opened her jacket to reveal that she was a dominatrix to Chloe? I... I need therapy. For two seconds there I was genuinely going "Hmm... the other Chlois?" As much as I despise everything that the SV!Lois is, I like to believe that the actresses are friends IRL, and that it carries over to the characters. Maybe I'm just drunk.

Well, "pregnant man" has actually happened. Book deal, featured on Oprah and everything. IMO, Lois was referring to wanting to get a big, major legitimate story, something that no one else has ever written about before.

Did anyone get the "Bluretto" as a swipe at Clois fans? Just me? Okay I'll shut up now...

I thought so. Stiletto just showed up and only gets paired up with the Blur because of Heroics only and nothing really else. IMHO it's a mock that Clois should hook up because of other media cannon over true development.


First part, I'd be angry if Chloe didn't show any emotion to what she did, but her crying collapsing against the dumbster like that, to me is to show that she doesn't want to be doing that, she's doing it not because she wants to but she has too. That scene was to show us Chloe is trapped.

The second part, it wasn't Chloe's stupidity it was meant to say that the JL needs headquarters, She can't keep stuff at Isis because it was tapped into once before, She's keeping it where she can access it in private which is her laptop. It was meant to foreshadow the need of a HQ for the JL.

I think Bluretto was a swipe at fan sites in general, but that blue color scheme is strangely familiar.

Davis was really needed in this episode. Either that or they should have cut some of the Chloe scenes like the one where she was dumping the body. Having Chloe deal with all that alone doesn't seem like something Davis would have done.

As for the whole ep, it wasn't as bad as I thought. My cable cut out about half way through but I wasn't too distressed. I was just worried I might miss Supernatural. I muted a lot of the Lois scenes but it was nice of her to kinda eat some humble pie when Clark got shot. But that didn't last long.

Jimmy was a lot more interesting separate from Chloe.

ETA: One more thing. Bruno was hot even if the actor wasn't the greatest. He reminded me of a younger Jimmy Smits.

I love camp and therefore, I loved this episode. It's probably the 4th favorite of mine this season. Caroline Dries did a great job. It was so much like her season seven episode "Action", down to nods and winks at fandom, people taking bullets and heroes being ferreted out. Really, a lot to enjoy overall.

I guess what made me happiest was the Edward R Murrow Press Society banner and function Lois was trying to get into. I may not know a lot about the man, but I do know that he was hero worshipped by my journalism teachers. I know that he built the mold for modern broadchast journalsim standards, and was widely regarded for his ethics. I'm going to say it because I believe it in my bones. If Erica's character Lois was the real Lois, the iconic Lois Lane, she would have been able to get pass the gatekeeper. It's darn near impossible for me to think that this fictional journalism heroine wouldn't be able to get into the function, when everything I know about Lois is that she would be an honored guess. Her exclusion from the elite means she's not.

And that's just where the fun started. It took two people to tell her she was wrong, and Lois agreed with them. It was wrong. At the end of the episode, she said that her editor would kill her, but she didn't want the Red Blue Blur's story. She wanted to be the RBB's ear and friend. Off the heals of so sad Chloe--it sets up another SWF possiblity in Doomsday.

Thank god Chloe said she and Jimmy were divorced. Now, I liked Jimmy in this episode. I liked how he took punches for Lois, and I like how Lois rushed over to help Jimmy. I see more chemistry between Jimmy and Lois than I've ever seen with Chloe and Jimmy. I wouldn't mind seeing more. Those two actually remind me a lot like Clark here. Stiletto shares her secret with Jimmy, Jimmy give Stiletto advice on it.

AJ was not pushed into the basement by Chloe. Doomsday saved Chloe from being knifed.

Clark felt like old school Clark. I loved it when he pulled up his shirt to show Chloe, "See, I'm okay!"

Chloe's doing a lot of things right now that is done under duress. I think it's a mistake to keep this from Clark, but I completely understand what she's doing. She's placing herself into the middle of the Kryptonians to try and keep Clark alive. She also wants to save Davis, but I think if she had to choose, she'd choose Clark.

The phone booth scene wasn't romantic. It was sort of sad, because a lot of what Clark's doing feels like reaction from the Chlark scene minutes before. It was touching, but I wasn't floored. She's third on his list of people he wants to be with. First Lana, then Chloe and last---Lois.

Chlark/Jois/Cnois were all in the right spot for me.

Also she was completely clueless about who Edward R. Murrow was (just like she was about Nellie Bly in "Gone").

So this episode was pretty stupid, but wasn't the suckfest I was prepared for. Like I said to my husband, this was the requisite "Lois In Pleather" episode of the season. Hopefully she'll refrain from dressing like a hooker for the duration.

So mobsters make glow in the dark dollars? (Or, like my hubby said when the printing press was going, "Guess they work for the government now." LOL!). I'm really not understanding the point of the kryptonite cash (aside from the required 'Clark collapses because he can't see 2 tons of kryptonite right in front of his face' moment). What printing press actually needs meteor rock to operate it??

I caught about three potential death anvils for Lois although I'm blanking on the exact quotes at the moment, mainly because the whole thing was overshadowed by the use of of this line during the phonebooth convo..."Can you read my mind?". Nois is no MKLois. It's insulting to even make the comparison. But if they had to make the comparison, wouldn't it be more in Nois's character for her to ask Clark what color underwear she's wearing? And shouldn't Lois have recognized the voice Clark was using as Oliver's Green Arrow voice?

I didn't find it improbable at all that a basement level reporter who's only been in the business a little over two years wouldn't be on the guest list for a major ceremony. Lois isn't part of the elite, she's not some big time hot shot reporter. Yet. Just as Clark doesn't appear to be known outside of Metropolis as the RBB and isn't Superman. Yet.

It was the only way to get the right green.

Well, that didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, but maybe that's because I was fearing the worst.

I'll focus on the bad first: The cheesy, porny slo-mo of "Stiletto" getting dressed. I felt like I was watching Black Scorpion. Also, like Lois can sew. Right.

Not too bad: Everyone saw right through "Stiletto"'s stupid disguise. It was universally acknowledged as a terrible idea and Lois rightly was made to feel ashamed by her egregious breach of journalistic ethics. This is more than we could say for Lana, who was never called on her shit, ever.

I didn't read the dreaded "most romantic moment" phonebooth scene as romantic at all, thank goodness. I thought it was a sweet and friendly gesture, and slightly anvilly, but I didn't see it as flirtatious. I do call WTF on Lois abruptly declaring her RBB obsession is borne out of loneliness empathy. You want to be a hero's listening ear, go offer yourself to Ollie. Still, I'm surprised I wasn't too bothered by it all, not even when Clark promised Lois that when the RBB was ready to go public, she'd be the first to know, because that's pretty meaningless, given all the people who already know his secret.

The pretty good: I usually enjoy Jimmy when he's divorced from Chimmy, and this was no exception. I like his interaction with Lois, with Clark, and I like that Jimmy's druggie storyline is giving AA the chance to show some edge and stretch the acting skills he has.

It's interesting that everyone else, even dorky bowtied Jimmy Olsen, is going dark this season, except for Lois (and Clark, when he's with her). Davis and Tess, obviously, were always dark, but Chloe and Ollie have gone dark in season 8 as well. It really makes Lois stick out from the rest of the cast, and I don't think in a good way.

The good (can't believe there turned out to be any good in "Stiletto"!): Chloe being a non-pod person. She is falling apart from the inside and I'm glad that our fears at the beginning of the season about all the shit she was taking on without reaction are finally being resolved. I love the fact that we got Chlark scenes of depth and emotion, where Clark was perceptive enough to see that Chloe is Not Okay, but Chloe is turning him away not out of denial about her problems but because staying away from him is the only way she can protect him. Now THAT is dramatic relationship tension, not some deus ex kryptosuit.

Also, I'm relieved that contrary to spoilers, Chloe did NOT throw the goon to Davis on purpose. But she felt terrible about it anyway, so that's two points for Chloe still being on the side of moral.

There was a subtle one which I think should be considered a fourth one but it's a stretch.

When she said she should called herself Nike. While Nike is the greek goddess for Victory and all I can't help think about the story of the Marathon. The runner ran all the way to Athens to tell people what has transpired at the battle (the Greeks won) and once he arrived after the 26 mile trek, he uttered one word "Nike" before dropping dead.

And it made me think that cause in 12 episodes they made Lois from just some character into ILL in terms of forced contrivances and anvils and such that once she's done and makes it to the finish line...all that's left is death.

OMG...that means the fever letter doesn't apply to Nois! She had a facade but people CAN see right through it.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Lois's line to Chloe about being in over her head. Especially considering it's the same writer who did Action.

And the toughness facade she drops at a phonecall without even checking for legitamacy (after one question. Who says the guy didn't train a mouse to sneak the paper at her feet?)