Originally posted by Female Hawk:
...once Clark tells his secret to someone, he can never, ever take it back.
That person knows. Forever.
In reality, yes. Though, if that were true for LaC:TNAOS we would have never had the Wanda Detroit, Dr. Dieter amnesia episodes or the Memory Wipe Kiss in S2, for that matter.
I don't know how far ahead the writers were planning but I think they came across as sloppy attempts to allow them to continue to use the same plots rather than take the opportunity to explore new aspects of Lois and Clark's relationship. (Parts of Soul Mates were like nails on a chalkboard to me for the same reason.)
