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Chloe=Lois' cousin

I've given this some thought, and here it what I've decided. This really sucks for her. I mean, she loves him. Has to watch him moon over LanaThePink. And someday/one day he'll meet and marry her cousin?

Does not add up. New theory, test run: There is no cousin, see. She's making the cousin up. She's just using the pen name she's always planned on using...She is Lois! Can't believe I doubted for that whole half-hour.

CC

Didn't Julie McCoy have a sister? Or, wait, was it a cousin?? And she held the clipboard for a few seasons? Extra credit goes to anyone who can name her. How about that, Lynn? We let Breanna be Julie and you be...whatshername. Still a really, really important job!

Just watched my tape tonight so thought I'd chime in before bed ...

Things I liked:

** Clark's glasses (not the stupid looking Raybans; the real ones). Thought he looked great. Was bummed when he took them off at the end. He looks better with them; very Clark-like.

** Backbone!Martha (did I use that punctuation right? The things I'm learning on these new fangled message boards!) -- awesome! Not just once, but twice did she put Bo Kent in his place. Love her! She needs to do it more often.

** Jonathan helping Clark focus his super-hearing. I still think our Jonathan would have done it much better with our Clark, but as much as I dislike Bo Kent, I have to give him grudging praise for not being completely obnoxious and abrasive in this episode.

** Clark telling off Chloe in the barn -- I actually really liked TW for a few moments. <g> Great emotion; he almost sounded like he was going to cry. That was awesome. Good acting.

** Lex at the end, showing us that he might be down but he's not out ... too little of him in the episode, but gosh, do I catch my breath when he looks so earnest and intense. As I said out loud during the episode, they should have made him Superman. He. Is. Breathtaking. Can I hug him? Pretty please?

** Oh, thought of one more thing that I liked -- the way they had Clark go blind. I was very impressed! He was semi-vulnerable, but tried to be heroic anyway (good boy, Clark!) but by bad luck, his pulses of heat bounced off the K and blasted him. I'll buy that! So much better than "ultraviolet rays blind him, so use infra-red as the antidote." (Of course, they ruined it by the blowtorch fixing things, but that's still a grade better than L&C. As my husband laughingly said when Clark could see again, "Well, there's your infra-red cure". <g>)

Things I didn't like:

* And just *where* did the FOW come from?? At least this one got crunched in the end, not that it helped us figure out how he got that way and what the heck his motivation was. I guess the Objective section of his resume says "Being a bad guy" and that's all we needed to know.

* Chloe being so stupid as to tell Lionel that she's working on a story exposing him. Yes, I can't deny that Lois-as-a-stupid-teenager might have made this kind of mistake, but if so, it was the same type of educational experience that Clark had when he unintentionally screwed Chloe over with his super-hearing in this episode -- it's a doozy of a mistake but hopefully the life-ruining fallout will mean it will never happen again. If she really is Lois, let's hope this will be the last time she ever does something so dumb and learns to hold her cards a lot closer to her chest. (And don't get me started on Chloe's reaction to Clark telling her off in the barn -- I expected her to grovel, not to get defensive and say that he should understand! You didn't borrow his math notes and forget to return them, girlfriend; you tried to ruin his life!!!)

* The entire Pete-is-Kidnapped subplot. My God, where do I start? Did they hire an 8th grader to plot that part out? Let's see, a man is charged with armed robbery and someone kidnaps the judge's son with the ransom being dropping the charges. And the police just sit there and let the judge decide what to do?? Are these writers on crack? Those police would be all over that armed robbery suspect! Who are you working with, who called us, what the hell do you think you're doing, give up your friend and we'll cut you a deal, do you really want murder and kidnapping and extortion charages added to your armed robbery charge?? Are Lane and Kent the only people who look into a suspect's background to see who he has worked with in the past, who he hangs out with? Have these people never seen a single episode of NYPD Blue or Law and Order???

OK, I'm done ... bring it on; I can take it. And hmm, interesting spoiler for next week, about Chloe and her ... other identity. I like it!

Kathy (who was hoping that Clark would tell Lana, upon hearing she had met someone else, "Hey, good for you! I hope it works out!" Of course, based on the preview they showed, it looks like this guy is going to be yet another FOW who makes Lana look weak and stupid for falling under his spell so easily -- how many times have they recycled this plot? Are they really out of new ideas so soon? In only 2 1/2 seasons?)

I vote that this week we give Kathy B the big shiny Best Smallville Episode Analysis button and dub her Queen of Smallville (sorry, Lana has the title of Princess) because her comments were so very, very good.

I agree with all of them (thus adding to their goodness) and they are so well articulated that she managed to express exactly what I wasn't quite so good at doing.

Very valid points about the inaneness of having a FOW that just sprung out of nowhere with absolutely no history, no reason for being, no nothing that we give two hoots about except that he caused Clark angst. Then again, who hasn't cause Clark angst.

Also a good observation about Lana. I almost feel as sorry for her (and that's a big, fat juicy "almost") as I do for Clark because that girl can't catch a break. She's a bum magnet of the first degree.

And yeah, Kathy, exactly what I was saying about Chloe. Our Lois would never have just spilled all of her guts like that. I'm telling you, that girl's Dead Chloe Walking.

Kathy, you can pick up the tiara at my place. I had it polished for you <g>.

Lynn

Thank you KathyB for two things.

1) The dude with the adams apple! Now,you don't have to introduce me to his mother, let me see his medical records, but I need a little something. A name, maybe? A line or two about how he does that thing with the rapid swallowing and the high pitch.
I can guess that he's basically misunderstood and maybe that's why he's so hostile, but toss me something!

Btw, isn't this Chloe's job. Don't we count on her to look it up and give us just what we need to understand who our current villian is? If Lionel kills her, we'll all be in the dark, because Lana sure enough isn't going to do it.

And the other thing, KathyB, your post was Long, LOONNGGG, and that made me feel so much better about mine! I mean, if I have company in my minute analysis of this show, then I'm not crazy, right? Right...?

(Don't answer that Beverly.)

To sum up: Lynn has your shiny crown, but I have the little sash thingy with Queen Smallville lovingly sewn on with hundreds of pink sequins. Take that victory walk proudly.

CC

Oh, it's not the long analysis of the episodes that point to someone being crazy. After all, without those in-depth explanations, the rest of us would actually have to WATCH. I mean between these threads and the weekly reviews on Zoomway's boards, I never even have to go near the series in person, so I'm quite happy about that aspect.

It's anyone actually enjoying watching it that's highly questionable . . .

Well, I figure if KathyB can laugh when I told her not to . . .

Beverly
"B. B. Medos"
http://www.booksanctuary.com

Who recently realized that some of you don't know me by my longtime online nick, so I quess I thought I should start adding it to my sig again.

I was on "another" website, and I read this column about this episode that totally cracked me up. I just had to share this one passage because the reviewer nailed this so well:

On a side note- I don't know whether Clark's shades were in the screenplay or not, but whoever was responsible for letting them make it to the screen should be shot. Tom Welling has progressed beautifully as an actor since first season, but he needs his eyes to put in a good performance. With his best asset hidden, his performance is like staring at a block of very pretty wood for an hour, and between us? I don't stand in front of a Michelangelo that long. I'm just saying.

Now, I would never call my Tom a "pretty block of wood", but I, too, hated him wearing the raybans. What was the point? I always thought that blind people wore sunglasses to either protect their eyes from painful light or to hide a disfiguration within their eye(s) that might be off-putting to anyone looking at them. Clark had neither, so why not just walk around looking in a general non-direction?

I will be so intersted to see if his cute little square-frame glasses ever make an appearance again. I'm betting not unless Smallville becomes Metropolis.

Lynn

PS - that quote was written by Hope in a column on kryprtonsite.com. It's quite amusing - she wasn't nearly as appreciative of Whisper as we were <g>. But she does make some very good points. CC - you would especially appreciate her comments on the FOW whom she has dubbed "Yodel Boy".

I love Hope's columns -- she somehow manages to make Smallville make sense when it doesn't (which can be often).

Speaking of Smallville reviews -- for those of you who don't like Smallville except to make fun or if you like and still like to make fun of it (like me) there's a great site called Television Without Pity that does humorous episode reviews. Including Smallville .