As a fun romp, I always enjoyed this one. But at the same time many fans hated the whole soul mates theory because it seemed to completely negate everything our heroes had been through to get together. Suddenly, Clark refusing to give up on Mad Dog Lane seemed pointless, if they were always destined to be together anyway. He could have done nothing and tthey'd still have got there.
I recall feeling strongly the same way at the time, but I've mellowed over the years and now it doesn't bother me quite so much. I remember someone posting that soul mates didn't negate the journey. That even if the end result was always set the details weren't. I recall that made me feel somewhat better about it.
The other reason this was not a popular ep at the time was that by this point, having gone through the whole clone arggghh etc, we were really in the mood for that honeymoon in Hawaii.
I can't say that it wouldn't have been nice to have had them off on some adventure while lazing on a Hawaiian beach. But this wasn't a bad ep for me and time has made it better.
LabRat :-)
