Honestly I abhorred in and to this day I have a hard time watching it. I think it really had to do with the Tempus as villain this time. I know he's a time-related villain but they had already established Luthor as the villain of their triangle (pyramid?) in a previous ep (more specifically the Arrgh!). I think if it HAD been Luthor I think I would find this much more logical.

I always think the timing had more to do with his stereotypical image of marriage and time period specific prudishness (i.e. waiting to marriage). I suspect he probably would have shown up earlier if they had honestly consumated their relationship earlier I suspect Wells HIMSELF would have been the "birth control" for one of those individual eps.

I've always wondered how their (Lois and Clark's) relationship might have changed had Wells come and actually done the SoulMate ep in the first season (say after the Pilot or so.) I know somewhere on my comp I have the beginnings of a plot for a story like that but I can't quite get it to gel (not to mention all the other works still asking to get to a postable status.)


CLARK: No. I'm just worried I'm a jinx.
JONATHAN: A jinx?
CLARK: Yeah. Let's face it, ever since she's known me, Lois's been kidnapped, frozen, pushed off buildings, almost stabbed, poisoned, buried alive and who knows what else, and it's all because of me.
-"Contact" (You're not her jinx, you're her blessing.)