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- Despite Kara’s appearances, a despondent Clark decides that without Lana (Kristin Kreuk) there is nothing keeping him in Smallville, and heads to the Fortress of Solitude to begin his training as a superhero.
I left this out of the official description because there was no dialogue in the episode to support it. He simply says he's leaving town after Lana's funeral, and he clearly went to the fortress to ask about Kara. Marikology 05:11, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
- True, but it is a logical conclusion given his love for her. People have been known to move when a love one dies. Also he did go to the FoS to start training as his original intent, not to just ask for info over Kara, that wasn't in the dialog either but at the very beginning when he told Lois that he was leaving after Lana's funeral and "going North" and that was before they even spotted the spaceship. So I think it can be reasonably deduced that he was heading north anyway for his training because with Lana dead-he thinks-there is nothing more to hold him to Smallville. His questions about Kara was incidentalHunter2005 17:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- As it stands, the summary addresses that he did indeed go to the Fortress to begin his training, but the original wording says "despite Kara's appearance", he decides to go, (meaning he decides *after* he meets Kara), which you just pointed out wasn't the case. But "without Lana, there's nothing keeping him in Smallville" is such a finalizing and blanket statement, it's not a good idea to just infer it without him actually saying it. Marikology 19:36, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
Kara Kent?[]
If they don't want to draw attention to Kara's sudden appearance, it's kind of unsmart for them to give her the last name Kent. The Kents have lived in Smallville forever and everybody probably already knows Jonathan had no siblings, so he wouldn't have a niece. Marikology 03:20, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
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Lois is the devil here.[]
Seriously. The whole series to this point had walked a careful line in the depiction of Lois - brash, but a heart of gold. And that line got shakier as Lois randomly decided to join her "beloved" cousin's vocation and become a journalist.
But in this episode it became very clear that Lois is kind of a selfish monster - the anti-Chloe. Chloe's someone so good and so selfless that her meteor power is healing other people at her own physical expense.
Watch Lois in this episode. Watch how she reacts to the a-hole editor who's praising her (undeservedly) while cruelly bashing her cousin. In the very beginning, she gives a token gesture of sticking up for Chloe, but she almost immediately stops defending her or even thinking of defending her. She stands there as Chloe is destroyed in public and has her dreams dashed by this ahole, and what does she do? Does she defend her? Tell the guy to shut his mouth? Does she even have a sad or concerned or doubtful expression? Nope. She's standing there smiling a huge smile, soaking up the praise (at her cousin's expense), dreaming of her big undeserved future.
What an evil character. And this is why the last three seasons, with the new show runners, are utter failures. Lois GETS that big undeserved future. The one Chloe deserved. She gets the guy Chloe wants and the career she wants. Doesn't deserve either of them, came late to both of them, and wasn't nearly as right as her cousin for either of them.
A usurper of a character, in a way even the horrible Lana never could have been - Lana made Chloe sad, but she always acknowledged that she had rights to Clark. She was sad to it but resigned. But when Jimmy mentions Lois and Clark in a season 6 episode, Chloe is clearly not having it. She knows it would be theft. She acts similarly when Lois starts getting serious and competitive at journalism. It's a sad sight - a sweet, awesome character who knows she has no chance to win because her name isn't Lois Lane - who sees herself being written into oblivion by writers who had the talent to create her and the love to keep her around all those years, but not the courage to give her what she earned.
I should also point out that Lois stood there beaming at her cousin's expense a mere two episodes after that cousin sacrified her own life to save Lois's.
In a perfect world, in a just world, season 8 contains circumstances that make the Chloe-becomes-Lois switch possible, and then it's done. Honestly I think season 7 leaves things in a way that a clever writer could make it happen. But of course it was probably never going to happen, and once they brought in new showrunners it was DEFINITELY never going to happen (they were brought in with the explicit intention of "getting things to the finish line", ie, getting Clark to Metropolis, working alongside Lois at the Planet - and no more detours or complications).
A great shame. But I'll continue to consider the switch as having happened in an unwritten, unaired season 8. I don't acknowledge the "real" one.