Character Destinies

[xrayvision]

I think it was LastFatherOfKrypton who said that TPTB said in an interview that next season, the characters will be pointed towards their respective destinies. If this is true, then I have a pretty good idea that can be used to accomplish this.

I think what should happen is that Lex starts to pursue Martha's state senate seat and do things to make her give it up. In the background of it all should be Pete, whose return would make many big things happen. First--I would make him an inside man who is watching out for Clark's back. This is along the lines of what Jonathan suggested Martha do at Luthorcorp at the end of Insurgence in S2 (something I'm sure we all wanted to see but didn't). In an attempt to add more drama, they should do it in a way where Pete's keeping it as a secret while Clark & Martha think that he's actually out to hurt them since Pete knows Lex would find out his true intentions by Clark's reactions if he knows. Pete's alligning with Lex would be to settle that "debt" he owes Lex for getting the agent Loder off his back.

While Pete is the inside man, he can be there to see what Lana is going through and protect her. Eventually when she finds out Clark's secret (which I think will happen while she's with Lex), he can further explain things to her to calm her down and ultimately get Lex to leave her alone. This would set up the Pete-Lana destiny. I would also give Lana a clear destiny as to what her career will be (I would make her a psychiatrist who eventually goes to help bring Chloe's life back to normal; see the last paragraph as to why).

I think the main arcs of S6 should be Pete dealing with the Lex ordeal (with Lana in the middle) and Martha trying to keep her state senate seat from being forced out of her hands by Lex, while Clark (who starts getting trained by Jor-El) goes back to Central Kansas A&M and gets knee deep in journalism there.

A bonus would be if Lex & Chloe really go at it throughout the season and it ends up with Lex having her committed at Belle Reve and perform experiments on her brain at Summerholt. He would screw up her mind so much that most of her past memories would be wiped out, remembering only bits & pieces. While this is going on, Lois would be doing everything she can to track her cousin, only to get killed in the final season of the show. It would end with Lex giving Chloe the ID of Lois Lane as a result of not having considered the real Lois to be a threat like Chloe was. Hence the Chlois theory would be set in motion. This would be great for fans of this, but I doubt it would happen.

I really hope they do something like this. I think Pete would have a ton of plots they can put him in. It would give Lana a good destiny, and Chloe would become the Lois we all know. Having Chloe & Lois, who will ultimately be a carbon copy of Chloe is pointless (why have 2 of the same character types?).

[Deana]

Well, when they didn't show Chloe's mother's face, but showed her's at the end of Tomb, her destiny was set in motion in my mind.

Chloe representing the mirror image of her mother.

The writers realizing they did something this twistedly symbolic is the only monkey wrench in it.

[Theshadow129x]

they will never bring pete back in TPTB said hes in clarks past they want to bring in people in his future

[xrayvision]

Well, in the mythos, he is a character of Clark's future & Lex's future.

[MsSullivan]

according to SDK, Chloe's mother's face was not shown so that we would only get Chloe's reaction. He said that it also left open the possibility to see her mother in future episodes. Nothing else was meant by it.

Chloe's destiny is to be a hot shot reporter for the DP, as Lois pointed out in SPIRIT.

[LuthorRequiem2]

xrayvision,

Your ideas are awesome. Very well-thought out. I have a few of my own too:

Lex could start to investigate more and more into Clark, knowing that his father somehow knows the truth about him. Meanwhile, he sees his dad spending time with the Kents, and he feels envy. "My father never would spend half as much time with me as he does with the Kents," Lex would say to Lana. Lana and Lex would continue for a few episodes as a couple, but Lana would discover something devestatingly ruthless that Lex is up to and break up with him. Lex would be alone and isolated, thinking of the visions of his mother, but ignoring them, because he wants nothing to do with human emotions anymore. He wants power. If he can't have relationships with people he loves (Lana as a girlfriend, Clark as a best friend, the Kents as a family, his father) then he'll have to have power.

Meanwhile, Clark is being trained by Jor-El in the Fortress of Solitude. He gets into journalism a bit, but REALLY becomes imersed in investigative reporting when Lex has his father killed and Chloe tortured to find out the secret of Clark. Clark knows Lex is behind it, but can't prove it. Thus begins his career as investigative reporter, trying to divulge the secrets of Lex to bring him down.

[xrayvision]

Likewise about your ideas. I think if our ideas get combo'd, we can have one hell of a 6th season. I think Clark should remain at Central Kansas so he can independently go on to become the investigative reporter he's going to be (without Chloe pushing him). It would be cool, especially if he does it to find the truth on what Lex is doing. I think it can be the beginning where he can start seperating his Clark side from his superhero side.

[gamer2]

Originally posted by Theshadow129x
they will never bring pete back in TPTB said hes in clarks past they want to bring in people in his future

If this is the case then SV will eventually become the joke of the superman universe as too many liberties will be taken with the mythology. It would be that they have no intention of making him the hero we all know and love in anything other than powers. For all we know they would have him end up in a jedi outfit instead of the red and blue. At some point they have to stick to something or history will reject it all. IMHO

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by gamer2
If this is the case then SV will eventually become the joke of the superman universe as too many liberties will be taken with the mythology. It would be that they have no intention of making him the hero we all know and love in anything other than powers. For all we know they would have him end up in a jedi outfit instead of the red and blue. At some point they have to stick to something or history will reject it all. IMHO

Or better yet, in the Adventures of Pluto Nash outfit.

I agree with you 100%. Pete is in the futures of Lex, Clark, and Lana (I think he even deals with Lois now & then). He's not a clown they can forget about. He knows Clark's secret for Pete's sake (pun not intended).

[dhacker615]

I guess the question where would I like to see then end up.

Clark is the easiest, obviously. I really don't need to see him done the costume. Once he is routinely flying, that is enough for me. I really hope that they don't do any 'training' scenes. They worked great in 'Batman Begins' and 'The Matrix', but Superman is all about his intrinsic power, not learning Kryptonian Kung-Fu. I'd love to see Perry White again, but at the "Daily Planet". He and Lois would probably be fun to watch. Jimmy Olsen would be a nice intro at the very end. A little nod to Steve Lombard and Cat Grant would make my week.

I guess I'd like to see Lex a little more like the mad scientist version of the character (not a lot, but a little). He needs to be disgraced, if not ruined. It would be interesting if he wound up like the Lex Luthor from the first Superman movie. Sort of a Napoleon in exile, thinking about his revenge on the world.

Lana needs to wind up getting married. That is really the end for the Clana, the Lexana, etc. The perfect ending for Lana would be if she married yet another football player (after Whitney, Jason and Clark). Better still would be if Lex destroyed the guy's career in a fit of jealousy. Best would be if the guy turned into an alcholic named Brad after what Lex did to him.

Lois needs to stop with the random career changes and start becoming a reporter. I love "Lois sees Superman for the first time" scenes, but I don't see how they can do one in SV. It is a shame, since it would be the perfect final scene.

I like Chloe as a character (although she was a lot more interesting in seasons 1-4), but I don't think she can get a happy ending. Maybe the knowledge of Clark's secret will cause Lex to lock her up in Belle Reve, but whatever it is it needs to enough to scare Clark about revealing his true identity to anyone.

I miss Pete. It would be awesome if they brought him back, even for a short arc. The whole left by JK dying leaves an opening for Pete in Clark's life, but I doubt they fill it.

Lionel needs to die. Lex probably needs to kill him.

Martha needs to start a friendship with a neighbor named Ben Hubbard that could blossom into something more.

[shuyin131]

Pete coming back would be awesome. I think that for continuity's sake, they NEED Pete to come back.

They've gone and done a horrible thing to Clark and Lana. Lana's supposed to still be in love with Clark (and other way around too) when Clark leaves Smallville. They leave on a sad, but also one that has closure in which Lana ends up finding out the secret from Clark. If this is the WB's way of doing it, then they're doing a pretty bad job of it. I'd rather not see Lana at all then see her thrust into dumb story arcs that wasnt even in the comics.

The writers seem to have Lois's character down, but what's missing now are her reporter roots. She wasnt even SUPPOSED to be in SV anyways, but she is now, and it's only fitting that they build on her character too. So far, we know she's great at politics and coffeemaking, but where's her investigative reporter side?

Lets see, as far as continuity goes, for Lois and Clark, they've dug themselves a BIG HOLE in which, if they decided to do a new Superman TV show, based on the Smallville story arcs, they couldnt. Not without completely screwing up the original story. Lois has already SEEN Clark and can recognize him from anywhere. Now what's gonna happen when in the future, he's Superman, and because he doesnt wear a mask, she knows instantly who he is? The Lois from Lois and Clark TNAOS may be blind that she couldnt recognize him apart from his glasses, but I dont think SV's is that dumb. Also, TNAOS Lois have never seen Clark w/o his glasses. In SV, Lois only knows what he looks like w/o glasses on.

[Another-One]

I laugh when people cant believe that Lois wouldnt recognize Clark as Superman.

You are watching a show about a teenager from another planet who can fly shoot fire from his eyes and has the strength of like 100 men, yet you refuse to believe Lois wouldnt recognize Superman as Clark?

Hmmm, ok.

[watcher4]

Clark's destiny is to become Superman
Lex's destiny is to become President
Chloe's destiny is to become a hot-shot reporter and the Daily Planet and a Pulitzer Prize winning author
Lois' destiny is to be Clark's lady-love
Lana's destiny is to become a world renowned advocate for research into mental illness
Lionel's destiny is to join Jonathan in that great cow pasture in the sky
Martha's destiny is to become a US Senator so that she can be a thorn in President Luthor's side

:confused: :confused: :confused: :rolleyes:

[xrayvision]

Haha, great cow pasture in the sky. Maybe they'll be friends up there.

I don't think the show should end with anyone getting married, especially Lana. I really think she would be a good psychiatrist for the fact that after all she's going through, she will still end up as a normal and hopefully good confidant of Clark. I think she will be able to help mentally ill people.

But the purpose of my post was to provide a possible groundwork for next season (not that it will happen) and see what ideas other users of this forum have after watching the events of Mercy. I have seen some pretty good ideas so far. I really hope they bring Pete back as a regular (or worst case as a recurring star as Lois was in S4). His destiny has a lot to do with the other characters and bringing him back and provide a nice way to tie up all the loose ends by the series' end.

Clark has no more reasons not to go to college, and he must get knee deep into investigative reporting. But I think a great arc for either next season or S7 (if there will be one) would be for Lex to find some of that serum made of Clark's blood and perhaps make clones of Clark using that refined kryptonite that Pete buried in Witness. It would make perfect sense given his obsession in investigating Clark. It would be nice to see him trying to make a copy of the real Clark, but failing everytime (like Emily Dinsmore's father did) after his clones have defects and become a liability. I always thought they could gave gone further into that arc.

[watcher4]

Remember the Smilies!

[dhacker615]

Originally posted by watcher4
Clark's destiny is to become Superman

That is the premise of the show, but I'd still like a little more definiton. Dead characters (Jor-El, Jonathan Kent) talk about Clark's destiny a lot, but beyond "becomes Superman" we really don't know what they are talking about.


Lex's destiny is to become President

President Lex was a pretty poor storyline and it is already over. DC Comics is going a totally different direction with Lex. No reason for that to be his 'destiny'.


Chloe's destiny is to become a hot-shot reporter and the Daily Planet and a Pulitzer Prize winning author

Gag. Considering TPTB have totally suspended Chloe's development, who knows what her destiny is. The hints are that she will suffer a mental illness like her mother. Maybe her decline will inspire Lois & Clark to do more with their lives.


Lois' destiny is to be Clark's lady-love

I want to see some forward progress from Lois. The muffin peddling college drop-out routine would've been a good idea last season, when more of the action was in Smallville. The politics thing is worse. It is a detour away from her career path. Confounding expectations is great when it is clever. TPTB have had no clever twists on Lois.


Lana's destiny is to become a world renowned advocate for research into mental illness

I have no idea where that is coming from, but Lana is on track to have a miserable life. Seriously, she is a mess.


Lionel's destiny is to join Jonathan in that great cow pasture in the sky

I agree with that.


Martha's destiny is to become a US Senator so that she can be a thorn in President Luthor's side

God I hope not.

[watcher4]

No one noticed the smilies. I was being kinda sarcastic in all of this. Also, I had the confused smiley in that I think that to meet the destinies that I wrote down is going to be impossible for some!


Originally posted by watcher4
Clark's destiny is to become Superman
Lex's destiny is to become President
Chloe's destiny is to become a hot-shot reporter and the Daily Planet and a Pulitzer Prize winning author
Lois' destiny is to be Clark's lady-love
Lana's destiny is to become a world renowned advocate for research into mental illness
Lionel's destiny is to join Jonathan in that great cow pasture in the sky
Martha's destiny is to become a US Senator so that she can be a thorn in President Luthor's side

:confused: :confused: :confused: :rolleyes:

[xrayvision]

Lana will become like Bonnie/April (of Knight Rider) to Pete & jazz up his cars when Pete decides to continue his drag racing career. ;)

Anyway, I do hope in S6 they start giving her a direction toward a career. I think being a psychiatrist would be good, and they can tie it in to Chloe's fate (if it involves Belle Reve). In the last episode, she could promise Chloe that she will help her out to lead a normal life again and perhaps (if Chlois would be considered) give her the ID as Lois Lane, since Lex doesn't find Lois as a threat and would care less of her.

[mallory]

Their respective destinies, as revealed so far this year in Smallville:

Clark: Supes, no doubt. His powers keep getting greater and greater. Everyone is pointing him towards greatness, and even willing to forfeit their lives to see that take place.

Lex: Clark's mortal enemy, billionaire power monger.

Lana: The girl Clark left behind

Lois: Clark's future love. They dropped the ball with Lois earlier, but are reforming her wild ways, first as JK's successful campaign manager and now as the youngest Chief of Staff in U.S. political history.

Martha: Clark's feminine rock of Gibraltar, his real mother for all intents and purposes till her last breath.

Lionel: dead. The foreshadowing could not have been stronger in the scene between Clark and Martha, when Clark first tells her that Lionel knows. Pity. Hate to lose the best actor on the show.

Chloe: the most confusing of all. Star reporter? Computer wizard? Government covert operations? Lunatic at the insane asylum? Until Lois showed up, she was a real candidate to take over LL's role. Very hard to see now.

For me this is far and away the best year for Smallville. Quite an achievement.

[LastFatherOfKrypton]

Originally posted by mallory
Their respective destinies, as revealed so far this year in Smallville:

Clark: Supes, no doubt. His powers keep getting greater and greater. Everyone is pointing him towards greatness, and even willing to forfeit their lives to see that take place.

Lex: Clark's mortal enemy, billionaire power monger.

Lana: The girl Clark left behind

Lois: Clark's future love. They dropped the ball with Lois earlier, but are reforming her wild ways, first as JK's successful campaign manager and now as the youngest Chief of Staff in U.S. political history.

Martha: Clark's feminine rock of Gibraltar, his real mother for all intents and purposes till her last breath.

Lionel: dead. The foreshadowing could not have been stronger in the scene between Clark and Martha, when Clark first tells her that Lionel knows. Pity. Hate to lose the best actor on the show.

Chloe: the most confusing of all. Star reporter? Computer wizard? Government covert operations? Lunatic at the insane asylum? Until Lois showed up, she was a real candidate to take over LL's role. Very hard to see now.

For me this is far and away the best year for Smallville. Quite an achievement.


Interesting how my observations would start a chain reaction of excellent thought and comments.

But your listing of their respective destinies seems so far accurate with the exception of the ambiguity of Chloe!

Strange how the newest addition to the Superman Universe would spark so much pro and con debate more than any other Smallville character.;)

[shuyin131]

Originally posted by Another-One
I laugh when people cant believe that Lois wouldnt recognize Clark as Superman.

You are watching a show about a teenager from another planet who can fly shoot fire from his eyes and has the strength of like 100 men, yet you refuse to believe Lois wouldnt recognize Superman as Clark?

Hmmm, ok.

Well, it's different in this situation. Like I said before, the other Lois's, prior to CK coming to Metropolis, have NEVER SEEN Clark, or Superman, EVER. Therefore it's plausible that Lois can't distinguish between CK and Superman.

In Smallville however, Lois has MET Clark Kent and in the future, she will see him as Superman. CK in Smallville does not wear glasses. Superman doesn't wear glasses. In the comics, it's known that Lois has many encounters w/ Superman up close. So yes, going by Smallville continuity, it's quite hard to believe how Lois can't recognize the difference between Clark and Superman.

[IVODARK]

Originally posted by LastFatherOfKrypton
Interesting how my observations would start a chain reaction of excellent thought and comments.

But your listing of their respective destinies seems so far accurate with the exception of the ambiguity of Chloe!

Strange how the newest addition to the Superman Universe would spark so much pro and con debate more than any other Smallville character.;)

The only reason there's anbiguity regarding Chloe's character is that she is the only one whose future we don't know. If DC indeed write her into the comics, then we'll now her future beyond this series. If not, she will simply cease to exist after Smallville ends. Kinda sad, really.

[Zathraz]

Originally posted by IVODARK
The only reason there's anbiguity regarding Chloe's character is that she is the only one whose future we don't know. If DC indeed write her into the comics, then we'll now her future beyond this series. If not, she will simply cease to exist after Smallville ends. Kinda sad, really.

Because they have not said anything else about Chloe in DC cannon then that leaves it open ......

;) So how about the old theory of Lois dying and Chloe taking her name as her own? I can see Lex still wanting to take political power. So he has someone invent dirt on Martha attacking her character making her resign her position. Lois as her chief of staff catches wind of the plot and tracks it back to Lex. Then Lois jumps into the problem head first and gets herself killed possibly by Lex himself. Martha looses her political position and Lex takes over. No one can prove Lex did anything and Clark has only suspicions and resentment of Lex getting his Mom’s post. Chloe would then be driven by her own suspicions to thinking it was Lex and starts on her first major exposé story on Lex. In memory and as a personal jab at Lex she takes the name she first used at the DP and uses Lois Lane :D

[IVODARK]

Originally posted by Zathraz
Because they have not said anything else about Chloe in DC cannon then that leaves it open ......

;) So how about the old theory of Lois dying and Chloe taking her name as her own? I can see Lex still wanting to take political power. So he has someone invent dirt on Martha attacking her character making her resign her position. Lois as her chief of staff catches wind of the plot and tracks it back to Lex. Then Lois jumps into the problem head first and gets herself killed possibly by Lex himself. Martha looses her political position and Lex takes over. No one can prove Lex did anything and Clark has only suspicions and resentment of Lex getting his Mom’s post. Chloe would then be driven by her own suspicions to thinking it was Lex and starts on her first major exposé story on Lex. In memory and as a personal jab at Lex she takes the name she first used at the DP and uses Lois Lane :D

Personally, I don't believe in this teory. And would much rather have them continue to develop Chloe's character, so she can win her way into the canon. But ever since at least the beginning of this season, her character's development has been suspended for no apparent reason.

But this thread is not about Chloe in particular, so... whatever. The point is, hers is the only destiny we can only speculate about.

[LuthorRequiem2]

Thanks, xray vision, for the compliment. I agree, if our ideas are fused together, the sixth season wil be the best!

[Zathraz]

Originally posted by IVODARK
But this thread is not about Chloe in particular, so... whatever. The point is, hers is the only destiny we can only speculate about.


I am sorry about getting off topic in the earlier post. I very new to message boards and still have problems figuring out etiquette and where to respond to which post. I seem to get lost in a thread and go off on tangents.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Clark - Stop the great threat to our world mentioned earlier by Jor-EL and by doing that become clearer headed about his place in our world as a protector and savior. To become Superman, the only one who can do the job, clear in mind that he loves his adopted world and will do everything he can do within his vast powers to protect it from any threat.

Lana - SV Lana I think is doomed. I can not figure out how they can salvage her enough to put her in the normal place as the one left behind. I think at best now she will be the pawn between the greats. Used by Lex and Clark as a point of contention and angst. Doomed to a tragic fate of the one Superman loved but never figured out what to do with.

Lex – Will move along the power hunger path. Shut him self off from caring about anything but his balance sheet and current pet projects. I see SV Lex going down the billionaire investor in science. Not the mad scientist but the collector and user of the devices made by the mad scientists.

Chloe - One of two paths. First is the path of madness ending in death most likely at the hands of Lex in someway to drive the rift between Lex and Clark to an unforgivable hatred.
Second she could become something new in the whole Superman mythos. Most likely she will be a female version of Jimmy Olsen type of character and work at the Daily Planet.

Lois - SV is big on unexplained character changes I think this season cliffhanger will drive Lois into her traditional roll and make her an investigative reporter. It will most likely involve some sort of memory loss on her part and she will only remember Chloe. She will then go down her more traditional established path of meeting Clark/Superman while at the Daily Planet.

Martha - I think they will keep the change and allow her remain in public office and on the Kent farm. She will follow normal lines and be someone that Clark/Superman can retreat to and feel he can come home to.

Lionel - SV loves the MB and so do we but I think that he will die at the end of this season. He has no destiny but to give an explanation of how Lex came into being. Why Lex chooses his path of power over choosing to live for the people he should love.

[xrayvision]

Originally posted by LuthorRequiem2
Thanks, xray vision, for the compliment. I agree, if our ideas are fused together, the sixth season wil be the best!

You're welcome. I also like Zathraz's idea (along the lines with some of what I said but with different twists). I think with that idea, Clark can begin his investigative reporter days by following up on Lois' death. They would have to do something to Chloe to make her forget though. My suggestion of Lex erasing Lois' identity as he threatened to do to Roger Nixon (I believe it was in X-Ray) and then messing up Chloe's mind at Belle Reve & Summerholt would be a choice to go about doing this. I would have Lana Lang (near the end of the series) pursue a career in psychiatry after helping out Chloe along with a doctor she would befriend as her mentor.

[Zathraz]

Xrayvision,
I do think it would be more interesting if they did bend enough to allow for Chloe/Lois to exist but they will most likely will not.

If they don’t then I think that Chloe will be relegated to a minor extra character status. They may perhaps make her a reporter of the strange and unusual for the Daily Planet, or as a reporter for a newspaper competing with the Daily Planet. But either way someone has to have their memory zapped.

[myankskent]

I have a great idea on how they can make season 6 better...just make every scene have Lionel in it because he's just about the only character that I am not tired of at this point.

[IVODARK]

Originally posted by Zathraz
I am sorry about getting off topic in the earlier post. I very new to message boards and still have problems figuring out etiquette and where to respond to which post. I seem to get lost in a thread and go off on tangents.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Lana - SV Lana I think is doomed. I can not figure out how they can salvage her enough to put her in the normal place as the one left behind. I think at best now she will be the pawn between the greats. Used by Lex and Clark as a point of contention and angst. Doomed to a tragic fate of the one Superman loved but never figured out what to do with.


Don't worry. I guess it wasn't technically out of topic, since we're discussing these characters futures. I just didn't want to risk this thread becoming yet another "I hate/love Chloe or Lana" thread.

But, I have to say, I love how you phrased Lana's destiny. :)

[shuyin131]

Why Lex chooses his path of power over choosing to live for the people he should love.

He chose his path of power because his path for the people ended in tragedy. He loved Lana so much that he would rather have not lived the life with her and have her live, instead of her dying.

After the near-death experience, and choosing to walk the path of damnation, his mind becomes warped and so power-hungry, that he believes he can win Lana over using manipulation and still live the best of both worlds.

His real feelings for Lana, have become lust, and the quest to win her over, have become like a game to him, something that he wants to dominate because it's one of those things that he could never have.

[freakinsuper]

Post #60 of 60


lionel body is being used bi jor el but when this happens after jor el has used him lionel must remeber everything that is why lionel cannot expose clark because it would be pointless 4 jor el 2 have used his body if lionel would be a threat to clark.thats how he knows clarks name and that why he knows clark destiny.
I don,t think he meant give jonathan a heart attack in the barn but he wanted 2 explain he knew clark secert and that it was ok but jonathan could not handle it and took it personel not knowing that jor el is possesing lionel to help clark.
Also he knows about fortress of solitude and how the crystal formed clarks fortress.
this was a truly good episode it had 2 be since the last 2 or 3 episodes were really bad accept 4 the 1 with the brianiac in it.
i could go on 4 longer but i want until i get some feed back!

lionel feel good factor doing some good 4 the cause

and maybe a chance 2 bone martha

Lionel also swaped bodys with clark in 1 episode when he was in prison his spirit went into clarks body and clark spririt went in lionels bodyhe had all clarks power and from then on even when clark got his body back it changed lionel into a do gooder and the evil had been stripped from him!

The only thing with this episode it ripped off by the movie the saw 1 and 2 is there no copyright on that idea it was not so original!

lionel said in time you will trust him to clark and also maybe in time he might bone martha 2

[milton fine]

even though i love chloe i think shell ethier go on to another city or be killed off becuse lois is sopposed to be clarks side kick slash love intrest at least in the comics anyway

[xrayvision]

If they don't pair Pete & Lana (which would be a decent idea if you check out my original post in this thread), I think they should have her & Pete become an item. They have very good chemistry and are both good friends of Clark with seemingly bright futures.