Chloe and her powers.

[CountryGirl84]

We learned a little more about Chloe's motivation behind the fear of her powers. She tells Clark that she's afraid that they might kill her the next time she uses them because she nearly died the first time. I find it hard to believe that Chloe was unwilling to sacrifice her life for someone, especially since that someone was Lois the first time. I would think her character would have been more likely to be happy risking her life to save the people she loves.

Can this behavior be reconciled with the character we know from the past six seasons?

[Ilovebeinglost]

What I don't understand about her powers is, when are the tears fatal or harmful to her?

She had lots of tears when she broke up with Jimmy but nothing happened to her. You think maybe it's only when she has a desire to save someone's life that she passes out?

Maybe the writers haven't figured it out yet

[CountryGirl84]

Yeah you might be right about the writers :lol: at the very least Chloe doesn't know the exact nature of her powers, and as such we don't either, but what she is referring to is that she in essence was pronounced dead at the hospital as a direct result of using her abilities.

[xaosthry]

I really don't think it had anything to do with her tears. That' just how it transfered the first time with all the emotion she had in herself at the time. With some time maybe she will be able to find a different trigger for it.
Her body may just need time to adjust to it, like the immune system and a virus. The first time it kicks your @ss, but after that its easier to handle it. So hopefully, if they decide to keep her with this power she can find a way to use it without completely wiping her out.

[Guidron]

Perhaps it's only effective when her tears contact someone that requires healing?

Either that or as you say, maybe they are emotionally based.

[Twitch]

You have to put yourself in her shoes, if you had these powers would you really be willing to give up your life? I know a lot of people will answer with 'Yes of course I would!', but those are just words and easier said than done. Don't forget that she's still young and she would be throwing so much away, I know it's an honorable thing to give up your life for someone, but remember we only get one. As she stated in the episode her biggest fear is that maybe next time she won't wake up, she'll cease to exist. Waking up in that morgue really freaked her out.

[CountryGirl84]

Originally posted by Guidron
I dunno. I think if one second I was holding a dying friend and the next thing I know, I'm lying in the morgue with a toe tag, I'd be pretty freaked out too.

I'm sure she's thrilled that Lois is okay, but the thought of dying or going insane because of her powers is freaking her out. Let's remember that all along one of her biggest fears has always been winding up in Belle Reeve like her mother.

This is from the other thread but I thought I'd respond here because I thought it more on topic. This is VERY true but I would think this would be more of an initial instinctual reaction and that after she had time to process it she would realize that if she didn't have her abilities Lois would be dead. She cares about Lois a lot, they're like sisters... would she rather not be meteor infected and Lois be dead?

[Guidron]

Originally posted by CountryGirl84
This is from the other thread but I thought I'd respond here because I thought it more on topic. This is VERY true but I would think this would be more of an initial instinctual reaction and that after she had time to process it she would realize that if she didn't have her abilities Lois would be dead. She cares about Lois a lot, they're like sisters... would she rather not be meteor infected and Lois be dead?

You would think so, and this is probably the case.

I think it still has more to do with the possibility of going insane. Especially since in Fierce Jimmy agreed that all "meteor freaks" eventually go off the deep end, and in Cure the first thing she mentions is the insanity. I think her comment about not waking up next time is a secondary reason.

[CountryGirl84]

Hm yes I have to agree with that too. I guess my problem with it is that I always saw Chloe as a more rational journalistic thinker who goes around to gather facts instead of just running on emotions. I think its realistic to have her freaked out in the beginning but at some point they need to turn it around.

[Guidron]

I'm sure at some point they will turn it around. Chloe's too strong to stay this way forever.

That being said, it may last a little while longer, because it is causing a lot of things in her life to fall apart. Her job at the DP, Jimmy, even her relationship with Clark doesn't seem to be quite the same.

[Honey45]

From what it looks like, her tears only heal when she's crying over someone she loves, and wants them to live.

Personally, I would love to have the power to sacrifice my life for someone I love. If it's such a problem, when someone dies, just don't cry right on top of them.

I think they're stretching her meteor freak fear a little too far. It's one thing to be pissed that you're a meteor freak because all the ones you know are weird/crazy, but it's another thing to risk your life for a "curing" operation by someone you don't even know..

[Dustmite]

Originally posted by HeddyH
I think they're stretching her meteor freak fear a little too far. It's one thing to be pissed that you're a meteor freak because all the ones you know are weird/crazy, but it's another thing to risk your life for a "curing" operation by someone you don't even know..

I don't. Chloe fears that she's going to go crazy or die. Both are very rational fears based on what she knows about meteor freaks. These are people that she spent years exposing and who she saw do terrible things because of their powers. If I was Chloe I would be terrified. After all the fear of the unknown is one of the worst. She feels she's living on borrowed time.

As for risking her life. All operations carried out in hospitals carry some risk yet people undergo them everyday by people (Doctors) they don't know in order to be cured and hope for a better, healthy life.

Sacrificing your life for someone you love is all very noble in theory but in practice, I don't think many of us would be serene and accepting of the prospect.

[Honey45]

Originally posted by Dustmite
I don't. Chloe fears that she's going to go crazy or die. Both are very rational fears based on what she knows about meteor freaks. These are people that she spent years exposing and who she saw do terrible things because of their powers. If I was Chloe I would be terrified. After all the fear of the unknown is one of the worst. She feels she's living on borrowed time.

As for risking her life. All operations carried out in hospitals carry some risk yet people undergo them everyday by people (Doctors) they don't know in order to be cured and hope for a better, healthy life.

Sacrificing your life for someone you love is all very noble in theory but in practice, I don't think many of us would be serene and accepting of the prospect.

But this wasn't even a real hospital with real doctors. It was like some guy's basement.

Not all the meteor freaks Chloe has come across are bad. Some are good.

[heavens_cry]

I think if you would look at it as a virus that people would view it different..

You have a virus in your body and if you dont do something to get it out or cure it, then eventually you will or could die from it..
I think all of us would do whatever we could to take care of it, so thats what Chloe is trying to do..

[Boschka]

Perhaps her powers are making her nervous with regard to being " different". She had a lot of mixed emotion at the thought of being " unstable " like her mother was . IMHO , this is why at times she tends to over compensate and out achieve. Chloe has always seemed to feel like she's the " smart one" who never gets asked out on a date while all the more popular girls are at the prom.

[Angelina2809]

I also think that her power's have something to do with her feeling and fears. I mean as Lois was dead Chloe was full of pain, fear and she was so emotionaly!
Mybe Chjloe thought in this moment that she would give her life for Lois and than she was able to save Lois!

[M4nfr3]

Originally posted by CountryGirl84
We learned a little more about Chloe's motivation behind the fear of her powers. She tells Clark that she's afraid that they might kill her the next time she uses them because she nearly died the first time. I find it hard to believe that Chloe was unwilling to sacrifice her life for someone, especially since that someone was Lois the first time. I would think her character would have been more likely to be happy risking her life to save the people she loves.

Can this behavior be reconciled with the character we know from the past six seasons?

I think that she doen't know how to use her powe yet...and that why she's afraid about it...the time she will be able to control it she will be the same chloe as always...

[uhhuhhim]

I think her power will manifest differently, like someone else says. Obviously, she can't cry every time she heals someone; that would be stupid. However, if she could learn to channel it through her hands, that would be so much better. What if her yes light up (similar to Clark's when he's on RedK) and then she can transfer it through her hands when she touches someone else...just a thought.