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Metropolis has a new superhero...and she doesn't believe in sensible footwear. "Stiletto" was the final episode written by Caroline Dries, who had been with the show since season five and is currently developing a Batwoman TV series (ironically, her final Smallville script contains multiple Batman references).
The episode opens with Lois being refused entry to an event for the Edward R. Murrow Society. Showing us that despite having been a hardworking reporter for three years (the last two working for the Daily Planet), Lois is still considered a nobody. One of the people in the basement of the Daily Planet. She hasn't become the pulitzer price winning Lois Lane yet, nor did she become it within a week at the DP. That it begins at an event for the Edward R. Murrow Society has a deeper meaning. According to Wikipedia:
In this episode, Lois invents a fictional superhero, to further her career. So, her being refused entry by the society symbolizes the unethical path she chooses to go down. Though, in the end, she makes the right choice and not to through with her plans to get a story about Stiletto published. Showing her integrity, which is demonstrated again by her deciding not to do a story about her conversation with the Blur. Making the ethical choice to respect his privacy.
In the season 11 story "Detective", Mannheim is revealed to be the leader of Intergang. Meaning that this was the first appearance of Intergang on the show (not counting a deleted scene in "Exile", that establishes Morgan Edge as being part of Intergang).
So, the episode gives us the introduction of Intergang, along with leading to the first conversation between Lois and the Blur. It's plot also concerns Chloe having her laptop, filled with information about the team, stolen. Continuing the team's growing pains. In "Justice", Clark and Chloe uncovered that Bart worked with Oliver, because Bart had made several phone calls to a company owned by Oliver. In "Siren", Dinah Lance uncovered Oliver's identity, by checking Chloe's last phone call. And here Chloe's screwed up, by carrying sensitive information with her. This early team has serious problems with security. The lessons they learn from this will no doubt help the formal Justice League, when its founded at the end of season 11.
With shipper culture being such a prominent thing these days, it's nice that they included a reference to it. Though, I was a bit annoyed when Chloe pushed Stiletto (a woman she had never met, as far as she knows) as a possible girlfriend for Clark. Romance is tricky, in this kind of genre. You have someone discuss the possibility of dating someone with a secret identity, which is secret from them too (then there's the fact that they fall for someone with super powers. So, they question is: do they really love this person or are they just attracted to the hero's power?). In this case, there is no way for Chloe to know if Stiletto's married or not, or if she's even interested in men, yet she put forward the possibility of Clark becoming romantically involved with this unknown woman. Of course, Chloe's the same character who in the next season begins developing feelings for some guy she's just met, whom she then learns is 12 (thankfully, Bryan Q. Miller inserted some commentary on romantic feelings in the superhero genre in "Warrior"). So, why wouldn't she give badly thought through relationship advice?
The episode opens with Lois being refused entry to an event for the Edward R. Murrow Society. Showing us that despite having been a hardworking reporter for three years (the last two working for the Daily Planet), Lois is still considered a nobody. One of the people in the basement of the Daily Planet. She hasn't become the pulitzer price winning Lois Lane yet, nor did she become it within a week at the DP. That it begins at an event for the Edward R. Murrow Society has a deeper meaning. According to Wikipedia:
Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs, Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick consider Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures, noting his honesty and integrity in delivering the news.
In the season 11 story "Detective", Mannheim is revealed to be the leader of Intergang. Meaning that this was the first appearance of Intergang on the show (not counting a deleted scene in "Exile", that establishes Morgan Edge as being part of Intergang).
So, the episode gives us the introduction of Intergang, along with leading to the first conversation between Lois and the Blur. It's plot also concerns Chloe having her laptop, filled with information about the team, stolen. Continuing the team's growing pains. In "Justice", Clark and Chloe uncovered that Bart worked with Oliver, because Bart had made several phone calls to a company owned by Oliver. In "Siren", Dinah Lance uncovered Oliver's identity, by checking Chloe's last phone call. And here Chloe's screwed up, by carrying sensitive information with her. This early team has serious problems with security. The lessons they learn from this will no doubt help the formal Justice League, when its founded at the end of season 11.
With shipper culture being such a prominent thing these days, it's nice that they included a reference to it. Though, I was a bit annoyed when Chloe pushed Stiletto (a woman she had never met, as far as she knows) as a possible girlfriend for Clark. Romance is tricky, in this kind of genre. You have someone discuss the possibility of dating someone with a secret identity, which is secret from them too (then there's the fact that they fall for someone with super powers. So, they question is: do they really love this person or are they just attracted to the hero's power?). In this case, there is no way for Chloe to know if Stiletto's married or not, or if she's even interested in men, yet she put forward the possibility of Clark becoming romantically involved with this unknown woman. Of course, Chloe's the same character who in the next season begins developing feelings for some guy she's just met, whom she then learns is 12 (thankfully, Bryan Q. Miller inserted some commentary on romantic feelings in the superhero genre in "Warrior"). So, why wouldn't she give badly thought through relationship advice?
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