During seasons 2 and three I kept wishing that one of the pay-offs for watching all the way through might be that Chloe gets put in witness protection or something and takes the name Lois Lane. Her character is the best one on the show. Needless to say, when real Lois showed up, my dreams were dashed. Moreover she was that annoying awful banshee of a woman that Lois always seems to be. WHAT DOES HE SEE IN HER!?
joshnunn | Email | Homepage | 11.09.08 - 3:08 am | #

The original Lois Lane was a bit of an annoying awful banshee of a woman in the comics, wasn't she? I personally find her rather spunky on the show.

We're a few seasons behind over here in Japan, so I have a hard time reading anything Smallville related without spoiling myself. (Just finishing up the witchcraft eps, the horror!)

That being said, the series is called "ヤング・スーパーマン" or "Young Superman" over here. I wonder if DC's lawyers thought of that to get around the Superboy thing.
Michael-Sensei | Email | Homepage | 11.09.08 - 3:19 am | #

The reason nobody believes Clark Kent is Superman? Because it's been "disproven" to the Press so many times, that nobody believes it to be true! Plus, there's the X-Files Alien Mass-Hypnosis super-power he uses, so it's all explained. And if all else fails, there's time-travel, or the Super-Kiss he used on Lois. Can't wait to see him use it on Lex in the series finale!
Anonymous | 11.09.08 - 5:43 am | #

I might be wrong, but I thought Clark went to college for a few months (including a short stint on the football team), then dropped out because decided he needed to help out back on the farm.
Old Bull Lee | 11.09.08 - 8:05 am | #

"WHAT DOES HE SEE IN HER!?"

If you had X-Ray vision, you'd know.

--Nat (who stopped watching the show after about season 3)
Nat Gertler | Email | Homepage | 11.09.08 - 9:54 am | #

I think "Smallville" Clark should start wearing the glasses and fedora in his everyday guise, like the old school Siegel and Shuster version, when he's making the transition to full fledged Superman. Or maybe he can gel his hair back like Dean Cain
Mr. Allison Blaire | Email | 11.09.08 - 10:14 am | #

To answer your college question, Clark dropped out after his dad died. That was season 5.

Lois didn't graduate high school, went to college after Clark had Lex pull some strings for her, then got kicked out for drinking or something, all of which happened way back in season 4.
Laura | Email | 11.09.08 - 12:43 pm | #

i'm not sure if you covered this, but any hints that he's using his super mass hypnosis?
Ex-Employee Josh | 11.09.08 - 2:35 pm | #

I started watching at the beginning of Season 2, and stopped around when that "Lana is a reincarnated witch, or something" business was going on.

I eventually started getting annoyed by various elements of the show more and more, from all the "Required Generic WB Teen Drama" stuff to Lana in general to Clark's secret not being found out because all his friends are dumb as a box of rocks.

I also kept thinking something I do about a lot of superheroes, when looked at with genre conventions relaxed (as in Smallville):

The secret identity thing causes more harm than good sometimes, doesn't it? Oh, Clark would have good reasons not to go *public* public about his powers, but among his close friends? After a while, Chloe and Lana have ample experience with meteor-related strangeness. Would Clark being part of it make them hate him or shun him or turn him over to Secret Guvmint Sp00ks? No! Maybe he might be a little cagey about the Krypton stuff, but even that, I figure Chloe would take in stride.

Better that, IMO, than have everyone think you're this secretive and unreliable weirdo who *clearly* has *some* deep dark secret, but won't confide in anyone.
suedenim | Email | Homepage | 11.09.08 - 2:47 pm | #

Clark's NOT a reporter, though. He's a COPY BOY. If the off-screen theory is true, perhaps he's going to school CURRENTLY, and the "copy boy" thing is some kind of internship.

But in the show canon, he's currently outranked by Jimmy Olsen.

And, by the way, while Allison Mack is definitely the best person in that cast, Aaron Ashmore was BORN to play Jimmy Olsen.
Your Obedient Serpent | Email | 11.09.08 - 4:00 pm | #

OK, I try usually to avoid reading about any "new" Smallville developments, as I am watching the series fresh on DVD and just now have gotten to season 4, but I enjoyed these comments and your replies nonetheless.

I will have to weigh in, I guess, on the "how a college drop-out got a reporter job" issue, though. As a journalist and former newspaper and magazine editor, I can tell you this: College degrees have little to do with journalism jobs, usually. I didn't start going to college until after two years of working professionally as a freelance journalist and was offered my first editorial job long before I ever had a degree. A friend of mine who's held numerous writing and editorial jobs never even went to college.

Has nothing much to do with Smallville, except that of all the bothersome parts of the series, that is actually one of the least.
Pj Perez | Email | Homepage | 11.09.08 - 10:25 pm | #

The recent Episode 7 was a treat, complete with the cape, FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET, a neat twist on the Clarke-steps-outside-of-a-second-then-Superman- shows-up trope and all that. But I think that's the most Supes we're going to get in our Smallville for the near future - this show is all about infinitely approaching Superman. It's a surface tension which they can't always maintain and still make the show worth watching. I don't think I am alone in saying it's time for a decent live-action Superman series. Smallville has already assembled all the elements needed to make it.
Juisarian | Email | 11.10.08 - 12:38 am | #

some of the commenters touched on this point, but i do agree that it has been long enough. obvious scenarios aside, it doesn't feel like superman. but im more of a fan of silver age Superboy/Legion era, where he picked it all up as a kid and then was suddenly superman. i guess that's why this transitional phase the show is stuck on grates me a little.

also, the nods to DCU continuity are pretty neat and very much appreciated.

and hey, 19 is the new 30, i hear. haha.
Tomy | Email | Homepage | 11.10.08 - 10:15 am | #

re Cloe as Lois - they teased that back when she was still in HS and had an article published in the Planet - she used the pen name "Lois Lane" which AIR was "the name of her cousin who had no interest in journalism and wouldn't ever find out."
Lothor | Homepage | 11.14.08 - 10:15 pm | #