Note: Started watching season 7 on March 19, 2012

I really can’t believe that I am getting through Smallville so fast. I mean I started watching season 1 on December 22, 2011 and now it is almost three months later and I am already on season 7. It is actually my goal to finish everything on May 13, 2012 -the year to the day that Smallville left our screens for good. I did want to get to season 9 by April 13, 2012 (which is the premiere of Smallville season 11 in comic form but highly doubt I will get there.

Anyways, the season 7 premiere, Bizarro, continues on the events seen in Phantom. We learn that Bizarro is a carbon copy of Clark Kent (Tom Welling), a Zoner that used Clark’s DNA to create himself a permanent body. We also learn that Bizarro has all of Clark’s memories and thoughts but is the opposite of him in that he has no morals and gives Clark’s a glimpse as to who he could be without his human upbringing that shaped who Clark is.

Bizarro is also strengthened from green krypotonite but gets weakened by the yellow sun, which is how Clark defeats him and gets sent to Mars thanks to the Martian Manhunter (Phil Morris).

Before he gets defeated, Bizarro says something all fans were thinking in that how can Clark miss what has been in front of him all this time (meaning Lois) and promptly hits on her by pinching her ass. I know that Bizarro comes back and kind of wished that he would fall for Lois and not for Lana but in one sense I am glad that it wasn’t the case because having Bizarro fall for Lana actually sets something up brilliantly for season 10’s Luthor that if we had Bizarro fall for Lois (Erica Durance) and vice versa then we wouldn’t get that great scene in Luthor but more on that later.

Bizarro also sees Chloe (Alison Mack) die but then wakes up in the morgue. Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) turns himself in for Lana’s murder, Lionel (John Glover) is missing and Clark and Chloe mourn the death of Lana (Kristin Kreuk). Bizarro shows what a great friend that Lois is to Clark. She is there for him for support in his time of grief but at the same time gives them a moment of lightheartedness when she says that she would tear his head off if he were ever to hit on her again. Something tells me that she won’t mind if he hits on her again. Even when Bizarro was hitting on her, and thinking that he was Clark, there was still a moment between them.

Clark also tells Chloe that loving is hard and difficult while hate is so clean. I kinda of disagree with that statement, at least the love part. Love should be easy especially when it is with the right person. Clark saying that right there about loving Lana was hard and difficult really should scream to him that Lana isn’t worth it. When Clark is with Lois, barring what I see in season 9, it doesn’t seem like loving her is difficult.

Bizarro also shows that Lana is still alive and most importantly this episode we get introduced to Kara (Laura Vandervoot) aka Supergirl. Aside from Martha and Chloe, I do find it awesome that all the major women in his life (Lana, Lois and Kara) are all played by Canadian actresses.

What I really liked about the episode Kara was I thought it was both cute and funny how Kara was looking for a toddler Kal-el, her cousin, and was surprised to find that he had grown up. I also thought it was awesome that Clark takes her under his wing to teach her how to use her powers much like how his dad did for him. It is interesting that their roles are now reversed as it was Kara was supposed to watch out for Kal-el but now it is he that is watching out for her but I don’t believe what Jor-el said about Kara.

At the beginning of Kara, we get another great Lois and Clark scene, where they investigate together what Lex was up to in Reeves Dam and there she discovers Kara’s ship. I thought it was awesome how Clark wanted to come with Lois to protect her to keep her out of trouble as that seems to be a habit of his. Clark also tells her that he is leaving Smallville to head up North (presumably to start his training) after Lana’s funeral. It does look like Lois is upset by this news and a small moment passes between them until Lois breaks the tension by joking that she will miss bugging him.

This what makes Clois so different from Clana. Clark seems so much more relaxed around Lois and even jokes around with her. While with Lana, he always seems to be stressed out.

Also, Kara, introduced Grant Gabriel (Michael Cassidy) as the new editor of the Daily Planet and I have to say that Michael Cassidy is acting this role pretty bad, I mean is awful. But he does serve one great purpose and that is hiring Lois Lane to the Daily Planet, working alongside Chloe, who is a bit jealous at this fact.

What annoys me is that I know that Kara features the last Lois and Clark scene for awhile. I know that season 7 features Lois and Clark on separate story arcs but I do wish they had more interactions.

Fierce and season 10’s Scion has very similar scenes and dialogue in it. In Fierce, Clark explains to Lana how he better appreciates what his parents had to go through in raising someone with powers as he is going through the same thing in helping Kara control his abilities. Clark had a similar conversation with Lois in Scion about Connor. I like that both Connor and Kara took the Kent surname. I did like the scene where Clark is teaching Kara how to use her powers like her heat vision, which was activated when she saw Jimmy (Aaron Ashmore). Speaking of that, Kara and Jimmy shared a moment at the end of the episode, to which Chloe noticed. And must worry Chloe because now he fears that Jimmy might break up with her after he expresses his feelings for those that are meteor-affected (which Chloe is one of them).

Fierce also continues on the trend of Clark trying to live a normal life of a human and that includes having a relationship and now that Lana knows his secret, he hopes that can be the case. But Clark needs to realize that while his upbringing shaped who is and while the people he loves and cares about are human, he himself will never be human. Kara tells Clark he is fooling himself if he thinks he can live a simple life growing old with Lana. And Lana said all she wants to do is grow old with him and glad that Clark can forgive her for marrying Lex to which Clark replied that nothing could change the way he feels about, which is that he loves her completely.

Of course we know that Clark will never grow old with Lana, not because he can’t grow old but it is with Lois that he plans on sharing the rest of his life with and not Lana. Again, there has to be a turning point in Lana and Clark where Clark can easily say that he no longer love this woman. Seeing season 10, Clark can have it all. He can be out there using his abilities to save people out in the open but while at the same time still live a normal human life with the woman that he loves. The fact that he chose Lois to do this with makes me extremely happy.

And I am sorry to Michael Cassidy but you truly are a terrible actor or just the wrong person to play Grant Gabriel. My god I think you are trying too much to be the “Perry White” character from the comics. You come off so over the top that I can’t believe that you are Lois’ love interest for season 7.

Cure was one of the season 7 episodes that I was looking forward to because it features one Dean Cain, Lois and Clark: The New Adventure of Superman’s own Clark Kent/Superman. When L&C first aired in the 90s, I loved it. I finally had a Superman series that focused on the Lois and Clark romance and liked Dean Cain very much in it. In Smallville, he plays Curtis Know, a neurosurgeon who also happens to be immortal. He is harvesting body parts so he can keep his wife alive forever so that way he will never be alone and doesn’t always have to say goodbye to the women that he loves. One of his victims is Chloe but Clark of course comes to her rescue and both Supermen get to share a scene together.

Dean Cain apparently marks the fifth Superman alumni to appear on this show but he wouldn’t be the last. In addition to Cain, we of course had Christopher Reeve (Superman in four feature films) playing Virgil Swann, Margot Kidder (Reeve’s Lois Lane) playing Bridgette Crosby, Annette O’Toole (Lana Lang in Superman III) playing Martha Kent -boy do I miss her on Smallville and Terence Stamp (Zod in Superman I and II) who plays Jor-el. Of course we will eventually get Marc McClure (Jimmy Olsen to Reeve’s Superman) as Dax-ur, Helen Slater (Supergirl) as Lara-el and Teri Hatcher (Cain’s Lois Lane) playing Ella Lane. I love that Smallville does that to honour those that have been a part of this universe.

But Knox brought something up that has been a fear of Clark’s since season 1. He knows that he will outlive everyone and it seems unlikely that he will age as well. So he knows that he will have to say goodbye to everyone he loves like his parents, his friends like Chloe and the woman that he loves, which by this season, is Lana. I thought Clark was going to bring up that fact with Lana about this fear in this episode but he doesn’t.

Cure seems to slightly parallel season 10’s Harvest where Clark shows off his powers to Lana in getting some maple syrup and Clark showing off his powers to Lois when changing the tire of their car. And I seriously don’t buy this whole Martha Stewart routine that Lana is putting on.

Cure also continues on the season 7 story arc of finding Kara’s crystal and we get a Martian Manhunter (Phil Morris) and Kara showdown. It seems that there is conflict between them with Clark caught in the middle as to who to believe and Kara seems to think that Clark has sided with John Jones and took off to the skies.

There was a deleted scene in Cure about how both Lana and Clark are living a normal life together at the farm with no secrets but unbeknownst to Clark she is. I can’t believe that Clark bought that bull that the $10 million wasn’t money that she stole but was from the divorce settlement. But in Fierce, we know that she stole this money and is not really using it to help the meteor-infected but part of her revenge scheme against Lex.

In the same deleted scene, Clark advises Chloe to tell Jimmy her secret, that she is meteor-infected or their relationship will be doomed. Well, we know that she doesn’t and it causes their break-up. I wish they kept this deleted scene in because knowing that Lana is keeping a secret means that their relationship is doomed.

Action mirrors a lot of stuff that is said  and happens in season 10. A mentally-disturbed person kidnaps the woman that Clark loves so that he can come to the rescue and be that action hero. In Action it is Lana and it is Lois in Lazarus.

The end speech that Lana gives to Clark in Action about stepping into the light and being the hero for people to believe in is very similar to what Lois says to Clark in Harvest. However, in Action, Clark doesn’t want to do that as he believes that he has what he has always wanted was to be with Lana on the farm. While in Harvest, he wants to go public but isn’t sure that the world is ready to believe in a stranger from a strange land. But it is Lois’ fierce belief in him that lets him be that hero to the world.

Lana also believes that she is in his way of his destiny. Lois believes the same thing sort of. In Prophecy, she believes that she is in the way of Clark being the hero that everyone needs and is grounding him from soaring to new heights. But as Clark said in Finale, Part 1 and in his wedding vows, Lois is not in his way but by his side and with her by his side, he will never be alone. As well, Lois believes she can be used as a weakness against Clark because everyone knows that Lois is the one thing in this world that he cares about the most and the best way to hurt Superman is to hurt his girlfriend/wife. Lois says this in Lazarus, Shield and Prophecy. But to Clark, Lois is his strength, even in season 9’s Pandora, Clark says that he feels stronger when Lois is around.

Lex also said something in this episode where if you were destined to save the world then you were destined to be alone. In the Finale, Part 1, Clark believes that in order to be the hero the world needs, he needs to let everything go and that includes Lois. He believes that heroes aren’t destined to love and that he is destined to be alone.

And the villain of the episode says that Clark needs to go public with his heroism so people can believe mirrors what Beacon was all about.

And Lana really is a Luthor in that all her actions are very Luthor-like. Lana is the mastermind behind Lionel being held captive and denies all of that to Lionel. Lana is keeping her revenge plot from Clark because she knows that if he knows that he will look at her differently. Because right now, he is in that honeymoon phase of his relationship with Lana, he thinks that she can do no wrong and their relationship is perfect and what he has always wanted.

Rachel Davenport gives Clark the gift of a red cape but he dismissively hangs it on the fence and follows Lana into the house thereby rejecting his life as a hero. Clark is so blind to the right woman that he needs. Lana isn’t that woman. First off, Lana is keeping secrets from Clark like her revenge plot against the Luthors that show her dark side. All this Isis Foundation stuff is just a front for that and she really has no good intentions. The only secrets that she keeps from Clark is the fact that she is chasing a lead that might put her danger that he has to rescue her from.

It is interesting to note that while Clark and Lana are clearly in a relationship, Clark never utters on screen, at least in Action, that Lana is his girlfriend.

Action also sees the beginnings of Grant’s interest in Lois and vice versa. And this time, Erica Durance doesn’t have chemistry with her leading man. I see no spark in Lois and Grant. I do want to point out one thing and that is the look that Lois has when breaking into Lex’s office i.e. her hair up and wearing glasses. She has that same look in Salvation and Finale, Part 2.

I don’t how I feel about the episode Lara. On the one hand, I liked seeing Kara’s life on Kandor before it blew up but on the other I hated that end scene with Lana and Clark.

What I liked about Lara is that in fact we get to meet Lara (Helen Slater). She is indeed a very stunningly beautiful woman and I did like the scenes of Kara and Lara checking out the Kent homestead as that would be the future home of Kal-el (whom Kara named). We also learn that Kara’s father wasn’t the saint that Kara thought he was and we discover that Zor-el (Christopher Heyerdahl) is in love with Lara but Lara left him for Jor-el.

At lot of this episode reminded me of season 3’s Memoria with Agent Carter (Kim Coates) tapping into the memories of Kara.

Lara continues to show that Lionel is quite the enigma. While shows traits of being the evil Lionel Luthor in season 1-3, it seems now that everything that Lionel does is to protect Clark and his secret much like Jonathan and Martha Kent have done previously. It seems that Lionel thinks Clark more as a son than Lex.

I don’t like the fact that Clark showed Lara’s picture to Lana and the fact that he wanted to share everything with her and that includes having Kara’s crystal that contains the DNA of his birth mother. I don’t like the fact that Lana got to see a picture of Lara and in essence “meeting” Clark’s birth mother. I have always hoped that Lois was the only one that truly got to “meet” his birth parents in the “flesh” as she did in season 10’s Abandoned.

Also, in Lara, Lana lied to Clark saying the reason why she knew were Kara was because she had contacts at the mansion still but leaving out the part was that she knew because she was spying on the Luthors.

Clark is an idiot on so many levels. First off, he can’t see that Lana is a lying bitch and her secret is not to keep Clark safe but just so that no one will stop her revenge plot against the Luthors. Secondly, Clark is a blind fool for not seeing that Lois is the right woman for him and has been from the very start.

I truly can’t stand to see Clark and Lana as a couple. I could stomach it in season 5 because I knew that they broke up because of his secret but now that secret isn’t in their way, nothing can seem to break them up.

In Wrath, Lana and Clark have sex again after she gets his powers. I find it interesting that Clark hasn’t had sex since season 5’s Hidden so that means it has been two years since he got some. Too bad it wasn’t with Lois. I really hated the fact that when Clark and Lana had sex that it caused mini earthquakes. I really do wish that Lois and Clark’s lovemaking caused that but you know it wouldn’t happen because Lois didn’t have any powers and he probably would have hurt her. I take solace that first off, we don’t get to see a sex scene and that this episode happened in a span of a day so you know that only slept together that one time. I do find it interesting that in Smallville, Clark and Lana never had a sex scene and as I have mentioned in my season 5 blog review that you always see the before, sometimes the after but never the during. Lois and Clark had two sex scenes. One was in Pandora and the other Harvest. We get the before, during and after.

Also, it is good to know that Clark won’t sleep with Lana when he has powers. You have no idea how happy it makes that Lois is the only woman that Clark has made love to while he had his powers and his sexual partner did not.

And I love that Chloe said that even though the benefits of Lana having powers is so that he could sleep with her, having them will corrupt her as it did Eric Summers in season one and caused health problems for Jonathan in season 3. Lana saw having Clark’s powers as a gift and allowed her to understand him better.

So Clark knew that he had rid his powers from Lana, who relished having powers that let her take her revenge plot to new levels. However, Clark has his damn Lana blinders on and only sees that perfect girl that he fell in love with when he was five. He believes that she is damaged because of her relationship with Lex and that she can do no wrong but he admits to Chloe that he has been in denial for weeks that Lana has been different. He didn’t want to admit that Lana has become darker and the powers only have enhanced that. I can’t stand that Lana hurt Lois but glad that Clark visited her at the hospital but he still had those blinders on.

When Lois had Clark’s powers in Prophecy, it didn’t corrupt her and she used them to save people like Clark uses his powers to save people. It is knowing that part of him that lets Lois understand what he goes through everyday and part of the reason why she breaks off their engagement.

It is interesting that when Lois had Clark’s powers and was sent to kill Clark by Toyman due to a diode and she fought Clark, Clark told Lois to fight Toyman’s control and he told her that he loves her and that stopped her temporarily from harming him. Yet when Lana fights him, Clark doesn’t say any words of love to get her to stop. Instead, Lana actually ridicules Clark saying that his powers let him do anything but he rather hide out on the farm. Even after Clark removes his powers from Lana, he embraces her.

I liked how Chloe is very protective of Clark. Chloe confronts Lana over everything she has done with Lana saying she did it to protect herself and Clark because she loves him. Chloe states that Clark needs a woman who will be loyal to him like go to the ends of the Earth to protect him and she believes that Lana isn’t it but could bring him down. Chloe knows all of this before she puts on Dr. Fate’s helmet. In Icarus, she tells Lois that the reason why it never worked out with Lana and Clark was because Lana wasn’t fated to be in Clark’s life. Wrath really proves that Lana isn’t the woman for Clark at all.

Even after Lois was hurt from Lana’s attack, she was protective of Clark by advising him to get Lana something nice for Valentine’s Day so not to piss her off.

And even after seeing Lana try and kill Lex and knowing that he held Lionel hostage and also spying on Lex, Clark still sort of has his Lana blinders on. But they are starting to come off. Clark now realizes that she isn’t who he first fell for but he actually blames himself for who she became because of all the lies he told and not trusting her. But Lana does say one smart thing her and that Clark isn’t to blame but it is hers because she chose to do all the things that she has done in her life and it had nothing to do with Clark.

Clark mentions that honesty has never been part of their relationship, first with his secret and now with Lana’s revenge plot against the Luthors. Clark and Lana simply don’t trust each other but Lois and Clark trust each other. In Collateral, Lois said that Clark trusted his gut when he told Lois his secret and he was right to tell her. Their relationship is full of honesty, like he said to Lois in Harvest that he wants her to know him completely with no secrets.

What made Wrath bearable was when Lana said to Clark that she wants him to love her no matter what and if this was the earlier seasons, the old Clark would have said of course he will love her no matter what but I jumped for joy that he didn’t say anything.

In a deleted scene, Lana mentions that if Lionel kills her, Clark would spiral into darkness. We know that is not true because it seems with Lana out of Clark’s life, he pretty much goes on as he normally does. But if you take away Lois from his life then he spirals not necessarily into darkness but shuts off his human side, the compassionate side.

Also Wrath had the start of the Lois and Grant relationship to which I say yuck and highly inappropriate because Grant is Lois’ boss and also Lois and Grant have no chemistry at all. Lois had chemistry with AC, Oliver and most importantly with Clark but not Grant.

The episode Blue further continues the Lois and Grant relationship. Chloe finds out about and tells Lois to break it off or it will hurt her career. Lex finds out about it and asks Grant to break it off too because it is highly inappropriate. While Lex notes that he sees why Grant would be attracted to Lois by describing her as sexy, their relationship can’t continue. Lex is the first person to describe Lois as sexy and she is but I love it best when Clark calls her sexy. In Booster, Clark worried what people would think of the strong and extremely sexy Lois Lane for wanting to be with the nerdy Clark. Anyways, Lois and Grant pretend to breakup but secretly they are still together. Lois said that her relationship with Grant is part of her misguided love life.

We also learn that Grant is actually Julian Luthor, the baby that Lex’s mother killed because of her postpartum depression that was revealed in earlier seasons.

Blue we also get to see Clark meet his mother Lara and while she is a clone, Clark said that she was everything that she hoped her to be and that is beautiful, kind, compassionate and loyal. I do like when Lara first sees Clark she thinks he is Jor-el which harkens back to season three’s Relic. It sucks that Lana had to meet her. Zor-el also came back and it was interesting to see so many kryptonians in one room. Zor-el is such a bastard in trying to rule Earth and was willing to kill his own daughter for that cause.

And what is it with people that continue to use Oliver’s penthouse when he isn’t there. I mean how does Clark get access. First he does break in there with Lois to make out with her in season 6’s Crimson and also houses Chloe’s mother in season 6’s Progeny but here he takes his mother to hideout.

We also get introduced to blue kryptonite and discover that it takes away Clark’s powers.

It seems that a ring is always a way to introduce new kryptonite on the show with the exception of green. In season two’s Red, red-k is introduced via a class ring. Here in Blue, blue kryptonite is introduced via Jor-el’s Victory ring that Lara gives Clark as part of kryptonian tradition. Later in season 10, gold kryptonite is seem as Clark’s wedding ring.

After destroying Kara’s crystal and thereby destroying Zor-el and unfortunately Lara, Kara is sent to Detroit with no memory of who she is.

And for Clark’s continued defiance of Jor-el and his destiny something unknown happens at the end of Blue.

If I didn’t know before hand that the Clark in Gemini wasn’t Clark but actually Bizarro, I would have thought that an excellent twist and made me able to stomach Bizarro as Clark’s declaration of love to Lana but my god, Lana can’t tell that isn’t her man. To me the big red flag was that Clark wanted to be part of Lana’s vendetta against Lex. The real Clark doesn’t do revenge. What I loved about Luthor is that Lois knew right away that when Clark Kent returned that she knew just by looking in his eyes that it was her man and not Clark Luthor. In Kent, while Clark Luthor was pretending to be Clark Kent, Lois knew within 5 minutes that it wasn’t her Clark because of his disinterest in the telescope that Lois lovingly put up for him. Lois knows her man.

Even Chloe couldn’t tell that Clark wasn’t Clark.

Gemini is also Smallville’s Christmas episode, the first since Lexmas and it was a Lois-centric one. Lois is forced to write a story about Lex’s cloning experiments and it is revealed that Grant is a clone of Lex’s brother Julian.

And thinking that they were about to die, Chloe reveals to Jimmy that she is a meteor-freak and he kisses her. After “Clark” rescues them, Chloe shows Jimmy her healing power and it seems that Jimmy accepts her.

But on the Lois-Grant front, after disgustingly seeing them make-out in the opening scene, Grant breaks up with Lois after Lex buys the Daily Planet. He says that people who are together shouldn’t work together and Lois quips that the next guy she dates won’t be someone she works with. Little does she know that the next guy that she dates is Clark, her partner at the Daily Planet and they continued to work together and be together all the way to the Finale Part 2.

Seeing Lois’ relationship with Grant helps me understand a bit about why Lois is so cautious with her relationship with Clark initially. Her failure with Grant helps me understand in season 9 why she wants to make it right with Clark.

We find out that Bizarro has been living with Lana as Clark for over a month. And Lana still can’t figure out that this is her not her man. All she knows that she has been more in love in the past month than she has ever been. So many red flags are present. First off, Lana knows that Clark would never have sex with her when he has his powers and she is mortal. But Bizarro has no problems having sex with Lana. Second red flag is Bizarro mentioning flying to Paris to start a new life. Lana knows that Clark can’t fly but Bizarro covers saying that Lana makes him feel like he can fly but we all know that it is Lois that makes Clark actually fly as he does in Homecoming. It is also Lois that Clark wants to make love with while he has his powers and she has none. All of these red flags and Lana not recognizing it should make Clark realize that they weren’t meant to be.

When Clark returns from the Fortress to defeat Bizarro and finds out that Lana couldn’t tell the difference and even slept with him, he looks crestfallen that his girlfriend cheated on him.

Even though Chloe knew something was not right with Clark, she still couldn’t tell that it was Bizarro that she was talking to. When the real Clark returned, she still couldn’t tell even after Clark told her to look into eyes, she still didn’t believe. Only after his face didn’t distort that Chloe finally believed. It is funny that Lois can tell who her Clark is by simply looking into his eyes.

In Persona, we also see the end of Grant Gabriel’s storyline as he chooses Lionel over Lex and that is the straw that broke the camels back as he hires someone to kill Grant. Persona, we also get to met Dax-Ur (Marc McClure) a kryptonian who came to Earth 100 years ago over guilt in his work that ended up creating Brainiac (James Marsters). Clark finds him to get blue kryptonite to get rid os Bizarro and discovers that Dax-ur uses blue K to rid his powers so he could be with the woman that he loved and start a family. It seems that Clark is tempted that he might do the same so he can be with Lana.

At the end, Clark didn’t seem like he wanted to share the same bed with Lana knowing that she had sex with Bizarro in it not too long ago but his Lana blinders went back on and the got into bed together but were distant.

This is what I don’t understand, how can Clark always forgive Lana for all the crap that she puts him through. She cheated on him yet he seems ready to forgive her. He seems to turn a blind eye or refuses to see the emotional roller coaster that he is on with her. I think he does that because he knows nothing else in terms of a real female relationship and Alicia doesn’t count. Clark wants to share his life with someone so badly and doesn’t want to be alone and he always wanted and dreamed that it would be with Lana that he is making it happen come hell or high water even if he is miserable. Clark just feels that if this doesn’t work then he will be alone forever.

I think that is why he is willing to try and give his relationship a go with Lana in Siren. Even though he is very bothered by the fact that Lana lived with Bizarro for a month and not realize that it wasn’t him when he believed that Lana should know him better than anyone. My god man, can’t you remember what you told Lois in Oracle in that Lois knows him better than anyone else. Clark couldn’t stand the fact that Lana doesn’t deny that it was easier being with Bizarro because he was way more affectionate than Clark. Lana tells Clark that maybe the reason why he can’t get past her wanting to be with Bizarro more than him is because deep down he knows that she isn’t the one he will end up with. Clark doesn’t deny it and even says that he doesn’t know what will happen with them but that he wants to try and make his relationship work.

I don’t know about I don’t think relationships should be hard work. Yes there is work involved but when it works, it should not be a hardship. Lana and Clark are trying too hard to make them work.

Anyways, the most significant thing about Siren is that we get introduced to Black Canary/Dinah Lance (Alaina Huffman) who initially was a hired gun by Lex but soon realized she played for the wrong team and joins Oliver/Green Arrow (Justin Hartley) and the JLA. And Chloe is slowly becoming Watchtower for Oliver. I bet fans thought that when they introduced Dinah and the fact that she left with Oliver to be part of the JLA that a romance is born between the two as that is the case in the comics.

Also, Oliver’s return sends Lois in an emotional tailspin and she contemplates getting back together with him until she discovers that he is Green Arrow and while she does go to great lengths to protect Oliver’s secret from Clark and Chloe thinking they don’t know, she feels that his greater purpose in life will mean that she will always come second and can’t take being left behind or another heartbreak. Lois’ relationship with Oliver actually helps prepare her in having a relationship with Clark in the future.

What I love about Siren is that conversation that Lois has with Clark about Oliver. Clark actually seeks her out to offer comfort and I am thinking a bit out of guilt because in a deleted scene after hearing that Clark and Lana were having problems offered her shoulder to cry on which he re-buffed but glad that this was deleted and is it clearly shows that Clark cares for Lois. And he hugs her and rubs her back in comfort. I like to believe that moment of comfort is the point in time where Lois is starting to fall in love with Clark.

And their conversation almost mirrors the one they have in Patriot only this time Lois is talking about her relationship with Clark. Instead of not being able to handle the dual-identity of Oliver’s and his greater purpose, Lois seems to fight to stay with Clark and be part of his overall destiny and is willing be left behind when duty calls with the promise that she will be there we he returns and vice versa.

Fracture finds Clark going into the mind of Lex Luthor to help him find where Kara and Lois are. It reminds me of when Clark went into Lois’ mind in season 9’s Pandora so Clark can understand where Lois went to when she was missing for three weeks. When he Lex’s mind he sees that there is goodness still in him in the form of Alexander (Connor Stanhope – who would later play young Lex again in season 10) and he also finds out where Lois and Kara are, which is Detroit, and rescues them from a deranged ex-con.

When Clark was in Lois’ mind in Pandora, he learned that she went into the future and learned that Zod was planning to build a tower to take away his powers. Seeing this helps in stop this plan. But Clark also sees him making love with Lois and this helps give him to courage to ask Lois to be his girlfriend. I think Clark entering Lois’ mind wielded a much happier result than wading through the mind of Lex Luthor.

Anyways, Lois following Lex to Detroit was probably her being nosy as to what her new boss was up to but became about helping Clark find his cousin and bring her back home to him.

The only significant thing in Hero was the return of Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) and I have to say that I didn’t miss him one bit. But he came back, gained Mr. Fantastic meteor powers due to kryptonite enhanced gum and let that power corrupt him. Of all those that have left the show since the beginning, I only miss the Kents.

It is funny, the one thing that I dreaded with Season 7 was that we would have tons of romantic scenes with Clark and Lana because now that she knows his secret, he has everything that he wanted except that he won’t have sex with her while she doesn’t have powers. I just expected more kissing and declaration of love but in fact everything has been more angsty and we get chaste kisses or kissing out of habit. That is not to say that Lois and Clark in season 10 are shown to have a more passionate relationship but it seems definitely less angsty and all their kisses seem more loving than habitual.

In Traveler, we meet Patricia Swann (Ginal Holden) the daughter of Virgil Swann (Christopher Reeve) and fully learn what Veritas is and judging by the letters that Lionel got with the Veritas seal, I am guessing that is not Lionel’s letter to Hogwarts. Anyways, Vertias apparently is a society formed by Lionel Luthor, Robert and Laura Queen (Oliver’s parents), The Teagues (meaning Jason Teague of season 4) and the Swann’s. They were formed to protect the Traveler, who is Clark. But everyone except for Lionel is dead as Patricia presumed that Lionel wanted Clark all for himself for his own gain. Little did we know that we find out exactly what Lionel would have done with Clark if he found him instead of the Kent’s in season 10’s Luthor.

An interesting thing came out of Traveler in that Chloe knew about the key to the Fortress and where it was hidden but Lana had no clue. I find this telling in Lana’s relationship with Clark in that if Clark really wanted their relationship to work then he would have told her all about it, yet he doesn’t. If you take a look at season 10’s Abandoned, Lois knows about the key and what it does and where to find it.

Also, the scenes in the Fortress where Chloe takes Kara to get her memories back almost parallels the one that Lois has in Abandoned. Both ladies are trying to communicate with Jor-el and use their love for his son against him. But I am hoping that Chloe’s declaration of love is more of friendship than romantic love as was the case with Lois. And Kara being sucked up by the beam of light to get her memories and powers back was like Lois being sucked up by Jor-el but we don’t know why. Fans speculate was that Jor-el was preparing Lois’ body to be able to handle Clark’s powers without causing her harm.

Part of this episode had Clark kidnapped on Lionel’s order by Battlestar’s Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas). Lionel said it was to protect Clark but Clark doesn’t believe him and tells Kara that the Luthor’s are a lost cause and can’t be redeemed.

Before Patricia Swann gets killed by Lex, she gives Clark’s her father’s Veritas journal and this is significant because he gives that journal to Lois so she could know him completely with no secrets. Also before Patricia dies, she tells Clark that she believes that Clark can do good for this world but Clark doesn’t believe that he can. It really is Lois’ believe in him that lets him fulfill his destiny.

First off I can’t believe that they used VAST’s One More Day for Veritas as I always associate this song with Lois and Clark for season 10’s Lazarus and I will never consider this a Clark and Lana song.

Anyways, Veritas saw Brainiac use Lana so that Clark would do what he wants which is to bring Kara to him for some unknown purpose. There was a deleted scene where it looked like Brainiac and Kara were in some kind of Mayan area and she tossed her bracelet into the air but it is unknown if this was where they ended up after they took off to the sky.

Earlier in the episode Kara felt that Clark needed to learn to fly to they could better battle Brainiac but Clark looked so afraid to take to the skies and I kept on thinking that Lois should be there as she is the only one that can get him to fly.

I know I mentioned this earlier in this blog but it bears repeating as the scenes of Lana under the control of Brainiac actually better mirrors what happened to Lois in Prophecy. When Lana was in that comatose state at the farm and under Brainiac’s control, Clark just said please to get her to come back to him but when Lois under the control of Toyman and sent to kill Clark, Clark told Lois that he loved her and that snapped her out of the control briefly.

And is it wrong for me to like that Brainiac did that to Lana. I hope not.

One of the things that I liked about Veritas was the Lois and Jimmy scenes when trying to crack the story on Patricia Swann’s murder from the previous episode. They make a hilarious team.

As true to form for Clark, he blames himself for Patricia Swann’s death. This has been a recurring theme in Smallville and probably one of the reasons that he has darkness in his heart that made him corruptible to Darkseid in season 10.

In fact, I think Veritas has to be the first Smallville episode of season 7 where every one from the opening credits appear. In fact, if the writers strike were to go longer than it did, this episode would have been the season finale but thankfully that got resolved.

Descent sees Lex murder his father Lionel over the second key that would open that vault in Zurich that let’s him know how to control the traveler aka Clark. Lex now truly is evil as he also killed his good self. And Lex really went for the jugular with Clark in adding more guilt to him by blaming Clark for Lionel’s death in protecting his secret. Guilt definitely plays a huge part in Clark’s life as he lets it rule his emotions and keeps him from fulfilling his destiny. Descent was also a Lana free episode and while Clark briefly mentioned her and trying to find Kara and Brainiac so she could recover, it was not mentioned again after Lionel was killed. It is intersecting that Clark feels more guilty over Lionel’s death than Lana’s situation.

I just wanted to mention how much I love Jimmy and Lois as a team and did like their freezer scene where Jimmy is trying to keep Lois warm and loved how Clark rescued them and used his heat vision to keep them warm.

In Sleeper, Clark tells Jimmy that even though the person you care about is keeping a secret it should be knowing what is true in their heart that lets you trust them. It is almost like her took his own advance when he knew he could trust Lois with his secret. When they first met, he saw no reason to either keep his secret from her or even tell her his secret because they were barely friends. But it was after he fell in love with her and saw how much they have in common that he knew that he could trust Lois with his secret.

I was a little worried that Lana’s mention in Swann’s journal really was a message to Clark from Jor-el and I really wanted it to be a trick by Brainiac as I always felt that Jor-el knew that it was Lois that was Clark’s soulmate and not Lana but I was glad of the little time traveling twist of Kara sending the message knowing that a mention of Lana would get Clark’s attention and the fact that Brainiac has travelled back in time to stop Kal-el from coming to Earth.

What I liked about Sleeper is all the Jimmy stuff. He made for a pretty bad spy but he was funny doing it. The episode also introduced the Ace of Clubs, a setting that would continue to be used all the way until season 10. Also, in getting Lex’s help in clearing Chloe, Jimmy will soon realize that there is always a price to pay when  getting a helping hand from a Luthor.

I loved Apocalypse as not only it was like the third straight Lana-free episode but also paid homage to one of my all time favourite movies: It’s a Wonderful Life. In the episode, Clark didn’t want to go back in time to save himself from leaving Krypton. Clark believed that Earth would have been better off if he never came. He believed that without him there would be no meteor freaks. At first, the alternate world everything seemed great. His father, Jonathan Kent was still alive, Chloe was happy with her fiance and Lana was happily married in Paris. What didn’t change is his relationship with Lois. Even though they had just met in this world, Lois was immediately attracted to him and they still share the same banter that they have in the real world. Clark cared deeply for Lois that he desperately wanted to know where the government took her and with the help of Sheriff Adams (Camille Mitchell -boy have I missed her), he located her, rescued her and openly used his powers in front of her, which looked like it turned her on. And after believing that he was a meteor-freak and it totally not bothering her, I can’t believe that he just doesn’t see that Lois is the one for him. She wasn’t bothered that he was different and still shared the same flirty banter and she even wanted to catch him changing.

Anyways, once Clark rescued himself and was brought back to real life, Clark was at the Daily Planet researching how to help Lana, Lois came in and wondered what he was up to and when she found out, it looked like she was a bit jealous. Also, it seems to me that this episode confirms that Lois has fallen in love with Clark. She wanted to be there for him as he was for her with the whole Oliver thing and when Clark declared her a good friend there was this awkward moment, which Lois broke with her usual friendly punch in the arm. She broke it because she knew that she had fallen for him and didn’t want him to know.

Quest featured guest turns from two sci-fi shows that I enjoyed. First was Donnelly Rhodes as that antiques dude. Rhodes is best known as Doc Cottle in Battlestar Galactica but also from Danger Bay and you had Robert Picardo as Edward Teague but better known as the Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager. Anyways, Quest was about Lex finding out how to use that cryptograph that he found in that box in Zurich and in the end discovered an orb in the Luthor mansion that perhaps can control the Traveler aka Clark.

Quest saw Teague confront Clark for again not wanting to embrace his destiny to be the savior of mankind and because of that carves the house of El symbol in his chest as a means of a sacrifice so that no one else can control him for evil purposes which Teague believes Lex well.

We also get re-introduced the symbols in the Kawatche Caves and the story of Naman that was prominent in the early seasons of Smallville. Quest was also the fourth episode in a row not to feature Lana or even a mention of her.

Arctic was the season 7 finale and as with all Smallville season finales, many characters fate are left unknown. But before we get to that, we have Kara killing Edward Teague but in reality it was Brainiac impersonating her and we discover that Kara is trapped in the Phantom Zone.

We also get Lois giving Clark the application to be an intern at The Daily Planet to which Clark takes a disinterest as he doesn’t want to work for Lex Luthor but wants Lois to promise not to do anything to piss Lex off. Lois jokingly says that Clark is worried about her and then there is an awkward moment between the two.

Lex cashes in on his favour from Jimmy and gets Jimmy to throw Lois off his scent but then has a change of heart and refuses to spy on his friend. This bites Jimmy in the ass when after Chloe recovers from her Brainiac attack (this has implications for season 8) as Chloe is arrested by the Department of Domestic Security but before getting arrested, Jimmy proposes. Chloe only recovered from her Brainiac attack because Clark killed Brainiac and even though he looks like a man, Clark justified killing him because he is really a machine.

The other lives in the balance at the end of the episode are Clark and Lex. Lex finally knows Clark’s secret and wants to use the device to stop Clark from destroying the Earth and all of this takes place in the Fortress and it comes tumbling down with them in it.

Let’s not forget about Lana. Because Brainiac is destroyed, this also sees Lana recover and when Clark goes to get her, she is gone, leaving Clark a DVD. Just like she broke up with Whitney via DVD, Lana does the same with Clark. She states that they weren’t meant to be together and that while she needs him and loves him, the world needs him more and that she is holding him back. That is so true she did hold him back. Clark didn’t want to embrace being a hero while he was together with her. Lana told Clark not to go after her. Clark is heartbroken but Lois is there to comfort him and their embrace was actually a great tender moment between the two friends and I could feel that chemistry coming from them.

There is a parallel here to season 10’s Finale Part One where Lois tells Clark that she is in his way and believes that she is grounding him from soaring to new heights. But unlike with Lana where Clark just accepts that they were not meant to be and that Lana was indeed holding her back, Clark actually fights to be with Lois and says that Lois isn’t in his way but by his side.

There was a deleted scene in Arctic where Clark goes to Lois for help in helping Chloe. At first Lois was reluctant as she was only concerned for Chloe’s well being but Clark asked Lois to trust him and you can see in her eyes that she does.

I did wonder in my season 6 blog whether or not Clark would make the sweeping romantic gestures and statements that he makes to Lois in season 10 to Lana in season 7. After watching season 7, he did no such declarations. And I do find that telling considering that Lana has been the one woman that he has declared the only one he could love and the only one he ever dreamed of being with. It seemed that his relationship with Lana made him weaker as he wanted to deny who he really is so he can be with her. I expected him to propose to Lana in season 7 even if she just got out of a terrible marriage to Lex. I mean they both loved each other right so why didn’t he propose? I think Lana was right when she said in one episode that Clark knows that Lana isn’t the one.

I really believe that Lana needed to leave Smallville. If the stupid writer’s strike didn’t happen, I am sure Lana would never have been in season 8. Her  character was hindering the Clark and Lois romance and if she stayed until the show’s end, Lois and Clark would never have gotten together romantically.

But season 7 sees the end of Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor until the series finale and it is also the last season with Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as the show runner.

I believe that it is season 8 where Lois Lane truly is in love with Clark Kent and I think it is somethings that happened in season 7 that caused her to fall in love with him. Throughout season 8, Clark discovers things about Lois that he didn’t know before that causes him to fall in love with her and even though I have seen most of season 8 except for the Lana episodes it will be great to see this season with new eyes after seeing all the previous seasons.