Cowboy Pete’s Second Place Your Bets–SMALLVILLE

158 comments on “Cowboy Pete’s Second Place Your Bets–SMALLVILLE”

1. Now, having read it on the internet, I think that Superman actually went back in time, and this was supposed be suggested by the visual of the earth rotating backwards. I don’t thnk that this caught on with the general public, as everyone seems to think that he simply reversed the rotation of the earth. I didn’t see this until someone pointed it out on another message board.

   And my vote for the death on Smallville: The Clark identity dies as the primary and Superman emerges.

2. I’m really starting to hope that it’s Chloe. By the way you guys talk, maybe you’ll stop watching the show then, and it’ll get cancelled.

3. From the “Watch With Kristin” chat transcript at eonline.com:

   From snarkycole: Do you know who dies this week on Smallville? Please, tell me Chloe’s safe…That’s all I really need to know.

   I’m pretty sure she’s safe. I asked Al Gough why people always assume it’s Chloe, and he said, “I think because she wasn’t part of the original mythology, people always assume it’s going to be her. She and Lana seem the best bets because we created them. But we have altered the mythology before, and this death doesn’t necessarily have to play into what happens later on. And we love Allison Mack.”

   (So they think they created Lana? Weird.)

   But I suspect Chloe lives.

   Also, I suspect Smallville survives the UPN/WB merger and is part of the line-up on The CW. The shows mentioned in all the stories/press releases are Smallville, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, America’s Next Top Model, Everybody Hates Chris, Supernatural, Reba, WWE Smackdown, Girlfriends and Beauty and the Geek. Therefore, it’s practically a no-brainer that those shows are safe. I’d be more suspicious about the shelf life of the shows that were NOT mentioned, like Everwood, One Tree Hill, Eve, etc.

4. There is always the old trick (used on one occasion by PAD) that “die” isn’t always permanent, with modern medicine. IE, someone could be clinically dead, then be revived.

   That would also be the Cop-out of the century, but they could do it.

5. STILL boycotting every single WB show since they canceled ANGEL and then added the ol’ insult to the injury by making snarky comments during the process

   Don’t worry, as someone already posted, WB ceases to exist this fall. And you’ll be able to watch CW in good faith since CW never cancelled Angel and hasn’t (yet) been snarky about anything.

6. Put me in the “It’s not Chloe” camps because 1) She is the too obvious choice and 2) Technically, they’ve already killed her off once before, so it would be cheap to do it a second time.

   My bet is either Jonathan or Lionel. Lionel is my first bet for one simple reason: The character is rapidly becoming superfluous. Before, he was the bad influence that Lex struggled to live down. But now, Lex is in control of the company and is already on the path towards the dark side, so what purpose does Lionel serve?

   I’m guessing that Jor-El takes over Lionel’s body again and then sacrifices both of their lives to save Clark. So, Clark feels bad about losing Jor-El just as he was finally coming to understand him.

7. Unless it’s ratings plummet now that it’s back, Veromica Mars is safe. As Julio said, it’s one of the shows metioned in the Press Release. Plus it’s always been more of a WB show than a UPN one. Plus it’s the critical darling of TV.

8. I saw one theory that Lana dies first, is brought back to life, but then Jonathan dies in a surprise at the end. That doesn’t feel right to me, but one way or another some of the people here are going to be surprised.

   Neil

9. I’m guessing that Jor-El takes over Lionel’s body again and then sacrifices both of their lives to save Clark. So, Clark feels bad about losing Jor-El just as he was finally coming to understand him.

   That’s actually a great solution…I hope they are smart enough to do it.

10. EINSTEIN aka Krypto???? I thought the dog’s name was Shelby? Where’s marty McFly when you need him?

    I don’t think anyone else has mentioned, but the producers have already stated that not only will a major opening-credit character die, but another will also “leave the show”.

    My bet is the Chloe becomes Lois deal for the death. I also bet the Jonathan wins the election and moves to the capital, leaving Martha and Clark to run the farm.

    Daniel

11. (Apologies if someone’s already said this – I deliberately didn’t read the other comments or the main post.)

    PAD, any chance you could hide this behind a link? The UK is a bit behind the US at the moment (only 3 episodes into season 5 as of today), so I’d prefer to avoid spoilers. I don’t like to tell/ask you what to write in your own blog, but it’s probably not too flattering if people load up the main page and then say “Aargh! Aaargh!” while throwing their hands up to block the screen…

12. My first thought is like many other posters have mentioned: Lois dies, but Chloe writes under an assumed name (Lois), and gets published. I like that idea, but don’t think it’s going to hold water.

    More likely is Pa Kent.

    What really bugs me is that you can see this coming. That is, a death. But I remember seeing Lana getting broadsided in an SUV.

    I don’t think we’re thinking big enough. It’s episodes 100. I think the producers want *big*. And since less is more, I think even more than we’re aware will occur. And we’re aware of at least one death.

    I’d look for a major change to Lex. I’m thinking, turning point for the character.

    We shall see.

    RLR

13. I’m thinking Jonathan Kent. The comments he made about making a deal with the devil and having to pay in the last episode. Also after all the financial trouble his family has been in he finally sold that back 40 land? It’s like he had a premomition. “Well I can’t leave Martha and Clark with all this money trouble and land to take care of. I know my numbers about up. “

    The promos have been focused heavily on Clark and Lana’s relationship and really pusing that Lana would die which means she’ll make it out of the episode alive. I wouldn’t be suprised if she ends up with a case of forgetfulness and forgets everything they showed her and Clark discussing in the previews though.

    Lionel isn’t close enough to Clark and they said “Someone close to Clark will die”. Lex will have to kill Lionel eventually probably.

    Chloe would probably be most people’s pics but there’s a way they could incorporate her character into the comics and not have to do any rewriters or altering of histories. They’d have to retroactively add to it though and explain where she’s been all these years.

    Back last season we learn Chloe’s mom is in a mental institution and what she has is hereditary. So if the series were to end with Chloe in the mental institution …
    We get a Superman story where we find out Clark has been visiting his high school friend who just happens to be Lois cousin on a regular basis since she was admitted. Chloe is cured and joins the cast at the Daily Planet.

    The backstory though would have to be partially different from Smallville though. I mean Lois always met Clark at the Daily Planet and not Smallville in the comics.

    Oh and I guess there’s Martha but I figure Jonthan is the most likely of the two

14. Lots of interesting ideas here.

    I think that Lana is going to die in ep 100.

    Then, a few eps down the road, we find out that it wasn’t ACTUALLY Lana, it was Braniac, who had taken Lana’s place to mess around with Lex’s Great Ship Experiment (not to mention messing with Clark’s head).

    Lana was placed into suspended animation in the ship around the time that Clark “destroyed” Braniac.

    This gives them the great death they’ve been advertising, without significantly changing continuity, and fits the info that James M. is coming back later in the season.

    (I hope that’s what happens, anyway. I think it would be neat. *Grin*)

15. PAD posted:

    “The only thing that’s keeping everyone and everything on this planet is the Earth’s rotation; if it’s slowed or stopped, we all go flying off into space, and I’m pretty sure that the planet breaks apart too.”

    Not entirely correct – if the planet suddenly stopped rotating, then it would indeed break apart, and THAT would be why we’d all fly off into space. But, if I remember my astronomy lessons right (and freely admit that I might not, btw), then it’s the Earth’s mass itself that produces the gravity field – the larger the mass, the larger the gravitational force. The rotation has little or nothing to do with it. Venus has a “day” that is shorter than its “year”, but it still has gravity close to Earth-normal because of its mass. Remember that centrifugal force is not the same as gravity, though it will likely one day be used to simulate it in the dark reaches of space…

    As to the scene itself, I like the idea that Supes was travelling so fast, he warped time around himself, and the backward-spinning planet was more of a visual cue than a literal event. If not, then we can simply chalk it up to one ridiculous event in an otherwise outstanding motion picture.

16. >>I’d look for a major change to Lex. I’m thinking, turning point for the character.>>

    Lex gets an afro and is replaced by carrot top in the series.

17. Pa Kent go bye bye.

18. Good Lord, someone actually realizes how “appalling” this concept is. Bless you for that. What kind of superhero lets someone die for him — worse, lets his biological father/supposed-to-be mentor KILL someone for him? In all that’s been written on the subject, seems like hardly anyone bothers to bring up this inconvenient point.

19. Who should die? I vote for Jason Todd! And I’ll pony up my 99¢ to put my money where my mouth is.

20. While we’re all worrying about this, Muslim extremists are adopting funny names:

    http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/jan/25/yehey/top_stories/20060125top7.html

    MILF renews hunt for Sayyaf, Jemaah

    Ok, it stands for The Moro Islamic Liberation Front and while I applaud their efforts to battle al-Qaeda, they really need to get a better name before they become charter members of Organizations Totally Unclear About The Concept Of Acronyms (SPECTRE).

21. Yes, All is SAFE for ANGEL lovers at the new CW Network.

    First thing Les Moonves did was toss snarky ANGEL hater Garth Ancier out on his ear and put the UPN’s head honcho in his place.

    No “Co-presidents of production”… No nothing– for Garth.

    See ya, Garth… Don’t let the door hit your talentless ášš on the way out.

    My favorite headline of the day about the merger?

    “Warner Bros. and Viacom join forces to form 5th Place Network!”

    (Maybe now I can watch SMALLVILLE and see what everybody’s been talking about for the last several years!)

22. DIE LANA!

23. My prediction: Chloe. Which I would hate. I really like her right now.

    Why? Because the car in the crash in the previews sure looks like hers! Because Lana dieing would ruin the Lex/Lana/Clark triangle, and they have yet to milk that. (Though if Lex were to blame Clark for some reason, they could try.) Because Jonathan or Martha would take away the tension about the senate race too soon. (Though Jonathan is my second guess after Chloe — she survives the car crash and he dies of “natural causes.)

    I do agree the logic that someone close to Clark must die is beyond lame. The only way they might get away with it is if somehow Jor El is not causing it but simply saying Clark’s refusal to obey earlier set wheels in motion that could not be stopped. But that would be really stretching things.

    Iowa Jim

24. I think its going to be Clark’s unborn child. While he was “human”, he had relations with Lana to produce the pregnancy unknown to both at present. Jor-el will take that away.

25. My guess? Clark Kent.

    Think about it. It worked before for DC. He would be resurrected. (In a forthcoming feature film, please note.) And since Jor-El was talking about “a person close to you,” well, who’s closer to Kal-El than Clark Kent?

    And what happens between the rest of the season and the feature film? What a perfect place to have Sea-Man, or whoever that new character is going to be, try out his powers by subbing for Kal.

    I just find it amazing that the people here believe that the producers of the show give two sheckels for what any of us think. We’re not the main audience for this show. We’re too smart for their taste. They want Joe Sixpack Junior – not the dad, but the son who buys the CD’s of whatever crummy singers they throw on the soundtrack that week.

26. i think pa kent and the end of season….is chloe
    will die

27. Because the car in the crash in the previews sure looks like hers!

    Oh God, please, anything but a car crash. Cars should be OUTLAWED in Smallville. I can’t smoke in a bar in New York but the people of Smallville still drive freely, cutting a swath of crashy death in their wake.

    I think its going to be Clark’s unborn child.

    Well, that would beat the alternative, which would involve a very messy death for Lana somewhere in the second trimester. If you’ve seen Humanoids From The Deep you know what I mean.

28. I think its going to be Clark’s unborn child.

    That might be the second death, but, unless they add the unborn child to the opening credits Thursday (“pulling a Joss” a la adding Amber Benson to Buffy‘s opening credits on her final episode), it wouldn’t fit the information that’s been given…that it will be a series regular who’s in the opening credits.

29. “Not entirely correct – if the planet suddenly stopped rotating, then it would indeed break apart, and THAT would be why we’d all fly off into space. But, if I remember my astronomy lessons right (and freely admit that I might not, btw), then it’s the Earth’s mass itself that produces the gravity field – the larger the mass, the larger the gravitational force. The rotation has little or nothing to do with it. Venus has a “day” that is shorter than its “year”, but it still has gravity close to Earth-normal because of its mass. Remember that centrifugal force is not the same as gravity, though it will likely one day be used to simulate it in the dark reaches of space…”

    Why would the planet break apart? There’s plenty of celesital bodies with low or no spin that seem to be plenty non-break-apartable.

    Centrifugal force can be used to simulate gravity, but not on a sphere. Unless you’re walking on the inside of the outer edge of the sphere. The rotation of the Earth is constantly trying to throw all us little peeps on it off, as well as break the whole mess apart. The physical mass of the planet, including a super-dense core of whatever…magma, liquid iron, Twinky filling…creates a gravitational force strong enough to keep us rooted to the surface, as well as preventing all the gas and water from being flung into space.

    As for dying…personally, I’d go with Lois. But the whole Chloe takes on Lois’ name at the planet to honor her tragically dead cousin take is so prevelant on the internet that the PTB won’t go that route. That leave Lana, Pa, or Ma Kent. Or maybe Ma Kent’s dad, who I think Clark took a shine to.

    And how lame was it that Ma Kent went to Lionel for underhanded money before hitting her dad up? You’d think that her old man would be doing cartwheels over Bo Kent getting out of the farming business and into something he could support for his daughter.

30. Why would the planet break apart? There’s plenty of celesital bodies with low or no spin that seem to be plenty non-break-apartable.

    Well, there are plenty of cars that aren’t moving either but if one of them goes from 1,000 mph to zero in 10 seconds it doesn’t look very pretty…it looks like something somebody might have driven in Smallville.

    Actually, I don’t know if the Earth’s bedrock would be badly damaged but considering the atmosphere would keep right on going at 1000 mph at the equator I’m guessing you would not want to be outside flying a kite.

31. Re: Bill Mulligans post about MILF
    First laugh of the morning. Thanks.

32. “Well, there are plenty of cars that aren’t moving either but if one of them goes from 1,000 mph to zero in 10 seconds it doesn’t look very pretty…it looks like something somebody might have driven in Smallville.”

    Oh, y’all were talking about how if the planet SUDDENLTY stopped rotating. Yes, in that case, things would be pretty disastrous. On the other hand, we’d all get to experience what space was REALLY like.

33. I’m just amazed that somebody else has seen “Humanoids From The Deep”.

    Not especially surprised that it’s Bill, though.

    And to add my physics voice to the chorus, rotation’s got nothing to do with us remaining on Earth. In fact, if the Earth spun up sufficiently fast you wouldn’t be able to stay standing at the equator — you’d float off on a tangential path. I’ve always thought that there’s a good story hiding in the idea of a planet where you can stay on the ground at the poles, but feel lighter as you head towards the equator until you just lift off at some point.

    TWL

34. The part that gets me is everyone thinking that Jor-El is going to kill anyone… The only character that said Jor-El was going to kill was Clark, which is certainly not what Jor-El said, and would be another in a long line of things Jor-El has said that have been misintrepreted.

    The statement made was that someone has to die in order for Clark to live again. It’s a simple matter of keeping the balance. Jor-El was simply giving a warning that the balance will be kept, not that he’s going to have any part in it’s keeping. Jor-El won’t have a hand in it, he gets to watch and see who it will be just like everyone else does.

    That being said, I think everyone may just be right about the fact that the commercials leading up to this are pushing Lana dying just a bit too hard. That really is the only detail that would lead me to think that it won’t be her though… Her death would push Lex farther over the edge, Clark always needs more things to come to terms with apparently, and a good death of someone currently vital to the storyline always tends to bring more story ideas to the table.

    In the comics Lana didn’t serve as all that important a future role. She ends up marrying Pete when he serves as Lex’s vice president. Which is all outside the scope of the timeline the series is supposed to cover. No real reason for them to keep to original stories.

    I do hesitate to mention this last point, because a lot of people don’t like to read the spoiler sites, so if you don’t want to know for sure, don’t read any farther into this post. It’s pretty sure that Chloe is safe though, since she’s definately scheduled to be in episodes following this one. Which of course could just be rumor to throw us off the trail, but enough of the spoiler sites seem to back that up, that it seems reliable.

35. Man, Kypto would rule. He gets Kryptonian Rabbies, goes on a mass rampage, forcing Clark to take him down. Cue lots of sad music and longing looks. Like the end of, uh, that movie. In which the dog has rabbies.

36. “Good Lord, someone actually realizes how “appalling” this concept is. Bless you for that. What kind of superhero lets someone die for him — worse, lets his biological father/supposed-to-be mentor KILL someone for him?”

    I’m going to have to go with one of the previous posts, and predict that this won’t be a punitive act of Jor-El’s, but a consequence of Clark’s actions…I guess we’ll see tomorrow.

    As for the physics, and the earth suddenly stopping short – Depends how it happened, but if any mechanism existed for that sort of thing, I’d have to imagine the everything on the surface of the earth would be simultaneously decelerated too, so we might not even notice, except for lack of the night/day cycle.

    Re: the Cellophane Shield – “Wow, that was a minor inconvenience.” “That’s the idea, slowed you down, didn’t it?” “Sure did.”

37. Well, up until recently I was convinced that it would be Chloe, but now I have a sinking feeling it’s going to be Jonathan Kent. Which really sucks!

38. I’m probably waaaay off base, but what if it’s Kal-El? That is, not Clark but Clark’s Red-K self? Is it any different than when they said Clark would never fly (but Kal-El did)? Another idea. Not trying to be morbid (for lack of a better word) but was it established what happened to Christopher Reeve’s character? Had he died, or was he just ‘listed as MIA’? One final idea? What about Jor-El? Maybe he dies (again)? I’m still guessing Chloe, then Jonathan or Martha, then Lionel and finally Lana. Hey, maybe they’ll do a radical departure and kill off the whole cast and just do stories about Smallville Kansas. Say, the mailman or the convenience store clerk or the guy who works at the farm store, or the town drunk, or… Oh heck, I don’t know!!

39. I predict it will be Tom Wellings body double Nathane Jackson! I admit I don’t have cable, and thus have only seen season 1-4 and the season 5 opener.

    JAC

40. LANA LANG–10-1. Yes, she’s in current continuity, but that doesn’t mean anything. Plus if Clark proposes and she accepts, she’s toast. Which leads us to conclude that either she accepts and dies, or she says no and lives. Bottom line, I suspect the latter.

    –PAD, I kinda disagree with you here. I think it should be Lana, for the reasons you state it should be Ma and Pa. I think Lana is the primary reason Clark remains in Smallville. His life is thoroughly entwined with hers (and through her, Smallville). As long as they’re together, I don’t see him moving forward. Also, despite his love for the Kents, he’s an adult who’s gonna be ready to leave the nest soon, so I don’t think killing them off is necessary to take him out of the small town.
    Killing Lana, however, would remove his romantic link to the town and set the stage for his future relationship with Lois, as well as sever some of his personal ties enough that he may start to focus on the world, instead of just one or two people.

41. >>About that time-travel trick from the first Superman film: just how was that supposed to work again? How exactly does making the earth spin ‘backwards’ reverse the flow of time, and making it go forward make time flow ‘correctly’ agian? If Supes had some sort of magical item/spell he used in conjunction withe the reverse spin, or some time-travel doo-dad on hand, this would have gone down better with me. As it is it was never spelled out how it was supposed to work that I recall. Even comic-book science needs SOME sort of explanation for it to work right.

    –very true.
    Something I thought of the other day when watching it again was “How in the world did Clark know he had that specific power?” I mean super strength is one thing. So is super speed. But super “Turn back Time” power. He’d have to have flown *that* fast before and seen the effects. Yet Jor-El’s voiceover about it being forbidden to interfere in human destiny was used to underscore the desperation Clark faced in the wake of Lois’ death. It’s rather undermined if he’s turned time back before.
    Some say Superman: The Movie stands the test of time. As I get older, I disagree more and more; and the turning back time segment is one of my biggest gripes (along with Otis and Ms. Teschmaucher).

42. >>What’s come to bug me most about the end of that Superman movie isn’t how Superman travelled back in time. It’s that once he goes back in time, he doesn’t really do anything–at least, not anything useful, exciting, or interesting–to change history. So what’s the point?

    –y’mean like stopping the other bomb *before* it goes off? Or stopping Lex before he even takes control over the rockets?
    I think it would have been better for there to have been *no* time travel. Period. There are a multitude of other ways to convey how he feels about Lois and any necessary desperation to save her.

    Tony

43. RIP Chloe….

    Unless there’s an as-yet undiscovered Krytonite out there. Black Krytonite…Blue Kryptonite….
    ….Plaid Krytonite…Fat-Free Kryptonite….Black Cherry-Vanilla Kryptonite…
    Children’s Chewable Krytonite…

44. You know, I was nine years old when I first saw the movie and even then it was obvious to me that the Earth spinning backwards was just their way of illustrating Superman travelling back in time, not reversing time. And I was able to figure out that he stopped the bomb from hitting the fautline off camera. Jeez, people. Talk about beating a dead horse.

    And time travelling is a power that Superman had since at least the late 40s up until after the Crisis (Screw you, Byrne!).

    And am I the only person who thinks Lois dying and Chloe taking over her identity is just about the cheesiest idea ever?

45. “You know, I was nine years old when I first saw the movie and even then it was obvious to me that the Earth spinning backwards was just their way of illustrating Superman travelling back in time, not reversing time. And I was able to figure out that he stopped the bomb from hitting the fautline off camera. Jeez, people. Talk about beating a dead horse.”

    Well, color me dumb. Not sure there’s really a functional difference between Supes going back in time, and Supes physically reversing time, but I feel like I’ve had some great epiphany here. I’m not all that up on pre-Crisis Supes, so I don’t know about him jumping around in time on his own. But now that you mention it, I do recall a few LoSH stories where Superboy manages to break the time barrier on his own, so I guess I had that knowledge inside me all the time.

    Still, to one not well versed in the Superman mythos, all you get from the movie is that he flies backward around the planet, it spins backwards, and time reverses. No direct causal link. But then again, we see him pull Lois’ lifeless body from the car, don’t we? Which creates the whole time conundrum a lot of time-travel stories fall into. Bah, now I’m all confused again….

46. Bobb, you think you feel silly…. I’m still trying to figure out how Supe’s “Fix-the-Great-Wall-of-China Vision” worked. 😉

    Fred

47. 1 “Huh? You mean it’s when the playground spinner stops that the kids start feeling the centrifugal force?

    I’ve reread that several times and it still sounds like you’re serious, but I have to assume you’re kidding.”

    are you completely retarded? i mean seriously? do you have brain problems? how old are you? holy crap…lol…did u ever take ANY physics classes or anything? if the earth stopped spinning, we would still be traveling at the speed the earth was previously rotating. we would all fly off of the earth and die! unless you jumped into the air right when it stopped spinning…you wouldn’t fly off of the earth. you’d just land somewhere else. and the latest spoilers reveal that TWO characters will die…one will come back. it shows lana dead, it shows jonathan unconcious (or dead) with clark at the fortress…so one will be gone for good. the other one will just be gone for awhile. clark gets to save one of them. which will it be?

48. “are you completely retarded? i mean seriously? do you have brain problems? how old are you? holy crap…lol…did u ever take ANY physics classes or anything? if the earth stopped spinning, we would still be traveling at the speed the earth was previously rotating. we would all fly off of the earth and die! unless you jumped into the air right when it stopped spinning…you wouldn’t fly off of the earth. you’d just land somewhere else.”

    First…no need to be mean about things. It undermines the point you’re trying to make.

    If the Earth *suddenly* stopped spinning, you are correct that we’d all be dead, unless you were really, really close to the axis of rotation (Earth wobbles, so that would be difficult in itself). At the equator, the place of fastest rotational speed, you’d suddenly find yourself moving at over 1,040 mph relative to the now-rotationless Earth. Lucky for you, escape velocity is over 25,000 mph. Unfortunately, the sudden acceleration and friction you’d feel would kill you. Which is good, because otherwise the sudden stop when you finally hit something would have otherwise done you in.

    However, if the Earth were to gradually slow down, we’d barely notice.

49. “You know, I was nine years old when I first saw the movie and even then it was obvious to me that the Earth spinning backwards was just their way of illustrating Superman travelling back in time, not reversing time.”

    I actually thought this was a great explanation. So great, I told it to my roommate last night.

    He then pointed out that after Superman spun around the Earth and it rotated backwards, Superman then did several rotations in the *opposite* direction and the Earth started going in the proper direction again.

    I told my roommate to shut up. 🙂

50. I rather hope it’s Lana. I mean, realistically, if Clark ‘fesses up to her and they get engaged, what real reason would they have to break up later (which they would have to do of Clark’s gonna hook up with Lois)? Their long-established emotional bond is too strong. And that wouldn’t prevent Lana from showing up in the inevitable dream, hallucination, or flashback. Basically, Lana’s mostly played out and the character doesn’t look like it’ll be improving soon.

    (And as a related aside from last week’s episode, am I the only one who knew as soon as Clark said “I can’t imagine loving anyone else like I do Lana” that the car that we immediately hear pulling up was driven by Lois?)

    Interestingly, allowing Lana to die would be a curious parallel to the entire Gwen Stacy-MJ storyline, where Lana/Gwen, the hero’s precious first “true love”, dies tragically and clears the way for the hero’s more extroverted later “true love”, Lois/MJ.

    But then again if that happened, later we’d have the eventual episode where it’s learned that Lionel Luthor showed Lana his “oh-face” and discover that the real reason she went to Paris was to hide her pregnancy and give birth to their child(ren) overseas.

    🙂

    Chloe is daisy-fertilizer, but not just yet I think. Her death will probably be the one that cements Clark and Lex’s estrangement and Lex’s villainous turn. Something for the last season, I guess. And she has to die because otherwise, when she discovers that she and Clark don’t hook up after he splits with Lana, she’ll go postal.

    My predictions? We’ll have at least one fake out featuring Chloe, Lana, Johnathan, and/or Lionel (and possibly Pete) and in the last minutes of the show, Martha will tragically snuff it. (Really fûçkìņg up everyone in Smallville.) Consequently, Clark and Lana split up and Lana takes up with Lex (who wants to show his “oh-face” to her, thereby one-upping his dad), creating yet another wedge between Clark and Lex.

    Oh, and whomever dies will die as some kind of directly traceable result of Lex entering the state senate race. (Which would make the death of Lana even that more tragic and epically ironic. DIE, LANA! DIE!)

    PS: I saw HUMANOIDS OF THE DEEP too and I always considered the cellophane S-shield to simply be a nifty example of Kryptonian technology. Now that WTF! telekinesis/heat vision that Zod and Co. shoot out of their fingertips . . . [shakes head]

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