Hils's journal

This was a pointless but nice episode. It was more setting up the Lois and Clark relationship - though i feel towards the end of this season things are going to switch. Lois obviously has feelings for Clark, she's seen him grow from being the boy on the farm, to having a childish relationship with Lana - to being the man who can handle deeper and darker stuff, who's making his place in the world. Clark however is more bemused, I don't think he does have much in the way of romantic feelings for Lois, or they're buried deep. He's hit the view that he can't have that strong a relationship with anyone really, it puts them at risk. Which is a natural character development after Lana - either because in a human way she hurt him several times, or because from a hero point of view, the people he loves will always be his achilles heal. Probably both really, but I'm not sure which is most prominent - is the hero line more what he's using to cover the hurt from Blahna?

That will change, but it'll be a bit like the Rachel/Ross arc in friends. Just as he comes to realise he has feelings for Lois, Lois is moving on, with somebody else. Which sets the scene perfectly for canon, in a natural feeling way.

I felt bad when Ollie saw Clark and Lois shopping for rings. He was really hurt, I'm not sure if he's hurt because Lois seemed to be with someone else, or because it was Clark. Given the barny the two had over Lionel's orchestration of Ollie's parents death.

As to Chloe and Jimmy - they're definately trying to end Chloe's infatuation with Clark. Which I like, because it's natural, crushes don't last forever, and she can't be Clark's Kryptohag forever. Jimmy's a convenient way through it, he's her fall back guy. She does love him, though I would question how much (I'm not sure the lie detector proved anything, as she's now got a superpowered brain, and can heal - controlling her heart beat even instinctively is plausible), I mean she's definate got something going with Davis, and she looks like she feels guilty when they get close. I suspect the Jimmy/Chloe thing will eventually break down. Jimmy has to be free and single for later on in life, because if canon holds true (and I think a lot of this series is trying to achieve canon), then he'll fall for Kara.

As to Ollie/Tess, this is exciting. It's obvious that Tess's character will have a big part to play in how this season's arc plays out. She's putting together a team of superhumans and meteor freaks, she's busy pushing Luthorcorp's business interests, and she's not far off working out Clark's secrets. Her chink in her armour is Ollie, and she's played it cool and cold about what happened, but it's obvious she's still hurt by what he did, and as a result still has feelings for him. I suspect she'll hit out at Ollie at some point, and expose parts of her plans with Luthorcorp, which is what will give Ollie/Clark the chance to fight this fight on an even playing field.

I think this episode, in many ways it was contrived. The whole serial killer lie detector was silly - but it's very comicish. Not your big arcs, or anything like that - but the early years when everything wasn't quite so serious. When you're between arcs, you throw in something fun, to pad out the pages a bit.

All in all, I actually give this episode a thumbs up. Though it was clearly trumped by Supernatural this week. Though anyone else think Supernatural blew it's load a week before it's halloween episode?