I totally paused!

I know you are as shocked as I am to learn that Zod’s tower is, in fact, almost ready.  It will be completed in two days.  I hate to say I told you so, but I did.

The main theme of this episode is that it’s Valentine’s Day, which Lois is not into, but then some girl blows a new kind of Kryptonite on Clark and this time it’s actually not totally awful.  The effect of this K is that whatever Clark wishes for comes true: Lois starts being a more “traditional” girlfriend, Chloe has Clark’s back no matter what, Zod is able to trick Clark because Clark is too trusting.

Before all this happens, though, Clark and Chloe are kind of fighting, which makes me sad.  I like Chloe getting along with Clark, since it’s kind of his show, so the more they get along, the more screen time she has.

On the flip side, Chloe and Lois are also fighting, because their POV’s are essentially opposite – Chloe promising to protect Clark no matter what means Lois has got to get out of the way.  She has a big mouth!  I actually really like that these two are fighting, y’all know how I feel about Lois anyway.

We get a rare appearance by both Tess and Zod this episode, and Zod is all menacing cuz Tess is playing both sides.  What a shock!  He also tricks Clark into thinking that Tess killed Jor El, so Clark goes to enact his revenge.  Cept Chloe, in her infinite wisdom, saves the day by protecting Clark from himself and using some good old fashioned green K on him.

And Zod, because he’s like, evil, kills the girl who chased Lois back from the future.  The same Kandorian girl who kills Chloe in the ominous future we saw.  Also the same girl who killed Jor El, although I don’t really remember who ultimately did that.  Which made me ask myself “whoa, what does this do for the future?”

Chloe Sullivan and I think alike, because she brings up the same thing later in the episode!  Because this means the future is going to play out differently no matter what, Clark decides to just go ahead and destroy Zod’s tower.  Which is really the best decision anyway, and the one I would have recommended.  So I guess that means we’ll find out what happens to the new future!

So, I was trying to find an awesome picture of Chloe Sullivan with the Smallville logo to put on this post, but sadly, I can’t find one.  What’s with the lack of Chloe love, internets?

Second, I think that every time I watch this show, I can hear Ke$ha’s song “Blah blah blah” because I say that word after like, every scene.

If you couldn’t tell, I was disappointed with this episode.  Cuz umm, you know how I hate when a series has a ton of throwaway episodes in a season?  I feel like this show is the worst about that.  At least half the episodes end and I think “how exactly did that further the plot?”

Because guess what is going to happen soon?  Zod is going to suddenly have his tower all the way built; Tess is going to pretend to be Clark’s ally, only to betray him; and we’re not going to have any explanation or discussion of these points.  It’ll just be like “BAM”, as though we were on that cooking show.  And no, I haven’t watched ahead, I’ve just seen every episode of this series up to this point.

Anyway, the premise of this episode is this kid gets a hold of the very first Warrior Angel comic, aka Clark’s favorite comic EVAR, cept the comic is cursed and the kid turns into Warrior Angel.  Who looks suspiciously like Clark.

Chloe is super into Warrior Angel, but doesn’t know he’s really a kid.  And honestly, I’m in love with Chloe Sullivan, so who am I to deny her some hot underage action?

So Clark runs around with…Zatana?  I think.  I can’t fully remember her name.  They are looking for the kid to stop him from becoming Devilicus, which is the curse of the story.  Lois is jealous.  And guess what I’m thinking?  Blah, blah, blah.

It’s totally boring and pointless.

The only positive to come from this is that there are some sparks between Chloe and Oliver.  If they hook up, it will make this whole season worth watching.  But, much to my disappointment, they probably won’t.  Oliver will be all “OMG I’m so not over Lois” and Chloe will say “Dude, you are way hot but Jimmy died and I’m just not finished with that.  But you are way hot.  Mmmm, very hot.”

Okay, that’s my imagination running wild.  But don’t you dare tell me you don’t want to rip Justin Hartley’s clothes off his body!

Ugh, so boring.  I found out after starting this that it was a two hour episode, and I had to ask myself if anyone really sits down to this show and *wants* to watch two hours of this show at once.  I seriously took a break half way through to do laundry.  LAUNDRY!

So someone is killing people who are only linked through their criminal records, and there is conveniently video of all their arrests.  Because what better way to show a complicated back story than by having video of it.  It turns out these people are members of the Justice Society of America.

One of the major problems with this show is that, for some reason, it feels obligated to mention apparently every other hero from the DC universe.  I did a small amount of Wikipedia research and see that Superman is actually somehow connected to them.  But – the whole point of this show is that Clark is not yet Superman.  He’s *becoming* Superman.  So these people who are part of Superman’s life actually don’t have a role in this show.  I believe I have mentioned this whole issue previously when discussing Lois as well.

Anyway, this is a two hour event, that I hope has something to do with the future of the show.  I have a feeling that people more connected to comics care way more about this one than I did.  It’s so dull to me that I don’t even have it in me to recap it.

Tess decides to grace the show with her presence at some point too, and for a mostly unexplained reason.  She’s mostly just there causing trouble for Lois.  Who I also hoped we would have an episode without.  For the record, the relationship between Lois and Clark seems to have taken a step backwards, there is basically no mention of them actually having a relationship.  I dislike Lois anyway, so this is especially boring.

The point of the episode is that some agency brings out a bad guy to bring the JSA out of hiding.  The agency wants to get the JSA back together, and banded with the new generation of heroes, to help them when the impending apopcolypse comes.  Whatever.

And last, certainly least, Tess is a member of this agency.  If the agency is really out for good, which it sounds like they are since they want heroes to fight evil, I have absolutely no idea why Tess is involved.  That girl is even more weird than Lex was.  But annoying too.

Every time I watch this show I think “why am I still watching this show?”  Sometimes I can’t come up with any good reasons, but I keep watching the stupid thing anyway.  I must be a glutton for punishment.

So, someone is shooting arrows at people affiliated with Oliver.  Lois is the first one, and even though she’s right by her car, she decides to run instead of get inside it.  Maybe I’m crazy, but I think a car is better protection than my coat, but whatever.  At first they think it’s Oliver himself, which is kind of silly in my opinion.  These people have no loyalty to each other, I swear!

Oh, and Clark comes home to see that Zod is in the house.  I’m confused by this, because doesn’t the Kent house have locks?  People just walk into that house all the time.  Also, who is taking care of the dog?  I wish my dogs were as convenient as Shelby, only showing up every once in awhile.

Chloe is attacked next, but before the mystery arrow shooter is able to actually kill her, Clark shows up and scares the guy away.  They all still think it’s Oliver, but start looking into his past and discover that for awhile, he belonged to an archery cult which called for no lovers, allies, or disciples.  Through the power of their wicked detective skills, they figure out it’s probably not Oliver but someone who taught him instead.

Ugh, honestly, this episode was so boring and pointless that I really have nothing else to say about it.  Other than – through satellite images, Chloe finds this huge maze in the forest.  I have absolutely no idea how this maze has been hiding all along and no one saw it until now.  Maybe the archery cult dudes are magic and make it invisible most of the time!

Basically, once again, nothing important happens in the episode.  Zod figures out that Clark doesn’t recognize some Kryptonian symbol so is apparently unaware of some book they need to build the tower which will turn the sun red, but that is the only item of any importance that comes up.

So thank you, Smallville, for wasting another hour of my weekend.

After they kiss and Lois passes out at the end of the last episode, Clark rushes her to the hospital, but OMG! someone has stolen her!  Clark assumes it was Chloe and honestly, I have no idea why he jumps to this conclusion.  I know they aren’t seeing eye to eye on everything lately, but why the hell would Chloe steal her cousin from the hospital and not tell Clark?

Chloe basically says the same thing, so then Clark figures out oh, it must be the *other* person he knows who would steal someone.  No, it’s not dead Lex, it’s Tess.  So we cut to Tess in some Luthorcorp facility with Computer Dude.  She’s been having him hack into Lois’ therapist files, and is all shocked to find out that he read some of them.  Tess gives some lecture about boundaries, which I find super hilarious because has she looked in the mirror lately?

They hook Lois up to this thing where they have to shove tacks in her head, which is of course powered by Kryptonite, and they start seeing images of what is going on in that not so pretty head of hers.  She seems to be dreaming in comic book drawings, which I find weird.  I’m sure this is some kind of homage to the fact that Superman started out as a comic book, but is this really how people dream?  I certainly don’t.

Tess is not happy with these comic book images, I’m sure she is not an appreciator of the graphic novel, so she’s all “hook me up to Lois’ brain, right now!”  Although I cannot recall for sure, I am wondering if this is the same machine they used to hook Clark and Lex together a few seasons back.  I also don’t remember why they did that, something about saving Lex from himself or whatever I’m sure.

Anyway, we get tapped into the future that Lois saw while she was away for three weeks.  Are we meant to believe that this episode actually took place over three weeks of her memories, or we just get bits and pieces?  Cuz it seems like she was in the future for like a day.  And honestly, I kind of liked the future we get to see through Lois…I mean, it looks kind of shitty, but also cool.  Chloe is a badass, Clark is like a normal person, and people are prisoners in the barn at the Kent farm.  Because everything has to center around the Kent farm.

Btw, the Zod that we are seeing in this season – way cooler than the Zod from a couple of seasons ago.  And also, he seems tougher.  Lex as Zod got defeated pretty easily, but Callum Blue as Zod is more sinister and clever.  I guess that’s what happens when you get a whole season as a villain.  Although I’m not complaining that Brianiac was the instigator of Lex as Zod, cuz you know I loves James Marsters.  In fact, how come he doesn’t come around and help engineer this whole thing?

Tess comes out of the whole brain lock thing and asks Computer Dude to erase Lois’ memories, it is tooooo dangerous to have a normal person like Lois running around knowing that stuff!  Computer Dude is like a more ethical version of Topher over on Dollhouse, and he says no to the Tess.  Who promptly shoots him.  Honestly, why did she even ask him to erase the memories if she could have done it herself all along?

Fortunately, Clark rushes in to save the day and prevent Lois from losing these memories.  Cept the room and equipment are laced with Kryptonite, so while he knocks Tess to the floor, he isn’t strong enough to avoid getting pricked in the finger by the brain connector thumb tack.  And it is quite lucky that you don’t actually have to stick those things into your brain for it to work.  Too bad Tess didn’t know that, she could have put them in her arm or something instead of her head.

Clark is now seeing what Lois brought back from the future, and Chloe makes the executive decision to keep them hooked together as long as possible.  Yes, Kryptonite directly into Clark could kill him, but on the other hand, he needs to know how to save the future!  From a realistic standpoint, if Clark is responsible for the destruction of the world anyway, if it kills him I guess all is well in the future :/

If you recall in previous episodes, Lois kept dreaming about having the ses with Clark, and I for one was wondering how that could happen since Clark and Lana couldn’t ever do it when she was human and he was him.  But apparently when Zod makes the red sun and all the other Kryptonians/Kandorians get their powers, Clark loses his.

This makes no sense to me.  If he’s Kryptonian, shouldn’t he have the same abilities that they do?  Also, on Krypton, all these people seemed like they were human – as in they had no special powers.  From everything they’ve said in the past, it’s the yellow sun we have here already that gives Kryptonians special abilities.  So why is a red sun suddenly changing that all around?

As I mentioned, Chloe is a total badass in the future and she saves both Clark and Lois from execution by Zod.  In the process, she kills Tess and Oliver is wicked upset about it for about five seconds.  I guess he still loves her?  Who knows.

Zod was able to make the red sun by building this special tower, the one Tess revealed a couple of episodes ago, which I didn’t mention because it seemed trivial at the time.  But it turns out it’s this magic sun changing machine, and Chloe can shut it down by sending a virus from Watchtower.  Now, Watchtower is in the “restricted zone” where humans aren’t allowed, but they seem to have no problem getting to it.  So I have absolutely no idea why they needed to wait for Lois to show up before they went on this mission.  Like, if that’s all it takes, why didn’t Chloe just do it at the very start of Zod’s reign of terror?

They send off the virus and then hightail it out of there, but not before someone stabs Chloe through the stomach with a huge sword.  It seems pretty weird, like this obvs Kryptonian lady flies down and Chloe just stands there.  Basically, if they’re going to kill Chloe off, it should be better than this.

Overall, the mission is successful and the yellow sun is restored.  But Zod kills Clark anyway, and Lois puts the Legion ring on to come back to the past so she can tell everyone and prevent this horrible/awesome future from happening.  We also see how the assassin ninja Kryptonian comes back with her, the one who tried to kill Clark in the first episode.  One question: at this point, the yellow sun is restored, so how come this lady still has her powers?

Back in the real timeline, Clark declares that based on what he saw, the problem was that he tried to fight Zod, so he’s going to try and make friends.  Because that worked so well with Lex.  Unrelated, but Chloe has a totally awesome green leather jacket and I want one.

Clark dresses up as The Blur and runs off to where Zod and the other K/K’s are hiding.  Funny that he couldn’t find them for so long, and now he knows?  Magic!  When he shows up, Zod says “Kneel before Cal El”, so we’re left wondering what on earth Zod is playing at.  I mean, he can’t be trusted, he’s insane either way, so this entire move on Clark’s part makes no sense to me.

The show is going on hiatus until January 22, so we have awhile to ponder what will happen in the remaining half of the season.  But I am questioning some of what we’ve seen of the future:

1. In the future, everyone keeps saying that Lois just vanished, referencing undoubtedly how she originally put on the Legion ring and jumped ahead a year.  It’s weird, and it feels like there’s this huge plot hole, but I’ll just pretend this is Star Trek and there’s a rift in the space time continuum.  Anyway, Clark tells Lois that after she disappeared, he disconnected and went on to train to fight Zod and abandoned Chloe.  Cept he didn’t know about Zod without Chloe.  And he only went back to Chloe because Lois showed back up.  So how does this work, exactly?
2. Since Lois has been in the future and then come back to the present, doesn’t that automatically mean that the future she saw will be different?  In theory, she was missing for an entire year, but now she’s not so Clark’s life is definitely going to take a different path.  I know the point was for her to be able to tell them all what happened so they can prevent the construction of the towers, but Ray Bradbury has taught us that if you change one little thing, you can’t predict the future anymore.
3. Supposing the same future does play out, does there end up being two Lois’s?  God, I hope not.  But in theory, Lois who was in the future came back to the present, and is now going to live out the next year on a normal timeline.  Yet if the future plays out, Lois should be showing up to see everything, then going back to prevent it from happening.
4. Why, in this crazy world where Kryptonite would realistically kill all the aliens, or at least disable them, is Lana in her Kryptonite infused suit not helping?  I know that Kristin Kruek has left the show and all that, but seriously, wouldn’t that be the easiest way to get the earth back to normal?  She would be the biggest weapon against them, and I’m relatively certain Chloe still has her on speed dial just in case something comes up.  If nothing else, what if Clark accidentally got some Red K in him again and they needed to power him down?
5. And speaking of Kryptonite, why isn’t Chloe and her band of merry men just gathering up all the Kryptonite they can get and hurling it into the restricted zone?  We’ve been lead to believe this entire series that Kryptonite is all over the damn place in this town, and the Luthorcorp facilities likely have an entire vault full of it.  Don’t you dare go talking about how in the future, Tess is teamed up with Zod, because Tess or Lex being in charge has never stopped anyone from breaking into Luthorcorp before… Couldn’t Chloe whip up some kind of Green K infused drink or something, sneak some not well known resistance members in as servants to the Kryptonians, and oust them that way?

Anyone willing to bet that none of these points will be addressed in the slightest over the course of the rest of the season?  Granted, I know my last one there is a bit far fetched, but since Chloe is always able to whip up some out of the blue saving thing, I don’t see why not!

The Blur is messing up!  Oh, cept it’s not him, it’s some imitators.  Kind of like how in Batman all those dudes wore hockey pads and then Batman got pissed at them.  Only Clark doesn’t get mad at these guys, who are the Wonder Twins.  Truthfully, I know almost nothing about them, but it seems there can’t be a superhero from the DC universe that doesn’t go through Smallville anymore.

So the twins are doing heroic ish stuff and branding it as The Blur.  I have no idea why they wouldn’t want to take credit for their own saves, or build their own identity, but what do I know?

Also, Chloe has been monitoring cell phones across the town, and one of the twins messes with the computer.  So Clark’s all talking to Lois as The Blur, but the voice disguisy thing messes up and his real voice comes through.  Weeeee, accidental reveal!  Cept in the end Lois becomes convinced that it wasn’t Clark after all, which in my opinion is kind of disappointing.

See, I feel like Lois is going down the same path as Lana.  All these mysterious saves and omg! almost finding out Clark’s secret, even sometimes finding it out, and then getting told otherwise.  It’s just so done!

Whoever is writing these days is getting better at it, because Clark has been funny like two episodes in a row!  Lois says they should get to know each other better, and Clark says, “You tell me the color of your underwear every day, what else is there to know?“  Love it!  And even I, the queen of over sharing, don’t do that, so props to Lois for being even more arbitrarily sharey than me.

At the end of the episode, Lois kisses Clark.  And immediately goes into a little coma, with another flash to the future that she witnessed.

I’m actually getting more and more curious about this future, so I am glad they’re getting more into it.  Although I will say again that I do not like this vision of Chloe laying dead on the road.  I know that Allison Mack’s contract is up after this year, but I wish they wouldn’t kill her off!

The most amusing thing about this episode was that my dog loved the sound effects when Chloe was doing her computery stuff.

So suddenly it’s a huge priority in Clark’s world to find the Kryptonians/Kandorians.  Since I know nothing about the Superman mythology, I don’t even know why there’s a need to specify these people are Kandorians.  And no, I’m not going to look it up.

At one point in this episode, Chloe tells Clark that Zod has shown up again, and I wonder…why on earth did she need to tell him this?  I mean, Zod arrived in Smallville itself, right outside the Luthor mansion.  Did they not look for symbols in their hometown?  And why doesn’t anyone in the town care about these crop circles now?  They made a huge deal about this kind of thing a few seasons ago!

Jor El half inexplicably shows up at the Kent farm, conveniently missing Clark who is out looking for him, and finding Chloe instead.  She is lucky enough to tell Jor El about what happened to Krypton and why he has a son on Earth.  It’s boring, and the explanation behind why he doesn’t know is likewise boring.  I’d personally rather see more about how Zod becomes the destroyer of Krypton.

I do love something that Oliver says, though:

So when you say Jor El, we talking about the dude in your ice crystal palace thingie?

That’s totally how I describe stuff!  Clark thinks ice crystal palace thingie Jor El knows about real Jor El, but I have no idea why he thinks this.  Doesn’t Clark figure Jor El would tell him if he knew that, I dunno, ZOD was back?!

We also learn that Jor El is a Vulcan.  Or that’s my explanation for the neck grip thingie he does to put Chloe to sleep.

Jor El is supposed to be wicked smart, but he makes the mistake of telling Zod that he knows what happened to Krypton.  I, who am not an alien science genius, know that’s a bad idea.  Obvs it’s going to lead Zod to realize that someone other than Jor El is there!

Also, Tess throws like a girl.

This entire episode is basically leading up to Clark and Lois making out at the end.  For reals, this time.  Not a dream or flash to the future, no attempt by Clark to erase it, it just happens.  In the middle of the Daily Planet.  If I worked there, I would be irritated.  Plus y’all know how I feel about Lois anyway, so I am less than thrilled about this.

Realistically speaking, we’ve had something like five seasons to build up to this.  From the moment Lois was introduced, you knew that she and Clark would get together, cuz everyone knows Lois Lane is Superman’s love.  As much as I disliked Lana, I prefer her drama with Clark to Lois being around.

The other plot in this one is Oliver trying to help some girl who fights for money, but also walks the streets.  All I really have to say about this is his recovery was super fast.  Guess all he needed was a fake death scare and he is back on track all the way!

Chloe had a bigger role in this one, and is trying to hack into Tess’ stuff.  I am confused as to why she needs to do this, since Oliver is in charge of Luthorcorp now and you would think he could get whatever Chloe wants.  But whatever.  At the end, we get a meeting of the super hackers, and maybe Chloe has a new friend.

Oh, and Oliver is still in love with Lois.  I dunno why that’s the case, but I guess I’m not a man of Metropolis.

On the whole, this is pretty boring.  However, Clark was funny, for once.  Generally speaking, I don’t really like Clark all that much either.  It’s either the way he’s written, or Tom Welling’s acting, but it’s just not that good.  But I think he said the funniest thing he’s ever said on this show…

Of course I care, I *bought* a new tie!

The context, in my opinion, is basically irrelevant.  Anyway, I’m sure subsequent episodes will be focusing on this new dynamic with Lois.  Bored now!

Oliver’s downward spiral continues, and while at a club called Roulette, he meets a woman with a dragon tattoo who gives him a red pill, which he takes, and quickly passes out.  Which brings me to my first question of the episode – how does a pill work that quickly?  My limited biology knowledge tells me that any time you take something orally, it takes awhile to digest and get into your system.  Even the fastest acting pain killers still take 15 or so minutes, so I don’t buy that it took like 2 minutes for the pill to affect Oliver enough that he passes out in the street.

Once Oliver wakes up and manages to get himself out of the first “test”, he runs to a pay phone.  Which he picks up and can dial.  Because apparently pay phones work without money these days.  It’s the big pay phone scheme – they’re hard to find, but free!  Question number two – if he wants help, because he calls Chloe, why doesn’t he just start shouting for Clark?  Granted, no one knows Oliver is missing at this point, but Clark would be able to hear him yelling.

Later on in the episode, Oliver is arrested for the murder of dragon lady, aka Victoria.  Even though she was shot in the back and he has no weapon, and is clearly trying to help her.  Some guy comes into the interview room, claiming he’s FBI, and asks Oliver to check his bank accounts on the computer.  Question number three – has Oliver never seen any kind of movie where a rich person is targeted?  Realistically speaking, if someone tells you that there is a group out there trying to take all your billions of dollars, even if you know that person, don’t log into your bank account on their computer!

At this point, Clark has heard Oliver yelling (see!?) and comes to save him.  Cept the game isn’t over!  Victoria is not actually dead and kidnaps Lois, dresses her in the red dress she had previously been wearing, and hopes that Oliver will shoot Lois thinking it would be revenge against Victoria.  Oh wait, but Oliver is really a hero deep down, so he doesn’t shoot, and then even rescues Victoria!

Big surprise is that it was actually Chloe running the whole thing, trying to get Oliver back on the right track and saving people again instead of drinking himself into oblivion.  Personally, since my love for Chloe is no secret here, I don’t like the role she’s having, as more of a sideline character.  I know that this is likely Allison Mack’s last season on the show, and it’s looking like Chloe is going to die by the end of the season, but I’d rather see her go out as Clark’s bestie like she has been the whole time, rather than this new person she’s becoming.

Chloe also shows Clark some Kryptonian lady who was at Oliver’s talk in the previous episode, and they finally discover that there are a ton of Kryptonians who have landed on Earth.  Strangely enough, Clark does not seem very concerned.  Why?  Because the writing on this show sucks.

There’s also this stupid side plot about how Lois wants to watch movies with Clark, and it’s more blah tension between the two of them.  I still don’t like Lois.

Remember how I said the last episode wasn’t actually that bad?  Sadly, they had to follow it up with this one, which was more run of the mill boring for the show.

This episode pretty much centers around Oliver and his continual downward spiral.  I half way feel bad for the guy, he’s getting worse and worse because he killed Lex, but it’s just so…blah.  And I still don’t believe that Lex is dead anyway.  Basically, while it sucks that he feels guilty for supposedly killing a future evil mastermind, I don’t think we need to devote entire episodes to this.  Or if we do, can Justin Hartley at least be shirtless?

The other thing that happens is Clark temporarily gets the ability to read people’s thoughts, including Lois.  I thought she was annoying before.  Generally speaking, I like a show that gives you the inner monologue, it’s one of my favorite aspects of Dexter.  But I think you need to actually like the characters to enjoy their thoughts, too.

Clark learns that Lois really wants to go to the monster truck rally, cuz he can read thoughts, so he invites her on a kind of date to do that.  Which she is super excited about and cuts up what looks like a perfectly good pair of jeans to make short shorts.  Umm, I didn’t realize that Lois Lane doubles as Daisy Duke on the weekends!  Just as an FYI, if you insist on cutting up jeans to make cut offs, which I advise against anyway, find a pair that at least had a hole in them before hand!

It also struck me as odd that Lois is performing her fashion mistake at the Talon.  Which is located in Smallville.  And her kind of date is in Metropolis.  Last time they mentioned the distance, it was like a couple hours drive.  I get Clark still living in the farm house, it takes him like a half a second to get there.  But for regular people?  When will you be getting an apartment in the city?

This also features the Toyman, who tried to kill Oliver last season and then Oliver framed him for the death of Lex.  So Toyman is back to take his revenge on Oliver for the frame job, and plants a bomb in the Ace of Clubs so it’ll kill Oliver.  He tells Oliver it’s operated by the pressure plate he’s standing on, so Oliver gets everyone else out, then steps off, thus attempting suicide.  Cept it’s actually on a timer, and Clark stops the timer before the bomb goes off, so Oliver is just a depressed dude who tried to commit suicide.

The two of them are talking out on the balcony afterwards, and when Oliver turns around, we see an image in the glass that looks like Lex Luthor.  I’m not sure what we’re supposed to take from this – does Oliver think he is maybe turning into Lex?  Or is this an allusion to the fact that Lex is not actually dead?  I am confused, but I can’t fully say that I care.

Meanwhile, authorities pick up Toyman and Tess gives him the kryptonite heart to figure out how it works.  Which also doesn’t make sense, cuz what is she going to do, start manufacturing them and putting them in people?

On the whole, kind of a pointless episode.  I want more Zod, more Chloe, and more forward motion with the plot!