By TrinityVixen
Cruel, teasing show! It is impossible to enjoy the relief of Clark Kent’s secret being outed to the world at large when it is clear that the entire thing is going to be undone. There are two seconds of joy for forty minutes of woe.
Season Eight, Episode Fifteen
Tori Spelling returns as the liquidified Linda Lake, super tabloid journalist who threatens to expose Clark’s secret. Now that he’s the Red-Blue Blur and making headlines, she is ready to pounce on her insider info and get her byline back on the front page: if Clark gives her the heads up on his saves, Linda keeps her lips sealed water-tight. I don’t see how he’ll have the time to leave her sonic text messages en route to disasters, but logic never was a hurdle to anyone on this show.
Clark maneuvers around her by spilling the beans to Lois and letting her write up his biography. Their exchange is sweet and heartbreaking as Lois is alternatively flattered and disappointed as Clark confesses; she is the one he trusts to represent him fairly, but she is almost the last person in his tiny circle of friends to learn the truth. Lois rebounds pretty quickly. She types up the story, and Clark becomes a celebrity. He is beloved and besieged by fans. He has his shining moment in the sun.
It is a very brief moment, naturally. People throw themselves into danger assuming Clark will rescue them. This is only the first sign of trouble on the horizon, and it escalates from there into outright hostility. All those fears the Kents treasured about their son being cut up and studied start to creep in at the cracks as people start blaming Clark for all the disasters and deaths he didn’t prevent. Through it all, Lois has got his back; she is the first person on the phone to assure him she can write him right out of his woes. Lois is awesome.
But you can’t awesome your way out of a present/future that is no longer tenable. That takes magic rings from the future! (Way to ruin the fun, Legionnaires!) Despite the dire warnings from Chloe that rewriting this timeline will result in some unforeseen penalty, Clark wastes the ring’s trip to go back and zap the superpowers out of Linda Lake and expose her as a murderer before she can say word one. Everything seems all well and good—Clark is safe, Lois even gets that ride from the airport in the rain that Clark otherwise forgot about in the timeline that never happened. No worries!
Except that would be too easy. In this new present, Bloomesday is the one to end up in Linda Lake’s sights. She turns her gutter-gained knowledge about his nocturnal activities into a weapon. Too bad he’s invulnerable. Davis freaks out, smothers Tori Spelling to death (he has no idea how many have wanted to do that), and stops taking the anti-psychotics that have kept the monster at bay. So, that’s one headache gone and the future set on course for a major Clark vs. Doomsday showdown. Seeing as we were already headed that way, I can’t really credit this development as being all that more awful for Clark having monkeyed around in time. Certainly, compared to the death of Jonathan Kent and the de-powering of the Martian Manhunter, this does not seem all that severe. Of course, this show is probably going to use Bloomesday’s connection to Chloe to finally take her out once and for all. Much as I love Lois, I won’t be able to watch this show without Chloe. Couldn’t they kill off Tess Mercer?
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About TrinityVixen: There’s an asterisk on TrinityVixen’scollege transcript that assures anyone who reads it that, though there is no specific major, degree, or certificate for it, she did, in fact, complete some kind of creative writing program as an undergrad. Armed with that symbol of irrelevant experience, she has polluted the internet with her opinions and horrible fanworks ever since (and for quite a long while before). Living poor in New York until she finds a means to become independently wealthy, she must subsist on the juicy meat of fandom. Fandom and noodles. And instant soup.
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There’s an asterisk on TrinityVixen’scollege transcript that assures anyone who reads it that, though there is no specific major, degree, or certificate for it, she did, in fact, complete some kind of creative writing program as an undergrad. Armed with that symbol of irrelevant experience, she has polluted the internet with her opinions and horrible fanworks ever since (and for quite a long while before). Living poor in New York until she finds a means to become independently wealthy, she must subsist on the juicy meat of fandom. Fandom and noodles. And instant soup. 
