Joe, I actually liked Chloe for the first few seasons of the show. Her character has grown a little tiresome over the years though. I do agree it would've been more interesting to have her become a villian, but I have liked some of her stuff during her time as Watchtower. I'm also pretty sure I saw a quote from one of the producers that said Chloe would NOT be the new Dr. Fate. They just used it as a tool for her to find Ollie and get herself taken out of most of the season.
The "Tess as a Lex clone" theory sounds cool. Don't know if that's what the producers have in mind or not, though. If they do go this route, they'd have to explain it as Tess is only NOW a hybird clone of Lex and Tess and that her character HASN'T been a clone all her life. She has a past with Ollie, so in my mind, she couldn't have been a clone her whole life.
I would have liked some sort of pay-off though in this episode as to what Granny Goodness was doing at the hospital. Did she take Tess' lifeless body? I suppose that Darkseid and his minions are the ones running Cadmus Labs in Lex's absence, but it would've been nice to see a pay-off for that bit from last season.
I know Evil Clone Lex said that the creator died 2 years ago, but he could have been lying. That's typically what bad guys do. It would be interesting to see that kid grow into Michael Rosenbaum though. The kid did say some of them aged to quickly, which probably means they were engineered to age at least to maturity quicker.
And yes they will continue to tease us and tease us with the suit and flight, but I think we might see both after the mid-season break...or at least I certainly hope so.
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Duckbeaver, you're absolutely right about Oliver and Zod getting it on with Tess and therefore getting it on with Lex, but...as much as I love this show, we are talking about Smallville here. I don't know. Maybe the writers did something with the storyline from Return of The Supermen storyline where they re-introduced Superboy as a clone of Superman and Lex Luther. Maybe they will do the same with Tess. She did die at the end of Season 9, and I mean Granny Goodness did something, or nothing perhaps. She was healed some kind of way. All I heard Alexander say was "that's how we were able to heal you". So maybe this is a new Tess merged with Lex? Would be interesting and I did hear that there would be a twist to her character this season. So far the only one that has been sucessful in coming back from the dead is Clark. He's died like 5 times so far during the series. What's bothering me now as I'm typing though, BLC (Bad Lex Clone) said that the "creator" died two years ago....so who's been running the lab since then? He couldn't have been locked up for two years and someone's been taking care of the clones so who is it? Guess we'll find out at some point. They shouldn't, but I have a feeling we'll be teased with the suit, and flying no less, until the last episode of the season. Which blows, but I'll still be sticking around till the very end.