Smallville and the battle of Clark and the fog

I know I may be getting to the game a little late on this one, but forgive me -- I don't have a TV!

The episode of Smallville that aired last week was all sorts of epic. I can't even describe to you the feeling that shot through me when Clark's voice scrambler stopped working -- oh shit! Is this it? -- and then Lois's reaction, and of course her shrink visits and I'm in love. Sorry. The rambling. It's unattractive. But Lois and Clark? What's more legendary than that?

The big issue with the episode is the confusion that stemmed from Lois's fall from the Daily Planet roof. I must admit, embarrassing though this may be, I was on team fog at first. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll elaborate.

The Wonder Twins were featured (albeit with a little over 5 minutes screentime) in last week's episode. Wikipedia tells me that Zan and Jayna are from another planet, and that they can transform. Zan can become water at any state (sidebar: is this dumb?) and Jayna any animal. When Lois is thrown off the roof of the Daily Planet in typical Lois fashion, Clark decides to try to save her as Clark instead of whirling into Blur attire and zooming to her rescue.


This creates an issue for poor Clark, because by now the vultures have gathered and there are roughly the same amount of journalists below as there are people in Smallville. Clark is forced to make the decision -- do I save her? Or should I protect my identity and let her fall to her painful death?

I fully believe that if she had dropped, then the decision would have been made for him, and he would have ousted himself without a second thought. But now, she's hanging, and he's reaching futively for her, and she's getting all dramatic and offering to die to protect his secret.

Then the fog comes (it's Zan, p.s.) and Clark smiles. He reassures her that everything's going to be alright and she falls, falls, falls.

The next scene shows her landing softly on the ground amidst thick and luscious fog. The fog obviously caught her. Right?

I figured it was a stupid Smallville thing. After all, fog can't catch you, it's clouds for godssake. But maybe Zan could, I dunno, I don't know anything about this dude. But on Kryptonsite, my favourite Smallville forum, a metaphorical storm was brewing over the identity of Lois's saviour. People started to question...

Would Clark really leave Lois's life in the hands of some guy he'd just met? Why would Clark assume that the fog was going to catch Lois? How much did he even know about Zan and his powers at this point?

But also, why didn't the directors show Clark catching her? How was the lowered so slowly to the ground -- wouldn't Clark catching her have been a jolty motion and then a crash, like when he caught Lana that one time? Physics makes it obvious, because at the speed she was moving, there was no way that a typical catch-and-land would have left her alive, in one piece, and still peacefully sleeping.

The argument continued. 432 posts worth of arguing. The director of the episode showed up, Glen Winter himself, to settle the argument. Clark saved her, or so he says. But the argument continues! Ten forum pages of continues! Will this argument never end?

I'm now firmly on the Clark team. Team fog doesn't stand a chance, not when you look at Clark's smile before Lois dropped, and the phone call from Chloe-the-Blur after the fact ("I guess this makes up for not calling.). Plus, well, Glen Winter.

In other news, I don't know quite how to express how excited I am for Friday's episode. I've been thinking about it, and let's just say that I spent my shift at work daydreaming about it instead of working. Eight wasted hours, so it better be good!