As Tess Mercer is revealed to be Lionel's secret daughter, there's no way to ignore the ick factor that comes with this entire dynamic. However, making matters worse is the fact that Clark Luthor is ruthless, violent, and utterly without anything remotely healthy or sympathetic.
Even if Tess isn't the best character Smallville ever created, she never deserved anything that Clark Luthor put her through. Is it really a teen drama series if one best friend doesn't spend half the series longing for another, only to have their affections never be returned?
The duo always worked far better as friends and partners in investigating freaks of the week, along with Pete and later Lois, than they ever did as a romantic possibility. No matter how many wistful moments the series tried to shoehorn in, their chemistry always came across as much more akin to siblings than lovers - and thankfully, the series learned how to move on from that idea.
We're not sure what it says that one of the few times Lana was given a good storyline, it involved a relationship that would ultimately turn out to be a horrible mistake. Nevertheless, even if Jason and Lana would eventually spiral out of control once Jason's true intentions were revealed, there's no denying that Jason's character added a lot to Lana's storyline.
For the first time, Lana had a romantic foil with whom she shared real on screen chemistry, as Kristin Kreuk and Jensen Ackles felt far more believable opposite one another than Kreuk ever did with Tom Welling or Eric Johnson. Few relationships have such bordering on abusive a premise as this one. Davis Bloome, eventually revealed to be the host of the legendary DC villain Doomsday, has struggled with violent tendencies for quite some time.
Looking past the absurd, alarming connotations of this codependent development, Chloe and Davis's relationship couldn't have come at a worse time. Putting endless strain on Chloe's relationship, and eventual engagement, to Jimmy Olsen, her toxic connection with Davis would lead to one of the worst decisions the show ever made. It would be Davis himself who was ultimately responsible for Jimmy's tragic end, an unforgivable act that prevents any possible redeeming qualities from being found in this mess of a relationship.
Sometimes, relationships really are star-crossed from the beginning. Clark and Alicia were one of the series' most volatile relationships, even in the brief time that they were actually together. Initially, Alicia's means of winning Clark over were less than reputable, given her reliance on Kryptonite to get him to do what she wanted.
However, despite her occasionally sketchy ways, there's no denying that Alicia was one of the first people to offer Clark something that very few people ever could: acceptance. She was able to understand him, the parts of himself that he very rarely let anyone know about. From one Kryptonite freak to another, their connection was genuine, sweet, and made for some of the series' most adorable couple-related moments. However, since Alicia entered the series as someone who posed a threat to the status quo, it came as no surprise when their relationship met an untimely, permanent end.
Nothing says romantic like being forced into an uncomfortably tense dynamic with a zombified stalker. Somehow, that's actual logic used by Smallville , which found Lana Lang entering into a flirty friendship for a brief time with Adam Knight, played by future Lost and The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder.
What at first seemed like an innocent enough connection between two people working through physical rehab training soon turned very much darker.
It was revealed that Adam was a previously deceased individual brought back to life by Lionel Luthor in order to spy on Clark and Lana back in Smallville.
Smallville never really was very good at the whole first love thing. Teenage relationships were often overly melodramatic or lasted for far too long, sometimes even into adulthood. Few of these first love relationships contributed anything of worth to any of the characters or the series as a whole. One of the only young love relationships that felt genuine and sweet was, ironically, one of the few unrequited dynamics the show briefly explored. Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan were always depicted as the best of friends, but Chloe was too lovesick with her crush on Clark to ever give Pete the time of day in that way.
However, that didn't stop Pete from secretly loving her from afar throughout their high school years, something that he admitted was his best kept secret when he finally impulsively kissed her. From the very beginning, her personality was in direct conflict with almost everyone's, and her eventually revealed connection to the Luthor clan would always make her impossible to trust. It was with her relationship with Oliver, however, that the show finally tried to make her somewhat sympathetic.
Through their shared history on the island, and their instances of saving each other and falling for each other, Smallville was clearly trying to set them up as some sort of destined to be couple However, their storyline was never interesting enough to merit the amount of screen time that it received. Their characters were too stubborn, too incompatible, and ultimately lacked the necessary chemistry and connection to make any meaningful relationship possible. Oliver then tried to track down the creature.
When Oliver later discovered that Chloe had come up with her own controversial method of stopping Doomsday, he was not impressed. Chloe and Oliver's friendship began to dissolve when they began to disagree on each other's choices of how to be a hero. When Oliver was injured in a bombing at LuthorCorp, he asked Chloe to help him track down the person he thought was responsible, which could lead him to Lex Luthor. Chloe was reluctant, but Oliver convinced her to comply by pointing out that if Clark went after Lex, he wouldn't finish him off and might even be in danger since Lex now knew Clark's weakness.
Chloe tracked down Winslow Schott but ultimately gave the information to Clark anyway. She was appalled that Oliver had resorted to murder to deal with Lex. She told him she was going to tell Clark what he had done and Oliver shamed her into silence by questioning her role in the murder of Sebastian Kane , although she insisted that was Brainiac's doing. Despite these disagreements, Oliver attended Chloe's birthday party. She confided in him that she was not happy with her life and helped her make the decision to come on board with the Justice League full-time.
On the surface, they seemingly put their differences behind them. However, Chloe clearly had not forgiven his murder of Lex, as she used it to convince Dr. Emil Hamilton into helping her find a cure for Davis. She told Dr. Hamilton that she went to him for help because Oliver could not be trusted. When Oliver discovered that Chloe was keeping Davis in her basement, despite knowing that he was the serial-killing monster , he was angry that Chloe was putting others in danger.
Chloe insisted that she had the situation under control, as being near Davis calmed the beast. Despite having a once trusting relationship, Oliver clearly felt that Chloe had broken this trust through these actions and he remained skeptical of her defense. After this, Oliver was prepared to believe the worst of Chloe, as he believed that she had run away with Davis because she loved him.
Oliver went against the plans of Clark and Chloe by ordering the teammates to go against both of them. They tracked down Chloe and Davis and forcefully returned them to Metropolis. He restrained Chloe and prepared to kill Davis. Chloe fought back and used black kryptonite on Davis to separate him from the beast. Once Doomsday went on the rampage, he realized that he was not equipped with handling the situation and admitted his mistake in not trusting Chloe or Clark. He attended the funeral of Jimmy Olsen , who had been killed in the fray, but he stood apart from the team and Chloe only gave him strong looks of contempt.
Nevertheless, she seemed concerned when she told Clark that Oliver and the rest of the team had disappeared. Chloe tried to reorganize the Justice League but her most difficult challenge was finding the whereabouts of Oliver and bringing him back.
Because of his downward spiral, Oliver had lost the will to live and then Chloe, after placing a camera to spy and watch him for several weeks, devised a plan to make him rethink his life. With the help of her teammates, Chloe pushed Oliver over the edge to face his demons and find himself again and Oliver congratulated and thanked her for saving his life.
Oliver and Chloe continued to work together, becoming each other's partners, on missions including tracking down the Justice Society. Hawkman told Oliver that he pushed people away because he was scared. Oliver decided to remedy that by taking Chloe and John to dinner.
Chloe found Oliver at the Watchtower, doing some target practice, as well as they commiserated about the fact that neither of them has much fun these days. Oliver told Chloe that " Sometimes, you've gotta take your fun where you can get it. And sometimes, it's right in front of your face.
You just have to want to see it. Just listen. Right there, in between the beats. That's when you let go. A romantic relationship between Oliver and Chloe quickly developed, although their trust was temporarily disrupted when he discovered that she was embezzling money from his company. She quickly defended her actions by showing the arsenal of kryptonite weaponry that she had bought with his money. Later, they checked in at a bed-and-breakfast together. When they ran into Lois and Clark , Chloe claimed that they're not a couple.
They were just having fun and that she wanted their relationship to be without gifts and flowers, pressure and strings. Clark was concerned by the new relationship and asked Oliver not to take Chloe for granted. Later Chloe and Oliver started to kiss when Chloe saw a gift from Oliver. She asked him if Clark talked to him, she then started to become upset and left their bedroom.
Soon afterwards, Chloe was possessed by the Silver Banshee and busted in on a shower with Clark. She fainted when the Banshee released her to possess Lois and was shocked when she realized where she was and that both she and Clark were naked.
Recovering from the Silver Banshee's intervention, Chloe eventually got around to opening Oliver's gift, which was revealed to be a spoon. Oliver then jokingly got jealous when he mentioned to Chloe that the next time she wants to take a shower with someone, she should ask him. Chloe reassured him that, although she once loved Clark , he never did see that, didn't "get her" and her wounds from that healed a long time ago.
She then asked Oliver about Lois and he said that "the scars are alway there but that doesn't mean they haven't healed". With their past relationships with Clark and Lois clearly behind them, Chloe and Oliver made a big step towards moving on and passionately kissed.
When Oliver was captured by Tess and other Checkmate agents as a part of a plot to get Watchtower, Chloe panicked and she worked with Clark to save him. However, Oliver was able to escape by himself and when he arrived at Watchtower, Chloe ran to embrace him in relief and they shared a sweet reunion, with Clark embarassingly looking on. Chloe and Oliver decided that it was best for him to lay low while Chloe investigated. Before she left, a slightly vulnerable Oliver asked her to be careful, but Chloe was kidnapped.
Oliver and Clark then worked together to save Chloe. Oliver expressed concern for Chloe stating that she scared the life out of him to which she replied, " You better be careful, Ollie. Or I might start to think you're falling for me. Even when Oliver was away on business , he sent Chloe a text message to say how much he missed her.
When Chloe and Tess become trapped in Watchtower , the two started talking about their common ground — Oliver. However, Tess reassured Chloe that her relationship with Oliver gave his life purpose.
While Chloe was trapped, Oliver confronted Zod and got badly burnt by his heat vision. Once Chloe escaped she went to Met Gen to be with Oliver during his recovery. Chloe eventually said to Clark that now she had Oliver in her life, she wanted to be plugged again into the real world.
Informing Oliver what was going on , Chloe was discussing the Kandorians and the impending war with him via web-cam. Oliver said that he was coming back to be with Chloe and feeling a declaration of love coming, she interjected, saying that he was coming because they needed to protect the database, awkwardly ending the conversation.
Later in Watchtower Chloe was frantic as she tried to recover communications since Zod's soldiers had destroyed all of Earth's satellites. Oliver told her to calm down, that she had him, they were a team and she could trust him, then proceeded to mention that after Tess infiltrated Watchtower he had a satellite launched specifically for Watchtower, as a sort of gift to her.
Chloe was excited and joked that she was planning to buy him a sweater as a birthday gift, but now she didn't know if that compared to a satellite. She was relieved, but Oliver told her he had to turn it on from the Earth station.
Because she felt that Zod would be watching for any new satellite activity, Chloe gave him a hand radio and asked him to keep a low profile.
Oliver suddenly kissed her and left to complete his mission, smiling and saying that since he was wearing his green leather, he would do his best, which left her smiling.
Chloe and Oliver eventually confessed their love for each other when Oliver was being attacked by a mystery attacker while he was in the air ducts of the Earth Station. Fate 's helmet in order to find out where he was. When Clark asked her what she saw, she didn't mention anything about Oliver or trading herself for him. As Oliver was being released, he and Chloe bumped into each other. Once Oliver got into the car, he looked fearful, as though he realized something wasn't right.
From the opposite car, Chloe was revealed to have gone through with the trade, showing that Oliver's safety meant more than her own life. Oliver was at Watchtower , desperately trying to look for Chloe, when Tess showed up and informed Oliver that she had gotten his message and didn't understand what happened to Chloe. Oliver professed that Chloe was gone and he'd do anything he could to find the woman he loved.
She remarked that Clark tended to do the same thing for Lois, but Oliver stated that they both of course knew where Lois was, but Chloe had disappeared. Tess suggested that Chloe possibly erased her own "existence" records. Oliver believed that possibility was very unlikely and handed Tess a printed e-mail that she supposedly sent him. Tess read the e-mail and it revealed much affection, passion, as well as devotion for Oliver. Tess denied posting such an e-mail and pointed out that they "both know" Chloe did.
Tess admitted that she helped Chloe with "erasing" herself, trusting that she had a plan. Oliver went to Chloe's apartment looking for clues and found a past photo taken by him with Chloe only in sheets on bed and a little bottle behind the photo.
Oliver tracked down where he had been held captive and confronted Rick Flag , who told him that Chloe had traded herself for him and then "killed herself" to protect him. Oliver realized that Chloe had faked her own death after finding that the small bottle from the apartment contained an antidote to the cyanide pill.
He felt guilty about Chloe's decision, blaming himself for it. Oliver was training in his office at LuthorCorp, remembering the first kiss he and Chloe shared, when Lois interrupted and warned Oliver that Gordon Godfrey had obtained evidence about his secret identity as Green Arrow and was about to publish it in his new book.
Oliver went to the church with his parents' photograph and he talked about what they taught to him when he was a child. He confessed that he tried and then said to his parents photograph that Chloe, the woman that he loved, sacrificed everything to protect him. Oliver started to think about his life and realized that Chloe sacrificed everything to protect him and his fellow heroes due to their secret identities.
Lois, believing that Chloe was taking a vacation, said to Oliver that she knew what he meant to Chloe and she knew she would be back. He then made the decision to reveal his identity to the Earth so that Chloe could return to him and called a press conference to announce he was Green Arrow.
Meanwhile, at LuthorCorp, Oliver prepared for an interview with the local TV-media to discuss his alter-ego. Clark, however, entered the room, offering Oliver his silent support. Strengthened by Clark's presence, Oliver admitted that he recently lost Chloe.
She meant everything to me. He then made a speech reassuring his acts as a hero. Oliver decided to continue supporting the Isis Project: A Tale of Eternal Love , a project at the Metropolis Museum that he began funding while he was in a relationship with Chloe. Oliver was taking a tour of the Metropolis Museum while discussing with its curator, Adrianna , on his big entrance as Green Arrow.
Tess entered, implying that he was doing that with hope that Chloe saw it and poked fun at Oliver, saying that he was nothing more than a caricature of himself and not the man Chloe fell for. Oliver responded by asking her whether or not she even knew what real love looked like anymore. Later in a conversation with Clark, Oliver said to his friend that he knew how it was living without love and living without love was just sort of existing, alluding to how much he missed Chloe.
Later Clark called Tess to be the new Watchtower and Oliver was clearly against the idea, saying that no one could replace Chloe. Later Isis, possessing Lois, sensed Oliver behind her and noted that he had a brave heart but that it belonged to a lonely soul trying to fill the emptiness inside but nothing that he does works.
The next day, Tess and Oliver talked at Watchtower where Oliver admitted that Tess was one of the only people who could see right through him. Tess pointed out that Chloe was the one who saw him, too. In that moment, Oliver opened up about his ongoing heartache. I miss her laugh and She really loved me". He felt guilty thinking that Chloe did what she did because of his secret and Tess said that, when it came to him, no price was too high for Chloe.
Oliver responded, "I guess you can still see real love," pointing out that Chloe was his true love. He has to figure out a whole other path, something he's never done before. He goes on this journey to try to get rid of this thing.
Oliver and Chloe are going to be the best man and woman at Lois and Clark's wedding. What's in store for them? Hartley: A lot of hell breaks loose, actually. Oliver has the Omega and turns into a totally different, disgusting person. Chloe has to figure out a way to stand by him. She does. In the end, it's interesting because Oliver has to go do his thing, and Chloe has to go do her thing, so there's a really sweet, tender moment in the finale that I think you'll like.
The way it's all wrapped up is actually really beautiful. It leaves you with a warm heart. Smallville finale scoop: Will Lois and Clark really get married? Will the differences from the Smallville and Superman mythos be addressed since Chloe didn't previously exist outside of Smallville and Oliver actually married Black Canary? Hartley: It sort of is. In a very warm, sweet way it is addressed because the images that you're going to see are things that could go on while the mythos of the comics is happening, with him and Black Canary.
What you see on your screen in the finale, you could very well go, "Oh, I see, that would work then. That would coincide. What can you tell us about the return of Zod Callum Blue in the episode you're directing?
Hartley: He's not the happiest of guys. He feels like he was betrayed by his brother, someone from his own planet. He has every right to act the way he's acting. I wanted him a little more sexually charged in this episode and sort of funny, getting a kick out of things.
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