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Clark Kent goes to work in Metropolis and suddenly he’s a big hero. Who knew?

The pieces are falling into place to turn this into a show about the adult Superman if they ever decide to go there. Clark is in Metropolis working at the Daily Planet with Lois and Jimmy, Lana’s long gone, Pete is even longer gone, Chloe is going to start using her computer skills full-time rather than her reporting skills, Pa Kent is dead, and Ma Kent is out of the picture. The reasons for calling this show Smallville have become non-existent unless it now refers to Lois’ nickname for Clark. But that’s a good thing, because things had gotten stale after seven seasons in small-town Kansas, and there are only so many meteor freaks that can be fought.

So far the new direction seems to have brought some freshness to the show, and as much as I miss Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex, his relationship with Clark had taken just about every twist and turn it could. Lex had long ago completed his descent into evil, and it wouldn’t make much sense to get rid of Clark. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise.

I’m sorry, but I just HAVE to say this: WHY is Chloe still living above the Talon if she’s in Metropolis all the time? It doesn’t make any sense. And is the whole place a ghost town now that it isn’t the center of the show any more or what?

Tess Mercer has not only replaced Lex as the CEO of Luthorcorp, but she’s now taken over as publisher of the Daily Planet. Apparently running a multinational conglomerate worth billions and searching for her former boss aren’t enough to take up all of her time, so she wants to run a newspaper as well. I guess that explains why they didn’t bring in Perry White like they should have.

Instead, we get another new regular: Davis the ambulance man, who seems to have some secrets (meteor powers) of his own. Is he good or bad? Only time will tell. Okay, he’s bad. I don’t have any inside information, but it just wouldn’t make any sense for him to be a good guy, would it?

As for Clark wearing the glasses, they’ve obviously decided to forego that, at least for now—maybe for the rest of the series. Now would have been the obvious time for him to do that, with starting the new job and—I think—moving to Metropolis (although they didn’t mention him actually doing that). There have certainly been enough major changes from comic and movie continuity that I wouldn’t put it past them to skip it altogether. Maybe he’ll wear a mask as Superman instead?

Next week we get what probably would have been the pilot episode for a Green Arrow show if they had gone in that direction. In the old days, they used to do it all the time and call it a “back door” pilot, then they would spin the character off in his or her own series. Like Rhoda from Mary Tyler Moore, or The Jeffersons from All in the Family. Yes, sadly I’m old enough that those were the first examples that came to mind. I don’t know if that’s what they’re planning with Ollie, but it would certainly make more sense than a Justice League show, considering the JL movie in the works and the noticeable lack of Batman in this version.

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