Don’t get me wrong, I love Chloe + Clark: I’m truly a devotee to their potential together. But their potential is repeatedly undermined by their coping failures: Clark’s insensitivity and Chloe’s sensitivity.

Like Chloe said about Clark, “He’s no Jimmy Olsen.” Jimm’s sensitive to her AND is willing to fight for her, even if it’s broken bones at Clark’s hands. Hey, a reciprocated love for Chloe, yay! And NO she’s not settling, because he’s not the Jimmy Olsen moron of yester-year. He’s a refreshingly hip version of the under-dog, much like Toby-McGuire’s Peter Parker. Unlike Clark, he knows what he wants.

As Lana gathered about Clark, he doesn’t love her, he just doesn’t want anyone else to be with her. You see this with the Chlark relationship: Clark practically growling about Chloe’s happiness with her bright-eyed beau.

High-School fever has faded away, while a more mature Ms. Chloe Sullivan emerges. Clark’s a great friend, but as a lover, he needs a door-busting Lois. So our softening Chloe finally does face her intimacy dissappointment with Clark, finding that J-Chloe is where she is loved. In the end, the Chlark relationship brings them to not a teen-age swoong song, but a love that fits. And it fits rather sweetly, if you can stand all that suger. While not Big Blue, who isn’t rooting for Chloe to finally be happy with a good guy.

There’s a lot of huge things happening this season that are going to take up a lot of episodes. Crimson hinted with Lois, the bizarro-Chloe with power and insensitivity, the sheer guts to deal with Clark and his issues. But with Smallville’s history of on-again-off-again triangles and relationships, the whole J-Chlark thing may just be getting started.

While emotionally and intellectually Chlark may be over with, the audience’s apetite for voyeurism wants more. For now I’m siding with the Al Gough, co-creator of Smallville, that instead of Chloe either dying, going crazy, (or ?becoming Lois?), “maybe she’ll buy a little house in the suburbs.” Though it’s drama, don’t we want our favorite characters to be happy sooner than later? I do. Go team J-Chloe!

I liked it when Clark Said “Your Job!” Finally some backbone.