Smallville thought (spoiler)

[dvandom]

Okay, so Chloe's a meteor freak, but doesn't know what power, if any, she's going to manifest. It's being set up as a big "time bomb" for her, given how every meteor freak she's known about has ended up dead or in Belle Reve...and given her family history of mental illness, she's more afraid of the latter than the former.

Thing is, I think her powers manifested before the first episode aired, and there's some lines in last night's episode that suggest my guess is on the money. Specifically, Chloe's implausibly good computer skills are her K-power. Seriously, here's this high school student hacking her way into highly secure networks from an iMac. Of course, it's just a genre convention, and I doubt the writers had this planned from day one...them kids is good with 'puters, yah? But with some of her tricks straining suspension of disbelief over the years, "revealing" that they had all been due to a sort of machine empathy would work pretty easily. This would also nearly resolve the "everyone's died or gone insane" fear, if it turns out she's been operating at superhuman levels for years and been okay. Well, it'd resolve the insanity part...just being around Clark tends to be lethal in the long run, meteor powers or no.

ORAChLoE!

Comments

[loki-liesmith.livejournal.com]

I think it's going to some sort of mental power. I know they've already had the guy who could wipe minds, but I'm wondering if maybe they're setting Chloe up to have something similar, with her crisis coming in near the end of the series, when her "time-bomb" goes off, essentially wiping essential memories about Clark from everyone in Smallville, and explaining why Lex doesn't recognize Clark in his Superman persona in the future. Or something like that that ends up setting everything up for "Superman Status Quo" at the end of the series, with maybe some residual memories left behind that guide both Lois and Clark toward their careers at the Planet, etc.

Granted, I'm certainly HOPING that's not the case, but I can see the network doing it that way.