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1x01 Slammed against tree, trips, lonely childhood, pinned 1x02 Head grabbed x2, nightmare, passes out (18:30) 1x03 Lonely childhood, jumped, [flashback; heartbroken, crying] 1x04 Falls down the stairs 1x05 Restrained x2 1x06 Passes out, possessed, head thwacked, elbowed, nearly trampled, crying 1x08 Falls off cliff, trips 1x09 Trips, caught mid-air (kinda hot ngl), nightmare, restrained x2, choked, caught in spell 1x10 Pinned, possessed, carried, sneeze, nightmare, jumps off cliff, unconscious 1x12 Cursed, worsening pain, head thwacked, trips 1x13 Trips

2x01 Ball to the face, choked, nose thwacked, pinned, grabbed 2x02 Nightmare, choked, hands burned 2x03 Restrained, dragged, nightmare, subconsciously crying 2x04 Trips 2x05 Fever, passes out (10:10) 2x06 Nightmare, cursed, captured 2x07 Missing/captured, restrained by the neck x2, falls down cliff, rope burns, poisoned/youkai blindness, head thwacked, knocked down, passes out 2x08 Thrown out the window, choked, drowning 2x09 Uppercutted, freaked out x2, coughing, knocked unconscious, fever, passes out 2x10 Chewed, weak 2x11 Arm bit 2x12 Uppercutted, bullied, hand bleeding, bandaged, tackled 2x13 Depressed, restrained, knocked unconscious

3x01 Passes out (06:30), collapse/unconscious (09:35), shoulder painfully bit 3x02 Choked 3x03 Lonely/bullied childhood, nightmare, snatched 3x04 [Childhood; bullied, ambushed x10, crying] 3x05 Choked, freaked out x3, mini-smacked x18, SNATCHED, knocked unconscious 3x06 Choked, dropped from the sky, knocked down x3, pinned, dragged, knocked unconscious 3x07 Captured, restrained, large fall down cave, grazed by arrow, bleeding, knocked down, held 3x09 Falls down bridge, freaked out (09:00), pinned, crying (happy tears :)), fingers pricked x4, knocked unconscious, nurses bed 3x10 Mirror absorbs into eye, great eye pain x5, head grabbed 3x11 Mirror absorbs into eye, hit with hammer 3x12 Collapse, fever, nightmare/jolted awake, subconsciously crying [Flashback; knocked unconscious, flown off a cliff, hospitalized, crying] 3x13 Lonely childhood, falls into pit

4x01 Manhandled, choked, knocked down, captured, briefly unconscious, restrained, catslapped 4x02 Imprisoned, knocked down, falls down slope 4x03 Hands scratched up, poisoned, pain, choked, cheek grazed, restrained 4x04 Pinned, protected 4x05 [Flashbacks; lonely, neglected] 4x06 Trapped in a bottle 4x07 Trapped cont., scared, collapse, exhausted 4x09 Knocked off the balcony, knocked unconscious (log trap) 4x10 Panicked running/trips, passes out, sick from exhaustion 4x11 Passes out, nightmare, parent lore, denial, crying, emotional pain 4x12 Childhood bullies/trauma, manipulated, restrained, catslapped, possessed 4x13 Possessed cont., unconscious, [Childhood; emotional pain x3, scared, bullied, hit x20], choked, crying

5x01 Nightmare, jolted awake, passes out, scared, squeezed 5x03 Blackmailed 5x04 Choked x3, manhandled 5x05 Unconscious (20:20) 5x06 Pinned, voice taken, soft coughing x5 5x07 Passes out 5x09 Tired as fork 5x10 (Different POV of 3x16; Lonely, bandaged/after hospital) 5x11 Fever, collapse, hallucinating, very sick for multiple days, headache, nightmare, worsening sickness 5x12 Passes out, carried 5x13 Repetitive nightmare, tired

6x01 Transformed as child, amnesia, manipulated, terrified 6x03 Freaked out x3, pinned 6x04 Knocked off roof, pinned, SNATCHED 6x05 Head bonked, awakes/cared for 6x06 [Flashbacks; lonely, nightmare, found unconscious] 6x10 Squeezed

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Lois Lane costume appreciation (Part II, seasons 6-7)

Part I (seasons 4-5)

Part II of my Smallville retrospective, focusing on the Superman colour scheme as it relates to Clark and Lois, and in particular how Clark often wears red and blue (and the blue shirt/red jacket basically becomes his costume in these seasons), while Lois is often wearing or associated with the missing piece of the Superman puzzle - yellow.

I've identified three main instances where Lois seems to be costumed in yellow - the first is when she's in investigator/journalist mode, the second when she has a non-Clark love interest (which symbolises her future destiny with Clark, as all of these prior relationships help her discover what's not right so she knows when it is right), and third when she and Clark take a step forward in their relationship (even if it's often followed by two steps back).

In season 6 we start spending a lot more time at the Daily Planet with its iconic gold globe, and interior decorated in blue and yellow/gold:

Now, gold isn't exactly yellow, but I do think gold is adjacent thematically - especially as we get into the later seasons where the show doesn't rely as heavily on the primary colour palette. We're out of high school and the pseudo-college year, on our way to the more mature later seasons. Gold is a metallic form of yellow, and while Smallville High and the Talon both heavily featured sunshine yellow, given the Art Deco style of the Daily Planet we move to a burnished gold for the more adult world Clark is moving into.

Gold kryptonite also shows up in season 10 (and I'll go into what I think the meaning of that may be when we get there).

In 6x02 Sneeze, we not only see Clark make a significant step towards becoming Superman by developing his super breath, but Lois make a significant step towards her destiny as a reporter. Clark’s sneeze blows the barn door hallways across town, where it lands by Lois and ignites her journalistic intrigue, and by the end of the episode she’s had the story published and decided it’s the career she wants to pursue.

In 6x03 Wither, Lois meets Oliver Queen for the first time, and there's no yellow but she does wear a gold headpiece as part of her Maid Marian costume (your face, madam!), and we get the blue gown and that helpful Talon decor in the background to remind us that this will be temporary. Oliver is an important relationship for Lois - arguably the only other man we see Lois genuinely fall for in the series, and we'll get hints of yellow throughout.

In 6x04 Arrow, Lois once again wears yellow as she's on the trail of Green Arrow and gets the front page of the Inquisitor coining his name (also check out the binders on the right and the desk items below her). At the end of the episode Clark is very protective over Lois once he finds out that Green Arrow is Oliver, so continuing our tradition of Lois wearing yellow in an episode when she has a new love interest that Clark isn't happy about.

She wears this outfit again in 6x05, Reunion, as she and Clark work together again to track down a murderous former classmate of Lex and Oliver's, and where the window placement is on point.

We once again get Lois and Clark in complementary t-shit/jacket combinations, with Lois's yellow as the missing piece to Clark's red-blue. There's also some excellent blocking in this walk and talk, as Lois and Clark each move from the foreground to background as they go down the hall, one taking the lead then falling back, and then switching again. They're a team, even when they're arguing.

6x10 Hydro is iconic as Clark and Lois's first kiss, but Lois also starts off the episode in red and blue with yellow on her bag (over Tom Welling's directing credit no less). Funnily enough Jimmy is also wearing yellow in this scene (a mustard shirt he wears a few times this season) as he and Lois plot to expose Green Arrow's identity.

Lois also wears a red top with what looks like yellow piping during her attempt to catch Oliver in the act as Green Arrow (although it's under a white jacket during the actual kiss scene).

Then at the end of the episode, when Lois tells Clark how much she enjoyed the kiss with "Green Arrow" she's back in block yellow, with a red mug to boot (and blue couch/wall). This episode is a significant step forward, as it's clear Clark enjoyed that kiss too (thank you Tom Welling for your direction in that scene!).

A small one, but in 6x11 Justice, we see Lois's jeans have yellow crown decals on the rear (oh, the mid-2000s!). Lois will wear these jeans several times this season.

The next big Clois moment is 6x13 Crimson i.e. when Lois and Clark get dosed with red Kryptonite and make out. The interior of the box the red-k lipstick comes in is yellow, and the cover of the mix cd Lois makes is red yellow and blue. Was it heavy handed? Yes. Did I appreciate it? Absolutely.

In the aftermath Lois wears a yellow jacket (and the jeans with the yellow decals). At this point Clark knows that without inhibitions he wants to - ahem - "kiss Lois" - and we get the sense that she is starting to develop genuine feelings for him - or at least becoming more aware of them. Also note the yellow in Clark's blue plaid in this scene.

In 6x21 Prototype, Lois wears yet another blue shirt-yellow jacket combo (seriously, how many yellow clothes does she own?!?), tracking down a childhood friend whose been turned into a weapon by Lex. Now, Wes isn't exactly a love interest, but we do learn that he was Lois's first kiss, so I'd say it counts in the tally of Lois wearing yellow to show her future with Clark even when there's romantic tension with someone else, and also her destiny as an investigative reporter (in the first image she's about to expose a corrupt senator, in the second she's intent on finding the truth about Wes.) Clark's concern for her in the latter scene is also very sweet.

In 6x22 Phantom and 7x01 Bizarro, we get the opposite in a yellow shirt blue jacket, including of course a scene with Clark in his red and blue. In these episodes Lois is determined to expose Lex's crimes, so definitely fits into the pattern of Lois the reporter in yellow.

We also get some nice interaction between Lois and Clark at the hospital, where Clark chooses not to tell her about Lana's (apparent) death because it might be too much given Chloe's condition.

7x01 also features Bizarro Clark hitting on Lois - he has all of Clark's memories and actually makes some astute observations ("I know you're looking for a guy who doesn't play by the rules.")

Of course Lois thinks this is actually Clark, and the kindness he showed her at the beginning of the episode is reciprocated as she forgives him for manhandling her, chalking it up to grief over Lana. As much as Lois likes to bust his balls, she also shows enormous grace over his oft-times strange behaviour (proof of "other [times] I think you know me better than anyone" from season 5). She may not know the circumstances or his secret, but most of the time Lois understands Clark at his core in a way I'm not sure any other character does.

In 7x02 Kara they are back in parallel costuming - I mean, look at these two!

This episode is also a major step forward in Lois's journalistic career, and also closer to Clark's secret even if she doesn't realise it - she finds Kara's spaceship and is pretty cool with the idea of aliens, even if she's intent on uncovering the truth.

At the end of the episode when she's offered a job at the Daily Planet, she's in this coat which is yellow-gold, and from this point we start seeing Lois move away from the more casual jeans-tshirt-jacket combo to more professional attire (Clark will catch up to her in season 8), and from light and/or bright yellows to metallics/golds.

As seen in 7x05 Action, where Lois is once again on Lex's trail even when her boss tells her not to follow the lead. That boss is Grant Gabriel, and the two also engage in some unfortunately flirting later in the episode. In the first part I said I didn't mind Lois with AC or Oliver (I enjoy Lois/Oliver in particular, and their continued friendship) and think it makes sense she would be attracted to both of them, but I HATE her relationship with Grant and don't think it makes any sense at all. It's a relationship devoid of reason, chemistry, and purpose.

In 7x07 Wrath, we're briefly back in bold yellow under her business jacket as she and Grant flirt some more. I usually don't care for criticism of Smallville Lois that she's not enough like the iconic Lois because she can be a bit messy and makes mistakes - because that's the point, she's isn't the iconic Lois Lane yet, she's unformed, she's a work in progress just like Smallville Clark is. But I just think she's savvier than to get into a relationship with her boss, and honestly I think she would peg (heh) Grant as kind of shady? He's so clearly shady! There is precedent I guess - she went out with serial killer/hitman Graham, but that seemed like an aberration, not a pattern (and it was one date). Lois stringing him along but never actually giving in to his overtures in order to find out what he's hiding would have been a much better subplot imo.

The hotdog is also a nice touch though (Superman II reference?).

Other than challenging her, Grant also doesn't fit the pattern of men Lois is attracted to - he's not a particularly good person, their banter is painful rather than stimulating, and while he is in a position of power, he exercises it in a way that usually annoys Lois rather than impresses her. Honestly, they should have nixed Grant's character altogether and put Lex in as editor of the Planet much earlier, giving Lois a better entry point in hiring her to keep his enemies close, and her subplot of the season could have been investigating him from the inside.

As it was, this episode is where Lana gets Clark's abilities and immediately goes insane with them, including blasting into Grant's office and injuring Lois in the process. We see her brown and yellow bag again in the hospital scene.

In 7x09 Gemini, Lois's supply of yellow clothes has seemingly been exhausted, because she's back in the metallic gold top from 7x05. This is the episode where she's forced to write an expose on Lex (again, this could have worked if he was the editor! We didn't need Grant!). Lois is now fully enmeshed in the Daily Planet, so this ticks both the boxes of journalism and other relationships for the presence of yellow/gold.

However it's the last we see of this top on Lois (I think Chloe does wear it or a similar one in a later season).

This is the end of her relationship with Grant, who we learn is actually a clone of Lex's brother Julian, but he's dead an episode later and this entire subplot was pointless. We don't even know if Lois finds out about Grant's death, and other than a throwaway line in 7x11 she never mentions him again, so I don't think she ever really loved him or that he can be counted among her serious relationships.

Speaking of 7x11 Siren, Oliver returns wanting to rekindle his relationship with Lois, but when she discovers he's Green Arrow she ends it for good. This is one of thew few times we see Lois in a print rather than a block colour, and looking closely yellow is incorporated into the pattern as she tearfully tells Oliver she can't handle the dual-identity life and "share [him] with the rest of the world". Dramatic irony in that's exactly what she will do with Clark, but at this point in her life, with Oliver, it's not a choice she can make.

Later, Clark comforts her about her fears - "Just because someone's life has great responsibility, doesn't mean your life has to take second place" but Lois doubles down on her fears that "[she] will always be left behind".

They are both talking about Lana and Oliver respectively, but foreshadowing their future together, when Lois will be ready to accept and live that double life because they will share a destiny, and she'll trust that her relationship with Clark won't end in heartbreak like she's sure her relationship with Oliver would have.

In season 10, when these fears resurface, Clark tells her "you're not in my way, Lois. You're by my side."

The last one is 7x16 Descent, where Lois and Jimmy are working together to uncover the truth about Lionel's death and she is back in a yellow top for this milestone of the show. She wears this the entire episode, including being shot and locked in a freezer by Lex's minion, and then saved by Clark.

That's it for these two seasons, and actually the last time Lois wears yellow for a quite while as we more into the later seasons which are darker both tonally and in the visual storytelling.

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