I feel like this episode also kind of highlighted the main issues of this season:
- The shows focus on Smallville means that a world-ending threat is somehow more relevant to a small-town to the point of Superman showing up at a town hall than to the world at large. What about all the other people panicking?
- Jon and Lois really have nothing to do or contribute to the plot at this point. They're reduced to nothing but bystanders whenever anything serious happens. How many times has Lois screamed at this point?
- Gone is Lois Lane, ace investigative reporter and strong wife, mother, and certified awesome lady...instead we get Lois as a supporting character to Lana and who constantly needs to be lectured on journalism by Chrissy, and gets judged by the other women in her life and just in general doesn't feel like the female lead any more.
- Somehow Kyle's cheating gets related to Lana having to deal with Clark's secret and what's going on with the Bizzaro!World.
- Ally is still a massively underdeveloped villain.
- Lana consistently gets praised like she's the actual world leader and the best person in Smallville. The show would rather gush about Lana than have Lois contribute anything meaningful.
- Has Clark had any character development this season? Other than not knowing what to do about Jon, but that still hasn't gone anyhwere.
Don't you mean "...and Lana?" because she feels like more of a main character than Lois at this point.