Meanwhile, in the same tunnels where Bizarro was born, Lois (Erica Durance) is left bleeding, but Chloe (Allison Mack) has used her new Meteor-freak powers to take away her injury. Unfortunately, while Lois wakes up perfectly fine, it looks like her blonde cousin is dead. Oh and, one more minor thing, it looks like Lana (Kristin Kreuk) has been blown up in a car bomb, but no one besides Lex really knows that at the moment.
So while Clark attempts to stop Bizarro and save both Lois and Chloe, he doesn't realize he will have to deal with Lana's death as well. To top it all off, there appears to be a new Kryptonian on the block, a blonde-bombshell who goes by the name of Kara (Laura Vandervoort), and she just happens to be Clark's cousin.
Needless to say, this season is pretty rocky, especially when early on, Lana shows back up and moves in with Clark. Of course, since she now knows his secret and has quite a bit of money from her divorce with Lex, quite a few things are easier between them, but it seems like she is the one keeping secrets now.
Season Seven starts off focusing on Clark helping Kara blend in, while Kara takes interest in Jimmy (Aaron Ashmore) and Lex gets ever closer to Clark's secret (especially since he saw Kara pull him out of a river). But the show goes a different direction when Lex discovers his father belonged to a secret society along with Dr. Swan (whom you might remember was played by Christopher Reeve), the Teagues (way back there in Season Four) and the Queens (Oliver/Green Arrow's family). It seems this society called "Veritas" was entrusted with finding and protecting some extra-terrestrial traveler who would have great power on Earth and help out all of mankind (sound familiar?).
Let's just say, Lex's decent into arch-villianisim goes even faster as he not only searches for the truth behind Veritas (pun intended) when he stops at nothing to not only learn who this traveler is, but what secret way they have of controlling him.
Other notable events are Clark's encounter with Dr. Curtis Knox (who resembles the DC character Vandal Savage), played by Dean Cain from Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Clark's meeting with a Kryptonian who has been living on Earth as a human for a long time. In one of the series' most blatant product placement episodes (something that viewers will know is quite frequent), Peter Ross (Clark's confidante in the first couple of seasons of the show) returns, but when he chews on some Kryptonite infected Stride Gum, he becomes Mr. Fantastic (well, if this were Marvel anyway), and gets stretchy powers.
Like most seasons of Smallville, not every episode is the best... in fact, some would argue that most are downright mediocre, but the ones that are good, are really good and tend to (somehow) make up for the many sharks the show jumps (in a single bound). The Complete Seventh Season is no different, but fans of the show in general will, of course, like this season. Unfortunately it ends in one of those "how are they going to fix this before the series ends" type of events when various people learn things that they just shouldn't when Clark does finally don the cape and tights.
