Yeah, it's been so long that they've let her acknowledge how badly she's been getting screwed, so underlining it was the thing that really gave me a spark of hope they're going somewhere with this eventually.

The future stuff and all the meta I just really don't care about because I'm bored of them dangling the carrot as they waste time. This entire arc looks utterly pointless as a story. Nothing is moving forward.

I think for me it all hinges on whether they can make the Chlark rift actually compelling to watch. It seems like they're retooling this year so Clark's lightbulb moment is now set up with the new triangle, so he can go at the end, "Lightbulb! Lana Nois is bad for me and Chloe is awesome! ALSO MAYBE WE SHOULD MAKE OUT!"

But since they need to get their money's worth out of ED for 17 episodes I am assuming we'll be stuck with the stupid Blur/Nois teamup for a good long while, and Clark continuing to make dumbass decisions while Nois is the enabler telling him that everything he does is beautiful, everything he does is right. And after eight years of this show, much of them spent watching Clark's dumbassery, I am sick of watching him be an idiot for the first half of the year until they start setting up his eighteenth-hour epiphany in the spring. ORZ