Episode Report Card Tippi Blevins: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT (Almost) Everybody Loves a Hero
By Tippi Blevins | Season 10 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.11.2011
Watchtower. Chloe and Oliver lie snuggled together on a sofa bed right in the middle of the main room. Maybe they couldn't wait to get up the stairs. Oliver is fast asleep while Chloe, draped across his bare chest, watches him lovingly. After a while, she caresses the side of his face. He wakes up and smiles when he sees her. "And they say being a wanted man is supposed to be a bad thing." He brushes the hair off her forehead and looks at her like he can't believe he's not dreaming. Chloe glances over at something on the nightstand. Oliver follows her gaze and teases her for peeking at something. She tries to deny her wandering eye, but can't. She begs for a quick peek. Alas, it's just her laptop. How she can think of checking the Internet with that hot hunk of man lying in bed next to her is a mystery for the ages. Luckily, Oliver is understanding of his girlfriend's addiction. "The government may have framed me a terrorist, but it would be truly criminal to keep you from checking up on the world." There is chest every time I pause the screen to write. Progress is slow. Oliver sees his opportunity to go for a walk, you know, to "stretch his legs." Chloe is also understanding of her boyfriend's proclivities but reminds him that the last time he went for a walk, he ended up stopping two muggings and a bank robbery. Oliver beams at the memory, but Chloe gives him a playfully stern look. "I wore the hoodie," he says in his defense. She just doesn't want him to get caught again. "I just got you back; I don't want to lose you again," she says. He leans in for a kiss, but something on the laptop catches their attention. They snuggle together to watch a pro-hero rally taking place downtown. "Our heroes need us now more than ever," a young man says to a cheering crowd. People start chanting "Vote down the VRA!"
Clark whooshes into the Kent farmhouse wearing his Blur outfit, then whooshes upstairs and down again, now dressed for work. He calls out to Lois. She's just coming in through the front door, arms overflowing with pro-hero posters and boxes of buttons. She's been going door to door, rallying support for the heroes. "I just singlehandedly swayed thirty more votes in our favor!" she beams. When Clark says he doesn't have time for politics, she reminds him that his mom has been campaigning across the country. Senator Kent has apparently won enough support to "force a national vote" to overturn the VRA. I knew politics in this show's universe were crazy but... what? Clark isn't hopeful about the vote tomorrow. Lois drags him over to the TV to show him the pro-hero rally. She says he lost sight of the fact that a lot of people still believe in the heroes. "They just need something to give them to courage to come out and fight," she says. If they need as many pep talks as Clark does, I think they're pretty much doomed.