I think the reason for this is because they think that having Clois in a relationship is "boring" (the "Moonlighting" curse problem). I bet that the REASON they have all these random women kissing Clark is to add "spice" to the show, since they're probably wigged out that their main character is in a committed relationship with the woman he HAS to marry. The dealt with the angst, stalling, 'will-they-or-won't-they' in S8 and S9 for as long as they could. Now, going into S10, they knew they couldn't stall anymore. So I think this is their way of working around the issue of Clark being in a relationship. Create random reasons for Clark to kiss or be kissed by other women. Also, I think they feel like they are building "anticipation" when it comes to Clois. Al Septien even confirmed that last year on Twitter. When people asked why Clark/Lois weren't allowed to kiss in every episode (especially after the "Upgrade" craziness where Welling/Durance essentially had to pretend to be short-sided and miss each other's lips by inches just so Clark/Lois weren't actually kissing) and he said that TPTB wanted to build anticipation. They actually thought this was the way to keep the audience clamoring for more. Frankly, I think both reasons are ridiculous. But this is the show that promoted Clana for 7 years and then - in S8 - brought back Lana & gave her a four episode arc that was a complete angst-fest for Clark, Lois, and Lana. This is not a series that has ever been able to embrace a "happy" ship properly.
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Date: 2010-12-08 02:06 pm (UTC)I bet that the REASON they have all these random women kissing Clark is to add "spice" to the show, since they're probably wigged out that their main character is in a committed relationship with the woman he HAS to marry. The dealt with the angst, stalling, 'will-they-or-won't-they' in S8 and S9 for as long as they could. Now, going into S10, they knew they couldn't stall anymore.
So I think this is their way of working around the issue of Clark being in a relationship. Create random reasons for Clark to kiss or be kissed by other women.
Also, I think they feel like they are building "anticipation" when it comes to Clois. Al Septien even confirmed that last year on Twitter. When people asked why Clark/Lois weren't allowed to kiss in every episode (especially after the "Upgrade" craziness where Welling/Durance essentially had to pretend to be short-sided and miss each other's lips by inches just so Clark/Lois weren't actually kissing) and he said that TPTB wanted to build anticipation. They actually thought this was the way to keep the audience clamoring for more.
Frankly, I think both reasons are ridiculous. But this is the show that promoted Clana for 7 years and then - in S8 - brought back Lana & gave her a four episode arc that was a complete angst-fest for Clark, Lois, and Lana. This is not a series that has ever been able to embrace a "happy" ship properly.