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Don't encourage them—10:07 AM

My evenings will be a bit busy this week, so I took some time this morning to set up TiVo for the next two or three prime times. The TiVo synopsis from Wednesday's upcoming Smallville:

Clark decides to tell Lana his secret so they can finally be together.

It's been noted before that I have no idea where these TiVo synopses come from, but I'm reasonably sure they don't come from Smallville because in that case they'd be identical to the "TV Guide" synopses, and they're not. Whoever it is that writes these, though – be it TiVo or DirecTV or Bob's TV Synopses & Gently Used Radiator Parts – I wish they wouldn't encourage the Smallville writers' use of "Clark's secret." What's wrong with "Clark decides to tell Lana about his powers so..."? Not only does that avoid the gay "Clark's secret" designation, but it also makes sense to casual browsers of the TiVo schedule who haven't watched Smallville so they don't know what Clark's secret is.

Besides, continuing to refer to Clark Kent's Krypton-based superpowers as his "secret" is sort of misleading – it implies he doesn't have many, many other secrets. Dark secrets. Secrets of powerful HoYay.

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