This is both hopeful and worrying.
It's going to be very hard for Clark to go through that trial and relive he horrible torture he had to suffer at the hands of Nor. Undoubtedly his mind if shying away from reminding itself of what it was like. Clark probably fears, or possibly subconsciously knows, that he will have a mental breakdown it he allows himself to delve too deeply into those repressed memories. On the other hand, it
could be that those memories will be easier to deal with and not so crippling if he finds a way to acknowledge them and incorporate them into his image of himself, as a part of the experiences that have shaped him as a person.
Lois is getting more and more tense, and she's finding it harder and harder to accept all the things that she
can't fix as Ultrawoman. Is she feeling, now, that she has received the Nobel Peace Prize for making shameful compromises? I hope she will reach a stage where she can see that she has been a powerful and inspirational force for good, and that she will be able to accept the Peace Prize in that spirit.
Like Carol, I loved the way Clark was able to relax when he reminded himself of that happy day when he was having a pillow fight with Lois. What a beautiful way to describe his perfect contentment:
He remembered a day, about a week before he'd left, in his apartment when she'd been left to fend for herself with his soon-to-be mother-in-law on the phone. She'd retaliated by starting a pillow fight with him. He felt the corners of his mouth turn upward in a small smile at the memory. About to be married to the most wonderful woman in the world, a woman who thought nothing about throwing pillows at the head of the Man of Steel, he couldn't have been happier.
However, at the same time as Clark has begun to meditate, and has been able to find some peace through that, Talan has stopped meditating. And Clark was going to almost force her to explain why, unaware that it all has to do with her need to feel human in her unhappy and unrequited love for him. Please let him not force the issue. Please let him accept, as the friend of Talan that he wants to be, that this is not the question he should ask her.
Terry has pointed out that Rae Et's is sounding like Hitler in the bunker in 1945, and her lack of soldiers bears some resemblance to the increasingly desperate situation during the end of World War II in Nazi Germany, whose young adult male population was almost wiped out at that time. It's impossible to feel sorry for Rae Et, of course. Will she, unlike Hitler, be able to mount a last, devastating and victorious attack?
I, too, was moved by how Clark reached out to Zara and Ching, and how he found out about Zara's inability to have children, and his brotherly-loving comforting of her.
Ann
Is not Lois recognition is Ultrawoman. 
Not person only the suit.
