Is Tess Trustworthy??? Is She "Good"?

[lm1212]

Or is she just hungry for answers, putting on a front and pretending to be Clarks friend?! I am actually starting to believe she is a decent person, deep down inside. Her past has made her a bit dark, but I think she just needs the right influence.

[Alexander III]

Never ever trust any women who've slept w/ Lex. NEVER!!

[bychance]

On the fence.

[Effect]

I really don't know. It's clear she's playing him and wants answers. However is she being truthful in the methods she's doing though. Lex was the same way. He'd do a lot of things but he would be truthful at times. It's the mixing of truth and lie that makes things confusing. I'm not really sure if the story she told about herself as a child is false or not or if he opening herself to Clark was real or not.

I honestly like to think she was really being honest and open with Clark. If she's read Lex's notes then she should have a good idea of his personality. So she shouldn't have a problem trusting him or telling him certain things. Being honest with him at least to a degree could very well be her method to getting close to him. Also she had to be somewhat drunk at the point where she really started opening up. I think at the very least that part was true but she wasn't to far gone that she'd forget about her plan. It's that or she is one hell of an actress.

[SupermanRox]

Are you kidding? Tess is a devious woman. I think she has a good poker face. She did the old I tell you a secret/you tell me a secret thing. She was hoping that it would work on Clark but he's too smart for that. She is so good at being bad that I wouldn't doubt for a moment if she made up that whole Daddy story.

[Young Superman]

On the fence.

I am the same way

[Karafan1]

I would never trust Tess..I bet we'll find out that her story she told Clark about her dad breaking her arm was just to try to get Clark to tell her his big secret..

[dru-zod2501]

no one the Luthors hold in regard can ever be completely good, and Tess is sitting on Lex's throne, no way she got all the way up there by being good

[GottaLoveHotSuperHeros]

I think she may be okay... but I bet she'll turn out like Lionel, you'll never know who's side she's on until right before she dies... :p

[lm1212]

I would never trust Tess..I bet we'll find out that her story she told Clark about her dad breaking her arm was just to try to get Clark to tell her his big secret..

I think it was true. It was after a few drinks...

[yomama]

She took waaaay too much pleasure paying off the pilot. She's EVIL, I's tell ya!

[thedarknight]

She took waaaay too much pleasure paying off the pilot. She's EVIL, I's tell ya!

Yeah I agree. I thought this scene showed how much she paralleled Lex. She is very deceiving.

[Vergon6]

Yeah I agree. I thought this scene showed how much she paralleled Lex. She is very deceiving.
I agree with that as well. Even when she is trying to be good, she's evil lol

[pizzahead2490]

can you trust anyone on this show?

[BadToad]

I don't think Tess is trustworthy at all. And good? I wouldn't say so. But does she wish Clark any harm? No, I really don't think she does. And is it possible that she does have some admirable goals? Yes, I think so. But then again, so did Lex.

I think whats interesting about Tess is that she echoes a lot of the same complexities we saw in Lex.

[Jedimaster_TTBaby]

I think she is evil, but, I also think she admires Clark ...so I can't say for sure.

[Kschreck]

Tess is basically where Lex was at in season one. Almost feels like a reboot of characters.

['Tonio09]

Im on the fence as well. She's very decieving. I saw a lot of Lex in her tonight. But I think her intentions for finding out the truth about Clark are different than Lex's. She seems to want to help him. Then again depending on whats in that journal she might turn on him.

[lm1212]

I don't think Tess is trustworthy at all. And good? I wouldn't say so. But does she wish Clark any harm? No, I really don't think she does. And is it possible that she does have some admirable goals? Yes, I think so. But then again, so did Lex.

I think whats interesting about Tess is that she echoes a lot of the same complexities we saw in Lex.


She could be echoing Lex, but she could also be echoing Lionel. I don't think she's completely good, there are a few gray areas, but I see a slight difference between her and Lex that I just cant quite put my finger on.

[superspider02]

Yea i am also on the fence with her at the start i would say she was pretty bad, but after the lex reveal during lana arc she seem to be getting nicer and all that. Guess we will have to wait an see.

[doomvskal86]

It's up in the air for me

[Faby]

I am pretty confuse on whether she is good/bad....All i can say in regards to her, I need to see more and see where the writers take her....she might end up like Lex or she might end up like Lionel(on clark's side).....

[thehenry89]

i don't think she can be trusted.

[zHeN_zHeN]

She's BAD, and she knows it! ;)

[Bre723]

At this point, no she cannot be trusted.
I mean did you see how she payed off that cop?

[optinox]

I think Tess has had access to enough material that she knows clark isn't normal. Whether she already knows he's kryptonian and from another planet, that will probably be explained later.

Even though she's devious, she's really good inside, and only displays evil actions to cover up her rough childhood. I think she can be trusted and generally wants to protect clark, not like Lex intentions. Even though she set clark up doesn't mean her true intentions are to be against clark like a villain. She wanted to see if he'd be straight with her or continue to keep it a secret, she was testing clark.

[devilneedsaride]

I don't think Tess is trustworthy at all. And good? I wouldn't say so. But does she wish Clark any harm? No, I really don't think she does. And is it possible that she does have some admirable goals? Yes, I think so. But then again, so did Lex.

I think whats interesting about Tess is that she echoes a lot of the same complexities we saw in Lex.

I agree.

The thing is that Tess pretty clearly already knows Clark's secret, or at least that he's the RBB. She was willing to stake her life on it in that airplane. And what has she done with that knowledge? Has she used it to sell papers? Has she sold it to the government? Has she used it to blackmail him? No. All she has done is try to get him to come clean with her. While she certainly didn't do it in a good way, I think it's quite possible that her ultimate intentions aren't necessarily bad. And it's not as if other people haven't tried to figure out Clark's secret in similar ways. Lana tricked him into revealing his powers in Promise and Chloe tried to force it out of his parents in Truth, just to name a few off the top of my head.

[drvr8]

Tess is the embodiment of pure evil isn't she? We've seen her murder two people on the show so far, she didn't hesitate to give Wilson/Sebastian the OK to murder Lois and then she tries to manipulate Clark into trusting her...part of me doesn't even trust those stories about her and her Dad abusing her. I was waiting for her to try to use her feminine charms to try and seduce Clark...I wouldn't put it past her to try and threaten his friends to get what she wants as well.

[SparkleforSmallville]

It's not so black and white with Tess. i think she is multi-layered and that's what makes her character so interesting. Cassidy plays strength, vulnerability, and deviousness, really well. I want to see more, please!

[Iluvgreen]

I don't really know yet.

[SnowBird]

Anyone who will pay off a pilot to blow up a jet to prove a point is evil and a great villain. She doesn't hesitate to murder. She is playing Clark with her boohoo story of how she was misused as a kid. Making him feel wanted and a hero to get on his good side. I believe she gave him the job at the Daily Planet just to keep him close and investigate him. She knows there was something behind Lex's obsession with Clark and she is doing everything possible in her evil arsenal to expose Clark and prove her point that there is something special about him. She may think he is a meteor freak because I don't think she knows all the truth about Clark. She can't be trusted and Clark better never let his guard down with her. Tess is a cross between Lex and Lionel and is doing a great job being the villain of the story.

[superjude]

Uh, NO. She is definitely not trustworthy. Classy, tough, authoritative, complex, and I'd even go so far as to say, Beautiful(hey, I'm a girl!), but, trustworthy? After orchestrating the explosion on the plane to make Clark reveal his secrets? Absolutely not!

[Tompouce]

Maybe I am like Clark but I want to think people need to be trust. As I said from the beginning of the season, Tess has just lost her way, redemption can come for her...if she realizes it and wants it. I just can't think this woman is really bad. Something came across her road and made her lost her innocence. I feel something really fragile in her, like it was not so natural to be bad/manipulative. The thing is when your are in her position, it is all or nothing : if she can see the world with Clark's eyes (she has it inside, I am sure lol), she will be saved. If she goes on the way she is now, it will be too late. It is a matter of choice. Not a matter of her deep nature. She was not born to be bad. She has still the choice but it won't last, it seems obvious we will know soon her choice and I really think the writers won't take the good one, snif !

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I just read your posts, oups ! I am the only to think something can be saved in Tess. I think she was not playing a game with Clark telling him her story. That is what I say : something broke her. I am sure of that since the beginning. Maybe she is manipulative but for once, she trusts enough someone (Clark and thanks to the Champagne too lol)to let her emotions go. Something happened to her for sure. It doesn't mean she is an angel but to me, she is too between bad and good to not have a root of good which can be used to help her to become better. I have to tell you, my best friend always tells me "stop to be a good St Maritan". That is it, maybe...lol:D

[lm1212]

Maybe I am like Clark but I want to think people need to be trust. As I said from the beginning of the season, Tess has just lost her way, redemption can come for her...if she realizes it and wants it. I just can't think this woman is really bad. Something came across her road and made her lost her innocence. I feel something really fragile in her, like it was not so natural to be bad/manipulative. The thing is when your are in her position, it is all or nothing : if she can see the world with Clark's eyes (she has it inside, I am sure lol), she will be saved. If she goes on the way she is now, it will be too late. It is a matter of choice. Not a matter of her deep nature. She was not born to be bad. She has still the choice but it won't last, it seems obvious we will know soon her choice and I really think the writers won't take the good one, snif !

I agree. I guess it is up to the writers, it could go either way.

[dezperado]

It's gonna end up being the same thing like it was with Lex. If Clark had been honest with Tess, she'd try to protect him, but since honesty is so fragile of an issue with Tess; she'll be remorseful that Clark won't let her in and turn on him. Probably pretty quickly.

[Bizarrolover]

Tess injectec a man with poison and smiled as she watched him die.

Tess kicked a man's head until his brain splattered her face

Tess can't be trusted. Tess isn't good and I'll think the only way she can redeem herself is if she turns herself in for the murders she commited and purges a two lives sentence.

[Tompouce]

I agree. I guess it is up to the writers, it could go either way.
Thanks, it makes 3 people with Clark:D;)

[justme_007]

i don´t trust tess

[workshyslacker]

I think it was all an act. She was trying to get Clark to trust her, but in a slightly different way from Lex; using her feminine wiles and the ol' "damsel in distress" shtick. :p

[ReallyCK]

Tess may may be somewhat ruthless, but evil, no. She's no Lex. As I watched her pay off the pilot in this episode, I found myself thinking: Lex would have just blown the cockpit with the pilot in it, no muss, no fuss, no need for a payoff. She's absolutely deceptive, but as for her ultimate intentions, I don't believe she's out to get Clark at all. I think that with Lex gone, and her faith in him shattered, she is searching for a new ally - and she sees that in Clark. Like Lex, she is power-hungry - and that's where Clark comes in - but unlike the Lex (of last season, at least), she seems to have some morals. I honestly think she's someone Clark could turn around, and perhaps save from her own dark side.

[Tompouce]

4 people with Kevin. Yeah, we gonna save Tess lol. Welcome here BTW;)

[ReallyCK]

Thanks for the welcome Karine - I think characters in flux like Tess are among the most interesting. She reminds me of Lex's character in some of the early seasons, when he was still waging against his sinister impulses. There's hope for her yet!

[smilingalways2]

She has known about Clark since day one. She has an agenda. I think she's trying to show him her "gentle" side to see if she could persuade him, the way she has othersto be part of her "team", especially since she also knows about the other alien (Davis) She will do whatever it takes to get him to explore the possibilities...

She's definitely not one to mess with though. Once he gets on her bad side, refusing her offer, all hell will break loose....

[chlo-el]

I think they've shown Tess' depths. She's not just a stand in for Lex Luthor. Maybe she has similar methods but in her mind she's trying to do the best thing. She does remind me of Lex in earlier seasons though.

[LoisLaneKicksAss]

i am seriously on the fence BECAUSE after she found out what Lex did to her it was like she was a new woman. however, i do think that she is still curious! granted, i don't think she is nearly as curious as Lex was but i still think she wants to know. obviously she still does a few of her tricks like paying off the pilot and such. idk. i really want her to be good because i think she is a good person.

[SnowBird]

I already said my piece about Tess but I do have one more item. I wonder how much jail time she would have with intentionally bombing Ollie's jet? Ollie's not going to be happy about that. There goes his sleeping quarters/apartment. Maybe he will finally have a home on the ground in Metropolis.

[Showmaster]

Hope she's trustworthy.. Dont really know though..

[SGuthrie27]

She's definitely quite the interesting and conflicted character by the late middle part of this season... I don't believe she's 100% trustworthy, but her intentions at least seem to be a bit more noble than Lex's were. She DOES have an early Lex vibe, with the way she's trying to convince Clark to trust her and open up, while also being a little devious, underhanded, and tricky. I will be eagerly watching to see what direction her character is taken next.

--SGuthrie ><>' :)--

[lm1212]

I already said my piece about Tess but I do have one more item. I wonder how much jail time she would have with intentionally bombing Ollie's jet? Ollie's not going to be happy about that. There goes his sleeping quarters/apartment. Maybe he will finally have a home on the ground in Metropolis.

I can see that problem getting solved somewhere offscreenville :\

[Bizarrolover]

She has so many similarties with lex that I can never see her as trustworthy.

She runs his companies
She's obsessed with Clark, just like lex
She's trying to become Clark's friend and learn his secrets
Sha had an abusive father (though we don't know if that's true, Clark should have x-rayed her arm to check older fractures)
She sleeps randomly with men (Lex did that too, but with women)
She killed out of spite

The greatest difference? She's a woman and she has hair.

[MetroGirl06]

This is why I really like the character-we don't know her real intentions. It keeps you on your toes in regards to her motives. She has grown on me, good or bad.
I think she is curious. But shes also power-hungry, and those two combined result in an unhealthy interest in Clark. But she had a life before Lex. She has her own inner demons and rough past, and we see glimpses of that person she was before from time to time. I'm with the ones that think there is still hope for her, but I also think she can't be trusted. Shes complicated that way :)