The New Smallville Villain Seems Exactly like the Same-Named One from Roswell

Maybe not exactly-exactly, but really, really close. According to Ausiello from tvguide.com this is what we can expect from the new Smallville villain:

Tess (?) on Smallville

• Drop-dead gorgeous (duh)
• Roughly 28 years old
• She’s determined, sexy, vengeful and has super-strength.
• “While Lex is away, she is in control of his estate and rules it with aggression. She’s had intellect and the confidence all her life, though it’s obvious she’s had some training from Lex as well. But as much as Lex has helped fortify her power, he is also her biggest weakness. She harbors an undying devotion to Lex, claiming he saved her life a few years ago. She carries out his wishes with coercion, force, seduction — anything to get what she wants. And no one can resist her beguiling ways. Even Clark Kent. She doesn’t remember anything before the day she met Lex. Once she realizes her previous life is buried below the surface, she’s desperate to dig it up.”

I’m not a fan of Smallville, but I found this interesting because this villain seems so much like a ‘villain’ from Roswell. Her name was also, ironically, Tess - Tess Harding. You know her now as Claire on Lost. It was hard for me to accept Claire for a while, because I had so identified Emilie de Ravin as Tess, and being manipulative and evil. Claire, of course, couldn’t be farther from that. She’s saintly! Tess was another story.

Let’s compare! (It’s crazy similar!)

Tess Harding on Roswell

- Gorgeous. And she used her looks to make Jason Behr’s character, Max, daydream about her.

- She was older than the rest of the high school students, being an alien. She’d had a previous life on her planet. I guess you could call her an old soul?

- She was determined, sexy, and had super powers. She could ‘mindwarp’ people, basically changing reality to make you see something that isn’t there. This proved to be very dangerous and as involved in the cover-up of a major character death.

- Intellect and confidence, but she was trained by someone! This is sounding familiar. And she had a strong tie to who she was trained. His name was Nasedo. He ended up betraying them all and not being trustworthy. She did as Nasedo instructed her to do with ‘coercion, seduction and force’! Even Max can’t resist her for a while. She was also ‘desperate’ to ‘dig up’ her previous life. But she did have some memories of that life.

What do you think?

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