Executive producer, Kelly Souders answers some burning Smallville questions – read a snippet below:

Allison Mack may not have had a lot of screen time this season on Smallville, but the producers are making up for it with a fiery new love interest for Chloe Sullivan. Executive producer Kelly Souders tells us all about who Chloe’s new man is, how Clark (Tom Welling) gets to see the world through Lois’ eyes, the big Clark-Zod showdown and the arrival of Jor-El (Julian Sands).

TVGuide.com: You teased a big twist coming up with Chloe. Can you discuss what it is? Is she returning to the Daily Planet?
Kelly Souders: She has a couple things coming up. We’ve talked a lot with Allison because Chloe’s big issue this year — she’s having a hard time trusting people, understandably. Other people have come and gone in her life. She’s got a few things below the surface about which she hasn’t been very forthcoming with people around her. I think there’s going to be a couple of surprises along the way, some of them more personal than others.

TVGuide.com: So Allison will have more screen time this season?
Souders: Yeah. One of the things is that we do have a big, huge cast now, which is great, so everybody ends up sharing the screen a little bit. One thing with her is that she always has something she’s working on on her own, so she’s developing herself and where she really stands in the whole hero-J.L.A. of it all. There’s definitely a part of her in all these heroes lives that is more than the simple sidekick.

Read Kelly’s full interview at TV Guide here.