The thing is how would you dramatize that?
Inner turmoil doesn't play as well on TV as it does on Film... (Well, it doesn't always play well on film, unless you're in an arthouse flick anyway) but his struggles to control his abilities have to externalized in some way.
Having someone else there to "help" him is someone else there for him to play off of so we can better see how the problem was solved... And a scene with him working with someone else is far more dynamic than him struggling to do something on his own.
Am I making sense?
I think you see the thought processes of him working it out a lot better when he's in conflict with someone else during a scene than if he were just in conflict with himself. They can talk about it while he works it out.
Would you rather him have him talking to himself as he worked the problem out?
Okay, I don't know about you but that sounds WAY boring.
In comics that might work okay because you can have his thoughts in little balloons in the panel... How would that work on TV? Talking to himself sounds like deadly dull TV to me.
And it's not really the way Clark works anyway... he rarely talks to himself to work through problems. He's more of a brute force kinda guy.
Blowing the door down is not a solution he might have thought up on his own otherwise, it's a more subtle solution than just tearing a hole in the wall, so I think Chloe helping him is well motivated and makes sense within the context of how differently their minds work.
Also it's just a much more dynamic scene the way they did it...
Anyway, it doesn't bother me at all...
*shrug*
