I love that they consider his defining shot to be his shirtlessness. *beams* He's such a joy to watch.
Definitely! I clearly need to get a shirtless Ollie icon, too.
I'm sulky and annoyed about it. I think it's a BIG mistake. SV has respected the power of spatial dynamics for so long. I found this an insult to Lex's memory. I think we're supposed to be won over by her uber-loyalty to Lex, but we've seen that so many times before from his minions and it doesn't necessarily make them good minions.
I've seen this response a lot, and it makes me think the writers are seriously miscalculating how much the audience is missing Lex. They're thinking we'll take to Tess as a stand-in/avatar of our desire to find him, but just based on the number of negative responses I've seen to this particular scene, I think they seriously miscalculated.
I really hope you're right about the Justice League just temporarily disbanding, because I actually really liked them in this ep more than I have in a long time. A.C. didn't even annoy me!
You know, when you ended up dead?"--so if anything, I was amused that he ended up dead again. Haha, me too! I was so amused. I'm too fond of him to really give him flak for this, though I do think it was mindbogglingly stupid (if heroic). Somewhere, Jor-El is sighing...
I thought you might appreciate that line! I do actually love that he is heroic without powers, but on the other hand I really want him to use the heroic power of forethought and learning from his past mistakes.
I'm hoping that's the case, and if so I would be a bit happier with it--it would perhaps indicate that the writing team have realised that that would have been a much more sensible power for her to have had from the start. Rewatching the ep it seems... possible? I don't know.
I really hope so, because two major powers is too much. UNLESS--as shopfront suggested above--they're actually setting Chloe up to be completely taken over by Brainiac. (I knew I should have rewatched the season 7 finale before I watched this, because I totally forgot about that whole encounter before I read LaT's review. *Headdesk*)
I'm going to respond to the other stuff on your review.
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Definitely! I clearly need to get a shirtless Ollie icon, too.
I'm sulky and annoyed about it. I think it's a BIG mistake. SV has respected the power of spatial dynamics for so long. I found this an insult to Lex's memory. I think we're supposed to be won over by her uber-loyalty to Lex, but we've seen that so many times before from his minions and it doesn't necessarily make them good minions.
I've seen this response a lot, and it makes me think the writers are seriously miscalculating how much the audience is missing Lex. They're thinking we'll take to Tess as a stand-in/avatar of our desire to find him, but just based on the number of negative responses I've seen to this particular scene, I think they seriously miscalculated.
I really hope you're right about the Justice League just temporarily disbanding, because I actually really liked them in this ep more than I have in a long time. A.C. didn't even annoy me!
You know, when you ended up dead?"--so if anything, I was amused that he ended up dead again.
Haha, me too! I was so amused. I'm too fond of him to really give him flak for this, though I do think it was mindbogglingly stupid (if heroic). Somewhere, Jor-El is sighing...
I thought you might appreciate that line! I do actually love that he is heroic without powers, but on the other hand I really want him to use the heroic power of forethought and learning from his past mistakes.
I'm hoping that's the case, and if so I would be a bit happier with it--it would perhaps indicate that the writing team have realised that that would have been a much more sensible power for her to have had from the start. Rewatching the ep it seems... possible? I don't know.
I really hope so, because two major powers is too much. UNLESS--as shopfront suggested above--they're actually setting Chloe up to be completely taken over by Brainiac. (I knew I should have rewatched the season 7 finale before I watched this, because I totally forgot about that whole encounter before I read LaT's review. *Headdesk*)
I'm going to respond to the other stuff on your review.