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Smallville: Combat
Um, I must say, that was NOT what I was expecting from this episode.
Dear Almiles, are you DELIBERATELY trying to alienate all the hard core fans? Last week you drove away all the Lana and Clana haters and the Lexana lovers, and this week I'm sure you just drove off all the hardcore Superman fans. Justifiably. Superman doesn't kill people. I don't know if you knew that or not, but it's KIND OF A BIG DEAL. One of the things that separates him from other types of heroes, in fact. And yes, Clark has probably caused deaths before, but not deliberately--and if that wasn't a deliberate killing, than neither was Lex killing the doctor last week. True, that Zoner had killed a bunch of people and posed a danger to society, but Superman doesn't kill people. And the fact that you had him feel a little guilty at the end? Does NOT justify it.
Honestly, even something this egregious isn't going to cause me to bail from this show, because I am the Pollyanna of Smallville, but they're not even trying now, are they? I thought Lana and Martha were the ones who were supposed to go dark this season, not Clark. (Though in the 3000 word essay on "Promise" I wrote this afternoon and will post in two parts tomorrow I speculated that Clark was, in fact, regressing from the heroic path, and I guess this is definite sign of regression.)
Dear Clark: STOP KILLING PEOPLE. This is not heroic behavior--I don't care how mad you are at Lex.
Dear Martha, thank you for calling Clark on his behavior, but actually I think you let him off the hook a little too easily. Yay, he feels guilty: big whoop. I'm glad that you're reminding him of his humanity, but that boy needs hit upside the head with a big clue stick.
Dear Lois: You rock hardcore, beyond the telling. Big props for figuring out the location of the fight club all on your own. Bigger props for pulling out the red leather catsuit, pretending to be a stripper, and hitting on the security lady. And way to show off your fighting skills! Your only error, and it was an understandable one, was stopping to gloat afterward. I am officially in love with you now, just so you know, and I hope people are already writing the hot femslash. (But Almiles? Having Lois hit on the hot chick--or pretend to, whatever--does NOT compensate for having Superman deliberately kill someone).
Dear Lex: I can't decide if you caused Lana to miscarry with that drink (I'd currently give that about a 49% possibility) or you're covering up something even worse and the miscarriage was fake (I'm guessing about a 50% possibility--with 1% being the possibility that that drink had nothing to do with Lana's collapse) , but either way, that was pretty cold. Did you do it just because she's not putting out? I was a little sympathetic to you last week, after the way your father manipulated things so that you got what you most wanted in a way that guaranteed you would never enjoy it, but this week my sympathies were entirely with Lana.
Dear Lana: you look beautiful in black, and I was going to say that Lex is definitely going to figure out you were coerced into the wedding if you don't start faking better, but in some ways this miscarriage is to your advantage. Not that I want to be harsh--I genuinely felt bad for you, and you actually made me cry a little. Hanging out in the nursery mourning is wonderfully sad and creepy and in character, and gives you a great excuse to avoid Lex. (And it also seems reminiscent of that amazing OT4 story by romanyg that I hope is still going to be finished even though it's been jossed).
Dear Chloe, thank you for speculating that research is your mutant power, because that means it definitely *isn't*, which is what I've been saying for a while, nyah nyah nyah. (/ inner-5-year-old)
Dear Lois, I just feel the need to repeat that you were completely wonderful and hot and kickass and awesome and FEMSLASHY. Thank you very much for redeeming this episode for me. You and grief-stricken semi-creepy Lana were definitely the highlight.
Dear Almiles, are you DELIBERATELY trying to alienate all the hard core fans? Last week you drove away all the Lana and Clana haters and the Lexana lovers, and this week I'm sure you just drove off all the hardcore Superman fans. Justifiably. Superman doesn't kill people. I don't know if you knew that or not, but it's KIND OF A BIG DEAL. One of the things that separates him from other types of heroes, in fact. And yes, Clark has probably caused deaths before, but not deliberately--and if that wasn't a deliberate killing, than neither was Lex killing the doctor last week. True, that Zoner had killed a bunch of people and posed a danger to society, but Superman doesn't kill people. And the fact that you had him feel a little guilty at the end? Does NOT justify it.
Honestly, even something this egregious isn't going to cause me to bail from this show, because I am the Pollyanna of Smallville, but they're not even trying now, are they? I thought Lana and Martha were the ones who were supposed to go dark this season, not Clark. (Though in the 3000 word essay on "Promise" I wrote this afternoon and will post in two parts tomorrow I speculated that Clark was, in fact, regressing from the heroic path, and I guess this is definite sign of regression.)
Dear Clark: STOP KILLING PEOPLE. This is not heroic behavior--I don't care how mad you are at Lex.
Dear Martha, thank you for calling Clark on his behavior, but actually I think you let him off the hook a little too easily. Yay, he feels guilty: big whoop. I'm glad that you're reminding him of his humanity, but that boy needs hit upside the head with a big clue stick.
Dear Lois: You rock hardcore, beyond the telling. Big props for figuring out the location of the fight club all on your own. Bigger props for pulling out the red leather catsuit, pretending to be a stripper, and hitting on the security lady. And way to show off your fighting skills! Your only error, and it was an understandable one, was stopping to gloat afterward. I am officially in love with you now, just so you know, and I hope people are already writing the hot femslash. (But Almiles? Having Lois hit on the hot chick--or pretend to, whatever--does NOT compensate for having Superman deliberately kill someone).
Dear Lex: I can't decide if you caused Lana to miscarry with that drink (I'd currently give that about a 49% possibility) or you're covering up something even worse and the miscarriage was fake (I'm guessing about a 50% possibility--with 1% being the possibility that that drink had nothing to do with Lana's collapse) , but either way, that was pretty cold. Did you do it just because she's not putting out? I was a little sympathetic to you last week, after the way your father manipulated things so that you got what you most wanted in a way that guaranteed you would never enjoy it, but this week my sympathies were entirely with Lana.
Dear Lana: you look beautiful in black, and I was going to say that Lex is definitely going to figure out you were coerced into the wedding if you don't start faking better, but in some ways this miscarriage is to your advantage. Not that I want to be harsh--I genuinely felt bad for you, and you actually made me cry a little. Hanging out in the nursery mourning is wonderfully sad and creepy and in character, and gives you a great excuse to avoid Lex. (And it also seems reminiscent of that amazing OT4 story by romanyg that I hope is still going to be finished even though it's been jossed).
Dear Chloe, thank you for speculating that research is your mutant power, because that means it definitely *isn't*, which is what I've been saying for a while, nyah nyah nyah. (/ inner-5-year-old)
Dear Lois, I just feel the need to repeat that you were completely wonderful and hot and kickass and awesome and FEMSLASHY. Thank you very much for redeeming this episode for me. You and grief-stricken semi-creepy Lana were definitely the highlight.
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And especially when I'm collecting for eat_crow, I mainly just skim things to make sure I'm warning for spoilers, because otherwise I can get kind of cranky when everyone hates an episode I love, and then I end up getting into arguments I really don't want to get into. I'd rather keep SV fandom as my happy place, not run around telling people that their equally passionate and well-thought-out opinions are WRONG WRONG WRONG, but when I'm cranky I'm liable to do that anyway, against my better judgment.
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Hopefully someone will upload those bits on YouTube or someplace.
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Lois, oh, Lois. As far as I'm concerned, she's bi or queer, and that makes me sooo happy. Her eps are fun, and we need sparks of fun to break up the angst.
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(And is it sad that I'd actually like to read that Wonder Woman AU?)
Yeah, I definitely got a bi vibe off Lois in that scene, which was very happy-making. She seemed like she was doing more than faking it, to me. (Now if only *Clark* had to go undercover in a situation where he had to hit on a hot guy....)
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I've been trying to argue for awhile that Lois had the hots for Martha and vice versa... but they haven't interacted much this season. :( She definitely seemed to have no qualms about flirting with a girl! (I'm sure Clark undercover has been written in fanfiction somewhere...)
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I'm sure Clark has pretended to be gay many times in fic, but I want to see him pretending to be gay on the show. (Yeah, I know, I may as well just ask for a pony. Or character continuity.)
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(Yeah, I know, I may as well just ask for a pony. Or character continuity.)
lol. Aww. They could do it. It wouldn't be hard... or he could be exposed to Pink K. :D! I've worked out some of the craziest crack plots with Pink K. But then he wouldn't be pretending... it would just give turn his Red K horn for girls into a Pink K horn for guys.
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I just feel the need to repeat that you were completely wonderful and hot and kickass and awesome and FEMSLASHY. Thank you very much for redeeming this episode for me. You and grief-stricken semi-creepy Lana were definitely the highlight.
They were definitely the highlights for me too. I was very 'meh' about this episode. Though it was yummy source for vidders. Well, Lois was! And so was Clark--he looked gorgeous getting beat up.
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And yes, this episode was definitely full of hotness, if nothing else.
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To carry the vampire/Buffy - alien/Superman analogy further, I figured that the fight with Titan was essentially a metaphor and Clark was in fact beating the crap out of himself.
As I've recently learned, I'm also a Pollyanna;-p
Also, I've never been into women, but if I were, I'd be into Lois. ♥ Lois! LOL.
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Oh, and speaking of Buffy references--what the hell was up with that stake Titan had? *Clark* wasn't a vampire!
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*Needs more icons from the Buffy/Angelverse*
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And that's true. About Superman. But Clark isn't Superman. I remember seeing an interview with TW where he talked about SV's Clark Kent vs. Superman and he said that he wasn't that person yet. The whole point of SV was to show a young man's journey and struggle to become that iconic figure. To become someone better. So yes, Cleak killed someone (who by the way would have totally killed him) but it was Clark who killed him because SV's Clark isn't even close to being Superman just yet and he still struggles with who he is and his powers and all that.
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I don't blame Clark for this so much as I blame the producers: they're cheating. If Lex killing the doctor last week is supposed to signal his further descent into evil (as I think it was), then Clark should get a pass on killing someone in basically the same way--with his bare hands, even if the outcome in both cases is "accidental"--just because that person was a killer himself.
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Clark's killing the Zoner had me going WTF!?, too. But, there is a precedent (IIRC, he killed Comics!Zod.) Only, afterward it drove him a bit mad. Having killed was killing him. He had to go away for awhile to pull himself back together. It wasn't just, 'Well, gee, I feel a bit guilty, Mom'. I think they're going somewhere with this, though, if only because Clark's struggled with all the corporeal Zoners and all of them have ended up dead.
*loves on your letters again because they are awesome*
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The fact that there is comics precedent for Clark killing makes it a little less egregious, I guess--and I suppose he has killed Zoners before, I just haven't been paying that much attention--but I still wish they'd come up with another way for him to deal with them, because I really don't think the future Superman should run around killing people left and right.
Your icon is hilarious, btw.
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Your right, they need to come up with another way for Clark to deal with the corporeal Zoners. Now that he's feeling the guilt of it, he's got to look for another way. At least, I hope that's where they're going with this. *fingers crossed*
Thank you, I agree. It's one of
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I agree that Titan needed to be stopped. I think they must be going somewhere with this plotline, though, because otherwise they could easily have found a way to let Clark send the Zoners back to the Phantom Zone.