my fandoms are playing with me
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xparrotSupernatural? Is totally screwing with my head. They know I just got into Scrubs. They know.
"Tall Tales." Could've been funnier (though the slow dancing aliens, and Dean's amazing chipmunk cheeks, won it for me), and the best part was the opening 'previously' bitch-jerk montage. The ep itself--was a Scrubs crossover. I swear it. I mean, not only is the professor who dies in the teaser named Cox (yay!). But the janitor? The villain is the janitor? And the janitor is a trickster? (speaking of tricksters, WTF is up with not mentioning any native American tricksters? Since the series is, y'know, inCanada America - Coyote's always been one of my favorites of the breed. Not that I don't love Loki but still.) But, yeah. The Janitor is a Trickster. Doesn't that explain so much about Scrubs?
Smallville 2x15, meanwhile, was regrettably un-Clexy. Though I have to say, evil!Lex is smokin'. Otherwise - again, I don't watch most Lana scenes, so maybe that's why most of the ep didn't make sense to me. Does anybody know who was actually killing the implanted meteor freaks? Was it the crazy doctor? Or Lex's people? It's sort of important, as far as judging how eeeeeevol Lex is really being, because if the doctor was doing it on his own that's one thing, but if Lex ordered the murders of multiple mutants, just to cover his ass...which doesn't make sense anyway, how could knocking off a bunch of people possibly not be suspicious? Especially since none of them remembered anything? Better to just discreetly remove the trackers and carry on...
And how exactly were they getting killed? Was the doc zapping them with his electro-lethal-taser-gun-thing? The one guy was killed in a car accident, they said; were accidents 'arranged' for the others as well? How? And how come nobody came for Chloe? Clark said the thing was only a GPS tracker, not any kind of bomb or mind-control device, so...Chloe's tracker going suddenly offline, without anyone actually there to take care of her, should have set off some alarm bells. Not to mention, while it's nice Clark was worried about Chloe, it disturbs me that this supposed budding superhero showed absolutely zero concern for those other little blips on the map. They knew exactly where those other mutants were - and some of them were close by, it looked like only a few blocks - they knew they were being targeted, and it didn't occur to Clark to try to save any of them. And as usual he shows no angst over a guy dying right in front of him, as a direct result of his intervention. Yeah, Doc Whosis was a bad guy. But Clark. Is Superman. He's not supposed to be letting people croak in front of him constantly, bad guys or not. Grrrr. Stupid show.
Also, Lex is so incredibly, creepily insincere with Lana. They have negative chemistry, like two identical poles repelling. As I believe this is intentional it's not a criticism, but still. Creepy. One expects them to spring suddenly apart as with like magnetic charges whenever they get too close. No wonder they don't share a bedroom. And he swore (a lie) on (maybe not) his unborn baby! Oh, Lex. You so wicked! <3 Though he's still not exactly a supervillain, far as I see it. So he's keeping close tabs on meteor mutants. Considering almost every meteor mutant I can recall (with the exception of that one guy in "Hug") has, if allowed to keep their powers, eventually gone crazy and tried to kill people...someone ought to be keeping tabs on them! Yeah, racial (genetic?) profiling - but when it's apparently inevitable for them to go homicidally nuts (as Chloe so rightly fears), there's a reason for concern.
"Tall Tales." Could've been funnier (though the slow dancing aliens, and Dean's amazing chipmunk cheeks, won it for me), and the best part was the opening 'previously' bitch-jerk montage. The ep itself--was a Scrubs crossover. I swear it. I mean, not only is the professor who dies in the teaser named Cox (yay!). But the janitor? The villain is the janitor? And the janitor is a trickster? (speaking of tricksters, WTF is up with not mentioning any native American tricksters? Since the series is, y'know, in
Smallville 2x15, meanwhile, was regrettably un-Clexy. Though I have to say, evil!Lex is smokin'. Otherwise - again, I don't watch most Lana scenes, so maybe that's why most of the ep didn't make sense to me. Does anybody know who was actually killing the implanted meteor freaks? Was it the crazy doctor? Or Lex's people? It's sort of important, as far as judging how eeeeeevol Lex is really being, because if the doctor was doing it on his own that's one thing, but if Lex ordered the murders of multiple mutants, just to cover his ass...which doesn't make sense anyway, how could knocking off a bunch of people possibly not be suspicious? Especially since none of them remembered anything? Better to just discreetly remove the trackers and carry on...
And how exactly were they getting killed? Was the doc zapping them with his electro-lethal-taser-gun-thing? The one guy was killed in a car accident, they said; were accidents 'arranged' for the others as well? How? And how come nobody came for Chloe? Clark said the thing was only a GPS tracker, not any kind of bomb or mind-control device, so...Chloe's tracker going suddenly offline, without anyone actually there to take care of her, should have set off some alarm bells. Not to mention, while it's nice Clark was worried about Chloe, it disturbs me that this supposed budding superhero showed absolutely zero concern for those other little blips on the map. They knew exactly where those other mutants were - and some of them were close by, it looked like only a few blocks - they knew they were being targeted, and it didn't occur to Clark to try to save any of them. And as usual he shows no angst over a guy dying right in front of him, as a direct result of his intervention. Yeah, Doc Whosis was a bad guy. But Clark. Is Superman. He's not supposed to be letting people croak in front of him constantly, bad guys or not. Grrrr. Stupid show.
Also, Lex is so incredibly, creepily insincere with Lana. They have negative chemistry, like two identical poles repelling. As I believe this is intentional it's not a criticism, but still. Creepy. One expects them to spring suddenly apart as with like magnetic charges whenever they get too close. No wonder they don't share a bedroom. And he swore (a lie) on (maybe not) his unborn baby! Oh, Lex. You so wicked! <3 Though he's still not exactly a supervillain, far as I see it. So he's keeping close tabs on meteor mutants. Considering almost every meteor mutant I can recall (with the exception of that one guy in "Hug") has, if allowed to keep their powers, eventually gone crazy and tried to kill people...someone ought to be keeping tabs on them! Yeah, racial (genetic?) profiling - but when it's apparently inevitable for them to go homicidally nuts (as Chloe so rightly fears), there's a reason for concern.
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Date: 2007-02-16 11:45 pm (UTC)I love humor eps so much. ♥ And I hereby grant John Shiban a license to write those, because as long as it's not something that demands a lot of plot, he actually does a great job with the characters! (And this is such a homage to Bad Blood! That, and I swear the scene with the sewer grate reminded me of a scene in Shiban's Tesos dos Bichos...)
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Date: 2007-02-17 05:19 am (UTC)The trickster could've been funnier (I don't know how, I'm not a humor writer, but...!) (and isn't Loki a redhead?) but hey - Tricksters! much love for them. ^^
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Date: 2007-02-17 07:58 am (UTC)I've read some reviews, and I'm going to wait until the next episode for some more exposition on this mutants-outside-Level 33.1 operations and Chloe's powers reveal, because I can't make heads and tails of it either.
Yay for the evil!Lex and woe for the lack of Clex. I guess Michael Rosenbaum didn't want to direct a scene with himself and Clark together, because it's just too difficult to act AND direct sexy-evil-slashy at the same time. Or maybe they're saving the confrontation for the resolution of the mysteries above. Or maybe he and Tom just might make the screen explode with the hotness, and that's just too much gay for TV. :D
I love the term negative chemistry. And now you've mentioned the genetic profiling (that's pretty cool), I think I've read this theory somewhere about the possible plans to use these to make the clone army of mutants, so it's looks promising a plot.
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Date: 2007-02-17 05:03 pm (UTC)I gotta say, Director Rosenbaum brings on the sexxxy. Both he and Tom were looking go~rgeous. That could indeed be why they didn't share a scene, spontaneous combustion of several million TV screens might've brought on a lawsuit XD
An army of cloned mutants? Heh. That would be something evil - I still am not convinced of Lex's supervillain ways. He's not a good guy, certainly, but the evil...I have yet to see it. I know he's got it in him, but...(I'm torn. On the one hand, it's so tragic to see him becoming what he's always feared he would become. On the other, supervillains turn me on, so... ^^)
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Date: 2007-02-18 05:13 pm (UTC)I still maintain that this ep is just a prelude of sorts to dealing with Chloe's powers and the further revelations of Lex's plans. And maybe they'll bring back Lionel now, and start dealing with his relationship with Martha while they're at it. Or will they wait until the wedding for one grand showdown that will end with Lana leaving the altar? AGH, I can't make smart predictions if I'm sticking to being spoiler-avoidant!
spontaneous combustion of several million TV screens might've brought on a lawsuit
I think there ought to be a protest if it doesn't happen at least once, because we don't exactly watch it for the plot. *giggles psychotically*
I think villainhood would be better for him. Less heartbreak and other injuries that way. Evil is indeed a hot look on him. I think the whole mutant baby angle will be major deciding point in his characterization, and if the mutant army plotline meets with the possible future gatecrashing Phatom Zoners... let's just say that there are increasing incentives for Lex to secure his interests and rise to power. Now if I stop thinking about the epic tragedy of it all, I might be a little excited about it. And yeah, turned on too, coz power is hot!
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