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Mar. 17th, 2008 02:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotJust watched 7x13, "Hero," posted this mini-rant on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bagheera_san's post and thought why not repeat it here, share the love. Or intense pain, in this case.
The only reason I watch Smallville is for the sexy men. And to get context for watching music vids. Okay, the two reasons I watch Smallville are for the boys, the vids, and because I enjoy the catharsis of a good rant now and again. --Okay, the three reasons--never mind!
My point is, Smallville is a fascinating show for me. Usually I watch shows for plot, concept, writing, f/x, etc, but I fan on shows for the characters. Except this is impossible with SV, because every character on the show is detestable, except for Lex - who has the excuse that he's supposed to be evil/insane and has finally started embracing it, so more power to him (even if he did let Jimmy overhear everything. THE HELL? If this were JLU, letting Jimmy eavesdrop would've been a delightfully Machiavellian scheme; no such luck here, sigh) - and Kara, who has amnesia. I would be rooting for her and Lex to get it on, except it's in the stars (apparently on the Luthor's crest?) that it will end as an exact retread of Lana, that she will turn on Lex for no particular reason and run back to the lying liars who lie to her. (...Okay, I was rooting for them to get it on anyway. Right now I think the show should consist of people coming into Lex's various offices and having sex with him. It would much deeper and more sensical than what we watch now.)
I will always love how the "good guys" know that meteor mutation causes lapses in judgment and Must Be Stopped, but Lex is still Wrongy McEvil for trying to stop them. It never gets old!
Really, I have to hand it to Smallville, I've never watched a show that's so consistently able to inspire emotional reaction in me. Right now it's mostly shock and awe that it's still on the air. People watch this? Really? I mean, other than masochistic fangirls?
On the other hand, it makes the sweetly incompetent writing of SGA look like Shakespeare.
bagheera_san's post and thought why not repeat it here, share the love. Or intense pain, in this case.The only reason I watch Smallville is for the sexy men. And to get context for watching music vids. Okay, the two reasons I watch Smallville are for the boys, the vids, and because I enjoy the catharsis of a good rant now and again. --Okay, the three reasons--never mind!
My point is, Smallville is a fascinating show for me. Usually I watch shows for plot, concept, writing, f/x, etc, but I fan on shows for the characters. Except this is impossible with SV, because every character on the show is detestable, except for Lex - who has the excuse that he's supposed to be evil/insane and has finally started embracing it, so more power to him (even if he did let Jimmy overhear everything. THE HELL? If this were JLU, letting Jimmy eavesdrop would've been a delightfully Machiavellian scheme; no such luck here, sigh) - and Kara, who has amnesia. I would be rooting for her and Lex to get it on, except it's in the stars (apparently on the Luthor's crest?) that it will end as an exact retread of Lana, that she will turn on Lex for no particular reason and run back to the lying liars who lie to her. (...Okay, I was rooting for them to get it on anyway. Right now I think the show should consist of people coming into Lex's various offices and having sex with him. It would much deeper and more sensical than what we watch now.)
I will always love how the "good guys" know that meteor mutation causes lapses in judgment and Must Be Stopped, but Lex is still Wrongy McEvil for trying to stop them. It never gets old!
Really, I have to hand it to Smallville, I've never watched a show that's so consistently able to inspire emotional reaction in me. Right now it's mostly shock and awe that it's still on the air. People watch this? Really? I mean, other than masochistic fangirls?
On the other hand, it makes the sweetly incompetent writing of SGA look like Shakespeare.
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Date: 2008-03-17 05:36 am (UTC)SGA at least has broadly consistent characterizations, and most of the plot holes you can see WHY they did 'em, to cut down on time or get to a particular scene or whatever. In SV stuff just *happens*, apparently because they, I dunno, roll a die or something to find out what the chars are gonna do next!
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Date: 2008-03-17 11:39 am (UTC)I don't think it was so much "Blue" itself as that I'd just gotten to my last shred of patience with the show. There was a break of three or four weeks between that episode and the next one, and by the time it came back, I figured out that I just didn't care anymore.
You know, the show always did have....issues, especially with the deal about everyone magically knowing that Lex was going to be evil. But even with that, I felt like the show took a sharp nosedive for the worse in S6. It seemed like they abandoned even the pretense of character continuity that season and like you said, just kind of rolled the dice.