on Smallville

[xparrot]

Just watched 7x13, "Hero," posted this mini-rant on 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.

Comments

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

SV I think works better for non-fan people, who don't bother trying to make sense of char or story and just enjoy the action. It's an awful headache if you're the sort to actually try to analyze chars, because they change motivation from week to week...

Bart was one of the more likable chars to appear! Even if he's a terrorist now...

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

He's a terrorist now? ...well, that means he must've gotten more episodes, right? That's good, anyway.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

...eheh, okay, technically the show doesn't say he's a terrorist. Well, Lex says he is, but no one listens. Still, he's working with Green Arrow blowing up privately-owned buildings around the world - even if they're EEEEVIL LuthorCorp buildings, that's pretty terrorist-y. (Seriously, there are no heroes in this show anymore, just different shades of villains. It's depressing as all get-out!)

[bluepard.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, was that in the JL ep?

Ahaha, that's still outright heroism according to the comics. You don't want to know how supervillainy some of the heroes have been lately.