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ivyblossomSome Smallville thoughts, cut because...well, I'm in a different timezone and in a different country than a lot of my favourite Smallville fans, and I realize that I've seen what many are watching right now or won't see for an hour or so...
Alright. Well, so the theme of Smallville is daddy issues. Lana has them, Lex has them, Chloe, of course, has mommy issues, so that's unique, and now Clark also has daddy issues. What actually interests me most about this is that Smallville is turning into a dissertation on fatherhood. Lana's dad: decent but distracted, not 'there' for his love child and therefore giving her an abandonment complex. Lex's dad: self-consumed and only interested in his children when they can be useful to him, or can be a helpful extension of himself while he tries to destroy the world. Chloe's dad: what's with Chloe's dad, have we ever seen him? Whoever he is, he not only raised a bright and fairly well-adjusted daughter, but he even took in Lana. He's like a mother bird taking in all these abandoned children. Possibly Lex should move in with Chloe and Lana; is there another purple bedroom in that house? Lex's wardrobe would fit right in!
Anyway, on with the dads: Clark has a pretty good one, or, at least I think that's the idea. Protective, masculine, rugged, suitably and traditionally 'fatherly', desperately loving and accepting of his alien spawn. The perfect dad. Gruff yet tender. And now Clark also has a blood-thirsty murdering biological father, apparently. Is that canon? Clark was actually fathered by an alien Lionel, but pushed into a basket and set adrift as an infant to be raised by...the meek, who shall inherit the earth. Clark could have been Lex, but was, as Jonathan nicely points out, saved by his adoptive father's good rearing skills. A good father is critical, don't you think?
Other, random thoughts: Chloe rocks out. I totally love her. I think she completely capitulated unfairly at the end, but granted I don't know what I'm talking about, this is my eighth episode. I like Chloe. She's sympathetic, and even when she's betraying Clark, she doesn't do it on purpose or with any actual nasty intent. She's just...curious. And interested. And right.
Lana, on the other hand, just gets worse and worse and worse. I think Kristin Kreuk is a good actor, but I can't believe what they're doing with Lana. I'm not supposed to hate her, am I? First: she snoops into Chloe's files. It could have been the porn folder, but instead it was the 'nostalgia' folder. I can understand Chloe getting upset. Why Chloe went ahead and gave Lana some fodder for her own crush-not-crush is beyond me. And Lana's "it's not my fault" was kind of weak. Should could say that if she hadn't already knowingly hit on Clark while she knew full well that Chloe had serious, serious feelings for him. AND THEN to go ahead and use her little spying trick as a sympathy tactic to get Clark to give her that poor you look is just horrible and disgusting.
"Weep weep, I'm not really family." Excuse me, Lana. I guess you've really never had a sister, because let me tell you, even if you were Chloe's sister it would a) not be okay to snoop through her freaking files and b) it would still be make you a total fucking bitchcake for trying to hit on the love of Chloe's life. Weep weep, I'm not really family, where the FUCK DID THAT COME FROM? Lana, must everything really be about you? I mean, come ON. And then Chloe comes back with, "Oh, I think of you as my sister," which Lana really, really doesn't deserve. I'm appalled.
You know, I'd like to write chloe/lana, but good god I can't see what anyone sees in Lana. I really can't. I might have to write a fic where Chloe steals Lana's pubic hair off the shower floor and makes voodoo dolls with big eyes and black hair and sticks pins in it.
There was an odd vein popping out of Lex's temple this week. It was distracting me. And does he have a scar on his lip? Is that what it is? That wasn't distracting, but I noticed it while trying to avoid looking for that vein. Lex and Clark really don't trust each other, do they. Friends, but really not friends. Sad.
I'm really high on muscle relaxants right now, long story, so if this makes no sense that's why. Yes, I will claim that.
Alright. Well, so the theme of Smallville is daddy issues. Lana has them, Lex has them, Chloe, of course, has mommy issues, so that's unique, and now Clark also has daddy issues. What actually interests me most about this is that Smallville is turning into a dissertation on fatherhood. Lana's dad: decent but distracted, not 'there' for his love child and therefore giving her an abandonment complex. Lex's dad: self-consumed and only interested in his children when they can be useful to him, or can be a helpful extension of himself while he tries to destroy the world. Chloe's dad: what's with Chloe's dad, have we ever seen him? Whoever he is, he not only raised a bright and fairly well-adjusted daughter, but he even took in Lana. He's like a mother bird taking in all these abandoned children. Possibly Lex should move in with Chloe and Lana; is there another purple bedroom in that house? Lex's wardrobe would fit right in!
Anyway, on with the dads: Clark has a pretty good one, or, at least I think that's the idea. Protective, masculine, rugged, suitably and traditionally 'fatherly', desperately loving and accepting of his alien spawn. The perfect dad. Gruff yet tender. And now Clark also has a blood-thirsty murdering biological father, apparently. Is that canon? Clark was actually fathered by an alien Lionel, but pushed into a basket and set adrift as an infant to be raised by...the meek, who shall inherit the earth. Clark could have been Lex, but was, as Jonathan nicely points out, saved by his adoptive father's good rearing skills. A good father is critical, don't you think?
Other, random thoughts: Chloe rocks out. I totally love her. I think she completely capitulated unfairly at the end, but granted I don't know what I'm talking about, this is my eighth episode. I like Chloe. She's sympathetic, and even when she's betraying Clark, she doesn't do it on purpose or with any actual nasty intent. She's just...curious. And interested. And right.
Lana, on the other hand, just gets worse and worse and worse. I think Kristin Kreuk is a good actor, but I can't believe what they're doing with Lana. I'm not supposed to hate her, am I? First: she snoops into Chloe's files. It could have been the porn folder, but instead it was the 'nostalgia' folder. I can understand Chloe getting upset. Why Chloe went ahead and gave Lana some fodder for her own crush-not-crush is beyond me. And Lana's "it's not my fault" was kind of weak. Should could say that if she hadn't already knowingly hit on Clark while she knew full well that Chloe had serious, serious feelings for him. AND THEN to go ahead and use her little spying trick as a sympathy tactic to get Clark to give her that poor you look is just horrible and disgusting.
"Weep weep, I'm not really family." Excuse me, Lana. I guess you've really never had a sister, because let me tell you, even if you were Chloe's sister it would a) not be okay to snoop through her freaking files and b) it would still be make you a total fucking bitchcake for trying to hit on the love of Chloe's life. Weep weep, I'm not really family, where the FUCK DID THAT COME FROM? Lana, must everything really be about you? I mean, come ON. And then Chloe comes back with, "Oh, I think of you as my sister," which Lana really, really doesn't deserve. I'm appalled.
You know, I'd like to write chloe/lana, but good god I can't see what anyone sees in Lana. I really can't. I might have to write a fic where Chloe steals Lana's pubic hair off the shower floor and makes voodoo dolls with big eyes and black hair and sticks pins in it.
There was an odd vein popping out of Lex's temple this week. It was distracting me. And does he have a scar on his lip? Is that what it is? That wasn't distracting, but I noticed it while trying to avoid looking for that vein. Lex and Clark really don't trust each other, do they. Friends, but really not friends. Sad.
I'm really high on muscle relaxants right now, long story, so if this makes no sense that's why. Yes, I will claim that.
