Dammit. Apparently I will not be able to concentrate until I get an icon of Clark in glasses. If anyone wants to make it for me ::big anime eyes:: I can post a screen cap when I get home.
*volunteers* I'd be happy to make it for you. Any particular text, etc, that you'd like on it? I will need the cap, though.
Lana ticks me off. Admittedly, I have not been watching the show since the beginning; I've pretty much only seen this season. But it seems to me that the problem with Lana particularly is that there is not a character there. She's not been given range or depth, and if, as you said, she acts out when under influence, they sometimes go so far as to have her forget it afterwards, so it doesn't benefit the character at all.
In a way, I think what's going on is rather similar to one of the problems in The Great Gatsby-- and I'm not trying to be grandiose here, Smallville has far more serious problems, I just don't know where else to go for the example. There are *no* women in Gatsby. Despite the tremendous importance of the three central female characters, they are all two-dimensional stereotypes of women; none of them is an actual person.
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Date: 2004-01-22 03:23 pm (UTC)*volunteers* I'd be happy to make it for you. Any particular text, etc, that you'd like on it? I will need the cap, though.
Lana ticks me off. Admittedly, I have not been watching the show since the beginning; I've pretty much only seen this season. But it seems to me that the problem with Lana particularly is that there is not a character there. She's not been given range or depth, and if, as you said, she acts out when under influence, they sometimes go so far as to have her forget it afterwards, so it doesn't benefit the character at all.
In a way, I think what's going on is rather similar to one of the problems in The Great Gatsby-- and I'm not trying to be grandiose here, Smallville has far more serious problems, I just don't know where else to go for the example. There are *no* women in Gatsby. Despite the tremendous importance of the three central female characters, they are all two-dimensional stereotypes of women; none of them is an actual person.