Last Night's Smallville
Apr. 15th, 2004 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetFollowing my grand tradition of kinda ignoring LJ right after a new ep airs - I find I am still down with Angel.
Also - I forgot that I have to file State Income Taxes. How is that gonna work since I've only been in this state since July? Is it only my income since July that is taxable? I hate this. Just wanted to get that out there.
I can't as yet talk about Angel. I watched Smallville, and I am perfectly cool with talking about it
ETA: Bonnie Hunt! Hunt not Tyler. Sheesh.
I don't know what to make of this show. I really don't. It pulls me in with the pretty and the Lex torture and has me all gaga and hooked and then it kind of just squanders opportunities like Adam and wastes Lex and bores me to tears and then it comes back like it did last night with a compelling 43 minutes of story.
What I have learned about Smallville to date
This is not a consistent show.
This is not a well-written show - although it has its moments. Last night was one of them.
This is a visually arresting show. Last night made me want to vid it again - Visually - the show is *extremely* well done. I love it on mute.
Michael Rosenbaum can act.
Any episode with Christopher Reeve on it will be good.
I hate Lionel Luthor. I'm supposed to hate him, so go team SV! I do.
Clark's hair is a shame - but very character appropriate. It also makes the dorkiness of Clark easier to buy - how he could ever possibly fade into the corners? Tom Welling is inhumanly good looking - I mean - I noticed the other day, I was walking by a display for that Bonnie Hunt movie he is in and he is just too pretty. I mean - you-can't-look-directly-at-him kinda pretty. Like an eclipse. He absolutely *looks* like he should. I just want the glasses to come back. I think, by nature of his acting abilities, I have to simplify Clark's emotional intelligence - much more than I want to - but this is teenage Clark - I can still do that and keep Adult Complex Clark alive in my version of the future. That being said, TW is getting better - and I love how the current father storyline is playing out. This is big - Sons and Daddies - this is good stuff and just having Bo Duke around comforts me.
The Lana stuff is boring and she will never ever ever grow as a character as long as they continue to force her to spout off lines about how she wants to see what she is missing by following Clark around, no wait she wants to be with Clark, no wait she doesn't trust him, no wait she forgets what her reasoning is this week so we'll just stare at each other a lot. This is boring. This is the same stuff over and over. Move on. Quit saying you will move on and MOVE.
I am 12 years old: Clark may have kissed Lana last night, but he ripped off Lex's shirt.
reaction of sisabet watching at home last night
[Clark grabs Lex, throws him back against car, rips open shirt]
me: *gasp* Oh. My. [looks at Sid-the-dog-faced-boy]. Did you see that? Oh. My. Lex should be driving a Jimmy, though.
The previews looked incredible for the rest of the season - which I can get behind - I can totally watch a show that is looks great, but storywise is kinda ho-hum... but it could be so much more. SV could be really brilliant and it has had 3 years and IMO has hit its stride maybe about five times. Coming from the Jossverse I want more. Which is probably not fair to the show - BUT - I have QaF for the poorly written pretty. Now, I know that SV gives me superpowers with the pretty - but QaF gives me nekkid pretty. It hurts me to say this - but I will: I need more than just the pretty. The pretty is great - don't get me wrong - but I need something I can sink into and lose myself completely -- and the pretty isn't enough. Maybe I am growing as a person, I don't know. I still feel really shallow -- but I also am gradually coming to terms with the fact that I have been able to distract myself with the shallow pretty only because I still had Angel to fulfill my "Tell me a story and make it a good one" needs. I'm still gonna need this next year. I feel kinda lost.
Also - I forgot that I have to file State Income Taxes. How is that gonna work since I've only been in this state since July? Is it only my income since July that is taxable? I hate this. Just wanted to get that out there.
I can't as yet talk about Angel. I watched Smallville, and I am perfectly cool with talking about it
ETA: Bonnie Hunt! Hunt not Tyler. Sheesh.
I don't know what to make of this show. I really don't. It pulls me in with the pretty and the Lex torture and has me all gaga and hooked and then it kind of just squanders opportunities like Adam and wastes Lex and bores me to tears and then it comes back like it did last night with a compelling 43 minutes of story.
What I have learned about Smallville to date
This is not a consistent show.
This is not a well-written show - although it has its moments. Last night was one of them.
This is a visually arresting show. Last night made me want to vid it again - Visually - the show is *extremely* well done. I love it on mute.
Michael Rosenbaum can act.
Any episode with Christopher Reeve on it will be good.
I hate Lionel Luthor. I'm supposed to hate him, so go team SV! I do.
Clark's hair is a shame - but very character appropriate. It also makes the dorkiness of Clark easier to buy - how he could ever possibly fade into the corners? Tom Welling is inhumanly good looking - I mean - I noticed the other day, I was walking by a display for that Bonnie Hunt movie he is in and he is just too pretty. I mean - you-can't-look-directly-at-him kinda pretty. Like an eclipse. He absolutely *looks* like he should. I just want the glasses to come back. I think, by nature of his acting abilities, I have to simplify Clark's emotional intelligence - much more than I want to - but this is teenage Clark - I can still do that and keep Adult Complex Clark alive in my version of the future. That being said, TW is getting better - and I love how the current father storyline is playing out. This is big - Sons and Daddies - this is good stuff and just having Bo Duke around comforts me.
The Lana stuff is boring and she will never ever ever grow as a character as long as they continue to force her to spout off lines about how she wants to see what she is missing by following Clark around, no wait she wants to be with Clark, no wait she doesn't trust him, no wait she forgets what her reasoning is this week so we'll just stare at each other a lot. This is boring. This is the same stuff over and over. Move on. Quit saying you will move on and MOVE.
I am 12 years old: Clark may have kissed Lana last night, but he ripped off Lex's shirt.
reaction of sisabet watching at home last night
[Clark grabs Lex, throws him back against car, rips open shirt]
me: *gasp* Oh. My. [looks at Sid-the-dog-faced-boy]. Did you see that? Oh. My. Lex should be driving a Jimmy, though.
The previews looked incredible for the rest of the season - which I can get behind - I can totally watch a show that is looks great, but storywise is kinda ho-hum... but it could be so much more. SV could be really brilliant and it has had 3 years and IMO has hit its stride maybe about five times. Coming from the Jossverse I want more. Which is probably not fair to the show - BUT - I have QaF for the poorly written pretty. Now, I know that SV gives me superpowers with the pretty - but QaF gives me nekkid pretty. It hurts me to say this - but I will: I need more than just the pretty. The pretty is great - don't get me wrong - but I need something I can sink into and lose myself completely -- and the pretty isn't enough. Maybe I am growing as a person, I don't know. I still feel really shallow -- but I also am gradually coming to terms with the fact that I have been able to distract myself with the shallow pretty only because I still had Angel to fulfill my "Tell me a story and make it a good one" needs. I'm still gonna need this next year. I feel kinda lost.
