Smallville - Crusade

[sisabet]

I get home after 8:00 and eat supper and pop in Smallville and the backup DVD player - the Panasonic - choked on both the XSVCD and the VCD - I swear, the Mintek needs resurrecting toot sweet.

I'm gonna look into that. There must be some kinda ritual or chant or something that can bring a DVD player back from the dead. Maybe if I just have faith...

So I watched 4x01 "Crusade" on my computer. *gasp* I know - the horror!



You know - I think one day they should do an All Nude All the Time ep. Wait - they just did.

Okay - into - teaser - whatever:

Lois reaches for the nicorette and wrecks. I've DONE that. I love her already.

So Lois smokes, she bites her nails and she babbles. She is sarcastic and driven and a little too brusque. Good. This is all good - but now I get it - she is Lois Lane, and I think they can calm down a bit.

The joy I feel seeing Steve Deknight's name on the credits cannot be stated in mere words. Steve - I pledge my lege with you. You will see us through Season 4 and give me a reason to be excited on Wednesday nights. You restored my soul. You lead me to lie down in quiet valleys with a rod and a staff and maybe all this will work toward resurrection of the Mintek?

Worth a shot.

Lex has the strangest dialysis set up I have ever seen and I have seen some dialysis. I wish they had let him see just a glimpse of Clark. It could be played off - a kinda delusion under the stress of the potential plane crash and dialysis (takes a hell of a lot out of a person) and well - hell - with a little creative editing...

::fixes ep::

Oh, now - see, that is much better.

Lex on the cover of French Forbes!! Yay!! No story reason other than it works for the making anime project. Yay - gotta go grab linzeems.

I don't get the Lana Connection - but I gotta say - I am totally in favor of Lana-Gone-Wild in Europe. Passing out and waking up sweat covered and with a strange tattoo, hell girl, we have all been there. I like this. Nice of her to continue the All Naked All the Time theme and her boyfriend is cute in a Poor Man's James Spader way (and dude I thought the Poor Man's James Spader was James Spader. Must re-evaluate life) but why is she dating a 28 year old?

I want to see Chloe and Lois's conversation on Naked Clark. I just think it would be fun...

Poor Lex. He is so sad and sickly and bless his heart - he ain't ever gonna get better as long as he is being treated by Porno!Doc.

MARGOT KIDDER FILLING IN FOR CHRISTOPHER REEVE!! Do I like this? Why YES - yes I do. And she is looking really really good - for Margot Kidder.

What the FUCK is black kryptonite? And the Clarks battling was either hot in a "Dead Ringers" way or disturbing or... wait!! Dead Ringers was hot in a disturbing way and this was just kinda silly looking. The nakedness helps and again, I think I can creatively edit this to be acceptable to me.

It is good to have projects.

And so now Clark is calling Chloe his "best friend" - I think Clark needs to sit down and understand what the word "best" means - but since he is such a kid and this is a kid thing, I am gonna let this slide.

By letting this slide, I mean he should take off his shirt again. Thanks.

ETA: Lex says, "You shouldn't wound what you can't kill" and I would find this hot except my dad says that all the time. Lex needs to stop talking like my father or I will be in need of some serious counseling. 'Kay? Thanks.

Comments

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

And so now Clark is calling Chloe his "best friend" - I think Clark needs to sit down and understand what the word "best" means - but since he is such a kid and this is a kid thing, I am gonna let this slide.

Ah man, I'm so glad I'm not the only one that noticed this. Clark has more best friends than I have pairs of shoes - that boy is just full of love! Either that or I need more shoes.

Also...I am so very glad my dad does not say "you shouldn't wound what you can't kill" because I, thankfully, was able to find it the hottest moment of the entire episode. Including NekkidClark.

Linzee

[piper47.livejournal.com]

I still think my experience with watching SV with a bunch of CLana's was more entertaining, but I'd have loved to have been in the room when you saw this. LOL.

I totally missed the part about Clark calling Chloe his best friend. I guess I was too busy having my arm squeezed by Lauren who was *freaking out* because Lana has a boyfriend.

"How can she be with that guy? Clark is her true love. She should be with Clark. Clark should fly to Paris and tell her he loves her."

::beats head into wall::

I was a little confused by Clark flying. Because for a moment there he was in space and can he do that? Can Clark fly into outer space? I don't think he can.

But he can keep flying, in fact I think he should fly once an episode. ::nods::

And if he can't be naked, can he wear that black shirt... because really. It was all about him in that black shirt for me. My God!

[simonesa.livejournal.com]

LMAO. You guys are killing me. Nekked Clark or the black shirt. I will take either one!

[kwerkee.livejournal.com]

watching SV with a bunch of CLana's

My sympathies.

[piper47.livejournal.com]

And I have to continue to watch it with them for the rest of the semester. ::sigh::

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

You need to become either a ravenous Lana/FauxJamesSpader fan or Clark/Lois and then mess with their heads.

As they are booing and hissing over the Lana-Lover you could be shushing them and saying how theirloveispureandtrueandhehasn'teventriedtomurderheryet!! And wipe away a tear because authenticity is important.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

I was a little confused by Clark flying. Because for a moment there he was in space and can he do that? Can Clark fly into outer space? I don't think he can.

In the episode, Clark tells Jonathan that Kal-el could fly, but Clark can't.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

And that just made me go AWWWWWW CLARK!

And then this very evil/wrong/bad part of me started singing "I can't stand to fly. I'm not that naive..." and then I realized what I was doing and had to go run and scrub out my brain with a steel wool brush and my god you have a hot icon.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

HEEEE!

Hey, I love that song. *g*

Clark! He will fly again. He will! I have faith.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I was a little confused by Clark flying. Because for a moment there he was in space and can he do that? Can Clark fly into outer space? I don't think he can.

This is the first time Clark (or his body) has ever flown unassisted -- his powers have been developing and he's awakened floating above his bed before and he knows that Jor-El - when on Earth previously - could fly - but this was the first time he has consciously defied gravity (although there was this one time he jumped from the roof of the Daily Planet into LuthorCorp...)

Now - can he fly into space? Well - he just did. What is the canon? There is a lot of different takes on it - movie canon has Superman all over the place in flight (he gets rid of an H-bomb in space in Superman II) and has General Zod et al flying thru space and messing up a moon mission with nary a care in the world or need of oxygen. Since Zod and Clark are both Kryptonian, anything Zod can do - so can Clark. Actually, I bring up Zod solely so I can say "Son of Jor-El KNEEL. Kneel before Zod!" hehehehe. Twenty years and counting and that still hasn't gotten old.

Now Superman IV also had him in space - but we don't want to go there. I can't remember Superman III - it had Richard Pryor in it and at one point Superman goes evil and/or splits in two and then he has sex with this blonde bimbo and that movie seriously disturbed me as a child and so I am blocking all but a scene at the end of Superman flying and carrying Richard Pryor over the Grand Canyon. Cause that shit was funny. The rest of it really bothered me and the Lana in that movie is now Martha Kent and none of that has anything to do with Clark flying in space.

Comic Toon Canon on Clark in Space - yes - yes he can fly pretty much anywhere although sometimes he needs a special breathing apparatus. Sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he goes into exile and gets picked up by interstellar demon fighting troupe similar to Angel's deal in "The Ring" and sometimes he just ends up living with Wonder Woman for a thousand years on some weird ass plane and she is all "C'mon Supes, let's get it on!" and yet he never touches her.

Not once. We are talking Wonder Woman here. Have you seen Wonder Woman?

So frankly - if all they expect me to buy is that Clark can break atmosphere and fly in a vacuum - fine. I am there. Cause it sure is a lot more plausible then the whole Wonder Woman thing.

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Superman canon confuses the hell out of me. Why can't these people have one timeline. This multiple universe thing hurts my poor brain. I can't keep any of it straight.

I give up... I'll just focus on the naked!Clark! that's better for my brain. ;)

[jrh19782002.livejournal.com]

for get the shirt we want more naked clark yes please god please!!!!

[simonesa.livejournal.com]

I didn't understand at first about you letting the "best friend" comment slide. Now that I reread and realize letting it slide means losing the shirt, I totally understand and can get behind this movement.

I was watching the black K moment and all I could see see was Duncan in an ancient well. HL and SG1 coming together in one convoluted package.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

It can't really be dialysis, can it? With the funky chest plugs and "blood purification," it seems like it's supposed to be some weird variant relating to Lex's kryptofreakishness. Like maybe it's not the liver but ... I dunno, bone marrow? What else could be poisoning him or failing to do its purification job?

[simonesa.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if Lionel gave his same disease to Lex in an effort to have Lex searching for the cure.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good idea.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I'm still puzzling out what is wrong with Lex and how they are treating it. If that was dialysis he was receiving, it was some kinda Sci-Fi dialysis, so I am liking the Liver issue better. It seems like a wacky treatment for a disease that only Lex can tolerate and then you have a connection to Lionel and his fatal illness and also the liver is the most regenerative of organs and was it you or Hope who had the idea last year that Lionel's Resurrection Serum was not only derived from Clark's blood, but also Lex's- cause in light of all that has happened - I am loving that idea

I am very excited that Lex's mutation is getting played as a plot point. I also wonder if the mysterious serum would cure Lex where it only delays the inevitable for ordinary people. OR - maybe the serum IS only made from Clark's blood - but if you mixed it will Lex's it would be some fountain of youth type dealio! Together they give immortality and Lex has been the missing peice all along and now I will stop *g*

[coiledsoul.livejournal.com]

I got into this fandom over the summer in an attempt to fill the Angel void and I gotta say, as crappy as a lot of it is, the Clex is a very good methadone to the Spangel heroin. Indiana Lex and the Temple of Egyptiany weirdness was pretty cool too. He should wear white linen suits much much more often.

I'm in agreement on the best friends thing. He really should look up the word. Oh, and what the hell with the xraying of Chloe's grave and saying she's alive? How're you gonna play that one off to Lois Clark?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Man- I gotta say - Clark is one creepy ass dude - x-raying his dead best friend's grave. Luckily - I find that kinda hot, but he is so not all apple pie and wholesome family entertainment, not at all. He is one disturbed little puppy.

How will he play that off to Lois? He'll lie about something - I have no doubt he'll play it off. And really - if you were Lois and not from Smallville, I don't think it would be a stretch not to immediately think "OMIGOD, Clark has x-ray vision!"

Okay - if it was me - that is what I would totally be thinking, but I don't think that is most people's first thoughts.

[kwerkee.livejournal.com]

I like to think that Clark was trying to get closure. He didn't get the chance to say goodbye to her and all. So maybe out of some desperate moment, he wanted to have one last look. This desperation would also explain why he didn't stop to think what exactly he's expecting to see after a body's been buried for 3 months.

But Tom Welling's acting was amiss. He could have played it all sad, doey-eyed before x-raying. Instead, one interprets that moment as Clark having a morbid kink.

[kwerkee.livejournal.com]

I'm TM-ing someone wise:
- Chloe is his best female friend.
- Pete is his best black friend.
Lex was a best friend too, but they like, broke up or something.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

God - Clark is such a kid!! And I don't buy that he was only three when the Kent's picked him up, but picking three as his age was probably a very good move on Martha's part because he is so far behind emotionally. God.

And when I think about poor emotionally stunted little boy Clark, I just want to cuddle him. Then I remember my reaction to the Ass of Tommorrow and I feel like a dirty old woman.

I am so conflicted.

[lumenara.livejournal.com]

Dude, DeKnight moved to Smallville? Do I have the wrong DeKnight in my head?

Why did I miss this?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Yep - he is all writing and associate producing or something (bad memory for exact titles). Now you have to watch. Seriously - just trust me on this. It will be okay.

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Hey sisabet... this has nothing to do with Smallville, I just dropped by to tell you that I discovered your vid "Paradise" the other day, and... Damn. Seriously? Damn. I cried. Then I watched it again, and cried again, and have watched it approximately 900 times since. Perfect song, perfect clips, and perfect character insight. Really, really excellent job. Between this and "Cowboy" (still one of my favorites, even though I feel all dirty for liking a Kid Rock song), I think you've covered Angel (the character) pretty damn well. :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you. I am so glad to hear that people enjoy - well that might not be the right word - that people are moved by Paradise. Thank you again.

Lazerus, the Mintek

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Have you tried spraying compressed air into the little DVD chamber?

DVD burners are goofy little creatures. They actually burn the data onto the disk which means you can get this build up of weird metallic dust on the thing that generates the laser that reads the disk. All manner of weirdness can occur.

I realize that it is unlikely that the problem is that simple. But, I would try the compressed air before coughing up the money for the repair guy or starting a cult.

Re: Lazerus, the Mintek

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Dude - so I should probably call off the goat sacrifices and all...