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This episode was really too creepy. I mean, forget the weiner-biting sorority vampires and the glam rock Scottish ghost, TPTB's idea of a healthy relationship is genuinely scary. The extent to which Clark plays mind games with Lois and actively destroys something that she's passionate about because he should be the most important thing in her life, is a lot more sinister than Zod could ever hope to be. And the scene where he says he and Lois are going to tell each other their secrets, except it's only a pretense to get her to spill the beans because that's better than following her around to find out what she's keeping from him (i.e. her privacy), right? Well, nothing this season has made me want to smack Zod.

In further depressingness, Lois actively tries not to find out Superman's identity. Because that would be conflict, and conflict would be interesting.

Although I will admit, the scene where Clark says he can't tell Lois his secret because it'll put her in danger... and he's talking to Chloe... that was supposed to make me laugh, right? "I can't put Lois in danger! I love her! By the way, Chloe, how's it going with my secret identity? Is the Blur on TV Tropes?"

Date: 2010-04-26 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rann.livejournal.com
I wonder if this is some strange sort of worship of the Golden/Silver Age rearing its head, where they're intentionally invoking the Superdickery style of Clark being a cock to everyone...?

Date: 2010-04-26 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seriousfic.livejournal.com
It's like they're doing the old Lois/Clark/Superman triangle, but played so straight that it's a Lifetime movie. In the Silver Age, at least they played it for laughs, plus there was more of a contrast between the meek Clark and the godlike Superman. In Smallville, Clark is handsome and confident, while Lois has NEVER SEEN THE BLUR, so that makes her something of an idiot.

Date: 2010-04-26 04:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mightbefound.livejournal.com
Not even Chloe--given that Clark has just rescued Lois from a situation where even just being associated with the Blur got her kidnapped, it's ridiculous to think that her knowing his identity will somehow put her in more danger. Clearly Lord didn't wait kidnap her and then say "oh hai, actually she doesn't fully know the Blur's identity, putting her back now!" The link with the Blur already makes her Prime Target #1 if you want to get to the Blur. I mean, there's dumb, and then there's dumb.

(Also, Clark's insistence on his super sekkrit identity is the height of unbelievable given that he doesn't wear a mask.)

Date: 2010-04-26 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seriousfic.livejournal.com
This show picks the absolute weirdest times to be realistic and to be a fantasy. For instance, people sounding like assholes with voice modification - realistic. People wearing masks as they do superheroics - unrealistic.

Date: 2010-04-26 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rann.livejournal.com
At least with Ollie, if he gets found out he can just be all "Yeah what the fuck are you going to do about it? I mean, I've got no family and I'm super fucking rich. And, I mean, I know that rich people are legally barred from purchasing functional security systems or doors that lock in this world, but I'm pretty sure that I'm still above the law. Suck it, world."

And Aquadude can just dive under the sea, Cyborg can yell racial profiling and get off, and so on... but what's Clark going to do if he gets caught? Cornfed Midwestern Boy them into submission?

I mean, theoretically out of all those fucks the Kryptonian should be the most able to say "If you don't like it, try and stop me" if worse comes to worse, but again, we've got that Golden/Silver Age thing where Kryptonite is more common than bad Chinese buffets and is always in the exact worst place at the worst time. Thus ensuring that if he goes "What're you gonna do?", all the authorities or bad guy has to do is shout "This!", grab the nearest green object to smack him with, and there's a good 30% chance it's made of Kryptonite.

Date: 2010-04-27 08:49 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nostariel
I only watched the last half-hour, but I still think this ep shorted something in my brain. I mean, none of that made any sort of sense. Even for the Smallville version of 'sense' (and as you know, that's saying something). And with Lois's weird speech about how being the Blur's sidekick is all noble and gives her life meaning or whatever and how she doesn't want to know who he is because that will keep her safe...just, WTF? I can't even - what? This was an episode so bad that it successfully put the TWoP recapper into a spiral of confusion, despair, and drink. So...I guess it accomplished something?

Date: 2010-04-27 01:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tgirl78.livejournal.com
LOL! Smallville seems to be going downhill. They are renewing another season, so I really hope that things get better. If not...yikes...

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