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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?"
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?"
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-26 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-26 04:07 pm (UTC)(Also, Clark's insistence on his super sekkrit identity is the height of unbelievable given that he doesn't wear a mask.)
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-26 07:02 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2010-04-27 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-27 01:05 pm (UTC)