Smallville Season 4

[meganbmoore]

Ok?  Lois Lane?  Almost compensates for Lana.  Seriously, she makes the show 100 times better.  She and Clark have more chemistry in any one scene than every combined Clark/Lana scene from the first four seasons.  Clark is so far out of his league with her that I'd say it isn't even funny, except it is, and makes the whole thing worthwhile.  Except...on the other hand...there's Chloe.  Know what?  There has been exactly ONE moment in this entire series that has given me an angsty tug in the young love department, and that was the final, 2 second shot  of Chloe's face at the end of episode 3 here.  Lois has just gotten Clark good in the dunking booth and is teasing him and ruffling his hair and he has this half sheepish/half annoyed grin because he'd been taunting her that he didn't think she could do it, and the last shot of the episode shifts to Chloe looking heartbroken because she can see the writing on the wall.  On the other hand, the scene where Lana comments to Clark that she thinks he and Lois might be good together that was supposed to tug at our heartstrings and make us go "oh, poor doomed young love" had me going "YES CLARK!!! LISTEN!!! GET OVER HER!!! YOUR DESTINY HAS ARRIVED!!!"

Also, midseason, I finally realized what on the Lana/Chloe front has been bugging me a bit(not the part where I wondered why on earth Clark and Lex were so hung up on a whiny woe-is-me drama queen) Chloe started out as a Lois standin, and Lana as the Superman-canon Lana, if altered for maximum "sympathy-angst."  However, Lana has consistently moved farther and farther from her origins to the point where she now bears almost no resemblance to her origins.  In the meantime, Chloe has grown into a character independent of Lois, and is actually filling Lana's role.  Lana is the whiny girl who TPTB have been desperately trying to convince us has a point since season 1(you know, I was going to go on about the absurdity of her storyline this season, but it's not worth it.  Except that it was one of the most deperate and failed attempts at convincing us a character was important that I've ever seen)  Chloe, OTOH, is the(much more endearing and mature) girl who stands by Clark, lost him before she ever really had a chance with him, and is the keeper of his secrets.   She is, currently, a far better Superman-canon Lana(without coming across as a Lana ripoff) than Smallville Lana has ever been.  Lana was superfluous already, but now that Lois has arrived, she's extra-superfluous.

Also, a final note...Lana, why did you have to bring Jensen Ackles back from Paris with you?  Didn't you realize it would make it harder to tune you out?  *annoyed*

On the otherhand...Lana plot stupidity aside, that was an awesome ending.

I must find s5 at a good price now.

In other news, I am  ttttthhhhhhhiiiiiisssss close to buying Robin of Sherwood DVDs, even though they aren't as cheap as I want them.  I want my angsty, intense, brooding, historically and mythologically driven outlaws.  Especially my angry, vengeful Will Scarlet who reminds us why he's called Will Scarlet.  wwwwaaaaannnnnttttt

*starts dinner while she ponders what to watch next*

Comments

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

Your synopses have tracked along very closely with what I thought while watching the series. From the previews of current episodes, they apparently STILL think we should all love and adore Lana, dammit! Uh, thank you. No.

*sigh* I dropped the whole thing after episode 100 (season 5) -- it just pushed me that one step too far.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, part of it is a WB mandate for no actual Lois/Clark(though I hear that's lessened)...the thing is, they could have avoided Lois/Clark without keeping Lana around...I mean, seriously, is there a single fan out there who han't wanted Chloe to get to be with Clark for at least a little while?

The thing is, though, is that Kristen Kreuk actually CAN act and every once in a while, there will be a scene where she actually gets to show it, she just has the worst material any poor soul has ever been stuck with on a consistent basis. Lana is the first time I've flat out pittied a performer for the material they were given.

*is now watching her beloved St. Ives to compensate for it*