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

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I just hit "confirm order" about 3 minutes ago...

Ever watch the Kevin Costner Robin Hood? They were trying so hard to match the show but failed(well, except the sheriff and will scarlet...actually, christian slater was playing will the way costner was trying to play robin...i'll never stop wondering how great it could have been if slater had been playing robin...)

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

I think I know the film you are thinking of. The one where Kevin Costner spends all his time making Sherwood Forest safe for Truth, Justice And The American Way. Nothing bad about the film... but so bland. This must have been the only Robin Hood film where most of the stealing was done by the Sheriff of Nottingham: Alan Rickman just totally stole the show.

And I wasn't at all surprised when they got rid of the lead actor and replaced him with someone else. They do that all the time on "Doctor Who"...

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

... that last comment referred to "Robin of Sherwood", by the way...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one(though I maintain that casting Christian Slater as Robin in that movie would have made worlds or difference)

I've never seen the episodes with the second Robin, but it makes sense to me that they did that, because they were all about the myth, and the myths have Robin as both a nobleman and a peasant, and the show also had the King Arthur idea that Robin Hood was as much a job title as a person.