Smallville(s5): What was that name?
Oct. 19th, 2007 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreOk, this ALWAYS bugs me no matter where it comes up: In Smallville, Clark need to find a doctor named "Han." Now...Clark didn't say how to spell the name, but Chloe immediately typed it in and spelled it. Now, when I hear "Han," I think "Han, Haun or Hawn?" (I'm just going 'Han" because...well...Han Solo, really...) It ALWAYS bothers me when that happens in fiction...when there are multiple spelliungs for a name but they act like there's only one.
Maybe it's because there are so many spellings to my name. "Megan" is apparently one of the least common spellings of the name, and no one who writes it down ever gets it right(WHY? It's the one with the fewest letters...) Similarly, while "More" seems to be a fairly obsolete spelling now, it is still out there, and Thomas More keeps it in cirulation.
Does it ever annoy anyone else? One day, I want a scene like this:
"Ok, I need a location for Dr. Conner, stat."
"Is that C-o-n-o-r, C-o-n-n-e-r, or C-o-n-n-o-r?"
*blank stare* "I didn't ask..."
I know they never cover that because it would jar the action, but...
Extremely briefly in Smallville:
1) Why is it that Lex/Lana makes me want to hurl things at the TV(why Lex, why? Don't you have higher standards than that? You could do so much better...) while I'm ok with Lionel/Martha. They work on near identical principles and are wrong for the exact same reason. I think it's because Lionel/Martha is portrayed as something wrong and something that Martha should be saved from, while we seem meant to support and hope for Lex/Lana. Also, unless they completely butcher Martha's character, there's not a prayer of that being two sided for a long time, while, even without spoilers, Lex/Lana is obviously going to happen. Then there's the fact that Martha is an infinitely better and more likable character than Lana...
Seriously, though, ever since early season 2, it's been pathetic how hard they've been trying to convince us that Lana is pertinent to the show, and at this point, they're pretty much literally raping Superman canon in every way possible to try to convince she's there for any reason than to keep things from happening. (And...really...how could the show that gave us Chloe and these versions of Martha and Lois also have given us Lana?)
2) Smallville's Cyborg is cute. Not hot, just cute. That is all.
Maybe it's because there are so many spellings to my name. "Megan" is apparently one of the least common spellings of the name, and no one who writes it down ever gets it right(WHY? It's the one with the fewest letters...) Similarly, while "More" seems to be a fairly obsolete spelling now, it is still out there, and Thomas More keeps it in cirulation.
Does it ever annoy anyone else? One day, I want a scene like this:
"Ok, I need a location for Dr. Conner, stat."
"Is that C-o-n-o-r, C-o-n-n-e-r, or C-o-n-n-o-r?"
*blank stare* "I didn't ask..."
I know they never cover that because it would jar the action, but...
Extremely briefly in Smallville:
1) Why is it that Lex/Lana makes me want to hurl things at the TV(why Lex, why? Don't you have higher standards than that? You could do so much better...) while I'm ok with Lionel/Martha. They work on near identical principles and are wrong for the exact same reason. I think it's because Lionel/Martha is portrayed as something wrong and something that Martha should be saved from, while we seem meant to support and hope for Lex/Lana. Also, unless they completely butcher Martha's character, there's not a prayer of that being two sided for a long time, while, even without spoilers, Lex/Lana is obviously going to happen. Then there's the fact that Martha is an infinitely better and more likable character than Lana...
Seriously, though, ever since early season 2, it's been pathetic how hard they've been trying to convince us that Lana is pertinent to the show, and at this point, they're pretty much literally raping Superman canon in every way possible to try to convince she's there for any reason than to keep things from happening. (And...really...how could the show that gave us Chloe and these versions of Martha and Lois also have given us Lana?)
2) Smallville's Cyborg is cute. Not hot, just cute. That is all.