Disgusted.

[chiri_chan]

Admittedly, I need to catch up a bit but I just simply cannot believe the end scene from Persuassion (Smallville's last ep). I just. How did that even air? How is anyone supposed to (or I should say, "still") buying this is the "real" Clark Kent? Whom even thought this plotline was a good idea? Part of me isn't even shocked they want an s10 and

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[ellyfanfic]

I am amazed and creeped out by all the people hailing that scene as awesome and badass. I really, really want to believe that the producers want us to be scared of this guy. Someone pointed out on my LJ that the music didn't say 'be afraid," it said "this is badass" (the music was a little reminiscent of the "Watchtower is now online" scene, I think). But that could just be music twit being a twit. But really, I just cannot BELIEVE no one on the show pointed out that all the 9/11 symbolism was creepy and disturbing. I do find it hopeful that they carefully showed us there were people at the base of the tower-- surely that was meant to show us how careless of human life Clark has become? I sincerely hope this is not!Clark.

I have a theory about why the Cnoisers need to hail Clark as a hero. It has to do with the fact that they've decided Clark is a big boy now, mostly thanks to his love for Nois. They think he's more heroic, AND he's become strong and powerful and assertive when it comes to relationships, too. These two things fit together in their worldview, and if they acknowledge Clark ISN'T heroic, even a little, then they might have to acknowledge that Clark's behavior with Nois is wildly OOC-- and they don't want to acknowledge that. It's important to them to believe that Clark has grown up this year, mostly due to Nois' influence. So they have to ignore all the darkness and just see him as heroic. I'll try to find some quotes and make a post on this a little later-- meant to do it yesterday, but didn't quite get to it.

[chiri_chan]

I think the producers want us to be scared of him; I've thought that since Roulette when he slammed a would be murderer into a car. I don't condone preying on women - but one could have easily tied the bad guy to a lamp post, and let her drive a way. I crossed my mind in Echo where he put an innocent man in the hospital. The claim that Kandor was just Clark ~out of control~ never sat right with me either -- so it's OKAY to verbally and physically abuse someone you know has a history OF ABUSE because... you're mad at them??

I thought the music in the Watchtower online scene was a VERY creepy mix even at the time. The whole scene had a vibe of a major turning point and and icky under tone.

Yeah, shows tend to have SO MANY people involved that it's impossible for now on to say "Hey, if we set two TWIN TOWERS in a city that is supposed to be the GREATEST CITY ON EARTH... ON FIRE and have that fire make them COLLAPSE... isn't that a little to close to terrorism?"

Which I don't know how they are going to get around it. I suspect maybe they'll say the Blur was someone posing as him and that's why he needs to be a public figure? I don't know.

I think it's because if Clark is NOT Clark, if Clark is NOT a hero, then it will reflect badly on their ship in their eyes. I think that's about as far as it goes. Lana not being able to tell Bizarro and Clark apart made Clana look bad. Lana making Clark stay on the farm and play human made Clana look bad. So if being in a relationship with their girl means he's reckless, violent, and a thug fitting the stereotypes talked about by Stephen after his transformation last week -- well that will admit their ship looks bad.

Which I get, no one wants to say "WOW my ship I've wanted for AGES looks SO BAD" -- but if they were doing this to Chlark I'd be throwing a very loud fit. DEMAND BETTER, people. Superman is better than this.

I honestly think it is a large part in why ratings are crappy. For almost a decade BLACK MEANS BAD. They did it with Chloe in this very episode. BLACK = BAD. You can't put the hero in black when he's always been Mr. Primary and not expect at least SUBLIMINAL rejection on behalf of the audience.

[svfan01]

Since somebody posted this link on twitter, I figure I would respond

"I have a theory about why the Cnoisers need to hail Clark as a hero"

Since we are playing the psychoanalyze fanbase game, I have a theory why Chloe fans are blowing it way out of proportion. While I can understand people not particularly liking what Clark did, the show has had Clark do many stupid things during the entire run of the series yet I don't see people complain as much about those. It basically comes down to fans of Chloe hate the direction of this season so much they will find anything to nitpick and make it out as bad as possible in hopes somehow that will change the direction of the show.

"Lana making Clark stay on the farm and play human made Clana look bad."

It didn't make Clana look bad it just made Clark look like he wasn't progressing with his life. I personally don't blame Lana for how Clark acted as a hero once during the run of the show(and I have many issues with how he was portrayed at times), since for the most part she was seperate from that aspect of his life, much like Lois is now. Now if your talking about Clark's personal life, then yes Lana would have been a big problem with it during S5-7 where it seemed like he regressed to wanting to hide out in his barn all to often when any plot revovled around her character. If it was a plot about his personal life that revolved around other charatcers Clark came off much better in those seasons.

The same could be said for me blaming how Clark acted in his personal life on Chloe, since he hung out with her alot. I don't put the blame on her for that aspect of his life during S5-7 since generally any scene with her not revolving around Lana didn't make him look bad in reguards to his personal life type moments. Now Clark's heroic side is a completely different issue where I felt the writers dumbed down Clark to shoehorn Chloe in at times and it didn't do his character any favors, in that way Chloe was way worse for Clark then Lana ever was during the run of the series. I always say from S5-S7 Lana emasculated Clark's balls, while Chloe emasculated Clark's brains

[hoshi_reed]

I am not surprised they aren't seeing that Clark isn't heroic. They pretty much kept saying nothing was wrong with Chloe when they had clues up and down that Brainiac was inside her.

[chiri_chan]

Well I think that was to say Chloe was truly evil, and now that Clark isn't. It is just apparently molding the show into a certain narrative.