I am so disillusioned
FOR SALE
One used, and currently fandomless, Hack Writer. Has been associated with slayers, Englishmen, wizards, mutants and Tyler Durden. ISO long-term gig with benefits. Continues to be Co-owned by CEO of Lex Corp, but is willing to work on contract due to unhappiness with current situation.
*
I used to write insane recaps for SV in season one. We’re talking pages long, Omar-esque recaps full of vigor and vitriol and all that other shit. I wrote them for people who couldn’t see the show when it aired, not because I had to, but because I wanted to. It was a labor or love. I’d take notes! I did it happily, and it showed in my writing. I used to get *excited* about what the hell was happening. And then season two revved up, and with some notable exceptions (Prodigal, Rosetta, Insurgence) I’ve been completed horrified.
This is not about the considerable lack of hoyay in Season Two. This is not even about Smallville: The Years of Lana Lang. This rant is about the way that the producers are going around bastardizing season one to promote the Clark/Lana in season two. If Clark and Lex are supposed to be friends, then let them be friends. Don't shit all over the friendship just for the sake of Puppy Love and because you cannot be arsed to say WHY they're acting the way they are. 'Consistency' isn't that big of word you know. If Clark is supposed to be so friggin super then why doesn't he get that relationships are temporary. Friends are what really count.
(I wouldn’t feed this shit to my dog if I had one).
Plus, I have really fucking BIG problems with the Lana-drowning, and the Lana-destiny, and now the Lana-escape to Metropolis thing (thanks to meret for pointing that out). Since when are there only so many scenarios to go around? The PTB have huge opportunities to do great things. They don’t have to recycle. This is not a fandom with only so many ideas to go around. Superman’s died in comic canon. Superman has been cloned. Superman has married Lois Lane, had kids with Wonder Woman (Act of God JLA graphic novel), and he’s got enough knock-offs to fill Madison Square Garden (Superdog anybody?). And and. And you are making no sense, I hear you say.
Okay. Trying again. Relationships. Clark/Lex and Clark/Lana, I am wondering if by mirroring them are the PTB trying to say this is why they fail? Because Clark saves these people (that makes no sense because look at Lois)? Because he believes in this destiny stuff? Because he tries to persuade them to run off to Metropolis, does that ensure that they will fail? It doesn’t make any fucking sense does it?
Exactly.
None of this season is making any fucking sense to me!
ethrosdemon said she wanted to love SV, but she felt let down. I say I want to love SV but I feel insulted. And used. My name is not Lana Lang. If you are pissing on my intelligence, I am not going to call it rain! I am not going to forgive you for trying to marinate the same chicken we had last week and then passing it off as beef!
This diversion shit is not working for me, and what I’m attempting to ask - through the smoke coming out my ears - is it really necessary to bastardize the relationship of Lex and Clark just to build Lana and Clark up, reasonably? Why do you have to steal bricks from your neighbor’s house when you already have access to the Home Depot in your backyard?!
Fuck this, and fuck them, and I HATED CALLING! I walked out happily. I am not interested in watching them tear down everything just to try and make Clark/Lana plausible. I’m just not. If they want Clark/Lana to work, it should work on it’s own merits not because it’s copying what made/makes Clark/Lex so great.
Fuck the PTB.
Having said all that, most of which probably doesn’t even make sense, I gotta give it up for Lionel. I love Lionel. He can prance about in that poodle perm as much as he wants, because the man isn’t waylaid by jack shit. Word.
Helen. Pfft. I don't dislike her because she's involved with Lex. I dislike her because I have no investment in her. There is nothing about her that appeals to anything in me. They could replace her with a cardboard cutout of Barney and I'd still feel the same. If you want to sell me something, convince me that it's important. Convince me that I need it. I don't need Helen. She might as well be Victoria.
Chloe. Baby, I know it doesn’t seem like it right now, but he’s not worth it. Really. I’ve seen more intelligence in a sack of rice.
Lex. I don’t even know what to say to you. Helen probably does love you, and you probably love her too, but you know what? I don’t think y’all like each other very much, and you sure as hell don’t trust each other. I suppose that won’t matter if she has her wing of the house and you have yours and you get your heir and spare.
Pete. Only two more years before you can move someplace where you can make some new friends. Ones that pay attention to you.
Lord. I’d forgotten how self-involved teenagers are. It makes me so happy to be a jaded twenty-something.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go find some over the counter drugs because I'm not feeling well. If you couldn't already tell.
One used, and currently fandomless, Hack Writer. Has been associated with slayers, Englishmen, wizards, mutants and Tyler Durden. ISO long-term gig with benefits. Continues to be Co-owned by CEO of Lex Corp, but is willing to work on contract due to unhappiness with current situation.
*
I used to write insane recaps for SV in season one. We’re talking pages long, Omar-esque recaps full of vigor and vitriol and all that other shit. I wrote them for people who couldn’t see the show when it aired, not because I had to, but because I wanted to. It was a labor or love. I’d take notes! I did it happily, and it showed in my writing. I used to get *excited* about what the hell was happening. And then season two revved up, and with some notable exceptions (Prodigal, Rosetta, Insurgence) I’ve been completed horrified.
This is not about the considerable lack of hoyay in Season Two. This is not even about Smallville: The Years of Lana Lang. This rant is about the way that the producers are going around bastardizing season one to promote the Clark/Lana in season two. If Clark and Lex are supposed to be friends, then let them be friends. Don't shit all over the friendship just for the sake of Puppy Love and because you cannot be arsed to say WHY they're acting the way they are. 'Consistency' isn't that big of word you know. If Clark is supposed to be so friggin super then why doesn't he get that relationships are temporary. Friends are what really count.
(I wouldn’t feed this shit to my dog if I had one).
Plus, I have really fucking BIG problems with the Lana-drowning, and the Lana-destiny, and now the Lana-escape to Metropolis thing (thanks to meret for pointing that out). Since when are there only so many scenarios to go around? The PTB have huge opportunities to do great things. They don’t have to recycle. This is not a fandom with only so many ideas to go around. Superman’s died in comic canon. Superman has been cloned. Superman has married Lois Lane, had kids with Wonder Woman (Act of God JLA graphic novel), and he’s got enough knock-offs to fill Madison Square Garden (Superdog anybody?). And and. And you are making no sense, I hear you say.
Okay. Trying again. Relationships. Clark/Lex and Clark/Lana, I am wondering if by mirroring them are the PTB trying to say this is why they fail? Because Clark saves these people (that makes no sense because look at Lois)? Because he believes in this destiny stuff? Because he tries to persuade them to run off to Metropolis, does that ensure that they will fail? It doesn’t make any fucking sense does it?
Exactly.
None of this season is making any fucking sense to me!
ethrosdemon said she wanted to love SV, but she felt let down. I say I want to love SV but I feel insulted. And used. My name is not Lana Lang. If you are pissing on my intelligence, I am not going to call it rain! I am not going to forgive you for trying to marinate the same chicken we had last week and then passing it off as beef!
This diversion shit is not working for me, and what I’m attempting to ask - through the smoke coming out my ears - is it really necessary to bastardize the relationship of Lex and Clark just to build Lana and Clark up, reasonably? Why do you have to steal bricks from your neighbor’s house when you already have access to the Home Depot in your backyard?!
Fuck this, and fuck them, and I HATED CALLING! I walked out happily. I am not interested in watching them tear down everything just to try and make Clark/Lana plausible. I’m just not. If they want Clark/Lana to work, it should work on it’s own merits not because it’s copying what made/makes Clark/Lex so great.
Fuck the PTB.
Having said all that, most of which probably doesn’t even make sense, I gotta give it up for Lionel. I love Lionel. He can prance about in that poodle perm as much as he wants, because the man isn’t waylaid by jack shit. Word.
Helen. Pfft. I don't dislike her because she's involved with Lex. I dislike her because I have no investment in her. There is nothing about her that appeals to anything in me. They could replace her with a cardboard cutout of Barney and I'd still feel the same. If you want to sell me something, convince me that it's important. Convince me that I need it. I don't need Helen. She might as well be Victoria.
Chloe. Baby, I know it doesn’t seem like it right now, but he’s not worth it. Really. I’ve seen more intelligence in a sack of rice.
Lex. I don’t even know what to say to you. Helen probably does love you, and you probably love her too, but you know what? I don’t think y’all like each other very much, and you sure as hell don’t trust each other. I suppose that won’t matter if she has her wing of the house and you have yours and you get your heir and spare.
Pete. Only two more years before you can move someplace where you can make some new friends. Ones that pay attention to you.
Lord. I’d forgotten how self-involved teenagers are. It makes me so happy to be a jaded twenty-something.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go find some over the counter drugs because I'm not feeling well. If you couldn't already tell.