Fortune Screentime Minutes, and a Few Thoughts

[jeannev]

 OK, so I'm trying to squeeze this in before I fall asleep, because I don't see me having the time tomorrow, and if I wait until Monday, I know I'm just not going to want to bother.

This isn't going to be much of a review.  This episode doesn't merit the braincells I'd use to write one.  I thought it was awful.  Badly written, badly directed, not

Comments

[tjw_jaypat]

I guess I found the episode more entertaining overall. I am willing to cut them some slack because it may have been sort of an hommage to the funny moments the cast had on set. It seemed we got a glimpse of the real people rather than the characters. And that was enjoyable for me. Of course a better writer and director could have done better.

But going back to being rational I have to agree that storywise the episode was a waste, in particular this late in the season. Well, unless you are a Chloe fan and are happy that she got glorified in the most ridiculous way. A very small balance to me was that she probably got the worst possible wedding imaginable. But that doesn´t undo the glorification as the new superhero coach. Such things are just an insult to long time viewers who know better what she actually did over the past 10 years, namely playing Chloogle first and foremost, before she started to suffer from delusions of grandeur.

So indeed and quite predictably all of Chloe´s episodes were a waste, except the 17 min of Masquerade in which Clark´s disguise was dealt with in the quickest possible way. It escapes me why they couldn´t do a funny episode showing how Clark tries to come to terms with his new disguise. I would see lots of room for comedy there. But God forbid, that would mean that an episode centers around Clark... :((

As for Clark, suprisingly he had the most screentime. But when I watch my cropped version, it is obvious that he is not really at the center of the episode. Again, he gets conveniently removed from the major event involving the villain of the episode, so they can have all the others defeat Fortune in the casino. Instead Clark got a few seconds to save Emil... :(

At least I got a few laughs out of this episode, and I saw that Tom still got his beautiful supersmile...

[jeannev]

To me, if they want to share the fun moments the cast have on the set, then put some bloopers on the DVD, or do a BTS special for the DVD. Don't waste an entire episode on wanking off the actors.

I'm still trying to figure out what qualifies Chloe to coach anyone.

Truth be told, a lot of my resentment and anger at this episode is that I think just below the "fun", Clark was written like absolute crap. And thats just no fun at all to me.

I love to see Tom laugh and smile as much as the next Tom fan. But there's got to be better ways to achieve that then this.