30 Days of Smallville | Day Four | Ships - all my ships

[ladygawain]

Okay, so really this post is too long. It doesn't help that I'm trying to deal with four things at once but that's just in case this week is as awful as I predict it will be and I don't have time to do this until the weekend.

So here we go. Shippy, post is shippy as all get-out!

Day Three (four, five, six): Ships (and everything)

Comments

[audrey229]

This post is....amazing. From start to finish. I am trying to find the words to respond to this appropriately and I feel as though I am going to fail miserably.

This post also makes me realize how much I miss you and miss talking about the show with you. Can we rectify this please???

First, it's so funny that you used the scene from "Rabid" because I literally just sat down the other day and put in my Smallville Blu-Ray specifically to watch that scene. I have no idea why. Then, after watching the scene, I decided to watch the whole episode further solidifying my opinion that that episode is one of the best episodes of Season 9 and one of the best for Clark as a HERO in the series. He is simply INCREDIBLE in that episode from start to fininsh.

That scene in the rain is something that I never get tired of watching. Everything about it is incredible. The acting in that scene? Incredible. I think Tom and Erica always have incredible chemistry. But the chemistry between them in that entire episode is so intense that it's almost alarming. From the beginning scenes where they are intimately snarking at the Planet, to him picking her up and carrying her up the stairs, to the intense conversation in the office, to the beautiful hug in the rain to the sexy "I am putting you on notice, woman" arm grab in the Kent kitchen.

I LOVED what you said about Clark and Lois and the strength that comes from loving someone like that. Yes. That is brilliant. It's funny because I was literally just talking about this with someone over at Ksite recently. The spoilers came out from Erica where she said that she was going to be helping Clark and supporting him in the last stretch of the season while still embarking on her journalism arc. And someone (a woman no less) basically said that it made Lois weak to be devoting herself to a man like that. Then, on the other side of the fence, you get people (usually men) saying that it makes Clark weak because he wants to share his life with Lois. And it's just like...Dude. That is not only an incredibly offensive viewpoint about love, marriage and everything that goes along with making that commitment to someone....but it's also just flat out WRONG. Having the courage and the maturity to commit your life to someone and to love them with all your heart does not make you weak nor does it rob you of your own individual strength and achivements. That's the beautiful thing about Clois in every medium. Love and heroism co-exist beautifully together. Both characters are at their best when they are together. They work beautifully as partners and they are the best versions of themselves as individuals. Why are people so God damn threatened by this kind of love? Truthfully, I really want to know what the hell the problem is. Why is it so hard for people to understand that a woman choosing to commit her life to the man that she loves and support him day in and day out through the good days and the bad days does NOT make her weak? And why is it so hard for people to understand that a man can be "the greatest hero the world has ever known" and still be a husband who is completely devoted to his wife? The two roles are not in competition with each other. I just freaking love everything you said here.

Part 2 of my response is coming. I told you I loved this post. :)

[ladygawain]

My love, I have missed you!!!!! (you should know, though, that I frequently stalk your posts on K-site as one of the few sane voices among many insane ones). We need to fix it immediately. I will haunt your LJ, name the day, I can't wait for your discussion posts because I feel like I'll love what you have to say about the show!!

Ha! Great minds!!! "Rabid" was amazing, who would've thought one of the shippiest episodes of the season would be couched in a zombie story? Crazy and awesome. AND YES, Clark was amazing in that episode. Amazing. And he didn't even need his Blur suit, brilliant.

Lol, yes, it is alarming, I remember the arm grab. My jaw hit the floor, amazing those two.

Funny, I LOVE what you just wrote, I could quote it but exactly this. Love and heroism aren't mutually exclusive. This idea that love somehow makes one weak is so offensive and tiresome and immature and WRONG. Basically. And like we all used to point out on DI, the metaphor of kryptonite in Clark and Lana's relationship was all about love that makes you weak, that's bad for you, and kills you. Lois and Clark is the opposite of that, and we've had Clark reinforce that verbally by comparing her to the sun or the effect she has on him to the sun. The show can't get more explicit than that and we see how loving Lois affirms Clark's sense of purpose. This fandom is always so funny about shipping, and always invalidates the opinions of shippers and it drives me nuts.