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YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SMALLVILLE PICSPAM HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO LACK OF CHLOE SCREENTIME. I'M NOT EVEN DOWNLOADING IT. AND THERE WERE ZOMBIES.
Chloe spying on people like Lana. Ew. She's really not even Chloe anymore. I don't believe in this version of her at all. When Lana pulled that shit, WHO UNPLUGGED THE FEED OF LEX'S APARTMENT AND REFERRED TO LANA'S ACTIONS AS "TOTALLY DEPRAVED"? OH RIGHT.
(Also, I know Ollie is pretty drunk, but how do you NOT NOTICE A CAMERA IN YOUR BELT? Secondly, why would anyone want to put a camera in Ollie's BELT? You are just going to end up seeing some stuff you do not want to see.)
Chloe and Gaeta have good chemistry (or maybe it's just because their scenes are the only time we get to see two good actors sharing a scene on this show anymore), but they seemed to have dialed back on the overly obvious awkward attempts at sexual tension in the premiere. Now it's looking like they won't even be giving Chloe enough screentime anymore this year to have her own love interest anyway, though. IN CONCLUSION I DON'T GIVE A FUCK
Except that Chloe saved the world. Again. WITH LESS THAN SIX MINUTES OF SCREENTIME TOO.
Ollie's speechifying to Lois was bad on the laying-it-on-heavy Lana level. I did like how he was asking her to tell him he is full of shit, though. Lollie and Chlark are obviously being set up as the two pairings where the girls call the boys on their shit and make their heroes who they need to be. But the execution was awful, not helped by JH's lack of acting ability. (Also, if Ollie was carrying around drugs that kept him awake, WHY DIDN'T HE SHARE?! Sheesh.)
So basically we have both Chloe and Nois and both of them are displaying qualities of Lana at her worst. BITE ME, SMALLVILLE.
ANYWAY HAVE ANOTHER OLDSKOOL PICSPAM INSTEAD.
I was overcome with overwhelming nostalgia for the days when this show had Metropolis be BLUE. Specifically the episodes where Beeman was directing and would just make it blue all over the place. (Asylum is next on my list.)
...I think this is the first time I've never put Chloe in a picspam preview but her Metropolis scene just wasn't blue enough, sorryyyy
CLARK ON RED K: STILL A VIRGIN PRUDE INEXPLICABLY ENOUGH?!?!
I cannot get over this sequence. I love it.
The colors are amazing. I love how the warm tones of home get put up against the blues of the city.
The early seeds of TDK ripoff-age. Yes, TDK didn't exist yet, that counts in the show's favor.
Hi, Pete.
Bye, Pete.
Rutger Hauer as stunt casting was awesome.
CHLIONELLLLLLLLLLLLL!
"All decisions have consequences."
I STILL SHIP IIIIIIIT
lol Lost. Even with the eye.
They really laid the skin makeup on heavyyyy. Sadly this translates to less picspam time for MR.
SORRY. YOU WOULD LOOK SO FINE WITH YOUR SHIRT OFF IF YOUR SKIN WAS NOT PEELING OFF
I LOVE THIS SEQUENCE SO MUCH
LANA LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL.
And I love that Clark still came to the funeral. Love, love, love.
"You were not forced into exile!
You're not being noble, you're being a coward!"
This might be in my top five scenes for them ever. I love it that much.
I think part of it is that this kind of scene where both parties just explode is something that could only happen with these two. Even when Clark and Lex fought, it was always a slow burn; even the punching in Mortal is almost in slow-motion and that somehow makes it more brutal.
But Chloe and Clark just let it all out in this scene.
That he's scared of her writing his secret in an article. That she would keep whatever secret he asked. That he's running away.
Him dragging her to the door is really scary in how physically imposing he is compared to her tininess, it's so rare to feel Clark as a threat. And him screaming at her to get out of his life is just. Ow.
It happens in the phonebooth scene and with Chloe, but never with Lana. Hmm...
Oh Helen. SO POINTLESS.
Another really well-done sequence. Really.
OMG LANA'S FAAAAAAAAACE
"OH NO YOU DIDN'T"
AMAZINGGGGGGGGG
They really needed to shoot this from farther away to disguise the body double.
I had to choose a cap with his back turned, it's really obvious...
On any other show they would have done this in a more interesting way. ORZ
"I'm not your son! And you're not my parents! You never have been! You never will be!"
"Clark, what is the matter with you?! Your parents love you! ...I love you!"
"Do you always betray the people you love?"
Well, it is kind of a running theme with her, yeah, lol.
PSYCHOTIC BREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!!!!!!!
What I like about this episode is if you take into account the original five-year-plan, this is basically supposed to be us going into the halfway point season. And this episode really does set up everything that is leading us to S5 and Jonathan's death and all Clark's choices that bring him to that point.
I've never been a huge Clark fan overall, but S3 and his entire arc dealing with the aftermath of this is absolutely my favorite for him. This episode is just so good and a testament to how great the show can be when you work to make Clark's arc compelling and have him fuck up and learn from it.
Funnily, even though Chloe is my favorite character with Lex in second, the strongest episodes of the series to me are often the ones when Clark is at the center and his story is interesting and taking the show places.
ALSO A POLL
Poll SMALLVILLE THE TOWN WHERE THE WORLD'S MOST ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE NEVER GET LAID
GO GO GO.
Chloe spying on people like Lana. Ew. She's really not even Chloe anymore. I don't believe in this version of her at all. When Lana pulled that shit, WHO UNPLUGGED THE FEED OF LEX'S APARTMENT AND REFERRED TO LANA'S ACTIONS AS "TOTALLY DEPRAVED"? OH RIGHT.
(Also, I know Ollie is pretty drunk, but how do you NOT NOTICE A CAMERA IN YOUR BELT? Secondly, why would anyone want to put a camera in Ollie's BELT? You are just going to end up seeing some stuff you do not want to see.)
Chloe and Gaeta have good chemistry (or maybe it's just because their scenes are the only time we get to see two good actors sharing a scene on this show anymore), but they seemed to have dialed back on the overly obvious awkward attempts at sexual tension in the premiere. Now it's looking like they won't even be giving Chloe enough screentime anymore this year to have her own love interest anyway, though. IN CONCLUSION I DON'T GIVE A FUCK
Except that Chloe saved the world. Again. WITH LESS THAN SIX MINUTES OF SCREENTIME TOO.
Ollie's speechifying to Lois was bad on the laying-it-on-heavy Lana level. I did like how he was asking her to tell him he is full of shit, though. Lollie and Chlark are obviously being set up as the two pairings where the girls call the boys on their shit and make their heroes who they need to be. But the execution was awful, not helped by JH's lack of acting ability. (Also, if Ollie was carrying around drugs that kept him awake, WHY DIDN'T HE SHARE?! Sheesh.)
So basically we have both Chloe and Nois and both of them are displaying qualities of Lana at her worst. BITE ME, SMALLVILLE.
ANYWAY HAVE ANOTHER OLDSKOOL PICSPAM INSTEAD.
I was overcome with overwhelming nostalgia for the days when this show had Metropolis be BLUE. Specifically the episodes where Beeman was directing and would just make it blue all over the place. (Asylum is next on my list.)
...I think this is the first time I've never put Chloe in a picspam preview but her Metropolis scene just wasn't blue enough, sorryyyy
CLARK ON RED K: STILL A VIRGIN PRUDE INEXPLICABLY ENOUGH?!?!
I cannot get over this sequence. I love it.
The colors are amazing. I love how the warm tones of home get put up against the blues of the city.
The early seeds of TDK ripoff-age. Yes, TDK didn't exist yet, that counts in the show's favor.
Hi, Pete.
Bye, Pete.
Rutger Hauer as stunt casting was awesome.
CHLIONELLLLLLLLLLLLL!
"All decisions have consequences."
I STILL SHIP IIIIIIIT
lol Lost. Even with the eye.
They really laid the skin makeup on heavyyyy. Sadly this translates to less picspam time for MR.
SORRY. YOU WOULD LOOK SO FINE WITH YOUR SHIRT OFF IF YOUR SKIN WAS NOT PEELING OFF
I LOVE THIS SEQUENCE SO MUCH
LANA LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL.
And I love that Clark still came to the funeral. Love, love, love.
"You were not forced into exile!
You're not being noble, you're being a coward!"
This might be in my top five scenes for them ever. I love it that much.
I think part of it is that this kind of scene where both parties just explode is something that could only happen with these two. Even when Clark and Lex fought, it was always a slow burn; even the punching in Mortal is almost in slow-motion and that somehow makes it more brutal.
But Chloe and Clark just let it all out in this scene.
That he's scared of her writing his secret in an article. That she would keep whatever secret he asked. That he's running away.
Him dragging her to the door is really scary in how physically imposing he is compared to her tininess, it's so rare to feel Clark as a threat. And him screaming at her to get out of his life is just. Ow.
It happens in the phonebooth scene and with Chloe, but never with Lana. Hmm...
Oh Helen. SO POINTLESS.
Another really well-done sequence. Really.
OMG LANA'S FAAAAAAAAACE
"OH NO YOU DIDN'T"
AMAZINGGGGGGGGG
They really needed to shoot this from farther away to disguise the body double.
I had to choose a cap with his back turned, it's really obvious...
On any other show they would have done this in a more interesting way. ORZ
"I'm not your son! And you're not my parents! You never have been! You never will be!"
"Clark, what is the matter with you?! Your parents love you! ...I love you!"
"Do you always betray the people you love?"
Well, it is kind of a running theme with her, yeah, lol.
PSYCHOTIC BREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!!!!!!!
What I like about this episode is if you take into account the original five-year-plan, this is basically supposed to be us going into the halfway point season. And this episode really does set up everything that is leading us to S5 and Jonathan's death and all Clark's choices that bring him to that point.
I've never been a huge Clark fan overall, but S3 and his entire arc dealing with the aftermath of this is absolutely my favorite for him. This episode is just so good and a testament to how great the show can be when you work to make Clark's arc compelling and have him fuck up and learn from it.
Funnily, even though Chloe is my favorite character with Lex in second, the strongest episodes of the series to me are often the ones when Clark is at the center and his story is interesting and taking the show places.
ALSO A POLL
Poll SMALLVILLE THE TOWN WHERE THE WORLD'S MOST ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE NEVER GET LAID
GO GO GO.