Festivids Reveal

[odessie]

The time has come to reveal our festivids !  And I made... *drumroll please*

Title: Would You Be Mine?
Music: "Whistle for the Choir" by The Fratellis
Fandom: Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Recipient:  Cappy/cappylicious
Summary: The fun, fabulous, flirty relationship of the cutest Lois and Clark of them all.
Request: As a kid this show came on too late at

Comments

[mareeana]

I had forgotten just how much I loved this show. Yes, it's cheesy, cringeworthy and deeply, deeply stupid; but Lois and Clark were so cute.

I think I need to add you because there's no amount of THIS to convey how much I agree with this sentence. I am halfway through season 2 (partly because of your and the other L&C vid at festivids, partly because it became available to me at just the right time) and can I just say LOIS AND CLARK ARE SO CUTE! ;D I remember loving this show as a little girl and it's kept its charm even though I can now see how deeply, deeply stupid it is and laugh at it the whole time. I don't care, I still love it so. ♥

The reason I need to add you is because the people I've come across on LJ either think the show is too stupid to exist or think it is the best thing ever created and I can't agree completely with either and I agree a little bit with both, and it seems you do too? Other things in common include Doctor Who and Life on Mars. Add? :P

(Can you tell I have no one to talk to about this show? This comment is kind of long. ;P)

And I love your vid, as I've previously said on the festivids post! ♥ Fabulous song choice. :D

[odessie]

Add away! And I'll add you back if you don't mind as we seem to have a few things in common and you're spot on with your Lois & Clark assessment. :) It's stupid but adorable.

I'm not sure how anyone could honestly think it's the best thing ever created; I think you've got to love it including all its flaws, as the show doesn't take itself too seriously (unlike, say, Smallville). I think 'charm' is exactly the right word for it!

I love when it acknowledges its own cheesiness or breaks the fourth wall. (Like the end of S2 when Perry and Jimmy decide they've had enough of being bit players in someone's drama and it's time they had plotlines of their own, or in S3 when Lois recovers her memory after amnesia. "My memory's still foggy, though. I'd swear at some point in the last year I was abducted by aliens...Tell me I wasn't." "Actually, it was a billionaire computer geek bent on ruling the world." "Oh. That's better.")

I'm actually kind of jealous of you still being in the middle of S2! You've got so much still to go. I'm currently in the middle of S2 of Smallville and about to give up on it - just as stupid (if not more so), but without the central chemistry and the tongue-in-cheek attitude to keep things rolling along.

Wow, this comment got long too. :) Clearly I was also starved of the opportunity to talk about the show!

Fabulous song choice.

Thank you! The song is really the reason I made the vid - I was still swithering between my matched fandom (a 90min movie) versus 4 full seasons of Lois & Clark, when this song came on the radio and made me go 'ooh!' The lyrics just seemed to be perfect for Clark.

[mareeana]

Ah yes yes that was my intention. :D

I'm not sure how anyone could honestly think it's the best thing ever created.
Me neither but I found one site in particular that even has a very interesting essay on how everything that ever went wrong with the show was ABC's fault and never the producers'. I quite liked to read it actually. :P

Like the end of S2 when Perry and Jimmy decide they've had enough of being bit players in someone's drama and it's time they had plotlines of their own
Ooooh, I remember that! Must have been one of the episodes I had on tape because I haven't got there yet this time around. :P I love Perry and Jimmy! Although I must admit I'd quite warmed to S1 Jimmy and was sad when they replaced him although I only had a vague memory of him.

when Lois recovers her memory after amnesia
OH MY GOD THAT CLUSTERFUCK OF AN ARC. I can't wait to get there, the lulz are bound to be abundant. Frog-eating clone, need I say more? :DD

And yeah I completely agree with what you say about Smallville. I tried watching it when they started airing it here years and years ago but it didn't pull me in at all. I was older, for one, and it does seem to be even more stupid and without what I find to be the redeeming qualities of L&C.

The song is adorable, I've been addicted to it ever since I saw your vid and I'd never even liked The Fratellis much! :P It's perfect for the show, the tone really fits it as well as the lyrics. ♥

[odessie]

Yay! Well, it's polite to ask. :D

Although I must admit I'd quite warmed to S1 Jimmy

Me too, I have to say I never liked the replacement Jimmy as much as the original. But I'm not sure how much that was down to the writing rather than the actor as it feels like they changed focus after the first season from an ensemble piece to It's All About Lois and Clark. I miss Lex and Kat and Perry and Jimmy actually getting decent sub-plots.

OH MY GOD THAT CLUSTERFUCK OF AN ARC. I can't wait to get there, the lulz are bound to be abundant. Frog-eating clone, need I say more?

Clusterfuck and then some! I remember watching it as a kid and getting really, really frustrated by the whole thing - clones and Wanda Detroit and amnesia for half the season - why couldn't they just get married already? But when I rewatched them all this time it wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered. I quite enjoyed it in a batshit insane kind of way - and Teri Hatcher is blatantly having too much fun playing the clone and 'Wanda'.

Besides, it's not nearly as bad as the New Krypton stuff that followed, or Lex Luthor Jr in S4.