"Finale" SV 10x21-22 (spoilers, obviously)
If you do not want your squee harshed, please do not keep reading. Below the cut is my knee-jerk reaction to the first five seconds of the Smallville series finale. (No, it's not an anti-ship screed.) Warning: image heavy.
First off, this is not about Chloe/Oliver qua Chloe/Oliver. I just want to make that clear before I start with the ranting. Okay? Okay.
OH.
HELL.
NO.
I don't care how cute that kid is (and he's pretty darn cute, bless his itty bitty face) but there is NO WAY IN HELL that we are getting QUEEN SPAWN AND IT IS NOT CONNOR HAWKE. FUCK NO.
*cough* Okay, yeah. The comics fan in me is mounting a surprise rebellion over my better nature. I'm gonna have to finish watching the Smallville finale another day because if I can't even make it past the teaser without losing my shit, I'm clearly not in the right frame of mind.
The "previously on Smallville" was AWESOME, however. And I know, I KNOW, that I'm going to love every moment of Clark becoming Superman, and I know I'm going to wallow happily in all the Clark/Lois bits, and all the wonderful heroics and iconic moments, and it'll be 98% awesome. Just, just, I gotta reconcile myself to the fact that Oliver Queen has spawned yet another child... with Chloe Sullivan.
Dear Roy, Connor, Robert, Mia, Cissie, and hell, I'll throw in Lian because God knows Grandpa Ollie loved that little girl,
You were robbed.
My sympathies,
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Yeah, yeah. I know Smallville is an AU. How would you feel if Lois' father had been someone other than General Sam Lane? Lois would be a completely different character if her father had been, I dunno, an insurance salesman.
Oh, my God, the implied domestic bliss has me breaking out in hives, here. This is Ollie. Ollie. With a wife and kid reading bedtime stories? With a toy bow and arrows? My only comfort at this time is the faint hope that the other 90 minutes of this episode will prove that they're as stupidly dysfunctional as an Arrow family ought to be.
That's not even getting to the issue of race, which I wasn't going to bring up at first, but then decided really really needs to be addressed. Three of the six Arrow progeny listed above--the three that are CONFIRMED BLOOD RELATIONS--are mixed race characters. But, oh no, the Smallville stork left us with a Queen-Sullivan blond-haired, blue-eyed bundle of joy. *fumes* It's not like this show isn't already freakishly WHITE.
*deep breath* Okay, that made me feel a bit better. Here, quick. Have some super adorable Mia and Lian bedtime story! That's how it's done, Smallville. Grr, argh.
Embiggen for really huge scans.
(scans_daily)
I'll post a more in-depth review when I get around to actually, y'know. Watching the finale. And if I'm wrong, if I've judged too quickly, my hand to God I will eat some crow.
ETA: Crow has been eaten. 98% squee has been achieved. *g*
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First off, this is not about Chloe/Oliver qua Chloe/Oliver. I just want to make that clear before I start with the ranting. Okay? Okay.
OH.
HELL.
NO.
I don't care how cute that kid is (and he's pretty darn cute, bless his itty bitty face) but there is NO WAY IN HELL that we are getting QUEEN SPAWN AND IT IS NOT CONNOR HAWKE. FUCK NO.
*cough* Okay, yeah. The comics fan in me is mounting a surprise rebellion over my better nature. I'm gonna have to finish watching the Smallville finale another day because if I can't even make it past the teaser without losing my shit, I'm clearly not in the right frame of mind.
The "previously on Smallville" was AWESOME, however. And I know, I KNOW, that I'm going to love every moment of Clark becoming Superman, and I know I'm going to wallow happily in all the Clark/Lois bits, and all the wonderful heroics and iconic moments, and it'll be 98% awesome. Just, just, I gotta reconcile myself to the fact that Oliver Queen has spawned yet another child... with Chloe Sullivan.
Dear Roy, Connor, Robert, Mia, Cissie, and hell, I'll throw in Lian because God knows Grandpa Ollie loved that little girl,
You were robbed.
My sympathies,
Scroll
Yeah, yeah. I know Smallville is an AU. How would you feel if Lois' father had been someone other than General Sam Lane? Lois would be a completely different character if her father had been, I dunno, an insurance salesman.
Oh, my God, the implied domestic bliss has me breaking out in hives, here. This is Ollie. Ollie. With a wife and kid reading bedtime stories? With a toy bow and arrows? My only comfort at this time is the faint hope that the other 90 minutes of this episode will prove that they're as stupidly dysfunctional as an Arrow family ought to be.
That's not even getting to the issue of race, which I wasn't going to bring up at first, but then decided really really needs to be addressed. Three of the six Arrow progeny listed above--the three that are CONFIRMED BLOOD RELATIONS--are mixed race characters. But, oh no, the Smallville stork left us with a Queen-Sullivan blond-haired, blue-eyed bundle of joy. *fumes* It's not like this show isn't already freakishly WHITE.
*deep breath* Okay, that made me feel a bit better. Here, quick. Have some super adorable Mia and Lian bedtime story! That's how it's done, Smallville. Grr, argh.
Embiggen for really huge scans.
(scans_daily)
I'll post a more in-depth review when I get around to actually, y'know. Watching the finale. And if I'm wrong, if I've judged too quickly, my hand to God I will eat some crow.
ETA: Crow has been eaten. 98% squee has been achieved. *g*
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