Shipping Challenge - Day 22
Day 22 - Pairing You Hate and No One Understands Why: Chloe & Davis from Smallville
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*This picture is here to keep nonky from getting too mad at me.
Maybe hate is too strong a word. More like I'm annoyed than anything else. And I wasn't annoyed with Davis. You can't be annoyed with a character you barely watched. I was (and to an extent still am) annoyed with the writers. Imagine spending years hoping your OTP would get together or at least have a stronger connection like they use to, and it never works out. I wanted the writers to be daring and pair Chloe with Lex. Beyond just an admiration for both characters, I thought if you have someone like Chloe fall for someone like Lex, it means something. She's a smart woman. She's not Lana who is so used to being helpless;of course, she would fall into Lex Luthor's evil scheme of making her want him and then be absolved of any guilt. Chloe would do her best to avoid that temptation which would make it so much more interesting and satisfying when she finally developed feelings for him. It would raise the stakes. Chloe was never Clark's girlfriend, she was his loyal friend, and when a friend betrays you (and yes Clark would have seen it that way), it hurts so much worse. So I'm watching, hoping they would do something interesting to make me want to watch Smallville for Smallville, and not just because I like Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, and John Glover and would watch them in anything. But my time is wasted on fake pregnancies and memory losses for characters I don't give a shit about. (Don't get me started on how upset I was too learn the Kara storyline going to Chloe. Opportunity kept knocking at the Smallville writer's door, but they turned off the lights and ignored it like cranky people on Halloween.) And the next year, after Michael is gone is when the new EPs think to do this storyline where Chloe has an attraction to the villain-like character. Okay, I don't know what it was like in that writers' room, maybe Al & Miles would hear none of it. But damn it, I want to know the writers at least tried, and I bet they didn't. I know Davis has a strong following, but I can't help but think that story would have had so much more meaning if it had been done with Lex. It's just common sense that you'll be more moved by a character who you have a stronger connection to, the one who you've seen for years.
So there you have it. Nothing against Davis. Just another way Smallville screwed over my OTP.
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*This picture is here to keep nonky from getting too mad at me.
Maybe hate is too strong a word. More like I'm annoyed than anything else. And I wasn't annoyed with Davis. You can't be annoyed with a character you barely watched. I was (and to an extent still am) annoyed with the writers. Imagine spending years hoping your OTP would get together or at least have a stronger connection like they use to, and it never works out. I wanted the writers to be daring and pair Chloe with Lex. Beyond just an admiration for both characters, I thought if you have someone like Chloe fall for someone like Lex, it means something. She's a smart woman. She's not Lana who is so used to being helpless;of course, she would fall into Lex Luthor's evil scheme of making her want him and then be absolved of any guilt. Chloe would do her best to avoid that temptation which would make it so much more interesting and satisfying when she finally developed feelings for him. It would raise the stakes. Chloe was never Clark's girlfriend, she was his loyal friend, and when a friend betrays you (and yes Clark would have seen it that way), it hurts so much worse. So I'm watching, hoping they would do something interesting to make me want to watch Smallville for Smallville, and not just because I like Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, and John Glover and would watch them in anything. But my time is wasted on fake pregnancies and memory losses for characters I don't give a shit about. (Don't get me started on how upset I was too learn the Kara storyline going to Chloe. Opportunity kept knocking at the Smallville writer's door, but they turned off the lights and ignored it like cranky people on Halloween.) And the next year, after Michael is gone is when the new EPs think to do this storyline where Chloe has an attraction to the villain-like character. Okay, I don't know what it was like in that writers' room, maybe Al & Miles would hear none of it. But damn it, I want to know the writers at least tried, and I bet they didn't. I know Davis has a strong following, but I can't help but think that story would have had so much more meaning if it had been done with Lex. It's just common sense that you'll be more moved by a character who you have a stronger connection to, the one who you've seen for years.
So there you have it. Nothing against Davis. Just another way Smallville screwed over my OTP.