Comments | bop_radar: Lois picspam #4

bop_radar

Lois picspam #4

Jun 21, 2007 20:42

I know some of you have expressed interest in the 'Lois messes with Clark's sexuality' picspam I promised--well it is coming, I promise, but before we get to that I'm indulging in some Lois-y self-centredness. This picspam is about why I relate to Lois. ( cut for pictorial silliness--spoilers for S5 and S6 eps )

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Comments 28

radioreverie June 21 2007, 13:44:13 UTC

It is Lois' flaws and quirks that really set her apart from the other characters on Smallville. She has a life outside the plot. She isn't just Ms. Exposition or Ms. Love Interest. She's just Lois, and she always has been and always will be.

bop_radar June 22 2007, 00:38:24 UTC

:-) Yes! *hugs*

vibrantharmony June 21 2007, 13:59:02 UTC

*happy sigh*
This picspam series is really making my week. :D

The cake! I loved that cake. I *make* cakes like those.

(I'm gonna run out of Lois icons soon though. This makes me sad.)

bop_radar June 22 2007, 00:39:27 UTC

I'm glad I'm not the only one who makes cakes like that. ;-) The blue icing was a bit comic book but other than that it seemed completely true to life to me! *lol*

No more Lois icons?! I understand. I can never have enough either.

ferdalump June 21 2007, 14:05:49 UTC

She is so perfectly imperfect, and I love your examples that display that. She does try, she is human, she is flawed, and she is a girl. I compare her often to Scarlett O' Hara (one of the greatest female characters of all time). Both women are stubborn, passionate, driven, tenacious, self centered, smart, bitchy, fiesty, quick tempered, beautiful, and STRONG. I love that both are more than capable to take care of themself, stand alone and pull through, but deep down in hidden places they seldom let seen they really just want someone to come along and hold the reigns once in a while, even if simply to tell them they're doing it wrong. ;) I love that despite all of their strength and abilities to stand alone, they can be swoony when someone can step in and save them. It's that bit of "girlyness" that makes them both in my opinion a true Steel Magnolia. Strong and Beautifully fragile, which really, isn't that what being a woman is all about ( ... )

bop_radar June 22 2007, 00:53:25 UTC

I like your comparison of Lois to Scarlett O'Hara, because I do think of Lois as quintessentially female. She's strong, but not masculine--and that's really really rare. Nowadays there are more strong female characters on TV but sometimes it feels like they just designated them a bunch of male characteristics to make them strong. So it's a kind of false strength. I like seeing a woman be both feminine and strong. Because those two things are NOT mutually exclusive, dammit. *stamps feminist foot*

I think RP-ing Lois would be wonderful! She's one of the few characters on TV I genuinely see as a role model. Thank you for sharing your own thoughts about her--it's great hearing other people's perspectives. *G*

attaccabottoni June 21 2007, 14:43:40 UTC

Oh, I definitely relate to everything except #1 and 4. Hee, I love that you've listed all those things in a picspam, because you combined all three of some of my favorite fandom things: picspams, lists, and insight on a character I don't have much of a grasp on! Despite my complaints about the way she's used as a butt of jokes or a sort-of foil for Lana (not that I would ever agree with that, since you can't compare two characters that are very different from each other), I love Lois hanging around in Clark's background, and now that you made me think about it, I consider her a breath of fresh air since she came in S4. I never get annoyed with her; she's actually very endearing in the ways that she annoys Clark! Because annoying the most powerful being on the planet, even if you didn't know it at the time, will always be great for giggles, and it even helps to get him out of his mopey funk! :D

And now I need a Lois icon! :D

bop_radar June 22 2007, 00:55:10 UTC

Because annoying the most powerful being on the planet, even if you didn't know it at the time, will always be great for giggles, and it even helps to get him out of his mopey funk! :D
Hahaha! SO TRUE! It's always going to be funny--because he IS the most powerful being on the planet, and yet Lois can make him completely flabbergasted. Heeeeee!

norwich36 June 21 2007, 18:19:33 UTC

Oh, these ones are *cute*. And I love the fact that you identify with some of her habits so strongly (like the playstation thing, which I had completely forgotten about).

I have issues with her discomfort around children, though; frankly, that's almost completely implausible for an oldest child who had to basically help raise her own sister. (Speaking of reading characters through personal experience...)

#10 is probably my all-time favorite SV Clois scene.

bop_radar June 22 2007, 00:58:14 UTC

Hee--to the non-playstation addict, I'm sure it's very forgettable, but I love it. I could even meta it and say it shows her tenacity and stubbornness. ;-p

I remember you having issues with her characterisation around children--and I'm sure you're right. I tend to forget completely that she's an older child--probably because I never think of anyone as having siblings! I have to constantly remind myself that people have this experience that I know nothing about. *g*