Smallville Rant...
And sometimes it’s your very own fans
For a month or so Kristin De Santos of E! Online has been playing a guessing game of which TV couple will get engaged. She revealed the couple to be Lois and Clark, which shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me because I knew Clark wasn’t asking the General about the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and he had the ring all ready to go, but I thought (HOPED) that Lois would turn him down seeing as that it’s too soon and he has a lot of work on himself to do. Needless to say, I threw a fit!
Dramatization
I was not a happy camper. I surprised myself. I really thought I could be zen about it… Clark and Lois is a couple…
I know that for many people “Smallville” is their only tie to the Superman mythos. There are people who aren’t fans of the comics, the movies or “Lois and Clark”, so for them this show is their entire Superman universe and they need the validation of Lois and Clark’s relationship. I know this logically. But in my hearts of hearts, I feel selfish and don’t care what those fans need. To me, it’s overstating the obvious. In “Ambush” and “Harvest” where Clark says he loves Lois more than anything else in the world and he needs her, it made me want to drive my head into the TV because I know this already! I know that Lois is Clark’s universe. I know that she is it for him. How do I know? There’s a story where Superman and Wonder Woman get lost in some dimension for 1,000 years and even though 1,000 years has past and Clark knows Lois is dead, when Diana wants to ride him like a Kryptonian pogo stick, he says no because he’s still in love with Lois. 1,000 years later. Talk about endless love. They’re so solid that Clark goes away to keep watch of the Kandorians on New Krypton and then when that goes arse up, he comes home only to go on a walk about through America, once again leaving Lois. He can do that because he knows their love can weather it; that she understands his mission. She’s his true partner. So I know how deep and abiding their love is, but the idea of having to have it possibly beaten over the head for the rest of the season aggravates me to no end. Especially when, like so many other shows, the writers don’t know how to juggle the romance storyline with the active plot storyline. Instead of using their romantic relationship as ambiance to the show, they make it the focus of Clark and Lois’ storyline.
Is this enough to make me want to stop watching the show? Yup. I’m a scorched earth, salt the ground so that nothing can grow type of gal. I am so aggrieved by this storyline that it’s immediate grounds for termination of viewing. I’ve given up on shows for less.
But “Smallville” isn’t just another show for me, dammit and I can’t give up on it. I wish I knew how to quit you, “Smallville”.
I guess there’s only one thing for me to do.
