SV as dual narrative...

[greenlady2]

Reading the dissertation I linked to in my earlier post has given me an inspiration.  You know how we often complained in the past about the way SV showed us one thing, but told us another?  And I have often wondered why.  Now I have an idea about this.  Tell me what you think.

Comments

[xparrot]

What I always wondered about SV, and never could decide, was whether any of it was deliberate - whether any of the writers or producers were aware of the disconnect, aware that having once portrayed Lex as sympathetic, they couldn't arbitrarily make him unsympathetic, and that shades of gray cannot simply be painted over in black and white when you feel like it; or whether once they started writing to the comic mythology, they thought it was fine to simply ignore the groundwork laid before. Myself, I always thought the dissent was actually within the writers' circle itself, that some writers/producers/directors/actors saw and portrayed it one way, and some saw it the other, and the story editor and producers never saw the need to reconcile the narratives...

[greenlady2]

"What I always wondered about SV, and never could decide, was whether any of it was deliberate...."

I know, and it's frustrating. Some might ask why we should care. It's just a stupid show. But now, you see, there are people writing dissertations and 'earning' PhDs based on that narrative, and books are being written about the show, so people are making money by supposedly analyzing the narrative, yet they don't even notice the problems with that disconnect. So, here we have a whole crew of writers and producers who produce a deeply flawed narrative, and experts who can't see the flaws. It's scary to me that intelligent, educated people, experts on the media, can't see what's under their noses.

[sheliana]

>>It's scary to me that intelligent, educated people, experts on the media, can't see what's under their noses.<<

It's scary, but what's scarier to me is that the same people who treat Smallville as some kind of Deep, Philosophical Exploration of Human Nature (LOL), also watch superior shows (like Game of Thrones for example, or any other critically-acclaimed show) with better plots, better acting, better music. And these people still do not see how crappy Smallvile is. I just... it's like the main mystery of the Universe to me.

[greenlady2]

"...And these people still do not see how crappy Smallvile is...."

It could be that these people are fooled by the Told Narrative. They believe what they're told, in other words. :-)