SV: random thoughts on early s8, and some other stuff

Feb 12, 2011 20:51

Spoilers for the existence of characters that your mom might not know about if she is anything like my mom.

everyone owns the same shirt in three different colors )

no small villes only small actors

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serrico February 13 2011, 02:11:46 UTC
It really is a sin that it took seven seasons before we could get Clark/TW out of plaid. A sin...or a reward for persistence.

I choose to believe it's the second thing. In fact, I choose to believe that many, *many* things about latter-day SV are the second thing. *waiting 'til you get to s9 and 10*

Okay, what in the world happened to Gabe?

Unless there's a Gabe-sighting I'm forgetting about, I *think* we're supposed to think he died at the end of s3, when Lionel blew up the Sullivans' safehouse. Then again, his sudden and mystifyingly total disappearance from the show has never been resolved one way or the other, so he might yet be proved alive and kicking.

I can and do get with Chloe and Jimmy as totally sweet together and not without chemistry...yet clearly, mutually self-deluded on their level of MFEO-ness.

I think that may be the best description of Chloe/Jimmy I've ever seen. And I will not say anything else due to spoilers.

I enjoy your thoughts as you catch up on the wackiness!

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popfantastic February 13 2011, 02:39:04 UTC
Unless there's a Gabe-sighting I'm forgetting about, I *think* we're supposed to think he died at the end of s3, when Lionel blew up the Sullivans' safehouse.

But IIRC we see him get rescued from the explosion with Chloe. And I feel like there are so many "Ah, dead or absent parents...only thing worse is a live and present parent!" threads in the show that it would come up if he had died. Other people's dead parents are mentioned CONSTANTLY. Maybe there was a lost episode in which someone's krypto-power was used to wipe Gabe's existence from the minds of all who knew of him.

I think that may be the best description of Chloe/Jimmy I've ever seen. And I will not say anything else due to spoilers.

I think I may have been spoiled for something in Chloe's romantic future by icons, but I can't tell! That's the good thing about SV...characters could be in completely new and different canonical relationships because Events Have Transpired, or it could just be sex pollen providing icon fodder for an unconventional pairing with a vocal ( ... )

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hesychasm February 13 2011, 18:27:37 UTC
Maybe because it made Clark and Chloe fight, and I cannot deal. CANNOT DEAL.

Oh, man.

Although I will never get over the fact that his entire character set-up is "lone EMT."

Davis is one of my faves. So much brooding charisma! It's never explained why he can be a lone EMT, but I think there a couple of missing scenes which delve into the exact nature of his job. I think at one point in "Prey" there was originally supposed to have been a scene showing him winning an award or recognition for his work. Clark refers to him as a city hero or something, and in the last scene with Chloe he's in his dress uniform and there's a nice box on the table. I imagine it was cut for time.

I have to conclude that the main reason Green Arrow became a regular versus any number of other choices is that Justin Hartley is just...darned adorable.And Ollie is also one of my faves. He's kind of "personal crisis" guy, though -- so I think these character choices were intentional. He and Clark seem to often be going in different, sometimes opposite, ( ... )

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popfantastic February 13 2011, 19:35:40 UTC
Oh, man.

...Uh oh. This is gonna hurt, isn't it?

SV has proven itself very good with cast shuffles (both in casting new characters, and in knowing when to have existing ones bow out), and I agree that Davis, Ollie, *and* Tess are all great additions. Although right now I am waiting for more concrete Tess stuff than the current "She's up to something...or everything!" scenes wedged in to build the arc.

He and Clark seem to often be going in different, sometimes opposite, directions in their season trajectories, and their interactions are often kinda bitchy.

Yay! They give cute bitchiness. I am glad that dynamic stays...it's a much better use of Ollie than the role of suave day-saving, loft-providing, resource-distributing plot device he sometimes assumed when he was a mere recurring guest star.

You're kind of making me want to go back and watch the whole run of the show. I missed a lot of the middle seasons. But that's a lot of TV which I know is just going to infuriate me....Honestly, the most infuriating parts of the middle ( ... )

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