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mamajoanI hate Mondays. So, I see that I haven't updated in a while. Been busy with stuff mentioned in friends-only posts, etc. Also, the weekend was annoying (for one thing, I was up till 4:30am yesterday being ill). I have high hopes for Thanksgiving, though. Goodness knows I could use the break from routine, and it should be nice to be among family, even though it's going to be different this year.
I did finally get around to watching last week's Smallville and Buffy, so here's some slight spoilage.
Buffy: I thought this episode was pretty good, although I do feel like the whole angsty-Spike thing is starting to get old real fast. I guess maybe I shouldn't have believed Joss when he said "oh no, souled-Spike is gonna be nothing like souled-Angel." OK, I get that Spike is wracked with guilt and etc., but I just have trouble with the way he seems to be rolling over and taking whatever the world throws at him, rather than fighting it and trying to figure it out. It just doesn't seem like the Spike I remember, and I don't think the soul explains that. Also, I thought it was WAY out of character that Spike didn't see through Anya in an instant. Her whole "uh, I came here to have sex with you, yeah that's it" explanation was fuller of holes than a slab of Swiss cheese, and yet he apparently just took it at face value. Since WHEN???
I want more consistency out of the Dawn subplot too. Is she or isn't she going to believe faux-Joyce's warning about Buffy abandoning her? I felt that stuff was choppy, swinging from one end of the spectrum to the other. I'm sure that's how the Dawn character is supposed to be *feeling* right now anyway, but that doesn't necessarily make it good TV.
Smallville: I thought this ep was ehh. I really, REALLY hated JTT in it. He doesn't even act, dammit, he just recites his lines in a monotone. How is that cool? It sucks. He sucks. :P
The rest of it, like I said, ehh. I liked the stuff between Lex and lady-doctor okay. The stuff between Martha and Jonathan about her job tearing them apart was fuckin' Snooze City (and I *like* Martha). The dynamic between Clark, Chloe, and Lana is awkward, and not in the good way. I can't figure out whether we're really supposed to believe that Clark is over Lana, or just that he's putting up a good front. I do like the stuff between Chloe and Lana just two, though, and I don't *just* mean the slashaliciousness. ;)
What else irked me about the ep was that they never explained how Ian put himself back together. I mean, presumably there were times when there was just one of him, so, what, the two Ians melded together again? Or what? And usually we have at least a *little* explanation, like, you know, "his mom ate some meteor rocks when she was pregnant" or whatever, but here, they just sort of went "oh, there are two of him, not cool." Hell, we didn't even find out whether he got arrested!! Definitely a dropped ball at the end there, failing to provide closure. (Nice plot device having one of him fall into the water, though, conveniently sparing Our Heroes the need to explain the inexplicable to the authorities.)
And another thing that occurred to me about SV is: in the pilot, Chloe shows Clark the Wall of Weird for the first time, with great ceremony; yet in later episodes she doesn't act like it's much of a secret at all. Why did she wait so long to show it to Clark, since we know that they'd been friends for a long while by the time of the pilot? I'm just sayin'.
I did finally get around to watching last week's Smallville and Buffy, so here's some slight spoilage.
Buffy: I thought this episode was pretty good, although I do feel like the whole angsty-Spike thing is starting to get old real fast. I guess maybe I shouldn't have believed Joss when he said "oh no, souled-Spike is gonna be nothing like souled-Angel." OK, I get that Spike is wracked with guilt and etc., but I just have trouble with the way he seems to be rolling over and taking whatever the world throws at him, rather than fighting it and trying to figure it out. It just doesn't seem like the Spike I remember, and I don't think the soul explains that. Also, I thought it was WAY out of character that Spike didn't see through Anya in an instant. Her whole "uh, I came here to have sex with you, yeah that's it" explanation was fuller of holes than a slab of Swiss cheese, and yet he apparently just took it at face value. Since WHEN???
I want more consistency out of the Dawn subplot too. Is she or isn't she going to believe faux-Joyce's warning about Buffy abandoning her? I felt that stuff was choppy, swinging from one end of the spectrum to the other. I'm sure that's how the Dawn character is supposed to be *feeling* right now anyway, but that doesn't necessarily make it good TV.
Smallville: I thought this ep was ehh. I really, REALLY hated JTT in it. He doesn't even act, dammit, he just recites his lines in a monotone. How is that cool? It sucks. He sucks. :P
The rest of it, like I said, ehh. I liked the stuff between Lex and lady-doctor okay. The stuff between Martha and Jonathan about her job tearing them apart was fuckin' Snooze City (and I *like* Martha). The dynamic between Clark, Chloe, and Lana is awkward, and not in the good way. I can't figure out whether we're really supposed to believe that Clark is over Lana, or just that he's putting up a good front. I do like the stuff between Chloe and Lana just two, though, and I don't *just* mean the slashaliciousness. ;)
What else irked me about the ep was that they never explained how Ian put himself back together. I mean, presumably there were times when there was just one of him, so, what, the two Ians melded together again? Or what? And usually we have at least a *little* explanation, like, you know, "his mom ate some meteor rocks when she was pregnant" or whatever, but here, they just sort of went "oh, there are two of him, not cool." Hell, we didn't even find out whether he got arrested!! Definitely a dropped ball at the end there, failing to provide closure. (Nice plot device having one of him fall into the water, though, conveniently sparing Our Heroes the need to explain the inexplicable to the authorities.)
And another thing that occurred to me about SV is: in the pilot, Chloe shows Clark the Wall of Weird for the first time, with great ceremony; yet in later episodes she doesn't act like it's much of a secret at all. Why did she wait so long to show it to Clark, since we know that they'd been friends for a long while by the time of the pilot? I'm just sayin'.
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Date: 2002-11-25 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2002-11-25 05:19 pm (UTC)Or maybe it had been on her bedroom wall previously, and Clark hadn't been allowed in there since they were 13ish.
have we ever agreed on anything? ever?
Date: 2002-11-25 06:19 pm (UTC)As for the Wall of Weird, we can probably assume that prior to the first episode very little weirdness actually ended up in Clark's lap. Once he starts intersecting with the weirdness, then Chloe shows him the wall. And once everyone else starts noticing the weirdness, too, Chloe isn't so weird herself, so she's not ashamed to have the wall out in public. Seems to fit for me.
Re: have we ever agreed on anything? ever?
Date: 2002-11-26 08:02 am (UTC)As for the WoW, okay, your theory makes some sense, except, why do bizarre things just suddenly start happening to kids all over Smallville High? I mean, are we to believe that fellow students were turning into fat-sucking monsters, bugboys, evil twins, etc. all around Clark for years and he just never noticed? I can't buy that. But nor can I buy the idea that it just started all happening at once in this particular year. It doesn't make sense either way.
Come to think of it, one could apply that same reasoning to the first season of Buffy, but that's a little different.