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We deserved more Lancelot and Merlin doing manic interactions!! We were robbed

Look at the way Merlin is shrugging when Lance sees him light the fire w magic in front of the knights without them noticing, look how proud Lance is!! This episode (s04e02 the darkest hour pt2) is peak Merlin and Lancelot, bbc saw that and put an end to it. They deserved better. We deserved better

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You should be able to rot in bed for 2, maybe 3 hours after waking up before it starts affecting what time it is. If I wake up at 8:30 and lie in bed for 2hr it should still be 8:30 when I get up

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The amount of psychological damage I take every time the Smallville writers try to make Lionel Luthor out to be a good person is unreal.

I just watched 5x19 and I just want everyone to know that I was having a blast. I really do wish more terrible things would happen to that man.

Him trying to be a good person after everything he’s done just makes me hate him more.

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Endou Yuu versus the cosmic unknown 

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Hey! Remember that time in Smallville when we got a whole episode looking into Lex’s inner mind and saw that all of his hopes and dreams actually revolved around caring for those he loves and being loved in return? Remember when he was so happy and expressive and it was the most he’d ever smiled in an episode and the most he’d ever been hugged? Remember when he was a great dad and was given a humanitarian award bc he was just so darn good hearted?

And then remember how the dream turned into a nightmare and he woke up from a life threatening surgery alone on Christmas Eve and was reminded that everyone he cares about hates him and his dad doesn’t care whether he lives or dies so long as it keeps him from ever showing weakness?

😄… 😟

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SMALLVILLE | 5.09 – “Lexmas“

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money and power

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Just gonna put this here to showcase how badly the Smallville writers fumbled the bag with this one.

I aM tHe ViLlAiN oF tHiS sToRy.... yeah okay. You messed up a perfectly good character is what you did.

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Sometimes I think Smallville was writing Lex and Clark as enemies masquerading as friends rather than what they should’ve been which is friends who forget to be enemies.

If you’ve ever had a falling out with an old friend, you know that there’s an ache that’s left behind. No matter what happened between you two, you can’t quite forget the happier moments and there’s a not small part of you that wishes you could go back, that wishes that you could have that person you knew back.

I would have loved to see a dynamic between Clark and Lex where sometimes they forget they’re supposed to be enemies. Like sometimes they catch themselves smiling at the other without meaning to. Or they save the other’s life even if they’re mad at them, not because it’s the right thing to do, but because their body still recognizes the other person as one of their best friends and it’s an instinct to protect them at this point. It’s all out of instinct and still knowing the other person even if they’re now technically estranged. And sometimes it’s hard to see the person they used to know. They’re on different sides now and there’s so much history between them it feels like a chasm. But sometimes it’s not hard at all. Sometimes it feels like them against the world again (whether it’s a big bad that they both have to fight back against or it’s a problem that unfortunately only their proclaimed nemesis can fix). They keep getting pulled back together no matter how hard they fight it. No matter how much it hurts to stay in each other’s orbit. This is their true destiny. The words friends and enemies were always too limiting a definition. Like yes they’re doomed, they’re toxic, they make each other worse, yada, yada… but they’d also both rather die than ever fully quit on the person that used to be their best friend.

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Season four of Smallville was definitely my least favorite of the seasons so far. Unlike season one and two that dealt more with establishing its characters and having freak of the week type beats that were contained to a single episode or season three’s darker and more intense introspections into the characters’ lives, season four feels directionless and confusing.

Firstly, you introduce Jason as a character and set him up to be this great guy for Lana only for have him to end up being the puppet to his mother’s puppet master, basically making him a villain without ever giving him his own set of motives. This would have been fine if in the beginning of the season it wasn’t clearly established that he didn’t trust or even really like his mother. So now you’ve left him without any conceivable motivations for his switch from caring boyfriend to maniac trying to shoot the Kents with a shotgun (btw are we going to ignore the implications that while Clark and his parents are having their little heartfelt pow-wow on their front lawn at the start of season five, Jason’s corpse is technically still lying in their living room under a pile of rubble? We are? Okay. Just double checking.)

Lana and Lionel have surprisingly similar arcs this season where they are both possessed by supernatural entities that completely transform them and make them do things they wouldn’t normally do. This is a trope that I believe should be done in small doses since doing it too often can cheapen it. With an arc like body possession and supernatural transformation, you don’t really leave a lot of room for the original characters to exist and grow. You are essentially saying so-and-so isn’t home right now. Which ok fine. But you also have to understand that you’re losing screen time to develop the actual characters. Lana spends so much of the season worried about being possessed by a witch that outside of her brief romance with Jason and her on and off again thing with Clark, she doesn’t really grow from the point she was at in season three (this is evident in the way she decides at the end of the season to stay behind in Smallville, falling behind the rest of her peers as she tries to figure herself out). Lionel too doesn’t get the chance to grow. I’ll be the first to say that I’m rooting every episode to see that man die a painful death, but they didn’t even try to give him a redemption arc. They just wanted to quickly pivot to Lex being a villain now, so, through the power of love or some bullshit, they introduced Saint Lionel and had him point the trembling finger at Lex like oh my look what a bad man my son has turned into you can’t trust him (as if Lex isn’t the creature to his Frankenstein). Like please. I seriously want to gag every time someone shows this man sympathy. Did everyone in Smallville get their memory wiped? Do I need to list out all of this man’s sins? Because it’s a long goddamn list…

But I digress.

Lex’s character received probably one of the worst butcherings known to man. Going from Smallville’s number one philanthropist to a man willing to stab anyone in the back (with no conceivable motivations… I’m sensing a pattern here). The best example I can think of is when Lex and Jason are taken in by the Chinese government during their search for the stone and are being tortured for information. Lex comes back into the cell and Jason is taken out to be tortured next. For a moment, Lex turns and tells the guard to “only scare him”, implying that he’s the one behind all this and it’s just a charade. Except it isn’t because Lex has been duped and now they’re going to torture him for real. It was so idiotic to me because the reveal does nothing except make Lex look a little pathetic and in way over his head. And it’s clear they only had him say the line to “show his villainous ways” but it ends up just sounding cheap because taking out that line wouldn’t have changed the plot in the slightest.

Basically, the entire season felt like the writers had a cool plot idea that had nothing to do with the characters they had on hand so they just tried to cram whoever they could into various roles, regardless of whether or not it made any sense or allowed the characters to grow in anyway.

To me, the show has always felt like two different shows rolled into one with Clark and Lex being the respective protagonists (Clark in his young adult superhero chick flick with angst but also a large heaping of fluff vs Lex’s succession-esque drama that felt more adult and was full of treachery and murderous wives and lies. Just to be clear, both are very interesting. And both are so much funnier when you put them together). But this season, Lex’s half of the show felt so out of pocket and all over the place. Not to mention that the center piece of it all (Lex) is not really someone I feel like you can root for anymore, mostly because you don’t even know what it is he’s after. It has me really concerned for the show’s future seasons if this continues. But it’s my hope that the characters will be able to settle and find the arcs that best fit them and slowly grow into them rather than this pin-ball at a million miles an hour routine. And the highlights of the season definitely give me hope as well.

For example, I love Lois Lane. Like I can’t express how much. She brings so much life to scenes and I really like all of her scenes with Clark especially. I feel like she brings out a side of his character that I really like and that I don’t think we’ve seen before. Chloe as well was a super-star this season. I’m really glad that she finally knows Clark’s secret and I hope that she doesn’t receive the same treatment that Pete did when it comes to the show just dropping him like a hot rock and then moving on like he never existed. There is more stuff as well. Despite all of the grievances I have with this season, it was not without its wins. And hopefully season five will be a much stronger season :)

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No this is actually perfect. Seasons 1-3 Lex was my favorite character but now since they’ve maimed him beyond recognition (they actually replaced him with an evil clone after the season 3 finale) I can crown my new favorite character Lois Lane (queen of my heart).

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Episode 4x09 of Smallville was genuinely so confusing. Not only was the cold open so traumatizing but then the moral gymnastics that happens for the rest of the episode (and onward) is so confounding.

So the whole premise of the episode is that Lex sleeps around so much that he can’t even remember the names and faces of the women he sleeps with. Strange and concerning on multiple levels. Even if this was completely in character (which I don’t think it is), it is still highly concerning to forget the names and faces of people you’ve been intimate with. I think they said 13 women in the last year. While that’s not a low number, I don’t think it’s high enough to cause such forgetfulness. Therefore it almost seems to imply that there’s a level of disassociation that happens on Lex’s part during the experience (you can’t form new memories if you weren’t really paying attention when they happened). This theory is also backed up by the fact that Lex admits at the end of the episode that he has suicidal thoughts, and (very) unattached sex could be a negative coping mechanism for these dark emotions. As we can see at the start of the episode, Lex looks sad and completely alone at the event. And immediately after that he jumps into bed with someone. There’s clearly a connection there (at least in my mind).

All of the above, however, is not what confuses me. It’s the other characters that I don’t understand. First you have Clark who comes in (as seems to be becoming his pattern) guns blazing and accusatory. Of course this might be warranted seeing as Lex has been quite soundly framed for murder but I digress. During their talk and with what he finds out later, Clark gets very up in arms about Lex having sex with a lot of women. Despite whether this is right or wrong of him to do, it makes absolutely no sense for why it would drive Clark into LIONEL’S arms. Especially bc Lionel admits later on that Lex learned the behavior (sleeping with women and leaving them with a pair of diamond earrings) from Lionel himself?? Like it’s bad and dishonest if Lex does it but apparently makes Lionel trustworthy?? I’m confused. Also! Let’s not forget the fact that Lionel slept with another woman while his wife was DYING! But sure, Lex is the sexually deviant one. Sure.

Also, I feel like there is a lot of disconnect between how Lex and Alicia (in later episodes) are treated. Like Lex sleeps with women (consensually) and almost gets killed by one of them and Clark tells him that he doesn’t know if he can trust him anymore. Alicia forces Clark to marry her and almost forces him to have sex with her (read: non-consensual!) and the next episode she and Clark are dating again. Also, Lex gets framed for murder and when he’s found innocent, Clark rescues him, yes, but at the end of the day he still doesn’t trust Lex. Alicia gets framed for murder and is found innocent (and dies, unfortunately (seriously that was such a shocking death what the hell Smallville?!)) and Clark feels guilty and regretful and tells his parents he wishes he believed her sooner. Now I get that these two situations aren’t quite the same but the different reactions that Clark and the other characters have feel more like the writers playing into future roles (Lex is the villain, yada, yada) rather than actually looking at the characters as they are now.

I think I would have enjoyed the episode more if I’d understood what it was trying to say. Are you trying to say that Lex is “showing a different, darker side of himself” by not caring about the women he sleeps with? Okay then why is it okay for Lionel to do. Are you trying to say that sex in general is bad? Then why have Alicia be forgiven? Why have Lana trying to loose her virginity to Jason? In the end, the episode just left me feeling really frustrated bc I felt like there was something I was supposed to get but I just didn’t get it.

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Term paper.

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JASON TEAGUE IN EVERY EPISODE: 4x01 - “Crusade”

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Sometimes I think Smallville was writing Lex and Clark as enemies masquerading as friends rather than what they should’ve been which is friends who forget to be enemies.

If you’ve ever had a falling out with an old friend, you know that there’s an ache that’s left behind. No matter what happened between you two, you can’t quite forget the happier moments and there’s a not small part of you that wishes you could go back, that wishes that you could have that person you knew back.

I would have loved to see a dynamic between Clark and Lex where sometimes they forget they’re supposed to be enemies. Like sometimes they catch themselves smiling at the other without meaning to. Or they save the other’s life even if they’re mad at them, not because it’s the right thing to do, but because their body still recognizes the other person as one of their best friends and it’s an instinct to protect them at this point. It’s all out of instinct and still knowing the other person even if they’re now technically estranged. And sometimes it’s hard to see the person they used to know. They’re on different sides now and there’s so much history between them it feels like a chasm. But sometimes it’s not hard at all. Sometimes it feels like them against the world again (whether it’s a big bad that they both have to fight back against or it’s a problem that unfortunately only their proclaimed nemesis can fix). They keep getting pulled back together no matter how hard they fight it. No matter how much it hurts to stay in each other’s orbit. This is their true destiny. The words friends and enemies were always too limiting a definition. Like yes they’re doomed, they’re toxic, they make each other worse, yada, yada… but they’d also both rather die than ever fully quit on the person that used to be their best friend.

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Season four!! Smallville!!

Honestly though season four (at least the first few episodes that I’ve seen) is such a refreshing change of pace from how absolutely soul-crushingly devastating season three was. I think Lois adds so much energy and life to scenes and she’s funny. I’m also loving the deviation from the puppy love dynamic that Clark and Lana had going on. With Lois, Clark feels more like just some regular guy. He’s got a nuisance in the form of a girl with a strong wind up kick and way too much pep and it allows him to stretch his bitchy muscles. Like all of their scenes together make me laugh bc Clark just looks so constipated and upset (but not in a angsty way. Just a fun teenage way. Which good for him! He needs that!). It’s really just a nice breath of fresh air. Jensen Ackles’ character also adds a new wind to Smallville’s sails. I like his character a lot and it’s nice to see Lana have nice things for once. Overall, I think the new characters were just what the show needed and so far the actors are doing a great job!