#smallville s8

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

what about what we need?

[vakariaan]

Clois +

[thesoundofchains]

Started Smallville Season 8 and you can tell how badly the show runners want Clark and Lois together. Like, we're getting dramatic love declarations and it's only episode 5.

Don't get me wrong, they've clearly wanted to do Clois since S4 (apparently DC stopped them from doing so) but now that Lana's gone they're really kicking things into overdrive.

[fairyroses]

— SMALLVILLE, “Reaper” (1.17) & “Tempest” (2.01) 

[luthwhore]

for as much as i complain about s5-7 of smallville i will never be over lex’s murder-suicide plot that involved destroying the fortress of solitude with them both inside it while he cradles clark in his arms and tearfully tells him he loves him in a direct parallel to their meeting in the pilot

[kryptokent]

not to be horny on main but i NEED clark kent inside me amen 🙏

[futuretrain]

smallville was such a funny show on a meta level to me personally. it is possibly one of the reasons birthright, one of the most widely recommended superman stories, was written, or at the very least, it did have influence on it (along with silver/bronze age superboy comics). due to logistical constraints the city of metropolis is situated in kansas, within driving distance from smallville itself. every actor you can think of and then some were in it. amy adams was in it ages before she was ever picked to play lois. they had high school musical ryan as kon for a couple of episodes. fucking. princess diaries 2 andrew jacoby was there as GENERAL ZOD. tell me that doesn't sound unhinged! he was terrific zod too!! this show started the superhero tv trend of actors who previously played a character returning as one of the older generation: teri hatcher played lois's mom, and helen slater who played kara in the 1984 supergirl movie was cast as lara el (clark's biological mother). the amount of offenses to superman canon this show did is unbelievable, mxyzptlk was just. a guy. a regular guy with powers. who was from eastern europe. named mikhail. who signed off on that???? literally Everyone was an established hero before superman except for batman and that's HILARIOUS. they really tried to pull off clark and lana for most of the show like it was written by chuck austen and then dropped it within one season and a couple of episodes. if someone yells "somebody" at me I'm not continuing with all stars I'm singing "SAAAAAVE MEEEE" because that theme song is ingrained in my memory even years after watching all 10 seasons. what an incredible show i will never watch it again

[cinnamonanddean]

How many people live in this studio apartment above the Talon? Chloe, Jimmy, Lois, now Lana is staying there. The decor changes every other episode. It's like a damn Airbnb.

And is it even a coffee shop anymore?

[lanaluthorlang]

s2 “I don’t want to hurt anyone” lana vs s7 ‘kidnapping lionel and hitting him with a shovel when he tries to escape’ lana

[make-the-devil-cry]

ship so good you have to get up and take a walk around the house when they finally confess

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

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[90s-kid-sad-adult]

if I squint just right, it's like we're 14 again

[vakariaan]

[lanalover6969]

do you ever think about those episodes where lana was a vampire. when clark came over to visit and she shoved him up against the desk to make out with him. how lex fully knew about the existence of immortal vampires in the peak of his Beating Mortality phase but prioritized not losing control of his impulses and hurting others over becoming Literally Immortal His Whole Goal. lana in that leather look, dipping chloe to get at her throat. anyways i think about it every day so heres a reminder for everyone normal

[vcod1n]

HI uhmmm I couldn’t help but notice you like Swing kids…House Md…..and Smallville??? I LOVE swing kids sm, I’m on Season 4 of House md, and season 8 of Smallville :O so that’s cool, you seem cool

-🍁

WOAH anon are you my clone..,,,, time to add the 7th member of the swing kids fandom everyone

[fairyroses]

"The Lex Luthor Ship of Theseus Problem" ohhh you're definitely not alone or crazy for thinking about this lol. Literally, here's a random snippet of writing that I threw in my notes app a year ago when I first found out about the SV finale:

😅 (I haven't publicly posted anything I've written in years, so pls don't judge me for this lol)

my hot take about the series finale of smallville, a decade too late, is that the character we are presented at the end of the show isn’t lex. and i don’t mean this in some tinhat conspiracy theory way or in a “the show writers ruined his characterization” way—i mean literally, on the page, the person we are presented with at the end of the show is a completely different person than the one who died.

like. lex died. the real lex dies. we know this is an objective fact within the smallville universe. after michael rosenbaum left the show, lex was killed off. the show runners could have chosen to leave him alive off-screen, but they did not. he died.

then the show decided to bring him back from the dead via cloning. except… that’s not how cloning works. they did not bring back the original lex luthor. they created a new person, via cloning, who had the same DNA as lex.

now briar, you may say, he has lex’s memories and personality! so doesn’t that mean he is lex? and i think that question is philosophically complicated, but if you look at it from a purely scientific point of view… no. the original lex is still dead. this new person may have all lex’s memories, and he may even believe he is lex, but critically—the original lex is still dead.

but even if you argue that having lex’s memories is enough—that even if the original lex is still dead, this still has all of his memories and personality (arguably), so even if he is not the original, he is still lex from a character perspective—he doesn’t even have that at the end of the show! they give him amnesia! he has no memories!

think of it this way (and i am showing my age with this metaphor, but bear with me): you buy a CD. then the CD gets lost, or stolen, or broken. you then burn a copy of that CD. it is not the original, but it still has all of the same songs on it. the sound quality is a little off, and you don’t have the case for it, but it’s still mostly the same. but then the CD gets corrupted somehow, and now none of the songs will play. do you still own that CD? i would say, definitively, no.

which means that at the end of the show, what we are left with is not the original lex returned from the grave. he isn’t even a copy of the original lex who is indistinguishable from the original. he may look like lex, he may sound like lex, he may even act a little like lex, but functionally? the character we are presented with is little more than a stranger with lex’s face.