#sv 1x01

[lanechester]

"How'd you get through the gate"

"...kinda squeezed through the bars"

Clark Kent. From day 1

[ntshastark]

.......hello 👀

MAWS liveblog: part 1 (1x01-1x02)

Episode 1

BABY BOY!!!!!!!! BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S MY SON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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OH MY GOD SHUT UP HIS CLOCK IS A CHICKEN!!!!!! THAT'S SO ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!

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AND THEY WERE ROOMATES!!!!!!!!

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MY WIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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she's angry and also a vicki vale fan, i love her 😭

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AND SO DOES HE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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YES HE'S BABY!!!!!!!!!!

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hmm i like lois having a more established career at the point she meets clark, but i can work with this (sv!lois hadn't even graduated yet and she's my fav so)

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he's so in love with her already, we love a man with taste

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loving this dynamic already

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everything is so ultra-tech-y, there's tablets with holograms, computers with stupid transparent screens, all weapons are laser

and yet, the newspaper is not only still printed but also delivered by kids

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love the uncanny blue of clark's eyes

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gotta admit, i'm not a fan of lois also being instantly into clark, i like when he's instantly into her but she's too career-focused to even pay him any attention, and is also a bit mean to him (but he likes it) (bonus points if there's a bit of a rivalry going on bc he keeps getting scoops and she can't figure out how)

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now that's better >:3

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omg captain america

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what do these lasers even do, his clothes are intact????

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this poor man experiencing pain for the first time in like 20 years probably

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???????????????????

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wait then whose tie was it??????

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Episode 2

JUST HOW BIG IS THIS SHIP???????

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OOOOOOOOOOOO SPOKEN KRYPTONIAN

now i REALLY want to know how they developed the language, bc i don't think it's ever been spoken before

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NOOOOOOOO THE BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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isn't that the name of, like, that one kryptonian hero that was nightwing's sidekick or something?? (don't wanna google it in case there's maws spoilers)

wonder if it's gonna be a plot point or just a easter egg

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wait i think the base for the spoken kryptonian was latin (which is a pity, i was hoping for hebrew)

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i'm not saying i dislike this lois, but... she's a bit too quirky and immature... :/ i get that they're younger here than in most adaptations but i mean, smallville!lois was even younger and she's perfect

but it's ok, it's a children's cartoon, i can live with it.

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oh my god they gave him a magical girl transformation

full disclosure: i'm not really into anime, so this does nothing to me except make me :/ that we're not getting the "baby blanket sewn by martha" version

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ma'am the word you're looking for is definitely not shorts

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the animation on this series is really not that good with expression tbh, like, the voice actors are going hard and the character is just =[]

i wasn't huge on the art style bc i thought it was too anime-like but one thing you definitely can't say about anime is that it's not expressive, so it's feeling like a lose/lose situation over here lol

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i mean, come on

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ugh, references to the classic superman theme always Get Me

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wait, there's a regular bedroom but also a bunkbed in the living room? who designed this apartment????

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ok the woman is probably amanda waller and the military guy is very likely general lane, but who tf is this tumblr sexyman-looking bitch supposed to be

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ok, final impression? it's cute, it's fun, most of the issues i have with it can be answered with "it's a children's cartoon". i'm glad a new generation of kids is being given a new superman series, which is the important thing here (and i mean, the cartoon that got me into superman was fucking krypto the superdog, so). can't wait to get my little cousins and nephews into it!!

the biggest disappointment is probably lois and clois, tbh. she might even eventually develop into a more accurate version of the character, but the get-together that they're going with is definitely not how i'd prefer (and the early-on identity-porn era is my favourite for them, so it's double the :/). but it's ok, there's tons of other adaptations and comics out there that do show them that way (and more on the horizon! here's hoping 'superman: legacy' delivers, the casting is already amazing so 🤞🏻)

anyway, i'm gonna be going through the eps kinda slowly bc i'm pretty busy, so it's definitely not gonna be like my usual half-a-season-in-one-sitting liveblogs (god i miss having vacations)

[fairyroses]

SMALLVILLE (1.01) // SUPERMAN & LOIS (2.15)

[eddiestattoos]

Clark and Lois debating on whether to tell the kids Clark's secret is literally Jonathan and Martha debating telling Clark in the Smallville pilot. And I love it

[eddiestattoos]

And it begins!!

My favourite trio is back!!!💪🥂

[lousolversons]

[jonroxton]

“you must think i’m pretty weird” - sv 1X01

Clark has loved Lana since he was a young child, exactly as he was first developing his powers. His parents taught him to be careful and vigilant otherwise “they” will take him away. So imagine you're six, seven, eight years old and instead of running free and getting into scrapes, you're hyper aware of your own existence and how it can alter everything in your life. The Kents (rightly) didn't sugarcoat it. “They” are not kind, understanding people. “They” can use you and sell you out. It's not “you can't trust anybody”, it's that trusting anyone brings you one step closer to “them.” So for all of his adolescent years, Clark compartmentalizes his life into three categories: what is normal (what everyone else is and has), what isn't normal (what he is and can do), and what can be done within the confines of both. He starts to challenge his upbringing, directly (he wants to try for football, the most normal all-American thing there is, but ofc the dangers are too great) and indirectly (everything with Lex).

Everything Lana represents is normal and normalcy (esp in the first episode, until the graveyard scene). She begins the show as the girl next door who is the cheerleading squad leader, and she is dating the football quarterback. She is a perfect student. Not only is she the most popular girl in school, but she is also kindhearted, sweet, perceptive and independent. Clark (and literally everyone else) sees her as entirely perfect. And this is further exacerbated by the metaphor of Clark becoming sick whenever he is around her. The closer he is to her, the more he is reminded that he isn't normal like her and can't have her and so cannot have a normal life. So much of his grief is the physical barrier his very body creates for himself against the normal world. He cannot be near her. He cannot play football for fear of hurting someone. The episode even ends with the immense distance between himself and Lana after the fantasy of having her in his arms.

The graveyard scene in the pilot is fascinating in that it's a microcosm of Clark and Lana's entire relationship. First it establishes that Clark's perception of Lana is informed entirely by his romanticism of her life. He would never think she's the kind to visit a graveyard at night to speak to her dead parents. And because she's in a position to make HIM feel better, though he does validate her feelings, it’s more to keep in tact his perception of her, she’s NOT weird at all for talking to her dead parents at night, which makes sense since he just found out his parents sent him away to another planet and he can never talk to them either. Second, and this is VERY important imo and speaks to Clark's romanticism of her, before that moment in the graveyard THEY'D NEVER HAD AN ACTUAL CONVERSATION BEFORE! And while they bond and share feelings, Clark doesn't actually tell her anything. This will be a staple of their relationship: this inability to reveal the whole truth out of insecurity. It's innocent when it begins bc they are so young and are starting to really know each other, but it is this constant refusal to tell the whole truth that leads to all their breakups.

And third: Clark seeks refuge from his abnormal life in Lana's normalcy but not only does he not reciprocate when she shares things, he doesn't seem to acknowledge that Lana is lost, confused and grieving as well as being all these perfect things he sees her as. She’s as complex a person as he is with conflicting traits, but like I said, he almost… absolves her weirdness of being at the graveyard at night. She has alleviated his pain on the night he's discovered the most important fact of his life, of being an alien, and the moment becomes about THAT, not about the fact that Lana is also struggling.

[fairyroses]

— SMALLVILLE, “Pilot” (1.01)

+ bonus

[fairyroses]

SMALLVILLE — 1.01 | 2.21 ↳ Clark saving Lex and Lana from drowning 💦

[eddiestattoos]

Pilot thoughts once again

- first off, babies!!!

- rewatching this knowing the whole series is an experience (queen industries I actually noticed it this time)

- Lionel the horrible father

- the population grew 20000 in 12 years after meteors struck?!? Are y'all insane?

- Lana and Clark That ship was happening from the start

- I miss Pete

- the iconic first meeting even better the second time around

-the red blanket under Jonathan's coat is.... a look

- Lana is such a sweetheart

- the way Clark's instantly triggered by the word normal

- the wood chipper scene still has my heart

- Clark comforting Lana through her parents I loved him from second one

- Lana just kissing Clark with her boyfriend right there. The girl simply did not care and I love her for it

- it's so good!!! Smallville obsession may be peaking again

[lanechester]

The smallville pilot is one of the most iconic pieces of television. Just perfect. Never gets old