Smallville: 10x14 "Masquerade" - Discussion and Spoilers

[Guy Gardener]

Old people are not "inspired" their faults are "corrected"

Teaching Clark STILL that heroism is cool and selflessness is awesome is like trying to teach people in thier 60's and 70s that Racism is wrong and most certainly not funny.

It wasn't so long ago that he was channelling the Hulk "I just want to be left alone", while EVERYONE was ignoring his lifestyle choice insisting that he did have a destiny as a... He's really not doing much that a million firemen coudn't, and you know there's usually enough first responders to...

Clark is only 26, but Welling could pass for 36.

For Spider-Man it took just one moment.

BANG! Where's Unlce Ben? O, look he was murdered by that thief I could be bothered stopping. Bugger. i really should have stopped him.

"With Great power comes great responsibility."

 

[Samurai8472]

Yep take the glasses thing for instance, it's now been at least two years since Clark first wore them and now all of a sudden he's realized that it's a good idea to keep them on? What kind of character evolution is that? The progress has been retarded to a degree where the writers of the show can simply milk stories out of the cast members they have. For someone like me who has seen pretty much every single episode since the pilot it's incredibly frustrating. Name another show that has "Smallville"'s lack of progression? I bet you can't.

At least he stopped going after Lana. It was more of a writers ploy though and not something the character would willing do.


" *Sigh* Lana's gone.......Hey Lois...."

Lois stayed in the back till she's needed on stage.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Clark didn't stop going after Lana, the writers turned her into Kryptonite Woman and FORCED them apart while banging the audience over the head with Lana and Clark are toxic....they can't be together. Sigh.

 

[DarthPipes]

Clark didn't stop going after Lana, the writers turned her into Kryptonite Woman and FORCED them apart while banging the audience over the head with Lana and Clark are toxic....they can't be together. Sigh.

This was such a major failing by the Smallville writers. Clark HAD to be the one to put that relationship behind him. I think it was important to his growth. But Clark never grew in his relationship with Lana. After all these years and after all they had gone through and what Lana had done, he still viewed her as his fairy tale princess in high school. Not giving her up made him look weak, didn't make him grow any, and undercut his relationship with Lois. Not that I'm a fan of Lois on this show but she comes across as a total consolation prize now.

 

[Trekker4747]

Clark's fixation with Lana is one of the worst aspects of this series. (What?! I said "one of the"!)

I mean he pines after her for years even though it's made clear that a relationship between the two of them cannot work and it's sort of a waste of time anyway since a relationship between of the two of them cannot work! Simply by the fact Clark's destiny is with Lois Lane. So pretty much every Lana scene is a gigantic waste of time by the simple fact that it's a relationship that's never going to work out.

And God Kreuk was just a terrible actress on this show every, single, damn scene she had with Clark pretty much was done like she had just taken six valium. There was no energy to their relationship unless Lana was made at Clark and then she ranted like loon.

On contrast if you look at an encounters between Clark and Chloe or Clark and Lois and there's energy, things snap, the actress is expressing. Lana was just sooooo dullllll.

The love scenes with her just talking in a dull, practically monotone, whispery-lovey voice.

And, yeah, the story itself pretty much had to force the two apart rather than the both of them just growing the fuck up, deciding that the relationship can't work and the two of them going their separate ways. Nope. The story had to force them apart with a contrivance.

 

[Admiral_Young]

It's like the writers were stuck in a temporal causality loop with regards to Clark and Lana. He was already moving on with Lois then Lana shows up and it's back to status quo. I really hate how she was written off the show, Brian and Kelly once more misrepresented things by saying it would be an epic and emotional send off when it was hardly that at all. I wanted to toss the remote at the tv when I saw that. Geoff Johns must've been pulling the remainder of his hair out too when he saw that after it kind of contradicts his line Saturn Girl gave Lana about her being a legend.

Anyways I really didn't want to take the thread off in a tangent guys...Electric Coleslaw's post just set me off. Back to your regularly scheduled discussion thread.

 

[Electric Coleslaw]

Everyone has made valid points about the quality of the writing on the show and my enjoyment has more to do with my acceptance that it is a comic book. So again, no Shakespeare here (it was a show geared for teenage girls). But I think the real problem with the show and the way things have been dragged out is that the show has been dragged out. I don't think they envisioned it still being on 10 years later so the final transition to Superman had to be continually postponed using dubious reasoning. And yes it's been very frustrating. But since this is truly the last season, I'm simply enjoying it because I know that we are heading to the big finish so I'm intentionally ignoring the pointless detours we endured back in 2003 or 2006.
I'm not even sure why I was bitching in this thread at all. After so many years the same old jokes and gripes get old I guess.