Smallville Episode Two: What IS this theme song doing?

[x_los]

LULZ at Lana's trophy drawer. Patch: "The only thing she can't win is new parents."

He's driving a bug full of BUGS. Deep.

Patch: I like that kid's mom's dishtowel themed sweater set.

What's UP with all of Clark's dream sequences? They REALLY like that technique.

Thus far Chloe is snarky without being funny.

I enjoy Clark's reaction to Lana's ManStick's lameass "I like, need that jewelry back dude."

Lex is SO MUCH FUN. Persistent, funny, kinda jealous of Lana. Spent minutes mocking his apple nomnoming and then dropping.  Does the apple taste of meteor and regret? Is he just cool enough to drop that apple, though it is delicious? Is it fantastic, just like all the apples Lex's father buys, and thus can mean nothing to him?

Everything Clark's dad says sounds either like a George Michael song or the 'Do you ever get that Not So Fresh Feeling?' commercials.


"You're all grown up now." REALLY Lex? That's the line?

Is... is Lex trying to get Clark pussy? Via hassling Lana about her boyfriend and quasi flirting with her?

I kind of like Greg as a monster of the week.

PFFFFFFT @ Lex's Trojan War WoW set.

Dammit Clark, just take Lex's gifts! They're the obvious prelude to sleeping with him. Which would be so much more interesting than this Lana noise.

I really love all the colors in this show, v. super saturated Americana comic book-y.

The Fortress of Solitude joke KILLS. AUGH.

Greg: *Rips his skin off.*
Alyssa: No, no, stop, it'll clog the drain!

This slow mo is ULTRA NECESSARY. Why are his footprints so glittery?! Is he really dirty and make of sparkles?

Patch: Okay, now everyone in chorus! "It's all my fault!"

There's an entomology club in this high school?

The logic behind Bug Boy is IRONCLAD.

'Gone Kakfa' *eye roll*

Do y'all just break in for giggles?

Molly, as Greg: "Oh Lana? I'm wearing my business socks."
Stephen: "I have eight pounds of glitter on just for this sexual encounter. I've got more in the car. Y'know, if you wanna try again."

I don't get why he's EVERY bug. He's just the uber-bug. Did he get magically bit by every bug ever?

Patch: as Rescued!Lana: "Oh hey. Well. This is okay, I wanted you second-most..."

On the OMGSTARZ ending: Stephen: "There's STUFF in the Sky!"

Conclusion: Greg is the origin of Old Gregg. Lana is kind of retarded. Clark is DUMB about relationships. Lex is Doing Boning Clark Wrong.

Comments

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the theme song's doing, but now you've gotten it stuck in my head.

Also, I totally remember watching, like, the first two seasons of Smallville. And then they moved it to some inconvenient time or something, I have no clue.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's one of those shows that was/IS STILL On Forever, doing I Know Not What, that I just never really caught any of.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Is... is Lex trying to get Clark pussy? Via hassling Lana about her boyfriend and quasi flirting with her?
Congratulations, you have just discovered the main plot of the first four seasons. That and "Doing Boning Clark Wrong". Oh, and sometimes Lionel does evil stuff.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I am having a hard time getting his MO. He just wants to shtup Clark (wait... Yiddish words might be weird for a German speaker, I have no idea whether that means the same thing in German as it idiomatically means in English-- too late to delete, have typed explanation. Um. Pretend I just said do?). This is obviously true. Why does he bother trying to get him with Lana? Does he want Clark to get over his hetero crush? Does he have really low self-esteem? *is boggled by something all of your fandom probably already has theories on*

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

I think shtup probably comes from "stupsen", which means "to nudge"... would make sense? I understand a few Yiddish words commonly used in American English though, esp. in context.

As to the Clark/Lex/Lana thing... personally I believe Lex wanted to get them together so Clark would realize that the Lana he loves is not who Lana really is and thus get over the silly crush (and of course Clark would be so heart-broken, yet so grateful...). But Clark remains persistently blind to Lana's personality (which imho is way more awesome once she starts hitting people with shovels and killing her own clones. Lex must have seen that coming.)

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha! You're watching Smallville now? What's that about?

But seriously. This fills me with an odd glee as I sit here glaring at the pile of essays on AtG and Persianisation I am desultorily grading.

S1 is so bad, and yet also so cracktastically good. Lex's seduction techniques amount to 1) Facilitating the Union of Object of my Affection and Coded Stand-in for Me (we have the same initials, yo, and we trade off for damsel in distress each week!), 2) serious eyefucking, and 3) copious use of Bad Classics Analogies (wait till you see Alexander the Gay Great's armour).

S2 is both better and worse. There are eyegasms, no seriously, instead of laser beams, for one. And a basketball game where Clark and a rival battle for Lex's favours. And Lex begins a long, repetitious process of getting married, a la Harry Saxon, to prove he's straight.

After that you begin to wonder who the good guy actually is. Lex remains awesome throughout, despite his vanity plates which reach Lex XXIII IIRC. ;-p

Also congrats on graduation, despite all attendant unpleasantness.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

It's about reading a friend's fic, mostly, and then deciding that it seems kind of interesting, and I am all out of Master episodes... so was hoping it'd be like that? Only the Master never awkwardly mocked Yates and tried to get Jo to sleep with the Doctor...

Side note: Doctor/Jo is a gross concept, theirloveissoavuncular.

Pffffft No, I can get behind that level of crack. Really I can. Basketball game episode, for example, sounds amaaaaazing.

I have a personal grudge against small penises custom vanity plates which I will bravely try to overcome for Lex's sake. And maybe they change from the pilot ep? B/c I was pretty sure it was just 'Lex'? But having seen it all of once, I could be wrong.

Thanks, graduation was, er... done. It was done. Thank god.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

Doctor/Jo is a gross concept, theirloveissoavuncular

Dear god am I with you on that!

Re: Clark/Lana/Lex though... It's weird. You can read it as trying to puncture the Princess Lana dream with reality, as a genuine gift, as a stopgap while Clark is underage, as a stand-in (I wasn't kidding with the LL thing -- all the girlfriends Superman ever has, in seventy years of canon, have those initials. And Lex.)... And of course it gets only more complicated when the hypotenuse of the triangle, so to speak, flips. And then, of course, in wider canon, we get to do it all again with Lois Lane. Rubbish beards, both of them.

I was pretty sure it was just 'Lex'? But having seen it all of once, I could be wrong.

Oh, no, you're right re the pilot. I was just warning you that it gets worse, and to gird your loins. Lex has an entire stable of penis extensions, all plated some combo of Lex and a number, or LX LTHR, or something similar. *sigh* There were upsides though -- Clark/Lex/Ferrari (or in my case Clark/Lex/Aston Martin Vanquish) was many people's OT3 of choice.