Exile SPOILERS
Oct. 2nd, 2003 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficOh, wow. That was thrilling.
Normally with shows the season openers and closers are quickly forgotten by me, and I focus on the self contained episodes. This is because after x-files, I've learned not to rely on any logic in such artificially constructed season closers. But I've got to say, Exile is absolutely rocketed to the top of my Smallville list.
A few negatives first:
So lex not only hallucinates, but he hallucinates a very gay man to hit on him? How...reavealing. And it's just a little hokey that he ends up on a desert island. Come on. "Welcome to the Caribbean, baby." When the guy found him on the beach, I expected it to be revealed that lex wasn't on a desert island at all, but just on the coast somewhere and too insane to notice he could walk off. (Anyone read Kidnapped? Where the guy gets shipwrecked on an island that turns out to be connected to the mainland at low tide, but he was there for weeks before figuring it out?)
I also like how Lex's face is all peeling, but his scalp mysteriously not. But that little plot is about the only negative I have. That and Chloe's hair. They need to make sure it doesn't poke up in the back. Yech.
On to Clark. Who ever thought I would care more about a Clark plotline that a Lex one? And the writers must be reading fanfic now. This was too much like so many AU dark Clark stories. A musing: is Lex's "death" a contributing factor in Clark running away? If Lex was alive, would Clark have gone to him (like Red) instead of fleeing to Metropolis. Clark really turned into lex. Did the club remind anyone else of Club Zero? (Maybe that's the only club set they have, who knows.) I could ramble on forever about the glorious teenage angst in this episode, but I will stop and say, how is Clark ever going to make it back to Smallville after this? It would be a little hard to make up for a three month long crime spree.
Why doesn't Lana or Chloe worry at all that Clark could be on drugs and violent? I mean, he practically threw Chloe out of his apartment, and she did not look sufficiently scared.
"My father's a real bastard." Haha. I guess Jor-El is.
Poor Kents, losing the farm! I guess Clark doing all the heavy labor for free really did contribute to its economic viability.
Now, with all this "Urban Legend" stuff about the "super man" going on a crime spree (see the Ledger), when Clark finally becomes Superman, won't some people put two and two together and legitimately conclude that he's a criminal?
Aaah... I'm am in a haze of smallville induced happiness.
Normally with shows the season openers and closers are quickly forgotten by me, and I focus on the self contained episodes. This is because after x-files, I've learned not to rely on any logic in such artificially constructed season closers. But I've got to say, Exile is absolutely rocketed to the top of my Smallville list.
A few negatives first:
So lex not only hallucinates, but he hallucinates a very gay man to hit on him? How...reavealing. And it's just a little hokey that he ends up on a desert island. Come on. "Welcome to the Caribbean, baby." When the guy found him on the beach, I expected it to be revealed that lex wasn't on a desert island at all, but just on the coast somewhere and too insane to notice he could walk off. (Anyone read Kidnapped? Where the guy gets shipwrecked on an island that turns out to be connected to the mainland at low tide, but he was there for weeks before figuring it out?)
I also like how Lex's face is all peeling, but his scalp mysteriously not. But that little plot is about the only negative I have. That and Chloe's hair. They need to make sure it doesn't poke up in the back. Yech.
On to Clark. Who ever thought I would care more about a Clark plotline that a Lex one? And the writers must be reading fanfic now. This was too much like so many AU dark Clark stories. A musing: is Lex's "death" a contributing factor in Clark running away? If Lex was alive, would Clark have gone to him (like Red) instead of fleeing to Metropolis. Clark really turned into lex. Did the club remind anyone else of Club Zero? (Maybe that's the only club set they have, who knows.) I could ramble on forever about the glorious teenage angst in this episode, but I will stop and say, how is Clark ever going to make it back to Smallville after this? It would be a little hard to make up for a three month long crime spree.
Why doesn't Lana or Chloe worry at all that Clark could be on drugs and violent? I mean, he practically threw Chloe out of his apartment, and she did not look sufficiently scared.
"My father's a real bastard." Haha. I guess Jor-El is.
Poor Kents, losing the farm! I guess Clark doing all the heavy labor for free really did contribute to its economic viability.
Now, with all this "Urban Legend" stuff about the "super man" going on a crime spree (see the Ledger), when Clark finally becomes Superman, won't some people put two and two together and legitimately conclude that he's a criminal?
Aaah... I'm am in a haze of smallville induced happiness.
