Smallville and Supernatural: Sneeze and Clowns

[butterfly]

Oh, the teaser was perfection. Hearing Clark speak of how he had to help 'clean up his mess' and about listening to Jor-El... he's really grown up. The change took.

I love Lois in all of her scenes. ED has such a wonderful sense of timing. She was marvelous and made her leap into journalism thoroughly believable and enjoyable (And, aw, Clark's the reason that she got her first front-page headline! Cuteness!).

I continue to find the Lana/Lex relationship extremely interesting.

And then...

"He's been abducted? My God."

That delivery was wonderful!

I've fallen in love with Oliver Queen. The actor is brilliant. His give-and-take with Glover's Lionel was absolutely fantastic. I adored him after one scene. Love!

"I guess heroes don't get sick days."
"They also don't put the world in jeopardy on an annual basis. I'm no hero, Chloe."

Oh! I love Clark so much! So much love! That's such a heroish thing for him to say.

I am, on balance, exceedingly happy.


Dude, whatever that damn secret is, I get the impression that Dean fucking hates keeping it from Sam. But he is. Which makes me exceedingly curious about it.

Also, clowns are, and always have been, very creepy.

I quite liked the new (reoccuring?) characters (Ellen, at least, shows up in next week's preview), though I find it interesting (for 'interesting', feel free to read 'distressing') that we still haven't met any female hunters, but that we were explicitly told that it was the husband/father who was the hunter.

Comments

[blacksquirrel.livejournal.com]

Yes! Female hunters *please*. And wouldn't it be awesome if there were *both* young hot female hunters and knarled, scarred older ones

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

I might be with you on this if I had any faith in television's ability to have female characters of any age in any show without the show becoming entirely focussed on boobs. Don't get me wrong, shows about boobs are great, but there are five hundred other shows about boobs. Just on the CW. And at a certain point, it's just not worth sitting through the commercials.

[blacksquirrel.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly, which is why what I'd really like to see is female hunters in a variety of ages and body types. Hey - I can dream

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I would love that. Not sure what our chances are of getting it, but I would love it if hunting stopped being a boys' club.

[siinik.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I know. Supernatural is generally just dumb about girls. I want to say that Jo is young and she has time to grow up and take up hunting. (I mean it's gotta be outside the norm that Sam and Dean started so young.) But...*sigh* It hurts my head.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wish I could believe that, too. I hope we do see her hunting. But that they made it so explicit that Ellen wasn't at all a hunter... that made me sad.

[scary-lullabies.livejournal.com]

The thing is, nobody does girls right. (The single exception I can think of here is Firefly.) I'd rather they left us out than misrepresented us yet again.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I'm the other way around. I figure practice and exposure can be good things. My current example is Smallville, which has definitely gotten better with its female characters over the years. They can be taught.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

ED has such a wonderful sense of timing.
Yeah, she really does! She plays comedy really really well. I just find her a joy every time she's on screen.

And Oliver is LOVE. I saw him in the Aquaman pilot, and I thought he was really good, but he's heaps better as Oliver Queen--he's got so much more to work with. He is my new favourite. \o/

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she really does! She plays comedy really really well. I just find her a joy every time she's on screen.

She's a bundle of sunlight. Delightful.

And Oliver is LOVE. I saw him in the Aquaman pilot, and I thought he was really good, but he's heaps better as Oliver Queen--he's got so much more to work with. He is my new favourite. \o/

Yes! I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with his character. I love him already and I've read enough (vague) spoilers to be mega-excited about what'll happen next.