Smallville and Supernatural -- Wither and Bloodlust

I lovelovelove Thursday nights! Yes, that much love! Because, first there was Smallville. ( Spoilers for Smallville 6x03 -- Wither )

Then, there was Supernatural. ( spoilers for Supernatural 2x03 -- Bloodlust )

Thursdays rock.

In praise of art.

I love quite a lot of television.

Now, this is surely obvious to... anyone who has either read this journal or actually met me in person. Television itself, of course, I neither love nor hate. It's a medium, just like paintings or books or music. A medium is not good or bad; it's merely a means of communicating. The medium that a material plays in has nothing to do with its quality. There is a lot of truly horrible and mind-wasting television out there. This does not make television, as a medium, horrible and mind-wasting, any more than Robinson Crusoe makes books boring and stupid (I apologize if you like the book, but I really do hate it that much. It is possibly the book that I like least in the universe.).

Any time someone starts arguing that a category is stupid or a theme is pointless or a story is played out, I must disagree. It's always, always, about what the creator is saying and how they say it. A master of a craft can make their medium sing, no matter how many people have failed to do so before.

Television can be art, just as surely as photographs can. The existence of cheap, tacky nudie pictures don't negate the value of a well-composed photo.

Well-made television has soul, just as surely as a well-written book. It can create worlds and gods and dreams. The possibility of art exists in anything created -- a stool can be art, when made with enough vision and care. Beauty exists in all things. An artist finds a beauty that only they can see and they coax it out of their chosen medium until others can see it, too.

This is how we share ourselves with each other -- we show each other our vision of beauty, of truth, of hope. Of love. The arts are the languages of the soul.

The world is gay, take fifteen-hundred:

Birds and Bees may be gay: museum exhibit

Geir Soeli, the project leader of the exhibition entitled "Against Nature," told Reuters: "Homosexuality has been observed for more than 1,500 animal species, and is well documented for 500 of them."

Also, on a different note, Supernatural should totally have a Jossverse alum in the third episode of every season. One more year, it'll be a pattern!

Smallville question:

Does anyone know if there's a place that keeps track of the clothing colors? I noticed that Clark was wearing the ( color spoiler for Smallville 6x03 -- Wither )

t-shirt last night and I was wondering if the primary choice of color says anything about where the character is being placed (emotionally, character-context-wise, etc). I know that colors in general are very important and focused on in Smallville, particularly the three primary colors (for Superman-eske stuff) and green/black.

ETA: If no one has done such a thing, I'm half-tempted to do it myself.