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[beccaelizabeth]

The thing with watching Torchwood is you start looking at other stuff and wondering why they left out the kissing parts.
... yeah, the slash, it is not subtext. Anti-slash goggles would have to be there to not see it.

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[louiex.livejournal.com]

Oh Smallville...

Those two have been just dripping with subtext since season one -how I miss the glory of season one, even with its annoying freak of the weeks- and it was nice to see a bit of it again here. Hell, I even loved the reference to Lex's secret CoCK (Closet of Clark Kent, filled with high tech bits analyzing everything on Clark and unecessarily large LED screens with Clark's picture until Daddy Luthor spoiled all his son's obsession with the farmboy)!

It is interesting though that when two male actors just have really excellent chemistry on screen/stage/film together they do have this sexual vibe that lingers, not a passionate one persay but indeed this sexual of just wanting to grab each other for up against the wall frottage and perhaps character damaging sex :D

[beccaelizabeth]

Yeah, the Clark/Lex was the first thing I noticed about Smallville, on watching a random episode way back when.

Unfortunately on attempting to watch regularly I had to notice things like that woman everyone seems to like for no readily apparent reason who, in the eps I watched, turned into a shiny violet eyed magic user for reasons they either didn't explain or explained in the bits I wasn't looking at teh screen and yet she still managed to lack all personality.

... see, that looks like a rant, but really that's just the description of her in my head.


Actual point
yeah, those two characters have interesting stuff going on

[louiex.livejournal.com]

Oh rant away, whomever decided to put such power in Lana Lang's hands really needs to be flogged and not in the fun way. I remember when the beginning of the "rift" between Clark and Lex started up, bulk of the fans were all crossing fingers and toes that it wouldn't just be over Lana as honestly she's not worth it. A hypocritical, self-centered, cardboard-like girl like her has these two guys fighting tooth and nail over her... thusly leading to the animosity between Lex Luthor and Superman?

At the very least they're twining this evil sub-plot that Lex is up to no good with the meteor affected people in town, running experiments and lying through his teeth to everyone about it.

But that's okay, because Clark did get to have his good acting/subtext with Oliver Queen (green Arrow) and Bart Allen (impulse) during their Justice League episode "Justice" from this season. Oh lord, the cheesy lines between Cyborg and Aquaman almost make up for so so so much Lana...

[beccaelizabeth]

Bart???
Clark, Ollie, and Bart???
Are they... all teenagers?
Because that would be quite a lot of generations right there.
And Cyborg and Aquaman...
in the same story.

On TV. Being canon.

My brain, it is breaky.



Hang on, are they all, like, first generation heroes?
Because I'm trying to imagine Impulse without a Flash legacy, and, well, no.


Actually I can't imagine Impulse at all in a Smallville way. I'm just imagining little guy with big hair and feet running around being all cartoon in their world. It's sort of unworky.

[louiex.livejournal.com]

I had a similar reaction when it first happened too XD Smallville... well, smallville needs to be taken with a couple tons of salt as they like to rape comic canon in order to keep the youth market watching, I suppose :D

Yes, they skipped over the Flash legacy but he wasn't dubbed 'Impulse' until "justice" in the sixth season, as apparently Oliver came up with everyone's codenames (such as Clark's being "boyscout" XD). I can try to justify their mismatching of Teen Titans and Justice League members but really, there's no logical reason other than they're craaazy over there.

Let alone the odd flirting between Aquaman and Cyborg, which just had me in stitches long enough to over look the more prudent hows/whys of it all.

For the most part, they seem to like to blame the Meteor shower for the super powers here, more angst for Clark, rather than Aquaman being from Atlantis and Bart being from a distant but sexy future. Not for the comic loyal unless you're content to ignore that terrible screaming of comic canon being gagged, bound, then shoved into a paper shredder :D

I adore the guy they got to play Impulse (Kyle Gallner), he is all big hair and huge smiles, flirts with everything that stands too close and is hyperactive to boot but in this laid back sort of way.

[beccaelizabeth]

I'm the kind of comic fan who likes to try to make sense of it all.
... you know, the constantly driven crazy kind ...
The time I watched the Justice League TV movie I spent the whole of my next therapy session ranting about it, and the whole time since repressing.
So Smallville? Frequently breaks my brain
and that was when they were only playing with Superman characters!


A large part of why I like characters like Bart or Ollie is their relationship with their family. Pull them out of their context and they're just not *them*. I'm not so much thinking of a reason I'd want to see that.

But the flirting parts sound like fun.

[louiex.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, I dread the thought of them bringing any hint of batman into smallville as they've already made several mentions of Gotham just in passing. Star City and Oliver came running in well received, these people might be crazy enough to think they can write in the Dark Knight.

Though one can hope prayers are heard and this will NEVER happen XD

Oliver does come in almost on the opposite side of the coin from Clark and Lex as the vigilante millionaire, ditching the Robin Hood like headgear for a hood and high-tech sunglasses. Bart is introduced a couple seasons back as a pickpocket sort of teenage rogue, bonds with Clark as they race from coast to coast just because they can. Then Justice has Oliver making a 'superteam' of the non-evil superpowered beings we've seen thus far, all with Chloe playing a very Oracle-like figure on the headset.

There were great clips on youtube of Justice that I was looking to find and seem to be well... oddly gone. Despite the roaring amounts of camp and annoying Lois Lane (who really really really is unecessary and god knows why they stuck her in there), is a good episode to see Clark with people like him... and has odd sexual chemistry with.

[beccaelizabeth]

Ollie in a hood was a look he tried in the comics for a while, when it was a 'mature readers' title I think.
... Smallville is very much not 'mature readers'.

[louiex.livejournal.com]

Hah that's a great way to put it! Not for 'mature readers'... nooo, very much not for that though they try occasionally XD *points at icon* Oliver with a busted lip!