This week in TV
May. 2nd, 2008 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bofoddityRandom babbles about shows I follow, House, Lost, Smallville and Supernatural.
House
First, some aggression out of the way: Considering that House/Wilson is now more apparent than ever thanks to Amber, why the hell are fans whining? As canon has pointed out, Amber is the female House, so if anything, how well her relationship with Wilson works out directly shows how House/Wilson should work out, if it were to happen. So why does fandom insist that Wilson/Amber is the worst idea ever? It's House/Wilson, only House happens to have a vagina!
...
And I guess that's the problem. Silly me.
With that out of the way, although it annoys me that the focus is now on the soap opera rather than the medical mysteries (which haven't always been realistic, but were interesting to follow at least), I loved the episode. The House/Wilson is being milked and it's milked well, and I love Amber. Fic recs, please? Gen and anybody/Amber (House/Amber and Wilson/Amber especially) both go.
I also enjoyed the House/Cuddy-scene (not to mention Cuddy's choice of punishment for Amber and House), and though Thirteen seems to be written as milder version of Cameron rather as Thirteen, I enjoy the new fellows a lot, Kutner especially. I was also glad to see Cameron and Chase, although their bickering over House.. well, I thought they got over that already.
Anyway, it was an enjoyable episode, and I hope we get to see that much feared House/Cuddy soon.
Lost
An average episode, which was expected after last week's awesome Ben-fest. Couple of notes, though:
- The best thing about this episode, no contest, was that Christian is obviously responsible for Jack's downfall that we have been witnessing in the flash-forwards. What's with me and dysfunctional families? I wish the episode had focused more on that instead of Jack/Kate, although I guess that would have taken some of the awesomeness away. Island, you are still the biggest bastard of them all.
- Similarly, I loved that it was Christian who lured Claire away. You can't help but fuck your kids up, can you? But that was the only thing I liked about Claire's disappearance. I hope they don't leave it as a cliffhanger for this season.
- I liked that Juliet was allowed to bow out from Jate's path gracefully, but I would have preferred it if Jack had shown some kind of respect to her for that instead of grinning to himself. I love him, but sometimes he's a fucker.
- It still disappoints me that they appear to be killing Jin off, but I did love him going dark on Charlotte and therefore gaining bad karma points from the island. If they have to kill him off, the least they can do is to set it up well.
Smallville
House was fun, but Smallville takes the awesome cake this week. THIS is how you make people swoon over Superman. And I mean it in that sense; Smallville may be about Clark Kent becoming his iconic self, but I think it only makes things more meaningful if we can see Superman in the current Clark. The episode almost lost me with Clark getting emo over causing only death and destruction, but then it pulled me back. Very hard.
- Major props to Tom Welling both for acting and directing. I haven't always thought he's all that great, but he clearly gets what Superman is about, and it showed so well from this episode. I loved how Clark, without hesitation, set out to help Lois when she got in trouble, showed that he could investigate and uncover truths without Chloe and understood that things needed to be corrected. And that moment we see Clark in glasses and suit? That slight change in Welling's body language, when we see Clark, the mask of Superman? Pure awesome.
- Guess who else was at the top of her game in this episode? Lois Lane. One of my earliest female idols, and this episode showed why. Erica Durance was delivering the iconic Lois Lane here, the one with spunk and snark and who just ruled. The only complaint I have about her that she didn't tag along with Clark when he went to stop Lex, but that might have been common sense from her. Anyway, the chemistry between her and Clark was fantastic. So many iconic shades there, too.
- Interestingly enough, this episode made me wonder if I could enjoy a Smallville without Lex, but Michael Rosenbaum's last appearance made me ache anyway. President Luthor was pure magnificence, and I really appreciate this canon confirmation that Clark's intervention wouldn't have affected how Lex turned out, with Kara as an obvious stand-in for Clark. Yes, he's not a monster in either worlds, since it's clear that he cared for Kara like he cared for Clark (and envied how Lionel loved Kara/Clark), but I like that he became who he was through his own choices. Even Brainiac seemed to have little effect on him. The final scene between him and Clark was also great, with Lex testing the waters with Clark for the last time, and Clark rejecting him for the last time. MR is going to be missed.
- As for Brainiac, he didn't have so much screentime this time, but Marsters delivered what needed to be delivered, and did it well. I did, however, dislike that Lana didn't make a recovery and that Kara ended up as a new victim of Brainiac. I hope they both get empowered again before the end of the season, even if it happens off-screen with Lana.
- I saw that some people were confused about the timeline of this episode, with Lois already as the Pulitzer-winning reporter and with Lex as the president of the United States, but engaged Chloe, Jimmy in a bow-tie and Lana who was married with kids all convinced me that this had to take place in some kind of future. Which makes sense to me: Clark's destiny is to become Superman, and it's his destiny that Jor-El is pushing him forward to. It's natural that he would show a world without Superman, not just a world without Clark Kent.
- Small note, but worth making: Nice to see you again, sheriff Adams.
This episode had some problems, such as logic lacking from certain places, but overall it was so entertaining that I don't care.
Supernatural
A standard episode for this season (interpret that as you like), with one exception: For the first time in a while, I saw the Dean I loved in the first two seasons again. The S3!Dean has felt so strange to me, so when he got all soft when he thought it was John on the phone? And waiting for him to call again? And his confession to Sam at the end? OH, DEAN. I've missed saying that. Also, the basic idea with the phone calls was good, though it would have been nice if all the callers hadn't been women.
House
First, some aggression out of the way: Considering that House/Wilson is now more apparent than ever thanks to Amber, why the hell are fans whining? As canon has pointed out, Amber is the female House, so if anything, how well her relationship with Wilson works out directly shows how House/Wilson should work out, if it were to happen. So why does fandom insist that Wilson/Amber is the worst idea ever? It's House/Wilson, only House happens to have a vagina!
...
And I guess that's the problem. Silly me.
With that out of the way, although it annoys me that the focus is now on the soap opera rather than the medical mysteries (which haven't always been realistic, but were interesting to follow at least), I loved the episode. The House/Wilson is being milked and it's milked well, and I love Amber. Fic recs, please? Gen and anybody/Amber (House/Amber and Wilson/Amber especially) both go.
I also enjoyed the House/Cuddy-scene (not to mention Cuddy's choice of punishment for Amber and House), and though Thirteen seems to be written as milder version of Cameron rather as Thirteen, I enjoy the new fellows a lot, Kutner especially. I was also glad to see Cameron and Chase, although their bickering over House.. well, I thought they got over that already.
Anyway, it was an enjoyable episode, and I hope we get to see that much feared House/Cuddy soon.
Lost
An average episode, which was expected after last week's awesome Ben-fest. Couple of notes, though:
- The best thing about this episode, no contest, was that Christian is obviously responsible for Jack's downfall that we have been witnessing in the flash-forwards. What's with me and dysfunctional families? I wish the episode had focused more on that instead of Jack/Kate, although I guess that would have taken some of the awesomeness away. Island, you are still the biggest bastard of them all.
- Similarly, I loved that it was Christian who lured Claire away. You can't help but fuck your kids up, can you? But that was the only thing I liked about Claire's disappearance. I hope they don't leave it as a cliffhanger for this season.
- I liked that Juliet was allowed to bow out from Jate's path gracefully, but I would have preferred it if Jack had shown some kind of respect to her for that instead of grinning to himself. I love him, but sometimes he's a fucker.
- It still disappoints me that they appear to be killing Jin off, but I did love him going dark on Charlotte and therefore gaining bad karma points from the island. If they have to kill him off, the least they can do is to set it up well.
Smallville
House was fun, but Smallville takes the awesome cake this week. THIS is how you make people swoon over Superman. And I mean it in that sense; Smallville may be about Clark Kent becoming his iconic self, but I think it only makes things more meaningful if we can see Superman in the current Clark. The episode almost lost me with Clark getting emo over causing only death and destruction, but then it pulled me back. Very hard.
- Major props to Tom Welling both for acting and directing. I haven't always thought he's all that great, but he clearly gets what Superman is about, and it showed so well from this episode. I loved how Clark, without hesitation, set out to help Lois when she got in trouble, showed that he could investigate and uncover truths without Chloe and understood that things needed to be corrected. And that moment we see Clark in glasses and suit? That slight change in Welling's body language, when we see Clark, the mask of Superman? Pure awesome.
- Guess who else was at the top of her game in this episode? Lois Lane. One of my earliest female idols, and this episode showed why. Erica Durance was delivering the iconic Lois Lane here, the one with spunk and snark and who just ruled. The only complaint I have about her that she didn't tag along with Clark when he went to stop Lex, but that might have been common sense from her. Anyway, the chemistry between her and Clark was fantastic. So many iconic shades there, too.
- Interestingly enough, this episode made me wonder if I could enjoy a Smallville without Lex, but Michael Rosenbaum's last appearance made me ache anyway. President Luthor was pure magnificence, and I really appreciate this canon confirmation that Clark's intervention wouldn't have affected how Lex turned out, with Kara as an obvious stand-in for Clark. Yes, he's not a monster in either worlds, since it's clear that he cared for Kara like he cared for Clark (and envied how Lionel loved Kara/Clark), but I like that he became who he was through his own choices. Even Brainiac seemed to have little effect on him. The final scene between him and Clark was also great, with Lex testing the waters with Clark for the last time, and Clark rejecting him for the last time. MR is going to be missed.
- As for Brainiac, he didn't have so much screentime this time, but Marsters delivered what needed to be delivered, and did it well. I did, however, dislike that Lana didn't make a recovery and that Kara ended up as a new victim of Brainiac. I hope they both get empowered again before the end of the season, even if it happens off-screen with Lana.
- I saw that some people were confused about the timeline of this episode, with Lois already as the Pulitzer-winning reporter and with Lex as the president of the United States, but engaged Chloe, Jimmy in a bow-tie and Lana who was married with kids all convinced me that this had to take place in some kind of future. Which makes sense to me: Clark's destiny is to become Superman, and it's his destiny that Jor-El is pushing him forward to. It's natural that he would show a world without Superman, not just a world without Clark Kent.
- Small note, but worth making: Nice to see you again, sheriff Adams.
This episode had some problems, such as logic lacking from certain places, but overall it was so entertaining that I don't care.
Supernatural
A standard episode for this season (interpret that as you like), with one exception: For the first time in a while, I saw the Dean I loved in the first two seasons again. The S3!Dean has felt so strange to me, so when he got all soft when he thought it was John on the phone? And waiting for him to call again? And his confession to Sam at the end? OH, DEAN. I've missed saying that. Also, the basic idea with the phone calls was good, though it would have been nice if all the callers hadn't been women.
