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bofoddityTrailer for Dollhouse, Joss Whedon's new show, is up, and all it makes me think of is Whedon running around screaming "Look how Eliza Dushku is FUCKED!". No thanks.
This week's Lost was pretty good, but it didn't give me any specific thoughts. This week's finales, on the other hand..
Smallville
First, I had somehow managed to assume a couple of weeks ago that Rosenbaum's last appearance would have taken place already, although it should have been obvious to me that they'd save the epic stuff for the finale. OOPS. Anyway, as iconic as Michael Rosenbaum was in this episode, I thought this episode was more about giving proper farewell to Smallville's Lex Luthor rather than showing off the iconic one, the one who was Clark's friend and wanted to be saved by him. It was that Lex I saw in the last scene with him and Clark at the fortress, where tells Clark he loves him and that he's sorry. Yes, the part of me that used to be all over Clark/Lex went totally flappity flap over that. Please consider coming back for the series finale, Mr. Rosenbaum.
Speaking of shipping, it took me years to warm up to Clark/Lana, but although their break-up was bound to happen, it still got me soft and emotional. Kristen Kreuk was stunningly beautiful in her so far final scene, and Lana's goodbye to Clark was sincere, heartfelt and made me wish they didn't have to separate. Props to both KK and Welling for making me see the connection between Clark and Lana although they probably weren't in the same room together.
However, despite my new Clark/Lana-love and my past Clark/Lex-love, my Superman OTP will always be Clark/Lois, and I loved how they paved path for their iconic relationship in this episode, by having Lois push Clark towards getting a job from Daily Planet and comfort Clark after Lana's videotape. They're still platonic at this point, but it's so clear there is going to be more between them. The actors have this perfect dynamic with each other.
Now, the Brainiac/Kara-plot was half-assed, but at least dealt with, Jimmy-plot was silly but was partially redeemed in my eyes by his adorable proposal to Chloe (he still needs to grow a brain, though), and am I honestly the only one who thinks that the visuals of Chloe's power obviously draw from the Phoenix-imagery? Even sadder is that those visuals are cooler than what were used in X3. Overall, though, this was a competent finale, though no match to S5's Vessel, and despite my doubts about Rosenbaum-less show, I think I will check in for S8.
Supernatural
French lines (I bet there's a different term for this in English, but I'm too lazy to look for it) here since I have no coherent thoughts:
- They actually killed Dean! Having Sam turn into Demon Messiah would have been probably too much for them to work on, so this isn't that big a surprise, but I expected some sort of Deus Ex Machina to happen. Now, seeing Sam weep over dead Dean might have been a touching sight, but thanks to Dean's ass-holiness during the entire season I just didn't give a damn. Maybe a little when he was shown in hell.
- For someone who we have seen go darker and darker during the entire season, it was disappointing how non-offensive Sam was in the episode. Come on, is it really too much to ask him to pull some of that Demon Messiah-stuff so that we can go all "oh my God, he's slipping to the Dark Side!"? Your choice, I guess.
- I was also surprised by what happened to Ruby, since I was under the impression that Ruby at least was coming back for the next season. Anyway, I enjoyed her a lot in this episode, as lacking as Cassidy's acting talent may be, and I wished they hadn't taken away the sheer awesome of her finally giving Dean the beating he deserves by having Dean win after all. Victory Ruby negated later, but still. "Lol we don't care what you say about us being misogynist."
- I did like all Bobby-stuff, the Bonjovi-scene in Impala and Dean deciding to end the Winchester-pattern of making stupid sacrifices for the family. Do you know what that's called, Kripke? Yeah, I think it's depth too. There used to be a little more than that in this show.
So this season was mostly a huge disappointment for me, with only about two or three memorable episodes, but I think I'm going to check at least the first episode of the next season. Because I'm masochistic like that. If it doesn't improve, though, I'm out.
This week's Lost was pretty good, but it didn't give me any specific thoughts. This week's finales, on the other hand..
Smallville
First, I had somehow managed to assume a couple of weeks ago that Rosenbaum's last appearance would have taken place already, although it should have been obvious to me that they'd save the epic stuff for the finale. OOPS. Anyway, as iconic as Michael Rosenbaum was in this episode, I thought this episode was more about giving proper farewell to Smallville's Lex Luthor rather than showing off the iconic one, the one who was Clark's friend and wanted to be saved by him. It was that Lex I saw in the last scene with him and Clark at the fortress, where tells Clark he loves him and that he's sorry. Yes, the part of me that used to be all over Clark/Lex went totally flappity flap over that. Please consider coming back for the series finale, Mr. Rosenbaum.
Speaking of shipping, it took me years to warm up to Clark/Lana, but although their break-up was bound to happen, it still got me soft and emotional. Kristen Kreuk was stunningly beautiful in her so far final scene, and Lana's goodbye to Clark was sincere, heartfelt and made me wish they didn't have to separate. Props to both KK and Welling for making me see the connection between Clark and Lana although they probably weren't in the same room together.
However, despite my new Clark/Lana-love and my past Clark/Lex-love, my Superman OTP will always be Clark/Lois, and I loved how they paved path for their iconic relationship in this episode, by having Lois push Clark towards getting a job from Daily Planet and comfort Clark after Lana's videotape. They're still platonic at this point, but it's so clear there is going to be more between them. The actors have this perfect dynamic with each other.
Now, the Brainiac/Kara-plot was half-assed, but at least dealt with, Jimmy-plot was silly but was partially redeemed in my eyes by his adorable proposal to Chloe (he still needs to grow a brain, though), and am I honestly the only one who thinks that the visuals of Chloe's power obviously draw from the Phoenix-imagery? Even sadder is that those visuals are cooler than what were used in X3. Overall, though, this was a competent finale, though no match to S5's Vessel, and despite my doubts about Rosenbaum-less show, I think I will check in for S8.
Supernatural
French lines (I bet there's a different term for this in English, but I'm too lazy to look for it) here since I have no coherent thoughts:
- They actually killed Dean! Having Sam turn into Demon Messiah would have been probably too much for them to work on, so this isn't that big a surprise, but I expected some sort of Deus Ex Machina to happen. Now, seeing Sam weep over dead Dean might have been a touching sight, but thanks to Dean's ass-holiness during the entire season I just didn't give a damn. Maybe a little when he was shown in hell.
- For someone who we have seen go darker and darker during the entire season, it was disappointing how non-offensive Sam was in the episode. Come on, is it really too much to ask him to pull some of that Demon Messiah-stuff so that we can go all "oh my God, he's slipping to the Dark Side!"? Your choice, I guess.
- I was also surprised by what happened to Ruby, since I was under the impression that Ruby at least was coming back for the next season. Anyway, I enjoyed her a lot in this episode, as lacking as Cassidy's acting talent may be, and I wished they hadn't taken away the sheer awesome of her finally giving Dean the beating he deserves by having Dean win after all. Victory Ruby negated later, but still. "Lol we don't care what you say about us being misogynist."
- I did like all Bobby-stuff, the Bonjovi-scene in Impala and Dean deciding to end the Winchester-pattern of making stupid sacrifices for the family. Do you know what that's called, Kripke? Yeah, I think it's depth too. There used to be a little more than that in this show.
So this season was mostly a huge disappointment for me, with only about two or three memorable episodes, but I think I'm going to check at least the first episode of the next season. Because I'm masochistic like that. If it doesn't improve, though, I'm out.
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Date: 2008-05-17 04:09 pm (UTC)Guess that's two reasons not to watch it.
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Date: 2008-05-17 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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