"Kandor" spot reaction
Nov. 6th, 2009 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acampbellTo me, Kandor will always be that cute little city in a bottle that Superman kept in the Fortress of Solitude, and which he could visit by shrinking himself down with a shrink-ray.
I admit, my mind wandered during the second half. For one thing, I have trouble actually seeing the eps now: the scenery all looks so blurry and fake in the lighter scenes (outdoors and in) and the rest are just dark. They aren't really even at the actual farm/farmhouse any more, are they? just on sets. And what was with that big-ass pine tree at the end? I think I could become more interested in the Kryptonians if their scenes weren't so dark and blurry.
One of the things that used to be so appealing about the show is all the richness of the settings, the bright colors and largely natural lighting. I imagine this all has to do with cutting costs, but I don't like it.
I almost like Oliver's new little sense of humor. The patter as he and Clark were walking through the desert, the question (which so many of us share): "When you talk about Jor-el, do you mean the ice-castle thingy..." and "Hey, don't look at me, man!" But I still can't forgive him for assuming the place in Clark's life that should've been Lex's at least for a while, and never was.
So, according to Chloe, Clark's wanted Lois for "decades"? Less than a year ago he was grovelling at Lana's feet. Writers, please stop trying to force things, and trying to believe something is so just because you say so, retcon it, etc. You've been doing this for seasons and it's always bad news.
That was a pretty tidy way to explain her disappearance, right at the outset. But when did Lois "vanish" before when things heated up? I don't remember that. She didn't vanish on Oliver, or on Grant, did she?
*sigh*
Now, Jor-el. There are so many problems and WTFs about his coming to Smallville that I can't even begin.
In the Silver Age comics, they did a lot with time travel, but it all hung together. This doesn't. I had little clue where in the timeline of Jor-el's life we were: it was after his "Relic" stint (thank God he didn't mention Louise!) but before he had a child; and was he that old (50 or so) 20 years before the destruction of Krypton? or was he supposed to be younger? I like Julian Sands, but they should have gotten someone younger. And Chloe just starts chatting with him when he shows up: WTF?
Even all that I could have swallowed (albeit with difficulty) but having Jor-el die while on Earth--if this makes sense, could someone explain it to me? it's about as bad as Clark putting his OWN infant self into the spaceship? Nothing is sacred on this show. Now, Clark, who's already gone through so much suffering, has to witness the death of his Kryptonian father? who, across the seasons, has been pretty much a bastard, anyway. But then, I'm as confused as Oliver. How many Jor-els are there? Is he a good guy, or a bad guy? or both? Who was possessing Lionel?
Some things, and parts of the mythology, are so much better left to the imagination. People are so sequel/prequel crazy. We never needed to see Clark's Kryptonian parents, and certainly not on this program. Then again, we don't need a sequel to "Phantom of the Opera" set in Coney Island.
Off to read the reactions and see if it makes more sense after I do.
I admit, my mind wandered during the second half. For one thing, I have trouble actually seeing the eps now: the scenery all looks so blurry and fake in the lighter scenes (outdoors and in) and the rest are just dark. They aren't really even at the actual farm/farmhouse any more, are they? just on sets. And what was with that big-ass pine tree at the end? I think I could become more interested in the Kryptonians if their scenes weren't so dark and blurry.
One of the things that used to be so appealing about the show is all the richness of the settings, the bright colors and largely natural lighting. I imagine this all has to do with cutting costs, but I don't like it.
I almost like Oliver's new little sense of humor. The patter as he and Clark were walking through the desert, the question (which so many of us share): "When you talk about Jor-el, do you mean the ice-castle thingy..." and "Hey, don't look at me, man!" But I still can't forgive him for assuming the place in Clark's life that should've been Lex's at least for a while, and never was.
So, according to Chloe, Clark's wanted Lois for "decades"? Less than a year ago he was grovelling at Lana's feet. Writers, please stop trying to force things, and trying to believe something is so just because you say so, retcon it, etc. You've been doing this for seasons and it's always bad news.
That was a pretty tidy way to explain her disappearance, right at the outset. But when did Lois "vanish" before when things heated up? I don't remember that. She didn't vanish on Oliver, or on Grant, did she?
*sigh*
Now, Jor-el. There are so many problems and WTFs about his coming to Smallville that I can't even begin.
In the Silver Age comics, they did a lot with time travel, but it all hung together. This doesn't. I had little clue where in the timeline of Jor-el's life we were: it was after his "Relic" stint (thank God he didn't mention Louise!) but before he had a child; and was he that old (50 or so) 20 years before the destruction of Krypton? or was he supposed to be younger? I like Julian Sands, but they should have gotten someone younger. And Chloe just starts chatting with him when he shows up: WTF?
Even all that I could have swallowed (albeit with difficulty) but having Jor-el die while on Earth--if this makes sense, could someone explain it to me? it's about as bad as Clark putting his OWN infant self into the spaceship? Nothing is sacred on this show. Now, Clark, who's already gone through so much suffering, has to witness the death of his Kryptonian father? who, across the seasons, has been pretty much a bastard, anyway. But then, I'm as confused as Oliver. How many Jor-els are there? Is he a good guy, or a bad guy? or both? Who was possessing Lionel?
Some things, and parts of the mythology, are so much better left to the imagination. People are so sequel/prequel crazy. We never needed to see Clark's Kryptonian parents, and certainly not on this program. Then again, we don't need a sequel to "Phantom of the Opera" set in Coney Island.
Off to read the reactions and see if it makes more sense after I do.
