"Hostage" spot reaction
May. 7th, 2010 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acampbellFirst off, thank you, drkcherry, laceymcbain, and ladydey, for the Milk & Cookies!
Second, I'm delighted to be here and reacting to an ep directly after it airs, after a hiatus of some length. I've generally enjoyed watching this season's eps, but I've been at a low ebb emotionally which has extended itself to fandom and online activities. Everything seems to take more energy than I have--with major depression, it's all I can do to make it through work every day. I spend most of my off time lying on the couch. Still, I'm still writing but making excruciatingly slow progress.
Woot! PERRY! "With my help, you won't be wearing anything!" Whoa!! And, bless TPTB for letting him say: "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
Let me say for starters how very nice it was to see Baby Boomers on this program again. AOT and MMcK provided a real sense of grounding and normalcy that's been missing since Martha left a couple of years ago and all the parents disappeared. A reminder that this show began by focusing on family and relationships--real, human relationships, not relationships among superheroes or the hot mess that was, for example, S6. I identified with Martha in the early days, and several of my early fics were from her POV. Even though she began losing me in S3 and things only got worse, I've still missed her, and the family factor that both she and Jonathan provided.
Even though AOT and McKean are a couple in RL, it still felt kind of weird to see Martha with someone new. (It never felt that weird seeing her with Lionel, IMO.) I wonder if it seemed weird to Clark, although he's tended to be tolerant of his mom's whacked behavior (Thanksgiving Lionel, anyone?)in the past.
Wow, there were so many nods backward to continuity, and so much exposition in this ep, I wondered for a bit if I even had the correct channel! Martha and Jonathan's first date was a picnic in the barn, and what convinced Martha to stay on the farm (sounds like she left for a while after she was married for an internship?) was stopping a flood with her husband? That was a surprise.
I was amused by how, as soon as Martha came back, all the same old bowls of tomatoes, the wooden salt & pepper shakers, etc, all showed up again! Did she stop at the supermarket on the way to the farm? because I can't believe that Clark and Lois had all that stuff in the house.
Lois and Perry were great working together, but aren't they forgetting that Lois had no interest in journalism till S6? It would've been more accurate had they let Perry team up with Chloe.
I liked the dinner scene. Lois is so funny! I loved her phone conversation with the Mexican takeout guy. And I loved the way Perry and Martha were so dejected after the kids broke up. I always feel that same way when something doesn't go well for my kids.:)
Exactly how many times did they mention the Book of Rao in this ep? Have they even mentioned it that much before?
Not sure how I feel about Martha's being the Red Queen. On one hand, I love that they've given her this dual life and shown she's capable of more than making dinner, missing Jonathan and holding Clark's hand. On the other hand, that good sense of homeliness she always provided is now compromised. Ah, well. It's certainly not the weirdest maneuver this show's ever been guilty of. But I sure wish they hadn't given the whole thing away in the promos. Grr.
Clark does like to split his infinitives, doesn't he?
I liked Chloe's scenes, even if I can't tell what the eff is going on with her any more.
I'll say one more time that I really miss the "old" way this show was photographed. Remember how clear, colorful, and sun-filled it always was, and how sharp the picture was? Now the dark scenes are a big blue with silver edges, and even the brighter scenes aren't that sharp.
BTW, why would Perry have put on Jonathan's jacket? Did he just find it hanging in the barn and not make the connection? That seems hard to swallow. Didn't he have a jacket of his own? Was it even that chilly? Didn't Martha take Jonathan's clothes to a thrift shop back in "Vengeance"? I suppose she could've missed taking the jacket: I usually leave at least one thing behind when I make a trip to Goodwill.
Chloe's comment about calling the Geek Squad made me laugh. And: "Virtual Reality Bites!" And I totally forgot she and Ollie were a couple until she mentioned it.
drkcherry, laceymcbain, and ladydey, for the Milk & Cookies!Second, I'm delighted to be here and reacting to an ep directly after it airs, after a hiatus of some length. I've generally enjoyed watching this season's eps, but I've been at a low ebb emotionally which has extended itself to fandom and online activities. Everything seems to take more energy than I have--with major depression, it's all I can do to make it through work every day. I spend most of my off time lying on the couch. Still, I'm still writing but making excruciatingly slow progress.
Woot! PERRY! "With my help, you won't be wearing anything!" Whoa!! And, bless TPTB for letting him say: "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
Let me say for starters how very nice it was to see Baby Boomers on this program again. AOT and MMcK provided a real sense of grounding and normalcy that's been missing since Martha left a couple of years ago and all the parents disappeared. A reminder that this show began by focusing on family and relationships--real, human relationships, not relationships among superheroes or the hot mess that was, for example, S6. I identified with Martha in the early days, and several of my early fics were from her POV. Even though she began losing me in S3 and things only got worse, I've still missed her, and the family factor that both she and Jonathan provided.
Even though AOT and McKean are a couple in RL, it still felt kind of weird to see Martha with someone new. (It never felt that weird seeing her with Lionel, IMO.) I wonder if it seemed weird to Clark, although he's tended to be tolerant of his mom's whacked behavior (Thanksgiving Lionel, anyone?)in the past.
Wow, there were so many nods backward to continuity, and so much exposition in this ep, I wondered for a bit if I even had the correct channel! Martha and Jonathan's first date was a picnic in the barn, and what convinced Martha to stay on the farm (sounds like she left for a while after she was married for an internship?) was stopping a flood with her husband? That was a surprise.
I was amused by how, as soon as Martha came back, all the same old bowls of tomatoes, the wooden salt & pepper shakers, etc, all showed up again! Did she stop at the supermarket on the way to the farm? because I can't believe that Clark and Lois had all that stuff in the house.
Lois and Perry were great working together, but aren't they forgetting that Lois had no interest in journalism till S6? It would've been more accurate had they let Perry team up with Chloe.
I liked the dinner scene. Lois is so funny! I loved her phone conversation with the Mexican takeout guy. And I loved the way Perry and Martha were so dejected after the kids broke up. I always feel that same way when something doesn't go well for my kids.:)
Exactly how many times did they mention the Book of Rao in this ep? Have they even mentioned it that much before?
Not sure how I feel about Martha's being the Red Queen. On one hand, I love that they've given her this dual life and shown she's capable of more than making dinner, missing Jonathan and holding Clark's hand. On the other hand, that good sense of homeliness she always provided is now compromised. Ah, well. It's certainly not the weirdest maneuver this show's ever been guilty of. But I sure wish they hadn't given the whole thing away in the promos. Grr.
Clark does like to split his infinitives, doesn't he?
I liked Chloe's scenes, even if I can't tell what the eff is going on with her any more.
I'll say one more time that I really miss the "old" way this show was photographed. Remember how clear, colorful, and sun-filled it always was, and how sharp the picture was? Now the dark scenes are a big blue with silver edges, and even the brighter scenes aren't that sharp.
BTW, why would Perry have put on Jonathan's jacket? Did he just find it hanging in the barn and not make the connection? That seems hard to swallow. Didn't he have a jacket of his own? Was it even that chilly? Didn't Martha take Jonathan's clothes to a thrift shop back in "Vengeance"? I suppose she could've missed taking the jacket: I usually leave at least one thing behind when I make a trip to Goodwill.
Chloe's comment about calling the Geek Squad made me laugh. And: "Virtual Reality Bites!" And I totally forgot she and Ollie were a couple until she mentioned it.
