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jeannev

Fortune Screentime Minutes, and a Few Thoughts

Feb 27, 2011 00:37

OK, so I'm trying to squeeze this in before I fall asleep, because I don't see me having the time tomorrow, and if I wait until Monday, I know I'm just not going to want to bother.

This isn't going to be much of a review. This episode doesn't merit the braincells I'd use to write one. I thought it was awful. Badly written, badly directed, not ( Read more... )

screentime minutes, whatever, thoughts, complaints, fortune

Comments 49

homicidalfink February 27 2011, 06:44:07 UTC

I'll sit in the whatever corner with you. Tom and the lemur were freaking adorable. That's my happy thought for this ep.

jeannev February 27 2011, 21:29:39 UTC

You are always welcome in my corner :D

It was hard for me to come up with a happy thought since this episode just annoyed me so much.

homicidalfink February 27 2011, 21:50:16 UTC

Cute animals and Tom's smile. I've blocked out most of the rest.

anonymous February 27 2011, 09:22:54 UTC

Fortune is the filler episode that is supposed to serve as the calm before the storm with the likes of Darkseid, Lex, Zod, and alternate Lionel Luthor. This was also Chloe's final episode. The reason this is filler is because it had nothing to do with the season storylines. None of the season storylines advanced, except for Chloe ( ... )

jeannev February 27 2011, 21:35:50 UTC

Well, for one thing, I'm not sure why the show needs a "calm before the storm". And really, sounds like Booster falls in that category too ( ... )

anonymous February 28 2011, 09:21:27 UTC

Chloe's return did nothing for Clark and Lois. I wished Chloe would trust Clark a lot more because what we saw between them in the last 2 season was mistrust. She didn't inspire Clark, but rather she believed in the other heroes more than she did Clark.

I don't see the need to have her in the series finale or else it would defeat the point of her return arc.

It's clear that Chloe saw the distant future with the mentions of Batman and Wonder Woman through the Dr. Fate helmet.

costas22 February 27 2011, 10:02:42 UTC

Oh dear. I don't know how this episode ranks compared to Supergirl for you Valerie, but it certainly was the worst S10 episode in my opinion. And people thought Luthor was a waste...Some points I wanted to make ( ... )

jeannev February 27 2011, 23:28:51 UTC

Honestly, Supergirl, Collateral, Fortune and Harvest are all piled up in a ball of suck for me. On any given day, one of them annoys me more then the others. Patriot and Isis aren't far behind.

I have no issue with Chloe leaving the show happy. I do have issue with the excessive amount of Chloe fluffing they needed to do to achieve that. If Chloe and Oliver had left married, OR, if Chloe left to rediscover her passion for journalism, OR, if Chloe has left because she wanted to try and find other people with abilities to join the league of heroes. But not AND to all those things.

And yes, I thought it was incredibly glaring that Chlark's last scene was ALL about Chloe's contributions to who Clark is, and how she's singularly qualified to be a hero life coach, and there wasn't one peep about Clark having done a thing for Chloe.

This whole season is a bad omen for the finale, as far as I'm concerned ( ... )

costas22 February 28 2011, 00:11:59 UTC

Well you know how it is at Gossip Girl...I mean Smallville: Everyone has to have a soulmate, otherwise they are barey existing. Lois had Clark and Chloe had Oliver. So it's only natural that Martha got paired off with Perry and Tess (possibly) gets paired off with Emil. Can't wait for Shelby and Lemur.

Forgot to say that last week I sang BQM's praises, but I also think that he and Sparling share some of the blame (as script editors) for the writing. They don't make the big calls, but it's mind boggling how some of that stuff gets past them. And that's where I have to agree that the foundation of the entire season is a big worry going into the last stretch.

And since I hate forgetting my manners, liked your thoughts on the episode.

jeannev February 28 2011, 15:07:21 UTC

At the end of the day, I blame Souders/Peterson. Ultimately, the buck stops with them, and I think the way this season has gone is indicative of their limitations as writers and showrunners.

tjw_jaypat February 27 2011, 12:36:23 UTC

I guess I found the episode more entertaining overall. I am willing to cut them some slack because it may have been sort of an hommage to the funny moments the cast had on set. It seemed we got a glimpse of the real people rather than the characters. And that was enjoyable for me. Of course a better writer and director could have done better ( ... )

jeannev February 27 2011, 23:32:17 UTC

To me, if they want to share the fun moments the cast have on the set, then put some bloopers on the DVD, or do a BTS special for the DVD. Don't waste an entire episode on wanking off the actors.

I'm still trying to figure out what qualifies Chloe to coach anyone.

Truth be told, a lot of my resentment and anger at this episode is that I think just below the "fun", Clark was written like absolute crap. And thats just no fun at all to me.

I love to see Tom laugh and smile as much as the next Tom fan. But there's got to be better ways to achieve that then this.

goodvibe February 27 2011, 13:47:47 UTC

Maybe it's a good thing I don't frequent anywhere outside lj, because how any of this was supposed to be fun, is beyond me. Or perhaps I'm just a cranky old fool - take your pick.

I'm honestly quite disgusted with this ep. And I'll go so far as to say that even the actors didn't redeem this for me - in fact, I think they ::all:: did a terribly forced job.

Talk about coming off the high from last week, eh?

jeannev February 27 2011, 23:35:34 UTC

Hey, I'm a cranky old fool! You can be the cranky younger fool. :)

Like you, I'm disgusted with this episode. It annoys me so freaking much, in so many ways, I just couldn't even go into them in this review. I just didn't want to even give it an all out rant. And like you, I don't really think the SV actors covered themselves in glory. And that shocks me, because I think Tom Welling is a genuinely gifted comedic actor. But his scenes in Hex blew anything he did in this episode completely away.

I remember wondering if the great writing for Clark last week was the shape of things to come, or an anomaly. Well, now I have my answer.

goodvibe February 28 2011, 17:25:02 UTC

//Hey, I'm a cranky old fool! You can be the cranky younger fool. :)//

Heh, happy to oblige. ;-)

//I remember wondering if the great writing for Clark last week was the shape of things to come, or an anomaly. Well, now I have my answer.//

I thought of this, too. What worries me even more is S&P writing the finale - ::shudders::