Comments | jeannev: Scion Screentime Minutes, and Thoughts

jeannev

Scion Screentime Minutes, and Thoughts

Mar 05, 2011 16:37

I'm really starting to wonder if I'm judging SV eps based on their content, or if I'm judging them based on a curve against the rest of the season. Because taken alone, and just judging it for what it was, I think I wouldn't be overly find of Scion. But judging it against the rest of the season, and some of the horrible stuff we've gotten, I ( Read more... )

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jeannev March 6 2011, 02:53:28 UTC

To be blunt, Clark is just too young to be raising a teenager. Especially when he's not even Superman yet. The timing is all wrong.

All season, I've been struggling to figure out what the point of so many things are. This season is such a freaking mess. And I expect messier to come.

And sorry about putting the mental image into your mind, but its the show that had Conner eyejaculating to Lois bending over. So, blame the show for that image!

foreverknightfa March 6 2011, 05:04:36 UTC

Oh great now I can't get that image out of MY head!!!

It does bring up the question of whether Clark when he was a teen, being a typical male.....

jeannev March 6 2011, 05:14:59 UTC

I can't believe I'm the only person that this occured to.

I think Clark fantasized about Lana, which was OK, because she was a girl his own age, and not the women placed into the role as his maternal figure and caregiver. Which is what Lois is going to be, pretty much.

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jeannev March 6 2011, 02:54:07 UTC

I read that. Its a good review, though the reviewer seems bent on defending Fortune, which immediately makes him suspect in my mind. ;)

jlvsclrk March 6 2011, 04:01:56 UTC

Great review. Agree, agree, agree! Nothing much to add other than that Kara pulled the same trick with green K back in S7 and I had the exact same objection then. I can fanwank the green K shattering versus transforming to black K by assuming Clark was using a lower intensity beam in Onyx (since he knew about the experiment Lex had run earlier). But yes, once the rock shatters, some of the fragments SHOULD have embedded themselves in Clark. Its better than having the whole rock about but it would show that the youngsters still have something to learn.

jeannev March 6 2011, 04:15:48 UTC

The use of kryptonite on this show is enough to drive anyone batty. We've seen eps where Clark is able to push it away, then eps where it renders him completely immobile. We saw Clark use his freeze breath in the presence of kryptonite just a few weeks ago, but here, he can't blow the rock away from him? Hell, Clark crawled through a series of collapsing tunnels with kryptonite all around him, and didn't just lay on the floor like a slug.

Like I said, enough to make you crazy.

And you are absolutely right. They used this very same thing with Kara in Fierce. This episode did seem to be borrowing rather heavily with scenes from the past. Most intentional, and probably a few, like this one, unintentional.

foreverknightfa March 6 2011, 05:01:20 UTC

I'd have to admit the Connor imitation character having the DNA of BOTH Clark and Lex had me thinking of " Connor Has Two Dads" children's book.

Definitely not something the homophobes who don't like two guys being parents to the same child want to see!

Yes "Scion" has some problems as you mentioned. but on the stinkeroo--okay scale it was (to me at least better than " Stiletto", though I can honestly say it could have been better given the storyline.

jeannev March 6 2011, 05:13:29 UTC

Well, it is sort of amusing that the only 2 people that will have a child on the show thats from the 2 of them is Clark and Lex. LOL

If I'm looking over the whole S10, yeah, I think Scion shakes out pretty favorably. If I was looking at the episode alone? I'm not sure what I'd think about it. But it was miles better then Fortune. At least to me.

anonymous March 6 2011, 07:56:10 UTC

Out of the latest batch of episodes, this is my favorite with Beacon second. If you put together Beacon with Scion, you'd have a Smallville movie of how Alexander became Superboy Conner Kent. They introduced Conner in a way that fits into the show and I feel Clark and Conner have connected a lot more than Clark and Kara ever did. The Clark/ Conner/ Lionel relationship was central to the episode than anything else ( ... )

jeannev March 6 2011, 16:27:44 UTC

I guess I just don't believe that Clark is at a point in his life where he should be taking on the Jonathan role, anymore then I think Lois should be taking on the Martha role. These are still very young characters. both of them are still learning, and growing, and evolving, and I just don't see how becoming parents to Conner is beneficial to them at this point of the show. It just doesn't strike me as a necessary development ( ... )