Comments | jwm_rocks: SV 10.05 Isis

jwm_rocks

SV 10.05 Isis

Oct 26, 2010 12:23

Kelly and Brian decided not reveal Clark's secret at the end of Homecoming. The reasoning so I hear was so that last scene could be just about the emotion of Clark and Lois exchanging their I love yous. The good news about that decision was it allowed the Smallville writing team to devote an entire episode to revelation of Clark’s secret.

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season 10, isis, smallville

Comments 12

goodvibe October 26 2010, 17:44:05 UTC

Brilliant post! I admit, I had forgotten about the shows previous 'Isis' mentions, but now that you remind me, yes. The writers had he ideal segueway into relevance, and instead they took the most irrelevant route. Typical. But then I've always thought that SV is The land of missed opportunities.

I am a bit forgiving of this one overall though, as you already know, because the good stuff really hit the right notes for me.

jwm_rocks October 27 2010, 01:39:01 UTC

I actually liked it OK myself because like you aside from the Isis stuff I pretty much liked everything about the episode.

What It Was... chatchien October 26 2010, 17:48:53 UTC

Isis didn't disappointment me because it was bad. It disappointed me because it could have been good. Really good.

I agree with you. It appeared to me that this episode was being re-written even as it was filming. There were so many good ways to handle Isis and those ways were thrown out in the episode and were apparent to the viewer, and yet, those good ways and threads were not picked up and instead were left dangling before us.

You see the Sun God (and what else would anyone call Clark? He is the Sun God) brought to his knees by Isis. And you give a good plot for this to happen.

I've always seen Lana as Isis (she formed a foundation called Isis---of course Lana is Isis) and she has always been obsessive about Clark and wanting to possess everything about him. Secrets and Lies, Clark. She also, in her way, kept him with her on the Farm.

The show should have kept this Isis meme for Lana, if or when she comes back. Although Tess could work. Tess has been controlling and possessive of Clark and his abilities, too.

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Re: What It Was... chatchien October 26 2010, 22:36:32 UTC

You are doing a "For the Whole Show Previously on Smallville" on your journal, aren't you?

Would the 'Accidental Dropping of the Amulet of Isis in Lois's Bag' qualify or not qualify for that? It wasn't technically in the Shield episode. That makes it interesting.

Re: What It Was... jwm_rocks October 27 2010, 01:50:45 UTC

Stupid DVR cut of the first 30 seconds and I'm totally lost. Since when does missing 30 seconds of Smallville ever make one totally lost?

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What It Was...Part Deux chatchien October 26 2010, 17:49:42 UTC

Perhaps Cat's complaints about the satanic S.E.X ritual were based on the original version of the Isis story?

Cat is a Conservative. She knows all about those SEX rituals from her Conservative Pals who practice them daily before they go and babble about Values.

Miracle Grow?

haha! That is what they use in the Clone Lab as a cell culture.

can we just skip to playing doctor?

Well Lois has put Clark's legs in the Stirrups! And Spread Them. Haha!

Clark greets her with one of his phantom catchers and sucks Isis' spirit right out of Lois' body.

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Re: What It Was...Part Deux jwm_rocks October 27 2010, 01:48:27 UTC

Well Lois has put Clark's legs in the Stirrups! And Spread Them. Haha!
And yet Clark has a smile on his face. He's a kinky one, that Clark. And Cat knows it.

jlvsclrk October 27 2010, 00:37:58 UTC

I love your ideas! This episode could have been so much better but it seems the only relevance of Isis was so Lois could play dress up again.

your picspam was made of win!

jwm_rocks October 27 2010, 02:00:12 UTC

Thank you!

If they've got to put Lois in an outfit they might as well be creative about it.

jeannev October 28 2010, 01:56:05 UTC

"And by donuts, I mean Clark"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I love your ideas for an alternative version of this episode. I do that sort of things all the damned time with SV. My own little "wouldn't this ep have been better if..." Heck, in my head, I rewrote the whole Alicia arc in S4.

jwm_rocks October 28 2010, 11:35:39 UTC

I do that sort of things all the damned time with SV. My own little "wouldn't this ep have been better if..."
Oh, me too! I have to consciously restrain myself or I'd spend a ridiculous amount of time posting episode re-writes. Glad you liked this one. :)

I'm kind of more in love with the Samson and Delila twist on Isis than I should be what with combining two strong man literary allusions into one. Of course I've always been a sucker for buy one get one free sales.

SV obviously has something going for it when it continues to draw people in despite having more than it's fair share of questionable plotting, eh?