Bleeding Fiction

I fast forwarded through most of that episode. As I do with most episodes of Smallville.

Also: Chloe could not have screwed Jimmy Olsen, as he is an asexual quasi-human personthing.

And I believe Gilmore Girls was new last night. I have not yet watched the tape.

And now: unconsciousness.

Go Jimmy! Banging the intern! Rah!

Stuff like this is why I stopped watching Smallville. "Tonight on the WB: Attractive Young People Hurt Each Others' Feelings."

Oddly, I've also unintentionally stopped watching West Wing.

Gilmore was indeed new; sorry, and disturbing in more than a few ways.

While much of the episode of Smallville was sucky, as it tends to be in this sex-to-appeal-to-the-audience season, I did like the main story a lot for some reason. Jack and Bobby was quality, as per usual.

Double-posting, can you tell I am procrastinating?

"The dialogue is stupid, pithy and largely unbelievable, to the extent that Chloe makes an "I hate to go all after school special on you" crack (and they put a "sex is a serious issue" blurb at the end of the episode)."

The only exchanges in the show that ever sound natural are those involving the Luthers. Not a new symptom for the show, it's just finally getting to you. The show is CHEESY and has been from day one. The flashes of brilliance are getting farther apart.

Gilmore was indeed new; sorry, and disturbing in more than a few ways.

DAAAMN!!

Honestly, the Luthors' dialogue isn't really natural, either. Too much perfect quotation. It's just that the Luthors' tension is more believable. Which may well come down to the high quality of acting from Mssrs. Glover and Rosenbaum.

Clark sounds stilted a lot of the time, but I think I just expect Clark Kent to sound stilted. The only one that really gets to me is Lana. The writers keep trying to have her be all angst-ridden and serious and it just doesn't work. Sadly, I think Ms. Kruek may be just another pretty face. A very pretty face, mind, but not much more, in terms of acting depth.

That said, Red Kryptonite aside, I did like the rest of this episode. It was something they hint at every time a not immediately evil superpowered person comes on the show; that Clark may finally have a person who can understand him. It was a nice touch that he's so desperate for that that he's willing to ignore the way the girl tried to kill him and Lana.

I just hope that next week someone else really does find out about his powers. I doubt anyone will, but I would really appreciate it if it happened.

Jack and Bobby, yes, continues to be good. However, I don't really like the amount of time the show spends on the mother and her TA. They're pretty far down on the totem pole of interest for me.

The Luthors dialogue doesn't sound like people talk, but you don't expect them to talk like that. In Smallville, the Luthors are more archetypical than even Clark is, and they sound exactly how they should. The Kents sound too touchy-feely-politically-correct almost all the time, Lana is just Lana, Chloe is up and down and never spoke naturally. Come to think of it, only Lois and the now-absent Pete had the most natural/believable speaking.

As for Gilmore, I thought you knew as I had told you a short while ago the new season was starting.

And Jack and Bobby? I don't mind the mother-TA stuff. It may not be the most engrossing portion of the show, but given its nature it can't ignore what's going on with her.

Smallville: You're right, the Luthors are a bit more archetypal and they do sound like I'd expect them to. Not quite "natural" though. Pete was very natural, yes, but I sorta thought Lois was about as up and down as Chloe. Ah well. Not every show can be Gilmore Girls...

Speaking Of: I knew it'd be starting soon, but "soon" isn't the same as "January 25th." I didn't realize the exact date. Only reason I knew Smallville was back on was 'cause AIM showed me a stupid commercial for it.

Jack & Bobby: I don't mind the mom and the TA stuff, I just wish they'd spend more time on other things. Like the relationship between Jack & Bobby.

Fanservice is a good thing in anime. In live action it's usually creepy and disturbing.

West Wing might be picking up now that it's about the primaries and not so much issue episode after issue episode.

Jack & Bobby is hit & miss with me. The mom is usually a miss.

That's true, Ben. A wonder that I never noticed it before. Fan service in anime's pretty funny. Kind of oogy in live action, though. I guess the objectification of cartoon women is more acceptable than the objectification of real women. Or maybe it's just better if it's imported from Japan.

The West Wing is the best damn show on television. But it's possible that I'm only saying that because the West Wing I'm watching right now is the first season.

Don't agree about West Wing, but it is good. I didn't mean natural as realistic. You mention that not all shows can be Gilmore Girls, and that is a perfect example. All of the diologue on Gilmore is natural, but not at all realistic. These people talk like we expect them too and it sounds right, even though normal people don't talk like that. Similarly with Lex and his pop. If they talked like normal people they wouldn't be nearly as interesting, but the way they DO talk fits them perfectly.

Also the fact that most anime fanservice is done with a wink, that is, they know they're doing fanservice and they're not taking it seriously. Such that you the viewer can say, "Oh. This is a fanservice episode," and imagine the writers nodding back with a smile. Live action, especially in America, takes itself so damn seriously.

I know that you mean, Ogre. It's the same sort of thing that I say about Mallrats. I've never done it as eloquently or as humorously, but I've had conversations eerily similar. Natural? Probably not so much. But believable? Well, to this kid from Jersey, certainly.

Ben: Another accurate statement. Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.