Only in the TV series "Smallville" can Doomsday be emo.
I mean, this takes ingenuity.
I heard that Darkseid is going to be a dangerously handsome middle-aged owner of a chain of hotels who seduces Lois and threatens her with a honeymoon in Barbados.
But right now, there are a bunch of fans of the show who think that the "romance" between Chloe and the Doomsday character "Davis Bloom" is hot and "meant to be." So much so that they have created a bunch of YouTube fan vids about it.
This is besides the fact that on the show, Davis has already been proven to be a murderer of women.
In the equation, Jimmy Olsen gets ragged on as an unpalatable suitor for Chloe. Because he's only a decent person.
Fangirls, it's cool to fantasize about the adventure of having a romance with a "bad boy" who is mysterious, pouty, and slightly deranged. But the reality of such relationships usually involve such things as being left with crushing debt, bodily injury, psychological damage, or even an STD. Then you will be on a real-life adventure called Reality.
Wants more Jimmy Olsen fan vids on YouTube:
Having watched Veronica Mars only makes me hate Smallville's Olson. On so many levels.
ReplyDeleteKirby Olson, you are still my homeboy.
Nice guy = wuss... and most women would rather not be with a wuss.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's genetic? How many wusses could bring down a wooley mammoth back in the day?
Like most things with humans, it comes down to procreation.
Doomsday is seen as having better genes than Jimmy Olsen. That's why chloe is all fired up over the sexy, scaly, emo (does anybody else think of Emo phillips when someone uses the term emo?) woman killer.
I stopped watchin' this show at the end of season 4. Not that it was bad, I just do that sometimes whether its a good show or not (i.e. Rescue Me, Family Guy recently, some other.). Thing is, I really do NOT like Superman, but the show has been fun. I was thinking when the show ends, I'll start pickin' up the box-sets maybe. But...big "but" as in my 4th grade teacher way back when, who was 4 ft nothin' and was just one big ass...mean lady too...what was I talking about...oh, the word but. This Doomsday "development" is looking pretty, shall I say risky, as in dumb. I don't know. I didn't hate the choice with Brainiac, which I've seen some fragment episodes after the 4th season. Like, I saw Bizarro and, from what I briefly saw, enjoyed it. SO! This Doomsday might not be terrible.
ReplyDeleteAs much as Heroes continues to let me down (although this season has been a little better and last week's had some good stuff), Heroes is f@#$ing Watchmen compared to Smallville. Smallville's a show that had a lot of potential, but every time an organic progression was about to occur, the producers would hit a reset button. I stayed with it off and on for four seasons and my only conclusion was Clark Kent was a dick that Luthor and Lana had every right to hate.
ReplyDeleteI understand that a lot of Buffy fans preferred Angel over Riley. Angel was the bad boy who killed her friends, and Riley was merely "decent." No contest.
ReplyDeleteI suppose few are interested in the "safe" relationships when it comes to storytelling. When you're entertaining a fantasy (or a fantasy is entertaining you), "safety" is not always a priority.
Let there be danger and angst and tragic bad boys. Conflict is why there are plots.
I'll worry about what this says about our values later.
So Jimmy Olsen is the new Riley Finn? Yet another reason not to watch this show. The fandom's hatred of Riley was one of the lowlights of BTVS, I've long thought.
ReplyDeleteNow, if Darkseid Roarke shows up with his own little person in matching white suits, I'm prepared to return to the 'Ville.
Oh please! I personally had serious issues with Riley as a character - he was extremely sanctimonious and more than a little smug. THIS is why I felt the fandom had such issues him, not the 'nice guy' trope. (however, i was not a frequenter of message boards back then, so maybe I'm wrong about everyone else...)
ReplyDeleteAngel was indeed the 'dangerous bad boy', but it wasn't entirely his fault and the actions of his 'other' self not only cost him his relationship, but also ensured he spent a lifetime (or longer) trying to atone.
In terms of the drama and angst however, i do think 'The Scale' is right on the money. Angst will sell as entertainment over safe any day of the week.
Yeah, I just *don't get it*.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't help, that as usual with Smallville, the guy playing Doomsday couldn't act his way out of a wet knapsack.
Hysan, I did notice that with an Aquaman episode I caught. That dude so couldn't act. Which just makes me hate Aquaman more. Namor, all the way!
ReplyDeleteAlso, the guy who plays Green Arrow got the failed pilot for the Aquaman series, yah? Man, that was probably stressful on the Smallville set. You KNOW the guy who played Aquaman on Smallville tried out for it, but then the casting-director was like, "Did someone give the donut-guy 20 bucks to mess with me again? You joksters and your pranks."
Re: the Buffy comment, everyone liked Angel right from his introduction at which time he was the nicest fucking nice guy who ever niceguyed, his entire purpose was to show up, be almost as competent as Buffy, make syrupy gooey lurve-eyes at her, then scamper off back to his basement apartment when the plot was done with him. And everyone liked the fuck out of him. Well I didn't cause I thought Buffy should have got with Xander but whatevs. People hated Riley cause he was the most boring not-there cypher blackhole of a totally uninteresting character every created for people to not care about at all.
ReplyDeleteHey, just passing through but I kinda like this blog.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, anyone here catch the Doomsday episode last night/ I think my GF summed it up best when we were watching the opening scene and she cried "CLOVERVILLE!!!"
I was a bit miffed that everything you saw in the preview was everything you saw in the episode save the last minute which was a big tease x_x.