When even SV fans diss SV, it's difficult to pin down just why comix peeps do it, but back when SV was great (S1-S3) I heard the dissing by comix fans based upon whatever "Canon reality" they'd grown up with or liked the best, because, for instance, in the Silver Age when I grew up, Lexana would never have occurred and CLois was always hinted at but never achieved.
Yes - that Clois and Lexana don't have more votes and that, in the face of canon, Clark/Chloe 'shippers keep right on 'shipping. :-)
Of course, you must also understand that the questions are easier for me to ask, since I don't regularly watch Smallville; I'm not invested in any of the 'ships, except the canonical ones...:)
Way, way back. One of the panelists at Phauxcon two years ago did a fascinating presentation on the history of all the 'ships in the Superman mythos. Not having ever been into the Superman thing (Batman fan, here.), but whose spouse was into Superman's story, I was fascinated to learn that, in the comic books, Lex and Chloe were a 'ship.
My husband, who's watched a few more SV's than I, told me that he stopped watching because he thought Lois looked considerably older than Clark, and he just couldn't buy them together. (I always love it when guys turn out to be 'shippers. :-) )
I was fascinated to learn that, in the comic books, Lex and Chloe were a 'ship.
Impossible, as Chloe was never around in the comics. (Unless one subscribes to the Chlois Theory - given that Chloe is taken pretty much wholesale from the Lois Lane arc in World of Metropolis. And even then, Lex and that Lois were not a ship.)
told me that he stopped watching because he thought Lois looked considerably older than Clark, and he just couldn't buy them together.
Interesting; I know plenty of people who ship Chlark (or are Chloiser and ship 'Clois' that way by default) in part because they reject EDLo as a viable option [either as a LI or as Lois herself]; it's always interesting to hear another take on it from outside the fannish realm.
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rosecarmine
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Date: 2007-02-03 08:03 pm (UTC)Is this - smallville's "take" on the superman mythos - the reason many superman comic fans dis SV?
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Date: 2007-02-03 08:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-03 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-04 04:53 am (UTC)Of course, you must also understand that the questions are easier for me to ask, since I don't regularly watch Smallville; I'm not invested in any of the 'ships, except the canonical ones...:)
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Date: 2007-02-04 11:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-04 12:49 am (UTC)I used to ship Clark/Lois for the longest time -- then they actually brought Lois onto the show.
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Date: 2007-02-04 04:57 am (UTC)My husband, who's watched a few more SV's than I, told me that he stopped watching because he thought Lois looked considerably older than Clark, and he just couldn't buy them together. (I always love it when guys turn out to be 'shippers. :-) )
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Date: 2007-04-16 05:54 am (UTC)Impossible, as Chloe was never around in the comics. (Unless one subscribes to the Chlois Theory - given that Chloe is taken pretty much wholesale from the Lois Lane arc in World of Metropolis. And even then, Lex and that Lois were not a ship.)
told me that he stopped watching because he thought Lois looked considerably older than Clark, and he just couldn't buy them together.
Interesting; I know plenty of people who ship Chlark (or are Chloiser and ship 'Clois' that way by default) in part because they reject EDLo as a viable option [either as a LI or as Lois herself]; it's always interesting to hear another take on it from outside the fannish realm.