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[frelling_tralk]

Give me a fandom and I'll give you, either in the comments or in a separate post, five unpopular opinions for that particular fandom.

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[ditzyfish.livejournal.com]

Completely agree with you on no.2 - it would have been totally understandable for Lana not to be apalled about Lex and his fotw experiments. The woman spent seasons running away from those guys to the extent that in reality you'd be in a looney bin. Then the conflict, in a sort of Vader/Luke imitation, after her finding out Clark was also a freak so to speak would have been a much better reason for her to have been torn and ultimately pick mr goody two shoes...rather than "actually I've decided this week that I'm not actually in love with you Lex and I don't want a baby with you. Sorry 'bout that, laters!!" like wtf?
Naughty lazy writers *angry face*

On the Lois front I always would have liked Clark to have kept his glasses after the episode where he gets glasses...er...title escapes me.....Anyway and then bring Lois in after that so she wouldn't recognise him later and all that (because I'm a sucker for traditional Lois and Clark) but like you said in hindsight she should only have been a character that popped up now and again maybe. And the hitting over the head with the destiny thing did wear a bit thin shall we say.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Right, there were so many more interesting places they could have taken it! Having Lana just change her mind about Lex in Hydro and ask Clark to take her back (when she already knew that she was pregnant), or wanting to leave Lex at the altar and run away with Clark, made her character look so fickle and there was just no need for it. There were so many more interesting conflicts they could have gone with instead, like Lana drawing away from Lex's darkness after seeing how far he was taking his experimentation. They did hit on that a little bit in the episode Freak when Lana looks wary during her final hug with Lex, but they had to keep going back to it really being about how much more she loved Clark, which just really cheapened the whole thing. Promise was impressive in how terrible it managed to make all three characters look though, which was presumedly not what they were going for!

And Lois wasn't as bad when she was working alongside Clark at the DP, I thought that they had a pretty fun dynamic in early season 8 especially, but her character was so all over the place before then that it was really hard for me to adjust to the show suddenly treating her as a serious reporter now, so I wish that they had skipped most of the episodes between Devoted and Plastique that her character appeared in quite honestly

[ditzyfish.livejournal.com]

Promise was impressive in how terrible it managed to make all three characters look though, which was presumedly not what they were going for!

Yeah a Clark Kent who's willing to run away with someone's pregnant fiance - nice one there writers.

*kisses Smallville like Michael Corleone kisses Fredo* "You broke my heart. You broke my heart".