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oiran ([personal profile] oiran) wrote2004-01-21 06:50 pm

least favorite ep?

Heh. I'm hurting for Chloe and Gabe, and Iceman!Lex makes me nervous, but I tentatively liked this episode. Except for the Ray-Bans, which were awful. I was interested to see that my dear [livejournal.com profile] rhiannonhero says that this replaces Kinetic as her all-time lamest ep, and I'm surprised--not that she thinks this was a lame ep (because I can see that interpretation pretty easily), but that she thought Kinetic was that bad. I can't say it was a favorite of mine, but at least Kinetic had all kinds of team-spirited homoeroticism (Whitney getting poked while a bunch of guys stand around him breathing heavily? Admittedly, it was with a tattooing needle, but it was still penetration) and then Lex and Clark saving each other. So, at least for me, Kinetic wasn't all that bad.

My all-time lamest ep would have to be Skinwalker. Even though the episode introduced the Kawatche caves, which have since turned out to be not as pointless and stupid as I had feared, and even though someone (other than Lex) realizes that Clark is a hottie and jumps on him, the rest of it was useless and senseless. The generic Native American shamanic flute twitterings. The apparently thin, fragile crust of dirt covering the caves, which no one had noticed when they were planning to build a business park on the land. The gaping logic hole between a dog jumping through a window and Clark subsequently being found in the woods holding the disemboweled corpse of a naked girl? The names of the legendary friends/enemies, which I can't help thinking of as (Bob) Sagat and Newman from Seinfeld. However, the girl was very pretty, and her jewelry was very dramatic and lovely, even if she couldn't act at all.

Or maybe it was Dichotic. No--I already wrote Skinwalker up, so I'm going to stick with it for the moment. Anyone care to share the which and why of your least favorite ep of Smallville?

I have three, actually.

[identity profile] nematoddity.livejournal.com 2004-01-22 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Which have mostly been covered here--Dichotic, Drone and Redux. My problem with Dichotic was they took someone who had all the WB good stuph (JTT with that incredible smile and Christian-Slater-ness attitude), someone who actually can act, and gave him utter pointless dreck to work with. Honestly, when he later shows up in Belle Reve, you really didn't need backstory for him--though I admit, I was busier laughing at the vagaries of fandom--my entire brain was saying "Look! Bobby Drake in a mental hospital!" every time I saw the FotWs go at it...

Whisper, though? Not epically lame. Drone is epically lame. Anything with Tina Greer is repugnantly lame. And this ep's not that either. It's more just...plebian. I was bored.

Which may be the most shocking part of the ep. Though I will stand up fiercely for the Chloe in this one--even knowing the Luthors would crush her--and she did at the time, it's in her eyes--she stood up to Lionel. That takes big resounding brass ones that so far this season, she hasn't exhibited. So, maybe we're going to get Chloe with her spine back--which would be good, as the rest of the show's seemingly quite flabby at present.