least favorite ep?

[oiran]

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 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?

Comments

[justblue0162.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I haven't seen all of season 2 yet, so I'll pick from S1. And yet... looking at the episode list, the only one I have any negative feelings for is Crush. The Lex/Pamela stuff is wonderful, but it always bothers me how they toss Whitney's dad's funeral in at the end. That scene deserves a much stronger episode, imo. Of course, I'm very spoiled by the Jossverse where all the scenes in an episode fit together thematically. I think that's made me a little lazy. If the theme's not artfully executed or pounding me over the head with symbolism, I tend to miss it completely. And then I'll go read some brilliant meta and feel like a dork because I was just drooling over The Sexy when there actually was interesting stuff going on.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's too much going on in that episode. And, honestly, I wondered why Art Boy was so upset, since he could draw with his mind perfectly well. It wasn't like he had a hard time getting into Chloe's pants with the nonfunctional hands...

The Jossverse does spoil one for coherence and continuity and logic. It doesn't bother me when a show doesn't match up with the "real world," but a lack of internal logic annoys me greatly.

Sometimes, when an ep is really ridiculous, I find the meta fascinating for what it says about the writer, not about the show.