Thursday CW

[rivkat]

I could be convinced to be annoyed that Dean didn't have a real choice to make -- that he didn't really have to kill his mom to save all those other people; in fact they all already lived because of John, Sam, and him -- but I was still gasping in relief that SV didn't destroy the classic noir plot, and let Lana be a femme fatale, if only because Jimmy hasn't spent enough time with her to be unalterably convinced of her perfection.  Of course, everyone's character was distorted to fit Jimmy's fantasy, because he doesn't know the key players well enough, but as long as that rule also applied to Lana I'm cool with it.

I need some sort of Dean icon. 

Now, back to grading exams.  You hate writing them, we hate reading them, but they make the school year go 'round.

Comments

[denynothing1.livejournal.com]

I confess I went into SV with a good deal of trepidation, because there's bolloxing, and then there's SV-style bolloxing, and I am a huge fan of noir. I was thoroughly gleeful by the end and I *especially* liked that the other characters were refracted through Jimmy, as both an observer of these characters and as a big fan of noir, and they *stuck with those characterizations to the end*. Not least because it made sense, but also because it gave the characters a chance to be played slightly off the familiar patterns the audience knows. Bravo for creativity and internal logic, at least for that section.

As far as noir types go, for me, Lana was good and Chloe was better -- she fit her wise-cracking Girl Friday character like a glove -- but the real surprise for me was TW. I bought the bumbling newspaperman cover and I bought the tough undercover cop who made a mistake falling for the femme fatale. That really worked for me.

As for Lana's perfection in the "real" world, it never hit me as hard before as it did last night, what SV meta writers on LJ have been voicing for years (stuff I've been reading usually years and years after the fact): Smallville really is the Lana Lang story, isn't it? Now she's making this big sacrifice to protect Clark, not least from Lex, and wow, her role as plot vortex clicked right back into place. This has never been as much of an issue for me as I know it's been for others, but it really is kind of amazing how the show as written comes back to her being the Key to Everything over and over again. Huh.