Well, if I actually give up watching 'Smallville' I'll have you to thank and, yes, I mean that in a good way. I know this episode was complete crap. Just about every single person I know who saw it says it's complete crap. But, after reading your post now I'm rather angry about the subject matter as well as being disgusted by the quality of the episode. Honestly, I'm generally happy when a show that deals with teens (even if the actors portraying them are closer to 30) shows them choosing to wait. I have a friend who knows a woman whose 12 year old daughter got pregnant. Those kinds of stories scare the hell out of me.
It's when they choose to deal with abstinance in such an unrealistic and insulting manner (and as the only option) that pisses me off. I mean, I could probably buy Clark remaining a virgin because of his fear of the person he's close to finding out the truth about him or him inadvertantly hurting her in some way. But, then the writers present Clark with the opportunity to have a relationship with someone who knows the truth, is special in her own way, and who he actually has chemistry with! And while it's OK to titilate the teen audiance when the moment arrives have actual intercourse they then have to show how wrong (i.e. evil) this is.
I'm still trying to figure out if the Lana storyline is more or less disturbing. It's a cliche, but if you can't say the word "sex" you really aren't mature enough to be having it so it's best she didn't. (And was that DeKnight's fantasy - 100 candles and a man's dress shirt? Someone needs to quit watching the soaps and get out more.) All through this I was reminded of a flashback episode of Friends in which Monica refers to losing ones virginity as 'giving up your flower'. I was just waiting for those words to come out of Lana's mouth.
Poor Chloe is the closest thing we have to an adult here and for that she gets to live a lifetime of regret for apparently not waiting for THE one (and if Bryan Singer gets his way turning poor Jimmy gay ;).
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Date: 2005-01-28 09:50 pm (UTC)It's when they choose to deal with abstinance in such an unrealistic and insulting manner (and as the only option) that pisses me off. I mean, I could probably buy Clark remaining a virgin because of his fear of the person he's close to finding out the truth about him or him inadvertantly hurting her in some way. But, then the writers present Clark with the opportunity to have a relationship with someone who knows the truth, is special in her own way, and who he actually has chemistry with! And while it's OK to titilate the teen audiance when the moment arrives have actual intercourse they then have to show how wrong (i.e. evil) this is.
I'm still trying to figure out if the Lana storyline is more or less disturbing. It's a cliche, but if you can't say the word "sex" you really aren't mature enough to be having it so it's best she didn't. (And was that DeKnight's fantasy - 100 candles and a man's dress shirt? Someone needs to quit watching the soaps and get out more.) All through this I was reminded of a flashback episode of Friends in which Monica refers to losing ones virginity as 'giving up your flower'. I was just waiting for those words to come out of Lana's mouth.
Poor Chloe is the closest thing we have to an adult here and for that she gets to live a lifetime of regret for apparently not waiting for THE one (and if Bryan Singer gets his way turning poor Jimmy gay ;).