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.
Yes! Why wasn't that the avenue taken here? Must it be implied that any woman who would want to get with Clark wants to take advantage of him? Talk about unrealistic. And it does nothing to help our picture of Clark as a hero, since his reaction is all about his feelings being hurt.
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 think that's what really pissed me off the most. I knew the moment the clothes started coming off that nothing was going to happen. I could see it coming from a mile off. It was a huge tease, just a setup for a punchline.
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.
That scene had this extra-creepy quality of delicate-woman-on-a-pedestal added by the Older Man quotient, definitely, since he gallantly defends her honor so she shall not be besmirched before her time. Again, if you're trying to help real teens, maybe it would be an idea to go with something real teens are more likely to encounter?
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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Yes! Why wasn't that the avenue taken here? Must it be implied that any woman who would want to get with Clark wants to take advantage of him? Talk about unrealistic. And it does nothing to help our picture of Clark as a hero, since his reaction is all about his feelings being hurt.
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 think that's what really pissed me off the most. I knew the moment the clothes started coming off that nothing was going to happen. I could see it coming from a mile off. It was a huge tease, just a setup for a punchline.
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.
That scene had this extra-creepy quality of delicate-woman-on-a-pedestal added by the Older Man quotient, definitely, since he gallantly defends her honor so she shall not be besmirched before her time. Again, if you're trying to help real teens, maybe it would be an idea to go with something real teens are more likely to encounter?
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 ;).
Argh! I was so mad for Chloe this ep!