Smallville
May. 19th, 2009 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcThat was ... interesting.
The basic plot (Lois becomes a superhero) suggests a "light" story, and there's certainly a lot of humour in it. (Interesting that none of Lois's friends thought for a second that she'd become a superhero out of a desire to battle injustice...) But Ugly Mannheim (yay, another comics reference) and his friends are serious thugs[1], and the subplots are even darker; Chloe has a monster in her basement (and not the Stanley And His Monster kind, but the kind that kills people and leaves her to clean up the mess) and it looks like Jimmy's pain meds isn't, as I assumed, simply a handy explanation for his "hallucination" concerning Davis, but an actual drugs storyline. But it all fits together rather well, and there's no nasty jarring of tone. And I loved the epilogue, where the Red Blue Blur does indeed give Lois his first interview, and even suggests she should come up with a better name (in post-Crisis comics and other adaptions, she's the one who names him Superman).
(Incidentally, as we barrel towards all the elements of the Superman mythos coming into place, whatever happened to Perry White, who got a job at the Planet in Season 3, and was never mentioned again?)
I'm disappointed, however, that Jimmy's working as a barman in a cocktail bar, which would be a perfect opportunity to put him in a bowtie, and it doesn't happen.
[1]Although I did groan when I realised they had a Kryptonite-powered printing press for no reason except so that Clark would be incapacitated at the appropriate time.
The basic plot (Lois becomes a superhero) suggests a "light" story, and there's certainly a lot of humour in it. (Interesting that none of Lois's friends thought for a second that she'd become a superhero out of a desire to battle injustice...) But Ugly Mannheim (yay, another comics reference) and his friends are serious thugs[1], and the subplots are even darker; Chloe has a monster in her basement (and not the Stanley And His Monster kind, but the kind that kills people and leaves her to clean up the mess) and it looks like Jimmy's pain meds isn't, as I assumed, simply a handy explanation for his "hallucination" concerning Davis, but an actual drugs storyline. But it all fits together rather well, and there's no nasty jarring of tone. And I loved the epilogue, where the Red Blue Blur does indeed give Lois his first interview, and even suggests she should come up with a better name (in post-Crisis comics and other adaptions, she's the one who names him Superman).
(Incidentally, as we barrel towards all the elements of the Superman mythos coming into place, whatever happened to Perry White, who got a job at the Planet in Season 3, and was never mentioned again?)
I'm disappointed, however, that Jimmy's working as a barman in a cocktail bar, which would be a perfect opportunity to put him in a bowtie, and it doesn't happen.
[1]Although I did groan when I realised they had a Kryptonite-powered printing press for no reason except so that Clark would be incapacitated at the appropriate time.
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Date: 2009-05-19 10:37 pm (UTC)There is a development in Jimmy's Smallville character arc in the season finale that may address any qualms you have with this version of the character, especially the one that always niggled me. If I remember correctly, the bow tie issue is front and center.