This is a fantastic review Sana and you’ve covered all the reasons why I loved this episode so much!
You know the one thing I love about this episode the most? Despite of being an episode about Lois’s family it was so Clark centric. I mean, I was ready for this to be a totally Lois episode, and while I absolutely love Lois centric episodes (hello, I am crazy about the woman) I really needed a Clark centric episode. An episode where he was right, left and center. And this was the last episode that you could expect to be just that, but it was. And after watching it for like gazillion times, I’m still in awe of how amazing Tom Welling was in this episode. Absolutely perfect in every scene, and gorgeous and beautiful and unbelievably hot and… *ahem* He had so many emotions to convey and he was perfect in every one of them.
Yeah, my Tom worship can go on and on and I still won’t get tired of describing how much I loved him in this, so I’ll get to the next point – their fight. I totally agree with your analysis of it and I’ll go ahead to add, that it was so well written and well acted. Both Tom and Erica are stellar in the scene but what makes it so strong is the dialogue, which is so very articulate. The writers didn’t make them go round in circle with vague and cryptic dialogue. Also, I think the main reason why we all liked that scene so much is that no one expected Clark to come all out and say how he feels in a relationship. He’s supposed to be this over-burdened, guilt-ridden person who is bound to feel that he’s the cause of his girlfriend’s misery and has to mope, whine, and apologize and whatnot, while the audience is banging their heads against the wall. So when he says “What were you gonna say Lois… father” you feel that he finally said something that he felt like, and something that he needed to say, and that felt so good. And despite of all my Lois love, I could see why Clark was bound to be hurt by her implication, and I was perfectly fine with it. I don’t expect him to pander Lois, treat her like a porcelain doll or a princess. No way. When either one of them is wrong, they should say it, that’s the beauty of their relationship. That’s why that scene was so powerful.
I think it was liberating to see Clark so happy, laid back and like you’ve said in charge of his sexuality. I’ll make an inevitable Clana comparison here, by saying that in his relationship with Lana, we always got this feeling that he was suppressed, and it was not just because he wasn’t completely in control of his powers but also because he behaved with Lana in a certain way. It was always supposed to be about her, about what she wanted. I can’t imagine him grabbing Lana and pushing her against the door like he did with Lois because he had to look for what Lana wanted in that moment, not what he wanted, and Lana would probably be offended and run out of the door crying if he did something like that… just because he didn’t understand her, he didn’t care for her feelings and… well, you get my point.
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Date: 2010-11-08 03:20 pm (UTC)You know the one thing I love about this episode the most? Despite of being an episode about Lois’s family it was so Clark centric. I mean, I was ready for this to be a totally Lois episode, and while I absolutely love Lois centric episodes (hello, I am crazy about the woman) I really needed a Clark centric episode. An episode where he was right, left and center. And this was the last episode that you could expect to be just that, but it was. And after watching it for like gazillion times, I’m still in awe of how amazing Tom Welling was in this episode. Absolutely perfect in every scene, and gorgeous and beautiful and unbelievably hot and… *ahem* He had so many emotions to convey and he was perfect in every one of them.
Yeah, my Tom worship can go on and on and I still won’t get tired of describing how much I loved him in this, so I’ll get to the next point – their fight. I totally agree with your analysis of it and I’ll go ahead to add, that it was so well written and well acted. Both Tom and Erica are stellar in the scene but what makes it so strong is the dialogue, which is so very articulate. The writers didn’t make them go round in circle with vague and cryptic dialogue. Also, I think the main reason why we all liked that scene so much is that no one expected Clark to come all out and say how he feels in a relationship. He’s supposed to be this over-burdened, guilt-ridden person who is bound to feel that he’s the cause of his girlfriend’s misery and has to mope, whine, and apologize and whatnot, while the audience is banging their heads against the wall. So when he says “What were you gonna say Lois… father” you feel that he finally said something that he felt like, and something that he needed to say, and that felt so good. And despite of all my Lois love, I could see why Clark was bound to be hurt by her implication, and I was perfectly fine with it. I don’t expect him to pander Lois, treat her like a porcelain doll or a princess. No way. When either one of them is wrong, they should say it, that’s the beauty of their relationship. That’s why that scene was so powerful.
I think it was liberating to see Clark so happy, laid back and like you’ve said in charge of his sexuality. I’ll make an inevitable Clana comparison here, by saying that in his relationship with Lana, we always got this feeling that he was suppressed, and it was not just because he wasn’t completely in control of his powers but also because he behaved with Lana in a certain way. It was always supposed to be about her, about what she wanted. I can’t imagine him grabbing Lana and pushing her against the door like he did with Lois because he had to look for what Lana wanted in that moment, not what he wanted, and Lana would probably be offended and run out of the door crying if he did something like that… just because he didn’t understand her, he didn’t care for her feelings and… well, you get my point.