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last kid standing up against the wall
I have been watching a truly awful amount of Smallville. It's not even as though I started out watching for Lex and stayed for something else (although if I were to stay for something else, it would be for Chloe and, to my surprise, Lois); no, I've been watching truly awful amounts of Smallville just for good Lex episodes. I didn't really realize the depths to which I'd sunk until I looked in the mirror yesterday and discovered that I'd absently put on a blue shirt and a red jacket. Today, with resignation, it's a red shirt and blue plaid flannel, hell yeah I own blue plaid flannel. I am sad I do not have any absurd purple shirts.
My point is, I think I can officially add Smallville to the List of Things I Am Ridiculously Overinvested In. I am still resisting the urge to actually just break down and genuinely watch ALL THE LEX (it wouldn't be too hard; I have perfected the art of skipping through episodes in search of Lex and of avoiding Lana almost entirely -- see also Reasons I Hate Season Six) but so far I have found it more expedient to just track down lots of vids. Say what you like about the plot, but this show's visuals are often completely gorgeous.
Therefore: vids!
Baby: Clark is a big, dumb, sexually confused alien. It is a really good thing he is pretty. Yeah, pretty much! This vid gives me a big stupid grin. It's kinetic and full of awkward teenagers! (Things I especially love: Chloe and her lollipop, Clark's panicked faces, and Lex shattering a sword on Clark's arm. Good god, what episode is that last one from?)
Faster Kill Pussycat: Chloe/Lana! I am so delighted this vid exists, if only because it reclaims and queers the hell out of all the creepy Lana objectification the show does. Hell, it does the double miracle of making me almost as fond of Lana as I am of Chloe, and of making me actually appreciate the vampire episode. Will wonders never cease.
I Kissed A Girl: Speaking of reclaiming and queering things, oh my god, this vid. Clark tries kissing girls! Lex minds it! Ollie seems to mind it less. I love the sheer amount of footage there is of Clark making out with women and looking kind of bewildered about the whole thing. I still completely loathe this song, but this is the best use of it ever.
Intergalactic Friends: I sort of think of this one as Bad Romance's slash-optional younger sibling. It's snappy and weird and alien, and full of the sort of parallel shots that I am really easy for; the Lex-in-the-sunflowers Clark-in-the-graveyard around 1:48 alone is worth the price of admission.
Objection (Tango): Possibly the one thing in the world that makes me think s6 was almost worth it. (Well, one of two: the other is Nemesis.) Clark and Lex's awful breakup, with bonus Lana. I find this vid unbearably hot; maybe it's the movement in it, or possibly the way it has all of the things I love best about Lex. I've watched this one a ridiculous number of times in the past few days.
Short Skirt Long Jacket: LOIS. <3 The thing is, I want a vid to this song for so many women; my short list is Amy Pond, Laura Roslin, Delenn, and Amanda, but it could go on. This vid has probably already cornered the market. It's the perfect Short Skirt Long Jacket vid. It convinces me that I really want to be Lois' best friend. She'd probably hate me, though. I'd just stare at her legs all the time.
That's Not My Name: Clark and his identity issues. Oh my god. Know what I am easy for? Identity issues! This vid is almost too perfect. It performs the double miracle of making me like Clark and making him interesting. He's a dorky alien farmboy trying to do the right thing and occasionally being hailed as a savior! Be still my heart.
There are also two vids that don't exist (to the best of my knowledge) but really, really should. The first one is a vid to Handlebars; I know that nothing can top the Tenth Doctor version, but I really, really want the one about Lex (and Clark) becoming awful people. It would be all fast cars and Warrior Angel comics and saving each other and LuthorCorp experiments and stumbling through tunnels and nuclear missiles! And it would probably make me cry. It would be great.
The second one is ... kind of cracky? It's to Jessie's Girl, and is about how Clark and Lex use Lana as a proxy. Did I mention how angry I am that they use Lana as a proxy? And all the musical bridges of the song would be Lana nearly killing Lionel and faking her death and generally getting her goddamn agency back.
Yeah, the vids-in-my-head folder is getting pretty full.
My point is, I think I can officially add Smallville to the List of Things I Am Ridiculously Overinvested In. I am still resisting the urge to actually just break down and genuinely watch ALL THE LEX (it wouldn't be too hard; I have perfected the art of skipping through episodes in search of Lex and of avoiding Lana almost entirely -- see also Reasons I Hate Season Six) but so far I have found it more expedient to just track down lots of vids. Say what you like about the plot, but this show's visuals are often completely gorgeous.
Therefore: vids!
Baby: Clark is a big, dumb, sexually confused alien. It is a really good thing he is pretty. Yeah, pretty much! This vid gives me a big stupid grin. It's kinetic and full of awkward teenagers! (Things I especially love: Chloe and her lollipop, Clark's panicked faces, and Lex shattering a sword on Clark's arm. Good god, what episode is that last one from?)
Faster Kill Pussycat: Chloe/Lana! I am so delighted this vid exists, if only because it reclaims and queers the hell out of all the creepy Lana objectification the show does. Hell, it does the double miracle of making me almost as fond of Lana as I am of Chloe, and of making me actually appreciate the vampire episode. Will wonders never cease.
I Kissed A Girl: Speaking of reclaiming and queering things, oh my god, this vid. Clark tries kissing girls! Lex minds it! Ollie seems to mind it less. I love the sheer amount of footage there is of Clark making out with women and looking kind of bewildered about the whole thing. I still completely loathe this song, but this is the best use of it ever.
Intergalactic Friends: I sort of think of this one as Bad Romance's slash-optional younger sibling. It's snappy and weird and alien, and full of the sort of parallel shots that I am really easy for; the Lex-in-the-sunflowers Clark-in-the-graveyard around 1:48 alone is worth the price of admission.
Objection (Tango): Possibly the one thing in the world that makes me think s6 was almost worth it. (Well, one of two: the other is Nemesis.) Clark and Lex's awful breakup, with bonus Lana. I find this vid unbearably hot; maybe it's the movement in it, or possibly the way it has all of the things I love best about Lex. I've watched this one a ridiculous number of times in the past few days.
Short Skirt Long Jacket: LOIS. <3 The thing is, I want a vid to this song for so many women; my short list is Amy Pond, Laura Roslin, Delenn, and Amanda, but it could go on. This vid has probably already cornered the market. It's the perfect Short Skirt Long Jacket vid. It convinces me that I really want to be Lois' best friend. She'd probably hate me, though. I'd just stare at her legs all the time.
That's Not My Name: Clark and his identity issues. Oh my god. Know what I am easy for? Identity issues! This vid is almost too perfect. It performs the double miracle of making me like Clark and making him interesting. He's a dorky alien farmboy trying to do the right thing and occasionally being hailed as a savior! Be still my heart.
There are also two vids that don't exist (to the best of my knowledge) but really, really should. The first one is a vid to Handlebars; I know that nothing can top the Tenth Doctor version, but I really, really want the one about Lex (and Clark) becoming awful people. It would be all fast cars and Warrior Angel comics and saving each other and LuthorCorp experiments and stumbling through tunnels and nuclear missiles! And it would probably make me cry. It would be great.
The second one is ... kind of cracky? It's to Jessie's Girl, and is about how Clark and Lex use Lana as a proxy. Did I mention how angry I am that they use Lana as a proxy? And all the musical bridges of the song would be Lana nearly killing Lionel and faking her death and generally getting her goddamn agency back.
Yeah, the vids-in-my-head folder is getting pretty full.
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