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Nov. 25th, 2007 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleI've been watching Smallville Season Four all weekend for the proto-Deanness of Jason Teague and this time I'm really watching it and several things occur to me.
First, that Jason Teague is even better the second time around and looks gorgeous in a white button-down shirt and has fantastic chemistry with John Glover, who plays passive-aggressive psycho extraordinaire, Lionel Luther. I pretty much have to pause every scene that Jason's in, including the opening credits where he's making a fabulous knitted-brow angstface.
Second, is that we get cheated in the Chinese prison scene by not getting to see how Jason came to be so bloody. Yes, we do get to see him electrocuted but that doesn't draw blood, now does it? I do terribly enjoy seeing him dragged off down dark, dank hallways though.
Third, is that I simply cannot help thinking of a memorable Christopher Walken scene from Pulp Fiction when Jason tells Lana how he smuggled that very pointy artifact out of China. Oh, you mailed it to yourself, now did you, Jason? I think not. I can't even watch that scene with a straight face.
Fourth, what the fuck is up with that Luther mansion that anyone and everyone can just barge into it, unannounced, anytime they like? In almost every episode someone is just barging into the Luther mansion...Clark, Lana, Jason, Lois. I think Chloe waltzes in at least once, too. I don't think billionaires have such lousy security that a horde of local nosy teens is perpetually traipsing through the Luther's study.
Fifth, I love how the Luther study is the only room we ever see in the house. Everything happens there, because it's clearly the only "Luther mansion" set that they have. So when Lana needs to wash blood off her hands, she's doing it in a bowl in the study, not in a proper sink. And when Lionel Luther needs to be cutting up some fruit for his cocktails, he's doing it...yep, in the study, not in the kitchen. I'd like to think this is billionaire eccentricity but it's really paucity of sets.
Sixth, the writers for this show have some serious Oedipal issues. There's Jason and his evil, busy-hands Mom, there's Lex picking up one-night stand brunettes who, we're informed, remind him of his mother, and there's posessed Ma Kent asking Clark out to the prom. Egads!
Finally, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS TOWN? Who knew Kansas was such a hotbed of crazy that spiritual possessions, sudden amnesia, soul-switching and high-school students who jet off to Shanghai for the weekend to pursue mysterious artifacts are just a part of the local landscape. Gotta wonder what the conversations at the Elks Club revolve around. This show is less sci-fi and more soap opera, because every since Luke and Laura foiled the evil weather machine on General Hospital back in the 80s, the soaps have been full of all kinds of freaky supernatural and ludicrous conspiracy stuff like this, not just the routine romances and betrayals that they used to be about. It's little wonder Jensen Ackles can convincingly pull off all those ridiculous lines about "the Countess Isobel" with a straight face, considering he cut his acting teeth on Days of Our Lives, which, I believe, once sent the entire town back in time for a week. No wait, I think that was One Life to Live, but I'm sure Days did something equally ridiculous, and those Bradys were always attracting trouble.
I need to do a list of the S4 episodes that you need to watch for Jason, to spare you from the rest of the show. No matter what else is going on, Jason is totally worth it!!
First, that Jason Teague is even better the second time around and looks gorgeous in a white button-down shirt and has fantastic chemistry with John Glover, who plays passive-aggressive psycho extraordinaire, Lionel Luther. I pretty much have to pause every scene that Jason's in, including the opening credits where he's making a fabulous knitted-brow angstface.
Second, is that we get cheated in the Chinese prison scene by not getting to see how Jason came to be so bloody. Yes, we do get to see him electrocuted but that doesn't draw blood, now does it? I do terribly enjoy seeing him dragged off down dark, dank hallways though.
Third, is that I simply cannot help thinking of a memorable Christopher Walken scene from Pulp Fiction when Jason tells Lana how he smuggled that very pointy artifact out of China. Oh, you mailed it to yourself, now did you, Jason? I think not. I can't even watch that scene with a straight face.
Fourth, what the fuck is up with that Luther mansion that anyone and everyone can just barge into it, unannounced, anytime they like? In almost every episode someone is just barging into the Luther mansion...Clark, Lana, Jason, Lois. I think Chloe waltzes in at least once, too. I don't think billionaires have such lousy security that a horde of local nosy teens is perpetually traipsing through the Luther's study.
Fifth, I love how the Luther study is the only room we ever see in the house. Everything happens there, because it's clearly the only "Luther mansion" set that they have. So when Lana needs to wash blood off her hands, she's doing it in a bowl in the study, not in a proper sink. And when Lionel Luther needs to be cutting up some fruit for his cocktails, he's doing it...yep, in the study, not in the kitchen. I'd like to think this is billionaire eccentricity but it's really paucity of sets.
Sixth, the writers for this show have some serious Oedipal issues. There's Jason and his evil, busy-hands Mom, there's Lex picking up one-night stand brunettes who, we're informed, remind him of his mother, and there's posessed Ma Kent asking Clark out to the prom. Egads!
Finally, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS TOWN? Who knew Kansas was such a hotbed of crazy that spiritual possessions, sudden amnesia, soul-switching and high-school students who jet off to Shanghai for the weekend to pursue mysterious artifacts are just a part of the local landscape. Gotta wonder what the conversations at the Elks Club revolve around. This show is less sci-fi and more soap opera, because every since Luke and Laura foiled the evil weather machine on General Hospital back in the 80s, the soaps have been full of all kinds of freaky supernatural and ludicrous conspiracy stuff like this, not just the routine romances and betrayals that they used to be about. It's little wonder Jensen Ackles can convincingly pull off all those ridiculous lines about "the Countess Isobel" with a straight face, considering he cut his acting teeth on Days of Our Lives, which, I believe, once sent the entire town back in time for a week. No wait, I think that was One Life to Live, but I'm sure Days did something equally ridiculous, and those Bradys were always attracting trouble.
I need to do a list of the S4 episodes that you need to watch for Jason, to spare you from the rest of the show. No matter what else is going on, Jason is totally worth it!!