The Smallville Season 2 Poll

This is from thamiris though I first saw it on paperbkryter's LJ.

1. Top three episodes of S2:

Rosetta, Insurgence, Prodigal

(My goodness, that was easy.)


2. Best Lex scene of S2:

The meeting with Principal Reynolds when he drove Clark to school. "Catch you later." Note: there are so many good Lex scenes, it's difficult to choose.


3. Best Clark scene of S2:

Jumping from the Daily Planet building to LuthorCorp in "Insurgence".


4. Has Helen been evil all along?:

Yes.


5. Has Chloe gone to the dark side?

No.


6. Best minor character of S2:

Lucas Luthor. Can I have a runner-up? Dr. Virgil Swann. I am defining 'minor character' as 'character who only appears in one episode'. If you define it as 'anyone other than Clark and Lex', my favourite other character is Lionel Luthor. Chloe is right up there too.


7. Moment in S2 most likely to drive you screaming from the show, never to return:

Any scene of Lana weeping, or worse, her lower lip wobbling.


8. Slashiest scene of S2:

The meeting with Principal Reynolds when he drove Clark to school. "Catch you later."


9. What would you change about S2?

Fewer Lana scenes (especially scenes where she is unhappy and/or crying), more scenes with Lex and Clark together, more scenes featuring Lionel.


10. Biggest hope for S3:

More scenes of Lex and Clark together, more scenes featuring Lionel, more scenes with Chloe.

Bollywood/Hollywood

Didn't I say just yesterday that I avoided watching comedies? It took me less than 24 hours to prove myself a liar. Tonight I watched "Bollywood/Hollywood", a romantic comedy about a Hindu family in Toronto.

I enjoyed every minute. It was sexy and smart and funny, from the cute beleaguered hero to his drag queen chauffeur, his Shakespeare-quoting Grandma-ji and his camera-toting little brother Govind who's being bullied at his expensive school. The plot: fibre-optic Toronto millionaire Rahul Seth (played by Rahul Khanna) is being pressured by his family to marry so he pretends to be engaged to a girl who tried to pick him up in a bar (Lisa Ray)- smart, bright, unconventional, and she can pass for Indian. He thinks she's a whore as well as a philosopher; he learns something about snobbery and love. Is she what she appears to be? Illusions are revealed, assumptions overturned. Toronto scenery, clever multicultural jokes, and a sense of style.

For all it was about a family from India, the movie felt (to me) as Canadian as, say, "Men With Brooms". There was a Canadian outlook to it all, to the style of humour and the juxtaposition of the modern and the old-word traditional. It was Canadian in its jovial lack of pretentiousness and its attitude to racial issues. It was Canadian in its asides and its easy flow and its laid-back manner. There were fools, but no villains, and the message, if there was one, was of tolerance.





"Everyone has secrets," says Rocky, the cross-dressing chauffeur. I thought of Smallville. Everyone there has secrets, too.