I like the way freakishness and normality are subjects in Smallville - Clark and Lex both consider themselves to be freaks, and Clark longs to be normal, while Lex longs to be an exceptionally successful freak. Meanwhile other freaks abound - meteor mutants of many types, and people who are strange, some sympathetic, some not; some handicapped, some not. I like all of that.
I don't think the producers would try to justify the episode. I think that would be too close to admitting they were wrong (or politically incorrect) in the first place: they're going to tell us how terrific it was, what a great actress Kristen Kreuk is, and so on.
Listening to their commentary on the matter on the extant DVD, I had the impression that, in the matter of Kristen Kreuk's acting, they were simply protesting too much. Overcompensating.
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Re: Save Me
Date: 2003-06-25 07:14 am (UTC)I don't think the producers would try to justify the episode. I think that would be too close to admitting they were wrong (or politically incorrect) in the first place: they're going to tell us how terrific it was, what a great actress Kristen Kreuk is, and so on.
Listening to their commentary on the matter on the extant DVD, I had the impression that, in the matter of Kristen Kreuk's acting, they were simply protesting too much. Overcompensating.