Comments on: Smallville: Abyss http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/11/21/smallville-abyss/ "Red, white, whatever ... guys are all the same!" - Liz Sherman (Hellboy) Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maraphalla Chan http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/11/21/smallville-abyss/comment-page-1/#comment-46433 Maraphalla Chan Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:43:09 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=4432#comment-46433 Hi clark kent, how are you doing today? I want to see you about superman and the master because I want to become a superman just like you and I want to become a master. Thank you Sincerely, Maraphalla Chan Hi clark kent, how are you doing today? I want to see you about superman and the master because I want to become a superman just like you and I want to become a master. Thank you
Sincerely,
Maraphalla Chan

]]> By: TrinityVixen http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/11/21/smallville-abyss/comment-page-1/#comment-24495 TrinityVixen Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:56:35 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=4432#comment-24495 The problem I have with all these sorts of decisions is that the show validates them. So far, it hasn't contradicted Clark's actions. Except where HE suffers as a result. The writers aren't concerned with the mind-wiping being wrong because it is just a wrong thing to do, morally. It's only wrong because Clark is inconvenienced by it. Chloe and everyone else can get hurt and go hang. But Clark pouts and we're supposed to feel bad? Sheesh. The problem I have with all these sorts of decisions is that the show validates them. So far, it hasn't contradicted Clark's actions. Except where HE suffers as a result. The writers aren't concerned with the mind-wiping being wrong because it is just a wrong thing to do, morally. It's only wrong because Clark is inconvenienced by it. Chloe and everyone else can get hurt and go hang. But Clark pouts and we're supposed to feel bad? Sheesh.

]]> By: Robin http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/11/21/smallville-abyss/comment-page-1/#comment-23742 Robin Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:54:06 +0000 http://www.pinkraygun.com/?p=4432#comment-23742 I have to agree that the mind wipe was a stupid move. For one thing, I hate reset buttons in genre shows unless there's some sort of alternate reality / time travel thing happening. For another, you're absolutely right that it was a huge betrayal of friendship on Clark's part. Not only is he negating everything she's done for him over the last four or five years, he putting her in enormous danger... well, more danger than she was in before. Because, even though she doesn't remember that her best bud is an alien, there are still plenty of human bad guys out there who want a piece of her due to her connection with the weird. I mean, if she doesn't remember Braniac, how is she supposed to avoid the people who locked her up in a bunker for having super-duper computer brain? And how much did she retain about "meteor freaks" in general? Does she know she has/had healing powers? Does she remember what she's doing at Isis, the kids in her support group, or why Lana really left? And what about Oliver and his vigilante buddies? Is she still Watchtower at all? Or has Clark stripped Chloe of everything that gives her a sense of self-worth and allows her to really help people who need it? Our boy Kal really needs to start considering the long-term consequences of his actions and stop being so heavy-handed with his friends' brains. I have to agree that the mind wipe was a stupid move. For one thing, I hate reset buttons in genre shows unless there's some sort of alternate reality / time travel thing happening. For another, you're absolutely right that it was a huge betrayal of friendship on Clark's part. Not only is he negating everything she's done for him over the last four or five years, he putting her in enormous danger… well, more danger than she was in before. Because, even though she doesn't remember that her best bud is an alien, there are still plenty of human bad guys out there who want a piece of her due to her connection with the weird. I mean, if she doesn't remember Braniac, how is she supposed to avoid the people who locked her up in a bunker for having super-duper computer brain?

And how much did she retain about "meteor freaks" in general? Does she know she has/had healing powers? Does she remember what she's doing at Isis, the kids in her support group, or why Lana really left? And what about Oliver and his vigilante buddies? Is she still Watchtower at all? Or has Clark stripped Chloe of everything that gives her a sense of self-worth and allows her to really help people who need it?

Our boy Kal really needs to start considering the long-term consequences of his actions and stop being so heavy-handed with his friends' brains.

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