Rewatch: Hothead
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old_school_clexI got overwhelmed when school started. Back to rewatching!
There's so little Clex in this episode. It's a damn shame.
What I miss quite a bit from the later seasons, apart from the CLEX, is that they hardly have any shots outside. In S1 they had a close attention to cinematography, and the first scene in the rain shows how hard they worked for a lot of the scenes, to make them unique and special to the episode. Later on we might get one or two special scenes, but mostly it's moving from room to room with dark lighting. :(
Granted the FotW in this episode is pretty silly. Kevin Arnold's dad the coach is the "Hothead" who can literally put the fire into your pants. The use of an adult here, though, probably helped the issue of this episode revolving around how our young protagonists respond to perhaps unreasonable pressures and demands from their role models.
The coach urging his boys to cheat to keep their gpas up.
Jonathan forbidding football from Clark.
Nell asking Lana to stay in cheerleading because it keeps her on 'a good track.'
Lionel demanding that Lex bow to his orders regarding the plant (and everything else).
Gabe… is sir not appearing in this episode. Chloe is sort of rutterless here and we see how happy she is to be writing a real expose and getting hatemail and death threats. Gabe never was a very attentive father.
Coach: It's in your genes, Kent!
Clark: Actually, I'm adopted.
Lol.
(I miss Doris Egan.)
The sort of… message here is what the coach says (even though he means, "Do what I want you to do"), "It's time to step out of your father's shadow and be your own man." And here all the characters are trying to take the power to decide for themselves who they are.
Lex in purple!!
We get good sassy, bratty Lex in this episode, first against Dominic, and then against Lionel. It's sort of cute the way he rattles off his rational for his increasing the workforce. Lex does actually know what the heck he's talking about, even if no one in the world acknowledges it.
Nell has a bit of a lisp sometime, too. Nell gets a bad rap, I think. She initially protests, is surprised that Lana decided this all of a sudden, but then she says she wants Lana to be happy and asks Lana what she'll do with her newfound freedom. I've never gotten the impression that Nell was much of a slave driver. Maybe she was bitchy to Martha, but she threw huge parties for Lana and gave her whatever she wanted. She sure never said anything as hurtful to Lana as Jonathan says to Clark.
"I still don't support your decision, Clark. I'm here to see no one gets hurt." Jonathan, you're a tool in this episode.
Martha is adorable, however. She doesn't argue with Jonathan in front of Clark, but she does take Jonathan to task, gently, when Clark leaves.
"It isn't about his gifts; it's about his judgment. You're telling Clark that you don't believe in him."
And although Jonathan swears he does believe in Clark, I don't think that he ever really expressed that to him. In season two, "Red," we're right back to this issue.
"If we don't start trusting him, nobody's gonna have to take him away. He's gonna leave all by himself."
Good call, Martha.
Clark does not mind Chloe calling him a jockstrap. :)
Lana is an incompetent waitress. Also, she almost sounds like she's trying to set Clark up with Whitney. ?
You know you're watching crack when someone sets the water on fire. I love Chloe's funky furry-collared coat as she snaps photos furtively for her next expose.
Enter Lionel! Lex is again in purple (Is that the same sweater? Or is it a different shade?). Poking Lionel to actually communicate with him. Lionel trying to demand that Lex react in the way he thinks he should react. Calling Lex's emotions his mother's "wounded pride routine." (Makes you wonder if Lionel took Lillian's depression and anger as manipulation rather than genuine. Since he would probably not be genuine himself, he cannot imagine others would?)
And then the fencing scene in which Lex gets pwned, AGAIN. Later in S5 when Lionel says that Lex sucks at chess, I wonder if it's just because Lex sucks at beating his father in chess because he loses his temper with the old bastard.
(I wonder what Lionel's books on tape were about/)
Here, have an icon:
There's more Lex and Lionel in this episode than Lex and Clark.
Coach Douchebag torches The Torch. Clark saves Chloe and clutches her to his mighty manboobs. Chloe explains what's going on via a string of headlines.
Clark and Lex smile and flirt while Clark explains what's going on. Lex assumes that Jonathan would be over the moon, because he has an idealized picture of the Kent fam, but Clark is like, no dad's pretty pissed at me.
My roommate just walked in and said, "I like that. "The Luthors wrote the book on uncomfortable silences" and then…." Silence. Eyefuck. Smile smile.
Lex shares his problems with Clark. Lana butts in. Lex disparages himself because Clark and Lana stood up to their parents about after school activities while he 'caved' to his father's demands to fire 25% of his workforce when he wanted to increase the workforce and productivity. Clark pouts in Lex's general direction because Lex shouldn’t feel bad. Woob.
Not my drink! No carbs!
Clark: Is that what you ordered?
Lex: Not even close.
And the episode is over! Oh, wait, there's some non-clex content to deal with.
Clark confronts the coach and is tortured by Kryptonite. The torture Clark fetish born of the 'scarecrow' scene is fed! TW sweats pretty surrounded by plastic green rocks, and the fangirls squeal.
Coach Douchebag does Clark a favor and sets himself on fire. No pesky moral quandaries this early in the series, thanks.
Lex annoys his father enough to make him come back to Smallville, and he pouts so prettily that Lionel has to give in. Aside from the fact that Lex is a genius and makes the accounting books dance to his will, so he's pretty much right. Not that Lionel would want to admit that to Lex. Ever.
Clark and Lana; IT'S OVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!
I may have to replace my S1 DVDs. This episode keeps bugging out.
First Rewatch DP
Pilot DP
Metamorphasis
There's so little Clex in this episode. It's a damn shame.
What I miss quite a bit from the later seasons, apart from the CLEX, is that they hardly have any shots outside. In S1 they had a close attention to cinematography, and the first scene in the rain shows how hard they worked for a lot of the scenes, to make them unique and special to the episode. Later on we might get one or two special scenes, but mostly it's moving from room to room with dark lighting. :(
Granted the FotW in this episode is pretty silly. Kevin Arnold's dad the coach is the "Hothead" who can literally put the fire into your pants. The use of an adult here, though, probably helped the issue of this episode revolving around how our young protagonists respond to perhaps unreasonable pressures and demands from their role models.
The coach urging his boys to cheat to keep their gpas up.
Jonathan forbidding football from Clark.
Nell asking Lana to stay in cheerleading because it keeps her on 'a good track.'
Lionel demanding that Lex bow to his orders regarding the plant (and everything else).
Gabe… is sir not appearing in this episode. Chloe is sort of rutterless here and we see how happy she is to be writing a real expose and getting hatemail and death threats. Gabe never was a very attentive father.
Coach: It's in your genes, Kent!
Clark: Actually, I'm adopted.
Lol.
(I miss Doris Egan.)
The sort of… message here is what the coach says (even though he means, "Do what I want you to do"), "It's time to step out of your father's shadow and be your own man." And here all the characters are trying to take the power to decide for themselves who they are.
Lex in purple!!
We get good sassy, bratty Lex in this episode, first against Dominic, and then against Lionel. It's sort of cute the way he rattles off his rational for his increasing the workforce. Lex does actually know what the heck he's talking about, even if no one in the world acknowledges it.
Nell has a bit of a lisp sometime, too. Nell gets a bad rap, I think. She initially protests, is surprised that Lana decided this all of a sudden, but then she says she wants Lana to be happy and asks Lana what she'll do with her newfound freedom. I've never gotten the impression that Nell was much of a slave driver. Maybe she was bitchy to Martha, but she threw huge parties for Lana and gave her whatever she wanted. She sure never said anything as hurtful to Lana as Jonathan says to Clark.
"I still don't support your decision, Clark. I'm here to see no one gets hurt." Jonathan, you're a tool in this episode.
Martha is adorable, however. She doesn't argue with Jonathan in front of Clark, but she does take Jonathan to task, gently, when Clark leaves.
"It isn't about his gifts; it's about his judgment. You're telling Clark that you don't believe in him."
And although Jonathan swears he does believe in Clark, I don't think that he ever really expressed that to him. In season two, "Red," we're right back to this issue.
"If we don't start trusting him, nobody's gonna have to take him away. He's gonna leave all by himself."
Good call, Martha.
Clark does not mind Chloe calling him a jockstrap. :)
Lana is an incompetent waitress. Also, she almost sounds like she's trying to set Clark up with Whitney. ?
You know you're watching crack when someone sets the water on fire. I love Chloe's funky furry-collared coat as she snaps photos furtively for her next expose.
Enter Lionel! Lex is again in purple (Is that the same sweater? Or is it a different shade?). Poking Lionel to actually communicate with him. Lionel trying to demand that Lex react in the way he thinks he should react. Calling Lex's emotions his mother's "wounded pride routine." (Makes you wonder if Lionel took Lillian's depression and anger as manipulation rather than genuine. Since he would probably not be genuine himself, he cannot imagine others would?)
And then the fencing scene in which Lex gets pwned, AGAIN. Later in S5 when Lionel says that Lex sucks at chess, I wonder if it's just because Lex sucks at beating his father in chess because he loses his temper with the old bastard.
(I wonder what Lionel's books on tape were about/)
Here, have an icon:
There's more Lex and Lionel in this episode than Lex and Clark.
Coach Douchebag torches The Torch. Clark saves Chloe and clutches her to his mighty manboobs. Chloe explains what's going on via a string of headlines.
Clark and Lex smile and flirt while Clark explains what's going on. Lex assumes that Jonathan would be over the moon, because he has an idealized picture of the Kent fam, but Clark is like, no dad's pretty pissed at me.
My roommate just walked in and said, "I like that. "The Luthors wrote the book on uncomfortable silences" and then…." Silence. Eyefuck. Smile smile.
Lex shares his problems with Clark. Lana butts in. Lex disparages himself because Clark and Lana stood up to their parents about after school activities while he 'caved' to his father's demands to fire 25% of his workforce when he wanted to increase the workforce and productivity. Clark pouts in Lex's general direction because Lex shouldn’t feel bad. Woob.
Not my drink! No carbs!
Clark: Is that what you ordered?
Lex: Not even close.
And the episode is over! Oh, wait, there's some non-clex content to deal with.
Clark confronts the coach and is tortured by Kryptonite. The torture Clark fetish born of the 'scarecrow' scene is fed! TW sweats pretty surrounded by plastic green rocks, and the fangirls squeal.
Coach Douchebag does Clark a favor and sets himself on fire. No pesky moral quandaries this early in the series, thanks.
Lex annoys his father enough to make him come back to Smallville, and he pouts so prettily that Lionel has to give in. Aside from the fact that Lex is a genius and makes the accounting books dance to his will, so he's pretty much right. Not that Lionel would want to admit that to Lex. Ever.
Clark and Lana; IT'S OVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!
I may have to replace my S1 DVDs. This episode keeps bugging out.
First Rewatch DP
Pilot DP
Metamorphasis
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Date: 2009-09-11 01:20 pm (UTC)Watching this I was so nostalgic for, of all things, this type of clash between Lex and Lionel. Compared to what we got in later seasons, it was so light and entertaining. That seems sick on some level, doesn't it?
Also, in some ways I think Jonathan is just as bad a father as Lionel. This ep shows why. The only difference between them is that he tells Clark he loves him, though I'm not sure if that makes him better or worse.