What's red and blue and black all over?

[scarfman]

I'm losing patience with Smallville. On the one hand, there is no reason to keep Welling out of the tights and out of the sky except that the creating producers who quit a year and a half ago said they wouldn't. On the other hand, there's every reason to do it, mainly this "Red-Blue Blur" who now only wears black ... For Clark to have gone about two years like this without presenting a public face rubs me the wrong way. There would be consequences to the way he was perceived once he did go public that I don't see reflected in the existing gestalt of the legend. It seems to me a major deviation, which wouldn't bother me per se except I don't believe it's what they mean to do.

The gripping hand is, I'm two one and a half episodes behind on the DVR and it looks like maybe they're going that way, even have got there while I wasn't looking. Edit Okay, maybe not.

Comments

[abates.livejournal.com]

There's the whole glasses problem to work around. I.E. in his identity as Clark Kent, he never started wearing them. So if he starts putting on tights, the first time he saves Lois from falling off a building, she's going to go "hang on a minute here..."

I'm kinda happy enough to say "This is the Superman continuity where Clark never became Superman, but instead ran around fixing things behind the scenes." but I imagine that they'll probably end the show with him finally putting on the costume and flying off into the sunset.

Assuming they ever actually end it!

[scarfman]

Spoiler for Smallville episode Idol:

The glasses finally come out at the end of the episode I was watching when I wrote this, which is the first Smallville episode with the Lois-almost-figures-it-out trope.

[chocolatescifi.livejournal.com]

How do they explain it when Clark starts wearing . . . well, you know what.

[scarfman]

He says to Lois, "Yes, I have been keeping a secret ... I'm a little nearsighted."