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revdorothyl at 05:18pm on 21/10/2005 under television as mirror
revdorothyl at 05:18pm on 21/10/2005 under television as mirrorI finished this week's workload at the publishing house last night just before 8 PM, so I got home a bit earlier and in a much more relaxed frame of mind than I had for the previous couple of nights. Plus, I found that during my absence my VCR had faithfully recorded the "Aquaman" episode of Smallville.
Since I got to sleep sooner than expected, I woke up early this morning, feeling more or less rested for a change, and was able to enjoy breakfast with James Marsters. Squeeing follows.
Love to see JM playing a "brainy" character for a change (though what's with talking about "the Greeks, Romans, and Spartans"? As far as I knew, the Spartans were Greeks, every bit as much as the Athenians, et al.), but it took me a few minutes to get used to hearing him speaking with his "normal" accent and half-swallowing his R's as though he was trying to gargle with them. For just the first few sentences, I was strongly reminded of Spike's exaggerated attempt at an American accent at the end of "Doomed". But I got over it.
I don't know whether the kid playing A.C./Aquaman was a good actor or not, because I kept getting distracted by his musculature and mentally comparing his much-maligned-by-Lois orange T-shirt and green shorts to the orange and green costume I remember from the Aquaman cartoons when I was a kid. I'd forgotten about how Aquaman used to throw those balls of swirling water to knock out his adversaries, until I saw Clark take a couple of them broadside. Come to think of it, if the kid had been a really good actor, I probably wouldn't have been so easily distracted.
Oh, and talk about flashbacks to my youth, that scene with Lex tormenting the rapidly dehydrating A.C. took me right back to the short-lived Patrick Duffy sci-fi series Man from Atlantis (from about 1/3 of the way through the first and only season, when they suddenly decided that "Mark Harris" had super-strength on land whenever he could manage to get wet -- even if it was just from having his head shoved under water in an office aquarium). I don't remember the animated Aquaman, at least, being quite so susceptible to dehydration and super-charging on land.
Or maybe they were just "borrowing" that bit from the episode of Adrian Paul's short-lived series Tracker, in which the government caught an aquatic alien, who ended up being tortured and super-hydrated in very much the same manner as A.C. was.
I was a little sad to see Lex come completely out of the closet (so to speak) and be an unrepentant, out-and-out villain in front of Clark (the kind of Lex Luther that John Shea played in the first season of Lois and Clark -- totally amoral and ruthless, but maintaining the public appearance of honesty and respectability). He almost looked a little sad and regretful for a split second when Clark walked out saying how naive he'd been to defend Lex to his professor, but just for a split second.
I'm increasingly thinking that -- if anybody beloved of Clark has to die, per Jor-El's warning -- Lana is the most expendable. I can't part with Chloe, nor Martha or Jonathan, and Lois is too permanent a part of the mythology, so Lana's greatly reduced role this time around and Clark's decision last week to keep his secrets from her may indicate that she's the designated expendable loved one.
Mingled approval and groans from me for the "in-jokes" at the end of last night's episode: Clark saying that he's not ready for the JLA (Junior Lifeguards Association, of course, not Justice League of America), and the preview from next week's episode of James Marsters assuring Clark that there's no such thing as vampires. Both of those got mingled grins and groans from me.
I also had time before my first meeting this morning to watch a couple of other shows I'd taped this week and not yet watched: Crossing Jordan from Sunday night (remarkable mainly for Charles Mesure -- whom I remember fondly from his guest appearances on Xena: Warrior Princess, especially in the recurring role of the archangel Michael, where he always spoke with an Americanized accent -- guesting as a tabloid reporter and speaking for the first time in my hearing with something close to his own accent); and Lost from Wednesday night, which I actually watched most of, rather than (as has become my habit this season) fast-forwarding through at least half of the show -- more Daniel Dae Kim is always a good thing, I think.
Since I got to sleep sooner than expected, I woke up early this morning, feeling more or less rested for a change, and was able to enjoy breakfast with James Marsters. Squeeing follows.
Love to see JM playing a "brainy" character for a change (though what's with talking about "the Greeks, Romans, and Spartans"? As far as I knew, the Spartans were Greeks, every bit as much as the Athenians, et al.), but it took me a few minutes to get used to hearing him speaking with his "normal" accent and half-swallowing his R's as though he was trying to gargle with them. For just the first few sentences, I was strongly reminded of Spike's exaggerated attempt at an American accent at the end of "Doomed". But I got over it.
I don't know whether the kid playing A.C./Aquaman was a good actor or not, because I kept getting distracted by his musculature and mentally comparing his much-maligned-by-Lois orange T-shirt and green shorts to the orange and green costume I remember from the Aquaman cartoons when I was a kid. I'd forgotten about how Aquaman used to throw those balls of swirling water to knock out his adversaries, until I saw Clark take a couple of them broadside. Come to think of it, if the kid had been a really good actor, I probably wouldn't have been so easily distracted.
Oh, and talk about flashbacks to my youth, that scene with Lex tormenting the rapidly dehydrating A.C. took me right back to the short-lived Patrick Duffy sci-fi series Man from Atlantis (from about 1/3 of the way through the first and only season, when they suddenly decided that "Mark Harris" had super-strength on land whenever he could manage to get wet -- even if it was just from having his head shoved under water in an office aquarium). I don't remember the animated Aquaman, at least, being quite so susceptible to dehydration and super-charging on land.
Or maybe they were just "borrowing" that bit from the episode of Adrian Paul's short-lived series Tracker, in which the government caught an aquatic alien, who ended up being tortured and super-hydrated in very much the same manner as A.C. was.
I was a little sad to see Lex come completely out of the closet (so to speak) and be an unrepentant, out-and-out villain in front of Clark (the kind of Lex Luther that John Shea played in the first season of Lois and Clark -- totally amoral and ruthless, but maintaining the public appearance of honesty and respectability). He almost looked a little sad and regretful for a split second when Clark walked out saying how naive he'd been to defend Lex to his professor, but just for a split second.
I'm increasingly thinking that -- if anybody beloved of Clark has to die, per Jor-El's warning -- Lana is the most expendable. I can't part with Chloe, nor Martha or Jonathan, and Lois is too permanent a part of the mythology, so Lana's greatly reduced role this time around and Clark's decision last week to keep his secrets from her may indicate that she's the designated expendable loved one.
Mingled approval and groans from me for the "in-jokes" at the end of last night's episode: Clark saying that he's not ready for the JLA (Junior Lifeguards Association, of course, not Justice League of America), and the preview from next week's episode of James Marsters assuring Clark that there's no such thing as vampires. Both of those got mingled grins and groans from me.
I also had time before my first meeting this morning to watch a couple of other shows I'd taped this week and not yet watched: Crossing Jordan from Sunday night (remarkable mainly for Charles Mesure -- whom I remember fondly from his guest appearances on Xena: Warrior Princess, especially in the recurring role of the archangel Michael, where he always spoke with an Americanized accent -- guesting as a tabloid reporter and speaking for the first time in my hearing with something close to his own accent); and Lost from Wednesday night, which I actually watched most of, rather than (as has become my habit this season) fast-forwarding through at least half of the show -- more Daniel Dae Kim is always a good thing, I think.
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I didn't place the accent, I guess, because all my friends who live in Nebraska either didn't grow up there or were educated back East like myself, meaning that their accents are less noticeable.
I wouldn't have thought much of it, but you're right that everyone else on the show sounds like everyone else on TV on the WB: California with an occasional flash of Vancouver Canadian!