Ok im dragging up an older scene

[DontCha]

Ok guys, I know lots of people are upset because they feel as if clark has regressed, that clois has been destroyed but there are a few things I have to say in retaliation to this. Firstly the big picture. I know it looks as if right now Lana is who he wants to be with and lois is second choice, but please take this into consideration. This is not the ending of the season it is the middle, you know the part of the story where everything turns to crap and things need to be resolved?

I study film, I do film making and production the pattern of events in any story/episode/season is:

Act 1 Equilibrium

Act 2 DISRUPTION

Act 3 NEW equilibrium.

Right so this season, as a story:

Act 1: Equilibrium AKA a state of well being (episodes 1- 10)
Clark progressing, clois progressing, clark has feelings for lois, Lois loves clark.

Act 2: DISRUPTION aka something that DESTROYS the equilibrium and threatenes the happy and correct ending in this case, clark becoming superman/clois (episodes 11 - 14)
We saw clark regress, superman almost become non existant, clois almost not happening..

Act 3 NEW equlibrium is the heros attempt to restore the equilibrium, and it does become restored but it is different due to the events of the disruption (episodes 14 - 22)

My guess? Clark will propell into superman status, He will be utterly in love with Lois but Lois will be reserved, and we have the correct ending which links in with the mythos, it wasnt RIGHT before. Lois loving clark and having him not so much, it was wrong, the new equilibrium is correct and the disruptuion HAD to happen in order to cause this.

Also I'm, going to drag up Instinct. remember this is an episode where the clark lois soulmate bond is hinted, something clana never had. Maxima also said Clark doesnt even realize the TRUE extent of his connection to lois YET and by bride he STILL hasnt realized it.

In the loft, the writers show us that Clark does not believe lana is his soul mate, because he flat out says he's still looking for his soulmate, he knows Lana is not the one.

"what if my soulmate comes along and i'm too blind to see it"

1. Lois is standing right in front of him
2. He's too blind at the moment to see that SHE is his soulmate
3. The scene indicates that Lois is in fact his soulmate and he just needs to realize it, he is still totally unaware that she is the ONE. Maxima even backed this up earlier.

that moment of realization is still to come. And when it does, it will be something he has never felt before.

[green_arrow_girl358]

i get the writing technique, but couldn't they do a disruption without clana

[DontCha]

This is Smallville, relationships are the pinacle of the story, and so Something/someone had to enter midway to shake up Clois. Which BTW is the real love story of the season and I'm sure this will be very obvious by the end of it. Clana was just the spanner in the works of the soulmates that are clark and Lois.

[susangail]

The problem is that they went too far with clana for clois to make any sense in a reasonable time. The most natural plot trajectory is much too long.

[DontCha]

If all that Clana crap can happen in 4 episodes, it can easily be resolved and undone in 8

[devilicus rebel]

Idk if it can be undone. True a bunch of stuff happened in four episodes, but there are seven seasons of history behind those four and the fans are keeping that in mind.

[gem65]

Ok guys, I know lots of people are upset because they feel as if clark has regressed, that clois has been destroyed but there are a few things I have to say in retaliation to this. Firstly the big picture. I know it looks as if right now Lana is who he wants to be with and lois is second choice, but please take this into consideration. This is not the ending of the season it is the middle, you know the part of the story where everything turns to crap and things need to be resolved?

I study film, I do film making and production the pattern of events in any story/episode/season is:

Act 1 Equilibrium

Act 2 DISRUPTION

Act 3 NEW equilibrium.

Right so this season, as a story:

Act 1: Equilibrium AKA a state of well being (episodes 1- 10)
Clark progressing, clois progressing, clark has feelings for lois, Lois loves clark.

Act 2: DISRUPTION aka something that DESTROYS the equilibrium and threatenes the happy and correct ending in this case, clark becoming superman/clois (episodes 11 - 14)
We saw clark regress, superman almost become non existant, clois almost not happening..

Act 3 NEW equlibrium is the heros attempt to restore the equilibrium, and it does become restored but it is different due to the events of the disruption (episodes 14 - 22)

My guess? Clark will propell into superman status, He will be utterly in love with Lois but Lois will be reserved, and we have the correct ending which links in with the mythos, it wasnt RIGHT before. Lois loving clark and having him not so much, it was wrong, the new equilibrium is correct and the disruptuion HAD to happen in order to cause this.

Also I'm, going to drag up Instinct. remember this is an episode where the clark lois soulmate bond is hinted, something clana never had. Maxima also said Clark doesnt even realize the TRUE extent of his connection to lois YET and by bride he STILL hasnt realized it.

In the loft, the writers show us that Clark does not believe lana is his soul mate, because he flat out says he's still looking for his soulmate, he knows Lana is not the one.

"what if my soulmate comes along and i'm too blind to see it"

1. Lois is standing right in front of him
2. He's too blind at the moment to see that SHE is his soulmate
3. The scene indicates that Lois is in fact his soulmate and he just needs to realize it, he is still totally unaware that she is the ONE. Maxima even backed this up earlier.

that moment of realization is still to come. And when it does, it will be something he has never felt before.

You make a lot of sense.

[devilneedsaride]

The problem is that they went too far with clana for clois to make any sense in a reasonable time. The most natural plot trajectory is much too long.

That, and the disruption wasn't really treated like a disruption. Usually it's happy times, then some guy comes in with exploding teddy bears or whatever, everyone freaks out, and then eventually it's happy times again. But the disruption is acknowledged as a disruption by the makers of the show and by the characters of the show. The Clana arc was being treated as equally, if not more, valid than the Clois arc they've been developing, which I think is why it's throwing so many fans out of whack.