Something I don't understand

[DarkClone]

Why does everyone overplay stupid and annoying scenes


The scene where chloe saw the blood, and no one listens to her, and they just assume that they're insane

I just think scenes like this are so annoying, and used so often I don't enjoy them anymore, not even a little bit

they're frustrating, and it's frustrating that there isn't a write anywhere that's more creative than the first person to write that scene


does it add anything to the show at all?

[Rafael122]

Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable if that person is seeing blood and you're not? I'd probably run to the elevator and leave.

[Lifebound]

I agree in that the writing could be more creative. But it is only the beginning of the episode, so maybe there is something redeeming to it...

[smallville_fetish]

Originally posted by Rafael122
Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable if that person is seeing blood and you're not? I'd probably run to the elevator and leave.

:lol:

I'd first give them a dirty look, then yeah run to the elevator and leave... that is, what us folks do in the normal world would do.

[Nospam]

With all the things Chloe and Clark (and Lana!) have seen in Smallville you'd think that Clark would give Chloe at the very least the benefit of the doubt and hear her out. How many times has one or other of them come up with a crazy theory or seemingly outrageous explanation only to later be proven correct? Come on.

I agree with DarkClone, it is a tired, overworked TV cliche when a character makes a statement or observes an event and absolutely no one believes them, especially in Smallville. A little imaginary blood on the floor? Please, your best friend is from another planet, each week new characters pop up that can do amazing things, time travelling phone calls, spaceships, self cloning maniacs, undead dead guys, Krytonite truth gas, animal shape shifting Kawatchee tribe members, but a little blood floor that no one can see? You're automatically crazy.

Whatever.

[shirkie]

I hate to play defense for the writers here, who have missed the mark many times, but think about the context in which Chloe claimed she was seeing bloody footprints and a dead girl. She was a) in a hospital b) for an apparent suicide attempt c) seeing bloody footprints on a spotless tile floor. Add factor d) severe mental illness of mother (granted, this is information only Clark has access to at this point) and it's pretty obvious why everyone reacted the way they did.
shirkie

[Billy Jor-El]

Yeah, but no one can say Clark shouldn't have stepped back and trusted his FRIEND. Of all the people that should take Chloe seriously and act on it responsibly, it's Clark....but he hasn't always done things responsibly now, has he???

[shirkie]

He should have trusted his friend... But the fact that he knows his trusted friend's mother most likely experienced severe auditory and visual hallucinations at crucial diagnostic periods....... And Chloe is literally on the cusp of when severe mental illness strikes (it hits women in their early to middle twenties, men in their late teens to early twenties)... And Chloe has been under a lot of stress lately (stress is often a huge trigger to psychotic episodes)... I simply cannot fully blame Clark for not believing her initially. There still is a chance Chloe may develop a serious mental illness in the next few years, and this episode either is a complete red herring, a warning for Chloe to keep her eyes and ears open about her own mental health, or a sad foretaste of her future mental illness. It's up to the writers...
shirkie

[tec611]

the fact that she was in there for attempting to commit suicide, and seemed to be babbling was enough for LANA to think she was crazy.

To the doctors and nurses, this girl is obviously dealing with emotional issues (they think she tried to kill herself and is blocking it out because she 'cant remember doing it') and is hyped up on sedation drugs, that she isnt coherent and is making no sense because of the combo of the two. That is why they restrained her, not because she was loosing her mind.

Lana is the one who assumed that and then runs off to Lex to admit her to Belle Reeve on the evidence that Chloe saw blood when she didnt.

Lets also remember that why this IS smallville, alot of what happens stays between the scooby two and their respective sidekicks and the smallville police. While their has been strange happenings at the hospital here and there, that really isnt enough to assume someone doesnt need to be sedated when they are babbling and could be a threat to themselves just because 'its smallville'. Its LANA that should know better and was jumping to conclusions and the only one.

[BoSoxJim]

i'm of the belief that since this is smallville:

A) how many times has chloe seemed suicidal? or even looked depressed for any length of time?

B) how many meteor freaks have appeared in SV including an invisible one in S4 that framed my beloved Alicia and then killed her, WAHHHH!!!

compare a to b and then tell me that chloe didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt from everyone.

especially when she brought up that since she was a writer, she would have left one hell of a note.

clark was doubtful at first but in the end was the only one to believe her (until lois got kidnapped).

lana was all set to commit her with lex without consulting her family member (lois)!

and shirkie, it never pays to defend bad writing :p

[shirkie]

I do neuropsychological assessment (including examining "positive symptoms" or hallucinations and delusions) for a living, and I definitely would have reacted in the same way the doctors and Lana did. Even if it IS "Smallville," the first thing they needed to do was calm her down... They should have sedated her and then tried to get the full story afterwards. My opinion though. ;)
shirkie

[puddinpiester]

I think Clark did give Chloe the benefit of a doubt. He was concerned as well he should have been, but he was there. He was talking to her and not in crazy babbly ways, and when push came to shove, Clark rescued her. Yeah, he was believing her more after he saw the skeleton, but he did use his xray vision when Chloe asked him to rather than just brush her off. I'd much rather have Clark as a friend than Lana.

[myankskent]

I think Clark and Lana should've known that Chloe was being possessed. How dare they not know that. How dare Lana think that Chloe was losing her mind when she said that she was seeing something that wasn't there.