You know, glasses were a great disguise prop for the origins of Supes, even to CR (OK, BR has em, too), but I could just see ED/Lois looking at TW/Clark and saying something like, "...'Smatter, Smallville, never heard of lasik???"
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Why oh why didn't Clark go back to the DP in his glasses!?
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Right. I can't see Clark wearing glasses after all this time of not wearing them. It would be different if he came in wearing them when he began working at the DP but on SV that isn't the case. So for him to begin wearing them now would be strange for me. I'm certainly not opposed to him wearing them as long as there is a justifiable reason for him to begin wearing them at this late date.Comment
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I still want glasses. I'm a traditionalist. It would have solved so many problems on this show especially now that he's working a dual identity.Comment
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I thought they missed an opportunity to introduce the glasses last year, after Clark started working at the Planet. It would have been very natural for him to start wearing glasses whenever he was working on the computer, complaining that the screen was causing eyestrain. While the glasses would not have worked as a disguise in the ususal sense, they might help him keep Lois from figuring out the truth. After all, the "Blur", with his superhuman powers, isn't likely to complain about eyestrain.
Of course, the really smart thing would have been if he had kept his glasses after "Whisper" in Season 3. So many opportunities wasted!Comment
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Clark is still the Blur so no one ever sees his face so there would be no point for him to wear glasses as Clark Kent. I'm sure when he gets closer to becoming Superman they'll add the glasses but at this point there unnecessay.Comment
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Actually there WAS an explanation for the glasses and WHY this simple trick works to hide his identity.
It was explained (more years ago than I care to admit to) that the lens of his glasses were made from transparent material from his space ship, and when he wore them, they magnified "some natural ability" and influenced people to PERCIEVE him as looking differently than he actually looks.
I forget which issue it was it, but it provided a "believable" explanation at the time. Not sure it would work today. but I do believe the writes will come up with something similar.Comment
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Besides the glasses, in the movies their personalities were different. Clark was a bumbling coward, and Superman was the opposite. But here, Clark is normal. Unless he decides to take on a crazy new personality for Superman. So any way you slice it, SV's got their work out for them to make this believable, without resorting to something cheap like the memory stealing kiss from Superman 2, or something else just as silly or convenient.Last edited by Xanderman; 10-07-2009, 04:49 PM.Comment
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At this point, I think the glasses are kind of not necessary...IF they had KEPT the glasses on Clark way back when, that would be different.
I'm willing to bet they're going more towards the \S/ will be the "magic" that protects his identity....Comment
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Actually there WAS an explanation for the glasses and WHY this simple trick works to hide his identity.
It was explained (more years ago than I care to admit to) that the lens of his glasses were made from transparent material from his space ship, and when he wore them, they magnified "some natural ability" and influenced people to PERCIEVE him as looking differently than he actually looks.
I forget which issue it was it, but it provided a "believable" explanation at the time. Not sure it would work today. but I do believe the writes will come up with something similar.Comment
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I'm torn on the glasses issue. I know Clark Kent needs them, but there's this small fact that Tom Welling is so gosh-darn gorgeous, I don't want him stuck in them most of the time. Once he starts wearing them, (and there is no reason really on Smallville for him to yet- he doesn't even think he's going to ever be seen doing his super stuff!) there will be no going back for most of the hour. Are the girl viewers really ready for that.
I vote for just an occasional putting them on at his desk for reading purposes to get Lois (us) used to them.Comment
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I don't know how many of you ever watched LnC, TNAOS, BUT in one episode, Clark dons a new pair of glasses and ask Lois what she thinks of them. She replies with, "Have you ever thought of contacts".
In another episode, Clark tells Lois that Jimmy has suggested a new look for him, contacts and a pierced ear ring.
Seriously, Clark returning with Glasses at this time would have been a good idea.
As a teenager, I was a silver age Superman comic reader. Sometimes they came up with some very imaginary ways to explain things.
Superman had but a post hypnotic suggestion on all of Metropolis and presumeably the whole world that when Clark Kent put on a pair of glasses, no one would recognize him as Superman.
But if tptb try to end Smallville with some stupid mind wipe, I will burn my SV seasons dvd.Last edited by supercatmom; 10-13-2009, 01:46 PM.Comment
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