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SV revisited
Sep. 1st, 2004 04:57 pmSomeone over on TWOP asked if we were writing for the show, what would have we done differently. The rules were we had to have the same cast and no slash (just subtext). I'm going to assume that the no casting changes things mean I can't recast, rather than I can't add.
Obviously, I'd do the usual: keep the Lana and Clark lives separate as much as possible until around third season, give Lana a group of friends outside both Clark and Whitney. I'd probably get her involved in a few more clubs to flesh out her personality (she likes to read, she likes to draw, she likes to volunteer. That's English Club, Art Club, and Key Club right there. Plus, she'd probably be in whatever honor society there is, and possibly swimming). She and Clark would become friendly over the course of the first two seasons, but she'd remain the Object of Desire the TPB think she is and not the Girl Next Door she's been in S2. Plus, I'd have her date more after Whitney, nice, easy, non-mutant people and have her friends be nice people.
There'd be a small supporting cast of regular high school kids that flit in and out of everyone's lives. They wouldn't be mutants. They would be Lana, Chloe, Pete, and sometimes Clark's friends. One would be Chad and anyone else Chloe has ever mentioned.
I'd have more shows with them just being teenagers and working with teenage problems. I understand they didn't want to show Tom in school since he's so old looking (although, seriously, I can buy that Superman looks like he's in his twenties when he's a teenager; he's Superman). In S2, I'd do more of the Chloe/Pete/Clark mystery solving gang stories.
There'd be more scenes of Lex and Clark just hanging out. They could shoot pool, play video games, and bitch about their respective love lives and parents.
Some episodes would take more than an hour to wrap up, like Shattered bled into Asylum. Obsession definitely would have been 2 episodes, as well as a few others. Characters would still be reacting to things that happened the episode before.
And then, the epiphany hit when I got to the Talon: Instead of Lana wanting to keep it open, it would have been Martha's project. She still would have hired Lana, and then they could have become close, but then Lana wouldn't' have to become unrealistically grown up and in charge of a business (I still don't know what I would have done with Chloe on that note).
Think about it: Martha hears that the Talon is going to be closed down and turned into a parking garage. Part of the thing she loves about Smallville is the small-town feel, which a garage would ruin. So, she comes up with the same plan as Lana to preserve it has a historical landmark, only use it as an outlet for her own baked goods. Lex would do it because Lex adores Martha, and there'd be some nice tension between Jonathan/Martha/Lex about going into business with the Luthors. And then that also would have given Clark and Lana a very nice reason to grow closer over the course of S2 so they could almost get together in S3 until Shattered tears them apart.
The only problem is it'd get rid of the Martha working for Lionel side-plot. But, I suppose that with the tornado, they needed a lot of extra money, so Martha tried to multi-task by doing three jobs at once and the coming undone at the seams.
Anyway, yeah. I had a lot of thinking time driving today.
Obviously, I'd do the usual: keep the Lana and Clark lives separate as much as possible until around third season, give Lana a group of friends outside both Clark and Whitney. I'd probably get her involved in a few more clubs to flesh out her personality (she likes to read, she likes to draw, she likes to volunteer. That's English Club, Art Club, and Key Club right there. Plus, she'd probably be in whatever honor society there is, and possibly swimming). She and Clark would become friendly over the course of the first two seasons, but she'd remain the Object of Desire the TPB think she is and not the Girl Next Door she's been in S2. Plus, I'd have her date more after Whitney, nice, easy, non-mutant people and have her friends be nice people.
There'd be a small supporting cast of regular high school kids that flit in and out of everyone's lives. They wouldn't be mutants. They would be Lana, Chloe, Pete, and sometimes Clark's friends. One would be Chad and anyone else Chloe has ever mentioned.
I'd have more shows with them just being teenagers and working with teenage problems. I understand they didn't want to show Tom in school since he's so old looking (although, seriously, I can buy that Superman looks like he's in his twenties when he's a teenager; he's Superman). In S2, I'd do more of the Chloe/Pete/Clark mystery solving gang stories.
There'd be more scenes of Lex and Clark just hanging out. They could shoot pool, play video games, and bitch about their respective love lives and parents.
Some episodes would take more than an hour to wrap up, like Shattered bled into Asylum. Obsession definitely would have been 2 episodes, as well as a few others. Characters would still be reacting to things that happened the episode before.
And then, the epiphany hit when I got to the Talon: Instead of Lana wanting to keep it open, it would have been Martha's project. She still would have hired Lana, and then they could have become close, but then Lana wouldn't' have to become unrealistically grown up and in charge of a business (I still don't know what I would have done with Chloe on that note).
Think about it: Martha hears that the Talon is going to be closed down and turned into a parking garage. Part of the thing she loves about Smallville is the small-town feel, which a garage would ruin. So, she comes up with the same plan as Lana to preserve it has a historical landmark, only use it as an outlet for her own baked goods. Lex would do it because Lex adores Martha, and there'd be some nice tension between Jonathan/Martha/Lex about going into business with the Luthors. And then that also would have given Clark and Lana a very nice reason to grow closer over the course of S2 so they could almost get together in S3 until Shattered tears them apart.
The only problem is it'd get rid of the Martha working for Lionel side-plot. But, I suppose that with the tornado, they needed a lot of extra money, so Martha tried to multi-task by doing three jobs at once and the coming undone at the seams.
Anyway, yeah. I had a lot of thinking time driving today.
