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--And no, them's NOT fightin' words, okay? LOL. I LOVE the Lois Lane character, eternally. Which is why I'm a bit anxious here . . .
A concern that I've had all this time about Lois in SV is that.....in the show, she kind of feels like an "incomplete" character, for lack of a better word. I mean, all the other characters, and their interactions with each other, and their development, have progressed and developed over time and with consistent interaction...
I think someone else in this thread mentioned something about how Lois has a purpose in the show but not necessarily in the episode? That goes directly into my fears for this character; she seems to be made out to be a.... I don't know, reactionary character, as opposed to action, like the plot happens and then Lois is thrown in to either, I don't know, react to something, get in the way, somehow alter circumstances, etc. She always seems to serve a secondary purpose, as opposed to primary.
I mean, nothing seems to really be about her, even in the supposedly Lois-centric episodes, like with Lucy, or her university...it stills follows the method I just outlined, like even in her "own" storylines, she's just a sattelite; even if she's having a character-centered speech of self-realization or confession (i.e. post-Lucy, post-breakup with Ollie), you get a glimpse of how Lois might really feel behind her character shell (Thank you, Erica Durance!;D *love that woman*), its too little, not enough.
I guess I just don't get a sense of Lois as a complete character because she doesn't have a past, a history, like all the other cast members do in SV-terms. Even Ollie -- and even Tess! -- were presented and inserted into the SV world very methodically and purposefully, with an understanding of how they fit into the current SV world from the point of view of who they are now and where they're coming from as characters. Not so forLois Lane
And I'm becoming afraid that simply showing childhood scenes of Lois in an episode and tying it to said episode's plot, etc., won't help anymore. Ollie's had that, the childhood scenes, and even Tess, though her character's stand in the SV character matrix is not the hero's circle, had her backstory, the "where she's coming from", very carefully laid out, relevantly to the other main characters and to the plots, mini or overarching, in the show. So when those characters are not in an episode, you still have a sense of where they are in the SV world, their place in the stories going on, and the power they have as characters to alter or affect said stories.
I'm afraid that the Lois Lane character on SV doesn't have that power, or affect. If she's not in an episode, or episodes go on without her and when she's back in the next episode, I wonder, "what the heck? Where was Lois and what did they have her doing?" I don't feel that she's being portrayed as centrally as she deserves to be.....and frankly, she's been on the show, and quite infrequently early on, for over 4 years, the 5th year now. She was not methodically and purposefully inserted into SV (especially after her first few episodes; I think the creators kinda missed the boat on that one, they could've done so after her first launch), and when she's there, its very...light, almost superficial. Unless she's having a character "moment", but then her status quo is immediately reset afterwards, whether in that episode or in the next.
Sure, lately we're getting more of her, in screentime, in plots, in relation to Clark and the penultimate CLois, but its still things that, in simplest terms, happened to her - not necessarily where she happened to them. Does that make any sense? Am I alone in thinking all these things? Anyway... *sigh* I hope that the show can salvage this, but its going to take time at the very least, and that time is what I'm worried about too, that the show won't be on long enough to fix anything (networks and studios are so flighty).
P.S. Sorry for the long rambly ranty thing, didn't expect to write this much. *grimace*
A concern that I've had all this time about Lois in SV is that.....in the show, she kind of feels like an "incomplete" character, for lack of a better word. I mean, all the other characters, and their interactions with each other, and their development, have progressed and developed over time and with consistent interaction...
I think someone else in this thread mentioned something about how Lois has a purpose in the show but not necessarily in the episode? That goes directly into my fears for this character; she seems to be made out to be a.... I don't know, reactionary character, as opposed to action, like the plot happens and then Lois is thrown in to either, I don't know, react to something, get in the way, somehow alter circumstances, etc. She always seems to serve a secondary purpose, as opposed to primary.
I mean, nothing seems to really be about her, even in the supposedly Lois-centric episodes, like with Lucy, or her university...it stills follows the method I just outlined, like even in her "own" storylines, she's just a sattelite; even if she's having a character-centered speech of self-realization or confession (i.e. post-Lucy, post-breakup with Ollie), you get a glimpse of how Lois might really feel behind her character shell (Thank you, Erica Durance!;D *love that woman*), its too little, not enough.
I guess I just don't get a sense of Lois as a complete character because she doesn't have a past, a history, like all the other cast members do in SV-terms. Even Ollie -- and even Tess! -- were presented and inserted into the SV world very methodically and purposefully, with an understanding of how they fit into the current SV world from the point of view of who they are now and where they're coming from as characters. Not so for
And I'm becoming afraid that simply showing childhood scenes of Lois in an episode and tying it to said episode's plot, etc., won't help anymore. Ollie's had that, the childhood scenes, and even Tess, though her character's stand in the SV character matrix is not the hero's circle, had her backstory, the "where she's coming from", very carefully laid out, relevantly to the other main characters and to the plots, mini or overarching, in the show. So when those characters are not in an episode, you still have a sense of where they are in the SV world, their place in the stories going on, and the power they have as characters to alter or affect said stories.
I'm afraid that the Lois Lane character on SV doesn't have that power, or affect. If she's not in an episode, or episodes go on without her and when she's back in the next episode, I wonder, "what the heck? Where was Lois and what did they have her doing?" I don't feel that she's being portrayed as centrally as she deserves to be.....and frankly, she's been on the show, and quite infrequently early on, for over 4 years, the 5th year now. She was not methodically and purposefully inserted into SV (especially after her first few episodes; I think the creators kinda missed the boat on that one, they could've done so after her first launch), and when she's there, its very...light, almost superficial. Unless she's having a character "moment", but then her status quo is immediately reset afterwards, whether in that episode or in the next.
Sure, lately we're getting more of her, in screentime, in plots, in relation to Clark and the penultimate CLois, but its still things that, in simplest terms, happened to her - not necessarily where she happened to them. Does that make any sense? Am I alone in thinking all these things? Anyway... *sigh* I hope that the show can salvage this, but its going to take time at the very least, and that time is what I'm worried about too, that the show won't be on long enough to fix anything (networks and studios are so flighty).
P.S. Sorry for the long rambly ranty thing, didn't expect to write this much. *grimace*
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