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8x02 PLASTIQUE
CLARK: They're in love, Lois. You should be happy for them.
LOIS: At least the rest of us have work.
The bullpen set has been rearranged this year.
8x03: TOXIC
TESS: After what you did to me, did you really expect me to just sit around and eat ice cream?
OLLIE: No. You'd rather work for my greatest enemy, and then, just when I think the knife can't twist any farther,
you take over his entire company.
LOIS: What am I doing? Ollie and I are through.
CLARK: Maybe. But just because the relationship's over doesn't mean the feelings go away.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't watch the goodbye tape that Lana sent me more than once.
LOIS: Well, I'd rather avoid a ride on the Clark-and-Lana roller coaster. No offense.
8x04: INSTINCT
LOIS: You are about as predictable as mullets at NASCAR. One little mention of you living alone
and you start singing the Missing Lana Blues. Now, I hate to be the one to dish out a helping of
tough love here, Clark, but Lana? Is gone for good. Time to get back in the saddle, buckaroo.
This go round, you need to look outside your wheelhouse.
CLARK: I didn't know I had a wheelhouse.
LOIS: Of course you do. Pretty. Friendly. Damsel-in-distress-y. You need to try another scoop of the 31 flavors.
Maybe a little less sweet vanilla and a lot more wild cherry.
8x05: COMMITTED
CLARK: I don't think Jimmy and Chloe would have been up for the Whitesnake singalong.
8x06: PREY
J'ONN: Where did you get this list?
CLARK: I memorized it off of Chloe's desk.
J'ONN: I didn't realize that photographic memory was among your abilities.
CLARK: It's more like speed-reading but let's not split hairs.
J'ONN: She couldn't just give you a copy?
CLARK: Chloe and I don't exactly see eye to eye on this one.
J'ONN: What about your mouthy cohort? She hasn't poked her nose into this one either.
CLARK: She's on assignment, which is code for monster truck rally in Lubbock.
8x07: IDENTITY
JIMMY: By any chance, did you take a peek at today's front page?
LOIS: I certainly did, Jimmy Olsen. I have to say that I underestimated you.
8x08: BLOODLINE
TESS: What's with all the broken glass? Is everything okay?
CHLOE: Everything except for the bird that flew into the window.
TESS: A bird? All that brainpower and that's what you come up with?
CHLOE: It was a large bird. In fact, Lois and Clark are out buying a new pane as we speak.
8x09: ABYSS
Window only cracked open. Compare to 7x10 and the Bizarro situation. Unf.
8x11: LEGION
8x12: BULLETPROOF
TESS: I've done everything you've ever asked. You've seen that. With your own eyes. And apparently, with mine.
But not anymore. I hope you watch with rapt attention as your bank accounts close.
As you lose all contact with the outside world. As your life disappears before your eyes.
Goodbye, Lex. I loved you, you son of a bitch.
8x13: POWER
8x14: REQUIEM
You guessed it - every window is open with the curtains blowing in the wiiiind.
8x15: INFAMOUS
CLARK: I want you to write my story.
8x16: TURBULENCE
DAVIS: Bless me, father, for I have sinned.
(CHURCHES ON SV STILL CREEPY.)
TESS: There he is. The prince who came to my rescue.
8x18: ETERNAL
LEX: I have slayed the beast. I am the victor and I shall claim my treasure.
(LOL no at the crest.)
8x21: INJUSTICE
Compare to 9x20.
8x22: DOOMSDAY
CLARK: Clark Kent is dead. Goodbye, Chloe.
IN CONCLUSION: WINDOWS ARE NOT GOOD IN GENERAL, AND THE ONES AT WATCHTOWER ARE FRIGGING CURSED IN PARTICULAR
For those who think that shooting any scene in the bullpen means using the windows as a centerpiece of the shot is inevitable... It's really not:
I actually wondered if this year they adjusted the set wall height a bit or something to make it easier to get the windows in the shot all the time. But it's the same. It's just with Chloe and Clark...they never used the windows a crazy amount.
Unlike, say, this season...
9x01: Savior
9x02: Metallo
LOIS: You really do care about me, don't you?
LOIS: Sometimes heroes can't do it all on their own, Chloe. That's why they need sidekicks.
Also of particular interest given the reversed Luthor crest in the mirror in 8x13:
CLARK: Talking to her just felt right.
Compare to 8x22 blocking.
LOL FOREVER at stock footage reusage from 5x05: if you're looking, you can clearly see Chloe there behind the glass setting up her desk. I don't think they've ever reused that shot before. It's curious since 1) they have a million Daily Planet establishing shots to choose from, 2) there were already multiple scenes in the basement in this episode so why would you use the pan-down to show OMG THE BASEMENT when we already know where it is?,
and 3) FOR MY OWN AMUSEMENT:
LOIS: Clark Kent! You're back I was beginning to think your family lived on some distant planet.
9x03: RABID
9x04: ECHO
CHLOE: Clark, how was I supposed to react to finding out you've been rifling through Lois' brain like you lost your keys in there?
Compare to 9x20.
LOIS: Is this an olive branch? 'Cause there better be a whole tree in here somewhere. And maybe a new pair of jeans too.
You know, it's not every day Lois Lane allows herself to be stood up.
9x05: ROULETTE
9x06: CROSSFIRE
9x07: KANDOR
9x08: IDOL
9x09: PANDORA
CLARK: Lois, what are we doing?
LOIS: I'm eating a maple donut, and you're kind of invading my personal space.
OLLIE: You know, for a guy who just a just got a mondo dose of kryptonite, you sure seem happy.
CLARK: Well, the sun is shining. Lois is gonna be all right.
9x10: DISCIPLE
Compare to 1x20 and 9x20.
9x11: WARRIOR
(I'm going by the original order.)
Closed window.
Open window.
Flight.
Closed window...
9x12: SOCIETY
...CRASH.
9x13: LEGENDS
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
Courtney encourages Chloe to redecorate Watchtower. Because the windows are cursed.
Note the feel-good scenes are all in front of the window.
J'ONN: I only say it because I care. You and Clark...Oliver...you're my family, here.
CLARK: Do you believe in fate, Lois?
LOIS: Only the kind you make happen.
9x14: PERSUASION
CLARK: If you were really under command to protect me, why didn't you let me kill her?
CHLOE: Because sometimes protecting you means protecting you from yourself. You're someone we all have to believe in.
Nothing can compromise that.
9x15: CONSPIRACY
LOIS: I see a table for two in our future.
9x16: ESCAPE
Hard to see, but the windows are open with the curtains blowing.
Same here.
Cockblocked.
9x17: CHECKMATE
9x18: UPGRADE
CLARK: I was such a fool to think that you could ever understand me.
9x19: CHARADE
9x20: SACRIFICE
Compare to 8x21 and 9x04.
Compare to 5x22.
Compare to 1x20 and 9x10.
FINAL ROUND-UP!
People who like to kiss in front of closed stained-glass windows:
IT WORKED OUT SO WELL FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE TOP ROW.
BUT IN CONCLUSION: BREAKING WINDOWS = ROMAAAAAANCE
BUT CHLARK ARE THE ONLY ONES TO ALSO GET A CAR AT THE SAME TIME. FULL CIRCLE.
THAT KISS HAS EVERYTHING AND THE FREAKING KITCHEN SINK. BROKEN WINDOWS, CAR, THE DAILY PLANET LOGO, RED AND BLUE WARDROBE SCHEME, AND THE FREAKING SUPERMAN HORNS PLAYING.
IN CONCLUSION, I SHIP IT HARD♥
THE END.
