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POST #3: BRIAN AND KELLY STILL LOVE THEIR META LIKE CLARK LOVES PIE (SEASONS 8-9)

8x01 ODYSSEY

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...

SEASON NINE

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.

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OMG, what an epic picture post. I love the whole thing. Great job.

Thank you! :)

EEE!! Love it.

(Calling has Clana making out with Chloe seeing in front of the barn right? I didn't see that one. Also I would count the Exile glass break with epic tihngs happening. Kent men throw down! Reason why Bo is dead! )

I love love love how the sunbursts started in the hospital - I forgot about that. And it definitely started with merely trying to open up Luthor L's.

I wonder what the stain glass art in the Talon means though, a lot of people have brought that up before and they aren't really windows.

Idol has that great shot of Chloe standing in silouette in front of the window too.

IN CONCLUSION, I SHIP IT HARD ♥

HEEE!

Calling is more shot from Chloe's POV, and they are near the stairs landing so she can see them. Not by the window. And Exile's up there. :)

Well, no moar Talon anymore so I doubt we'll ever know, now that the set's gone. :(

Darn! I thought Calling had that shot! Exile I saw in it, but I guess I missed it in the Epic Lists.

Poor Talon set. *tear*

That is cool.

I'd suspect they just use windows for the obvious. Namely to frame a shot, to emphasize symmetry etc. So to use the windows to frame a closing shot makes it look more ordered. So it just lends to the mood.

Or in some cases if it's framed tightly it can help makes things seem confined.

Then breaking the window is obviously very dynamic, so they use that for big turning points.

I do realize some of the windows have their own little quirks, like the Luthor crest you point out. Or the knight and his lady in the talon. There since there is a literal picture I figure it's fair enough to assume they want to make apoint if they frame the character with the symbol, like Tess with the Luthor crest.

The thing about the Planet window that intrigues is it's like a rising or setting sun. Or sometimes it could be placed like a halo.

The Watchtower window is just huge and the characters are usually dwarfed against it. Heck if I know what that means. The posies are supposed to be free thought, I looked that up before.

And is it just me that sees a gun site in the Watchtower window?

Well, the broken windows seem to definitely = big moments/romance. I think it's worth noting that we know from the Zod stills that Chlark are hugging right in front of the broken window with the car still there, but they never even show it except in the first wide shot of Chloe standing in the basement alone. If it were just about visuals, then I would think using it would be irresistible (the still of them from Zod with the car in back of them looks really cool) but they don't ever show it there. And again in Persona with keeping the windows out of the shot.

The usage of it in S9 is so insanely constant that they're obviously going for something deliberate there though. But I noticed that there are three scenes from S5-S7 that open with pulling off the window, and all three involve Lana (Cyborg, Chlark fighting in Noir, and Traveler). And it started being very prominent in the S8 scenes with Clark and Lois, where they would be talking about Lana there as well.

IN CONCLUSION, I SHIP IT HARD♥

BEST CONCLUSION EVER!

This picspam is seriously great. I don't really know what it all ~means~ but it does seem purposeful the amount they've stepped up using the Daily Planet windows. They do seem to be in like ever single DP shot in s9.

IT WORKED OUT SO WELL FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE TOP ROW.

AHAHA! One of the two people in those couples DIED so I'd say so! (Except we all know Lex isn't really ~dead~)

Seriously this is so metay and awesome I feel like I need to think thoughts about it! GREAT JOB! <3

ETA: I forgot to say: Vessel kiss= best kiss ever! It's the most epic kiss the show has ever done.

Edited 2010-03-14 21:49 (UTC)

"AHAHA! One of the two people in those couples DIED so I'd say so! (Except we all know Lex isn't really ~dead~)"

Well, if Lois dies, Chloe will be the real Lois Lane...so she wouldn't be really dead. :)

Seriously this is so metay and awesome I feel like I need to think thoughts about it! GREAT JOB!

I FEEL SO WARM AND FUZZY INSIDE AT THIS. THERE IS NO GREATER COMPLIMENT THAN HEARING A POST GOT SOMEONE TO THINK THOUGHTS!

Awesome post, thank you and seeing all of this just confirms to m that the Vessel kiss is the most epic kiss for sure. :D

Gorgeous, just gorgeous! But you missed one of my all time favorite shots - Clark grieving at the window as he's lying to Ollie about what to do with Davis in Infamous.

I haven't watched any s9 eps, but when I posted my Chlark pic for Iliana's challenge, I wondered how often the DP logo shows up when Cnois are at the DP.

From your amazing picspams it seems like their shots are typically framed with the window in the background. In "Echo", however, when Chloe is at the DP, she's framed with the DP logo in the background! It's got to be intentional, right?!

I wonder if there are other instances in s9 that support or oppose this observation.

They've used it, but Chloe hasn't done badly considering she's only had three scenes at the DP this year, and these were two of them (the third was with the nameplate):

In both shots they've practically lit the logo up with a freaking spotlight for Chloe.

They also had this panning shot that went off the window to the logo:

But idk I think while it's pretty, the shadowy lighting is creepy too.

But there's also been a lot of creepy with the yellow-reddish filter used for their scenes a lot, which is traditionally not used for happy stuff (see: the Chlark Noir scene, Dark Thursday):

Chi suggested a while back that's why so much window this year; because they want to link up the weird lighting to Pandora's weird lighting. i.e. keep staying on this path and the world will be screwed. I don't think it's so much that they want to dissociate Clark/Lois from the logo, it's more they want to REALLY EMPHASIZE THE FORESHADOWING. It's hard not to miss how they kiss in Crossfire in front of the DP window, and then kiss in front of the window showing the red sun in Pandora.

The shots of Cnois with the DP logo, are those from the start of the year (i.e. the first 3-4 episodes?) or are there some from later too?

The yellow lighting is definitely strange. It's used whether or not a character is mind-whammied. It lends credance to the Clark is not!Clark spec that's for sure. It's also odd that the Kent house is illuminated this way too. Usually it's very bright and colorful.

PS: Carlo Marks is one fine man.

The with Lois sitting on Clark's desk is from Metallo (where Chloe had the nameplate shot).

The second cap is from Conspiracy, so that's recent.

The one with them in silhouette is from Echo (which had Chloe under the logo standing at Lois' desk).

Well, and the second row of caps with the Kent farm had Clark saying, "And I'm not even wearing red and blue," and as she walks out the door she gets the future flashes, which links up the lighting connection.

And yeah, the farm has looked dismal all year.

PS: Carlo Marks is one fine man.
I KNOW RIGHT.

PS: Carlo Marks is one fine man.
I'M THIRD TO THAT.

I don't know what it all means, but this was a very interesting post. Also, you missed the shot in Turbulence where Chloe's crying and looking at her ring and Davis is watching her from the street.

IT WORKED OUT SO WELL FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE TOP ROW
heehee

9x10: DISCIPLE Compare to 1x20.
also similiar to "Bride"
(http://radikal.ru/F/i045.radikal.ru/1003/a6/025bf35b7759.jpg)

and you missed this from "Echo"
(http://radikal.ru/F/s45.radikal.ru/i110/1003/16/5c71c39faa67.jpg)

Yes, I ship it hard too!!! LOL! Fantastic post, just rocks so hard and makes me so happy...:-)

OMFG
epic epic epic
add in my memories <3

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