Smallville: Seven Basic Plots (Part II)

Part I of this series of essays on plot structure in Smallville is available here

Spoilers through to Season 5 Reckoning.

2. Rags to Riches
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2.1. Initial wretchedness at home and the 'Call'.
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2.2 Out into the world, initial success.
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2.3 The dark version
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2.4 The dark characters
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2.5 Summing up
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Battlestar Galactica 2.17: The Captain's Hand

It is apparently my way to be intelligent about the shallow shows and shallow about the intelligent shows, so I'm just going to do lists today.

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A few random things

Because clearly I have not spammed my journal enough this weekend, here are a few more thoughts. (Aside: Eep! What is that autosave thing?! That is freaking me out!)

Random bitching
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Lack of 'The Fog'
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Walk the Line
In the meantime, I have seen Walk the Line and I loved it. Spoilers ahead... ( Read more... )

Final randoms
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