Is it bad that I admit that I always love the prom episodes of any television series that was ever created? Maybe I have some freaky fetish for girls wearing taffeta, I am pretty sure it's not a fetish for carnations. Whatever it is, I was happy to see that we have advanced to the prom episode for Smallville because it traditionally means that the rest of the season is going to have less filler and more substance. The first season ended on prom night, so for fans of the show, it represents the beginning of closure, at least for the high school years. It's a process that every teenage high school drama goes through, and if the writers can pull it off, the show has a good chance of making it after the kids graduate. Do a poor job, and the plot could be spinning it' s wheels for seasons on end until even the money from syndication does not justify the repetitive drivel that is being produced.
I guess you either love the prom or hate the prom. I personally loved my prom(actually, I loved my senior prom - junior prom wasn't as great). Had a ton of fun, my date was cool, and the party afterwards was a blast. Some people hate proms, and they include the random girl at beginning of our episode. She's obviously upset about something, because she breaks the "In Case of Emergency" glass to grab an axe, and we think she is going to go all helter skelter on people. Luckily, when she encounters Jonathan Kent, she only knocks him out cold and doesn't chop off his head. The girl makes it to the boiler room, uses the axe on the heating oil tank, and is about to light it in flames. The oil tank is below the gymnasium, and if it starts to get hot, stuffs gonna 'SPLODE. The girl reaches into the boiler with a mop to light it a flame, she turns around and it's.....Chloe?
I know Chloe has had bad luck on proms, including getting left on the middle of the dance floor during her freshman year by the man of her dreams, Clark Kent, but she wouldn't resort to such violence, would she? To get the whole back story, we flash back to the previous day. All of Smallville High is getting ready for the prom, or at least the prom committee is getting ready. Chloe and Lana are walking down the hall, taking it all in. Chloe has always been one of those mature high school students who doesn't necessarily believe every single school tradition is important, especially if it is largely exclusionary. For that purpose, she doesn't really like the prom, and can't stand the prom court.
Imagine Chloe's surprise when she found out that she was nominated.
You sort of had the feeling that either Lana or Chloe would be nominated. For the interest of the show, one of them has to be involved in the prom in some way, just as one of them probably has to be either the valedictorian or salutatorian. For prom, it was Chloe, and she is not very happy because she sees it as nothing more than a popularity contest. What makes it worse is that it looks like Lana is not going with Jason. Something about taking the ex-coach of the football team that was fired for having a relationship with you seems a little strange.
Luckily for Chloe, there are people out there that have more of their life invested in the prom than she does. In particular, there is one person, Dawn Stiles, who is absolutely mortified that Chloe is on the prom court, and can't stand the fact that Chloe doesn't think the prom is the culmination of four years of hard work in high school, and would dare to badmouth it. Dawn is a stereotype, the school spirit, ra-ra, popular girl, who has nothing more to do than to date popular boys, wear the best clothes, and walk around with her little posse (which includes Kandyse McClure from the Battlestar Galactica series on SciFi - yes, I love it and am dying for the second season). Although Chloe could care less about who wins, and actually hopes that she isn't the winner, Dawn says it's on anyway.
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Comments (7)
Agree with you about how crappy Lana looked. Unbelievably poor choice of dress and hair. Lois was as confident in strapless as I have ever seen anyone carry themselves. That super-tight support that holds the dress up by constricting your lungs has never comforted anyone. You see celebs all the time pulling on their strapless. Go Erica Durance!
1 of 7 | Posted by Lady J | Posted on April 25, 2005 7:45 AM
The best part was when Dawn went into Clark, and a split second later, you hear Tom Welling impersonating a woman:
"That's my tiara, bitch!"
POW!!!
2 of 7 | Posted by skitch | Posted on April 25, 2005 11:22 AM
I wish this was my prom. The only adults I saw chaperoning the dance were the Kents and "Lifehouse". It's no wonder an ex-coach who got fired for sleeping with a student just walks into the gym. Is there no security in this school?
3 of 7 | Posted by Oberon | Posted on April 25, 2005 6:18 PM
J-unit you poser! Clark raced of to save Chloe in
The season one finale, not Lois!
Lois did look pretty bad in that getup. Her hair was like something out of a forties movie. A bad forties movie. And that anyone would turn down Lois and her gorguoes rack for that bitchy flat chested Lana, just shows that superman is a loser.
I’m always amused when Lex Luthor, one of the most powerful men in the world and head of Luthorcorp, somehow seems to have a screen door on his mansion because everyone just waltzes in whenever they want in practically every episode. If I had a dime for every time lex walked in on someone snooping around his office id have.. well a lot of dimes.
4 of 7 | Posted by Eddiebosox | Posted on April 26, 2005 7:27 AM
Eddiebosox,
Thanks for alerting me to the typo, but Clark raced to save Lana in the season one finale. Chloe was safe, and alone, on the dance floor, while Clark was saving Lana from a Tornado.
5 of 7 | Posted by J-Unit | Posted on April 26, 2005 7:34 AM
Damn youre right. A reverse snap...
I was thinking of the time when Chloe was buried alive and he went to save her, or whatever.
Man those chicks would be dead 5 times from sunday if it wasnt for him. And he STILL cant get laid.
6 of 7 | Posted by Eddiebosox | Posted on April 26, 2005 11:29 AM
Not crazy about prom episodes myself, though there was one during Buffy's earlier seasons that was OK, the one with Angel in it and they were playing the Sundays' version of "Wild Horses."
The Dawn character was too much of a caricature from the Clueless genre of movies, and it didn't fit with the rest of the cast, which is generally portrayed as "real people" as opposed to embodiments of satire or cartoonish characters, but I guess you needed someone that distinctive so that when she moves from body to body, you can tell it's happening. Anyway. Also wanted to chime in on Lana and Lois at the prom as well. Yeah, what was up with Lana's hair? Not flattering in the least. I thought Lois looked gorgeous.
7 of 7 | Posted by Sean | Posted on May 4, 2005 9:33 PM