Tonight I have thoughts about the Smallville season finale and fanfic recs!!!

Smallville 'Vessel' 5:22

I ended up watching this with a co-worker which was kind of embarrassing because she got to see me flail about JM and giggle at any possible slashy Clark/Lex moment. Fortunately I think she was entertained and didn't find me (too) crazy. I scribbled down a few thoughts while I watched the episode:

- I wonder if JM gave Michael Rosenbaum tips on how to act like there's pain in his head? All those clutching head scenes reminded me of when Spike's pain chip went off.
- The thing I love about Smallville is the special effects (and Lex, Chloe, Lionel and JM/Fine), and the season finales always have wicked cool effects. [I wrote that at the beginning of the episode and I didn't end up being impressed by the effects this time. I did like that it was a more intimate episode, in some ways, with a focus on the Clark/Lex dynamic.]
- Oh, I like Tom Welling's longer hair. [Clearly my thoughts are very deep.]
- A vessel to inhabit. teeeeheeee [I believe I was reading a slashy subtext into that.]
- Hoping for evil Lex. It's so fun when he's evil!!
- So I guess SV's coming down on the nurture side of the nature vs. nurture argument.
- Lionel re: Lex Dark force at work inside him. [Ah, the slashy subtext!!!]
- JM!!!! [hahahaha, that's all I wrote about him. I really was too excited about JM playing evil and wearing a suit to write anything coherent.]
- Chloe: It's like Y2K on acid. [Afterwards a friend called me and we were talking about how quickly everything devolves into chaos and whether it would happen that quickly. Her: It'd probably take 6-8 hours for that kind of chaos and violence to develop. Me: That's what happened on the show, except they skipped the 6-8 hours.]
- Chloe & Clark kiss!!!! Yay! I'm fond of them together.
- Lex: I thought you had a strong core. But you lie all the time. [I can't recall the entire quote, but I really liked that stand off between Clark & Lex. My friend pointed out that Superman can't lie so it's not good that they keep having Clark lie on SV. Hopefully this'll be motivation for him to re-examine his approach.]
- Good acting on MR's part.
- Bad stock footage!!!! heee!
- Lex is wearing the Leather Coat of Evil!!!
- I love the badly done apocalyptic backdrop when Lex and Lana are kissing.
- CLIFFHANGER!!!!!

So a pretty fun episode, that leaves lots to be resolved next season. I loved the high Lex content and possessed!evil!Lex is awesome!


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When I first started reading fanfic, it was for Spike/Buffy (and Wes/Lilah) but I quickly found Spike/Xander and fell in love with the pairing. Since coming to LJ, I've been having a blast reading lots of different pairings and discovering so many wonderful authors. However, I still get such a thrill when I read a good Spike/Xander fic. There's lots of awesome ones out there, and I wanted to share a few of the current ones that are making me all giddy. If you don't normally read the Spander, these are the ones to read:

* entrenous88's Lovers' Drive - Summary: Spike does grab Xander and Willow from the high school in s3’s “Lovers’ Walk”; from there on, things turn out differently.

* reremouse's The Last Days Of Rome - This is an 11 part story which is being updated daily! Summary/Warning: A Spuffy here, a Xuffy there - here a Spander, there a Spander, everywhere a Spander Spander. Season six, resurrectibuffy, stalking. And remember kids - smoking's bad for you!

* trufflemouse (aka the awesome combo writing team of reremouse and savoytruffle) are posting And Let the Gods Do the Rest - It's a 14 part story that's being posted every other day! Summary: What happened in Oxnard stayed in Oxnard and so did Xander... until Buffy sent him a souled and crazy Spike to help out with a little case of Apocalypse.

* douse_house (aka the awesome combo writing team of reremouse and tabaqui) have completed a prologue Oxnard to Glory and now are posting new chapters to the main event SNAFU - Summary: In a universe where the Master never killed the Slayer, and the Scoobies survived graduation with a little more innocence and a lot less tarnish, Xander still never made it past Oxnard, but Cordelia got her Birthday wish.

* savoytruffle's Dirty Dancing Spander Style - Summary: Dirty Dancing plot + Buffyverse characters = human AU crack/charity fic

fyi: I used the authors' summaries because my descriptions would be longer than actually reading the fics!
Even though there's some author repetition (hee), I love how these stories represent a variety of different Spike/Xander fics. *basks in the awesome Spike/Xander fic*

Oh, and in my icon doesn't it look like Xander's checking Spike out?!