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Day 18 - Best Friendship
I consider it a major flaw of the show that this question is so difficult to answer. Although we know that Clark is (or at least was) great friends with Pete, Chloe and Lex, we seldom got to SEE moments that show it. What we do see are interactions that serve the plot, which all too often leads to us seeing Pete as a jealous punk, Chloe as a search engine, and Lex as someone to help him out with his problems. Do you wince like I do when you hear Clark say "in the spirit of friendship..." when asking Lex to get Lois back into university? One of the reasons I love fanfic so much is that the stories give us the opportunity to explore the offscreen interactions of the characters, when they have time to simply hang out and have fun together.
Still, the question needs to be answered. It comes down to Chloe and Lois, and as the icon says, "Why choose?" If this had been season 5 or 6, the answer would have been emphatically Chloe - she was the person he could talk to about anything, and the one who helped him the most with what needed to be done. Unfortunately, by the time we reach S9, it certainly looked like Chloe had no use for Clark beyond a strictly professional one - and even then she disapproved of how he went about just about everything. Understandable enough given everything that had happened to her over the last few years, but still a massive disappointment as a person invested in their relationship. Here's hoping S10 gives Chloe a story line that above all else reestablishes her friendship with Clark.
As for Lois, she has been a good friend over the years, sharing words of comfort and encouragement at the end of many an episode. Their friendship really accelerated though once they started working together at the Daily Planet, with their banter together being one of the most enjoyable aspects of the last two seasons for me. The romance element has tended to overshadow the friendship element lately, but the reason I think Clois works better than Clana is that these two did have such a long time to get to know each other.
Day 01- Favorite Character
Day 02- Least Favorite Character
Day 03- Favorite Episode
Day 04- Episode You Hated
Day 05- Favorite Season
Day 06- Favorite Canon Ship
Day 07- Favorite Fanon Ship
Day 08- Favorite Fight Scene
Day 09- Most Heroic Moment/Scene
Day 10- Favorite Clark excuse for appearing / disappearing
Day 11- Favorite story arc
Day 12- Best Climax
Day 13- Most Emotional Scene
Day 14- Worst Character Death
Day 15- Best comic book hero introduction to Smallville
Day 16- Best Villain
Day 17- Worst Villain
Day 18- Best Friendship
Day 19- Funniest Moment
Day 20- OMG WTF?! Moment
Day 21- Your guilty pleasure ship
Day 22- Best Quote
Day 23- Favorite minor character (i.e. only been in 1-3 episode)
Day 24- Favorite mythos moment
Day 25- Something you think Smallville did better than comics canon
Day 26- Scene that was the most aesthetically pleasing/prettiest
Day 27- Favorite hospital scene
Day 28- Favorite music montage
Day 29- favorite Superman franchise actors who have guest-starred (Christopher Reeve, Helen Slater, Dean Cain etc.)
Day 30- Memory of your first time watching Smallville
Other potential replacements:
- favorite Shelby Scene
- favorite end montage
- favorite "someone looking at two people from the outside" scene
- favorite Superman quote used in the show
- favorite use of the S shield (to narrow it down, you might want to discount the Blur costume and all the calling cards in S9)
- favorite Clark save
- worst parent on the show ever
- favorite El/Kryptonian other than Clark
- scenes and shots that you think best represent and focused on Smallville as the hometown of a future Superman
- favorite reveal of The Secret
- favorite performance/scene of a character getting possessed
- Least favorite Plot (story arc)
- Craziest plot/episode/scene
- Strangest/Weirdest Villian/Character
- Character that died too soon
- Character that should've died sooner
- Most annoying character
I consider it a major flaw of the show that this question is so difficult to answer. Although we know that Clark is (or at least was) great friends with Pete, Chloe and Lex, we seldom got to SEE moments that show it. What we do see are interactions that serve the plot, which all too often leads to us seeing Pete as a jealous punk, Chloe as a search engine, and Lex as someone to help him out with his problems. Do you wince like I do when you hear Clark say "in the spirit of friendship..." when asking Lex to get Lois back into university? One of the reasons I love fanfic so much is that the stories give us the opportunity to explore the offscreen interactions of the characters, when they have time to simply hang out and have fun together.
Still, the question needs to be answered. It comes down to Chloe and Lois, and as the icon says, "Why choose?" If this had been season 5 or 6, the answer would have been emphatically Chloe - she was the person he could talk to about anything, and the one who helped him the most with what needed to be done. Unfortunately, by the time we reach S9, it certainly looked like Chloe had no use for Clark beyond a strictly professional one - and even then she disapproved of how he went about just about everything. Understandable enough given everything that had happened to her over the last few years, but still a massive disappointment as a person invested in their relationship. Here's hoping S10 gives Chloe a story line that above all else reestablishes her friendship with Clark.
As for Lois, she has been a good friend over the years, sharing words of comfort and encouragement at the end of many an episode. Their friendship really accelerated though once they started working together at the Daily Planet, with their banter together being one of the most enjoyable aspects of the last two seasons for me. The romance element has tended to overshadow the friendship element lately, but the reason I think Clois works better than Clana is that these two did have such a long time to get to know each other.
Day 02- Least Favorite Character
Day 03- Favorite Episode
Day 04- Episode You Hated
Day 05- Favorite Season
Day 06- Favorite Canon Ship
Day 07- Favorite Fanon Ship
Day 08- Favorite Fight Scene
Day 09- Most Heroic Moment/Scene
Day 10- Favorite Clark excuse for appearing / disappearing
Day 11- Favorite story arc
Day 12- Best Climax
Day 13- Most Emotional Scene
Day 14- Worst Character Death
Day 15- Best comic book hero introduction to Smallville
Day 16- Best Villain
Day 17- Worst Villain
Day 19- Funniest Moment
Day 20- OMG WTF?! Moment
Day 21- Your guilty pleasure ship
Day 22- Best Quote
Day 23- Favorite minor character (i.e. only been in 1-3 episode)
Day 24- Favorite mythos moment
Day 25- Something you think Smallville did better than comics canon
Day 26- Scene that was the most aesthetically pleasing/prettiest
Day 27- Favorite hospital scene
Day 28- Favorite music montage
Day 29- favorite Superman franchise actors who have guest-starred (Christopher Reeve, Helen Slater, Dean Cain etc.)
Day 30- Memory of your first time watching Smallville
Other potential replacements:
- favorite end montage
- favorite "someone looking at two people from the outside" scene
- favorite Superman quote used in the show
- favorite use of the S shield (to narrow it down, you might want to discount the Blur costume and all the calling cards in S9)
- worst parent on the show ever
- favorite El/Kryptonian other than Clark
- scenes and shots that you think best represent and focused on Smallville as the hometown of a future Superman
- favorite reveal of The Secret
- favorite performance/scene of a character getting possessed
- Least favorite Plot (story arc)
- Craziest plot/episode/scene
- Strangest/Weirdest Villian/Character
- Character that died too soon
- Character that should've died sooner
- Most annoying character
