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⌈ Secret Post #5155 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Which main character would you like to not be a main character?

[(Anonymous)]

This is tough because removing a main character or sidelining them is a pretty massive structural change, and I have a hard time imagining how the show would adapt to that structural change. So there are characters I think are weak main characters, but IDK if I want them sidelined because I don't know how the show would adapt.

Clark Kent was the boring center of Smallville, but it...kind of worked for the story to have this boring, self-righteous, overpowered dude at the center, and then everyone around him is actually interesting.

Scott McCall, yeah, I agree with that one.

Dawson Leery was the worst, imo, but again, what the fuck would Dawson's Creek have done to restructure the narrative if they had sidelined him?

I was constantly frustrated with Clarke on The 100, but in that case I think the character was fine, I just wanted a more compelling actor who would've given the character a greater sense of depth beneath the surface.

Re: Which main character would you like to not be a main character?

[(Anonymous)]

My favorite superhero movie is Superman (1978) and Christopher Reeve does an amazing job of making both Clark Kent and Superman personas that he puts on - they're both exaggerated to make them seem very different and the actual person is somewhere in-between. I find that exploration of identity fascinating. And as part of being a teenager is defining your identity, you would think that there would be some really interesting ground to cover there in Smallville, but it just didn't really do that. Of course, I gave up on the show after the third season, so. I got the sense that the writers couldn't quite decide which Superman they were building to and sort of ended up with this middle ground character. But, honestly, at the time, they weren't going to do a show around the Superman mythos without it being firmly centered on Clark Kent and/or Superman. Now, with Gotham (TV series) and Joker (2019) and Loki (TV series), a series centered on someone like Lex Luthor or Lois Lane, with Clark Kent/Superman being much more peripheral, seems more feasible.

Dawson's Creek is pretty heavily structured around Dawson Leery. Maybe he could be the somewhat creepy loner who films everything, but is more of an observer than participant. So they could keep a lot of stuff from his perspective, but not have him interact all that much with the other characters. Joey and Pacey could be friends with, I don't know, Cliff Elliot or the McPhees, who show up earlier, and Dawson could live close enough by to see and film.