As noted in last week’s thread, Smallville 10/06: “kryp/tuck”, we see the naked theme continue.
Almost the whole show was shot in the boy’s locker room. We got bouncy bouncy cheerleaders. And we got two make-out scenes. Kryptonic horny juice as a plot device.
Actually, I’m thinking that, since joining the football team is so out of character for Clark, the whole purpose of that plot point is to get us in the boy’s locker room each episode.
Ah, the boys. Teen boys. Mostly naked. Now, don’t worry about any pedophiliac urges, the actors are twenty-somethings. But, they use make-up to look like teens. What make up you ask? Why, they shave their body. Yep, every single one of them is smooth. You’d think they were also on the swimming team. Though, in the real world, football teams have a fair share of huger-than-average guys, some with a lot of non-muscle weight, if you know what I mean… in Smallville, all the guys are thin, lean, very buff, and smooth.
I’m guessing they thought, “If we make all the guys shave their bodies, they’ll look like teens!” Ummm, no. That’s going for the twelve year old look. The usual footballers are guys who’ve had greater than normal levels of testosterone raging through their bodies for years. They’re usually the hairiest bunch of athletes in high school. And even if that generalization is patently false, come on, at least one should have chest hair, by law of averages.
And so, rather than all that body shaving of male models creating the illusion of the typical high school football locker room, you instead create the typical set up of half of all gay porn.
But with all those shower scenes, maybe that’s what they were going for…
