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From the James Wolcott article 'It's a Bid, It's a Plane... It's the Zeitgeist!' in Vanity Fair, March 2002: quote:In the first episode, Lex discovers Clark strung up like a scarecrow in a wheat field, a blood-red Spainted across his bare chest. The Crucifiction pose taps into the Superman-as-Messiah myth, maintaining continuity with the original, but it's staging and lighting make it also a classic tableau of homoerotica - a daring new direction for the Superman story, yet one that doesn't smack of camp subversion. Lex's fixation on Clark/Superboy always had a jilted-lover quality, a spurned fury, to which the comic-book writers seemed oblivious, mentally stunted as they were by the cereal-box aesthetics of cartoon convention.
I never did catch the first episode [or the few after that] but I had managed to catch the image that Wolcott is referring to in a magazine. The WB used it as the original ads for Smallville... the first time I saw it, my jaw dropped, quite literally. The picture is a pretty blatant take on Pierre et Gilles' work. So I was actually pretty into the show before I ever did finally see it. The image now serves as my computer's desktop image, mainly because I can have it up there without my mother thinking anything of it. She just thinks I like the show... not the boys on the show. 
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