this is all your fault

Yes, you. Because I did this, and you did not stop me. So really you only have yourself to blame. (That, and housecleaning puts me in the mood for absurdity, and also 6th season Clex is difficult to write without eventually becoming overcome with the urge to pick extravagantly!tortured!Lex up and give him snugglies and Clark is not quite at that point. Almost, but not quite. Geeze, it's been 50 pages, how many more do you need? Sigh.)

Smallville Season 6: PART II - The Equilateral Sides of the Tragic Triangle Becomes Inexorably More Tangled, In an Arguably Literal Way

(Some 50 pages later. These intervening chapters are of such an intensity of expression that to reproduce them here might wreak terrible damage upon the very fabric of this most fragile system of tubes.)

..."Oh, no," murmured the once-maiden in her meticulously appointed bedchamber that very eve. "Oh, someone, help me!" But diamond tears sprang to the hazelnut pearls of her eyes as she realized no one could hear her elusive whisper.

Little was she to know that those few miles away, her heartsick erstwhile lover had his exceptional ear cocked in the stalwart castle's direction. And no more able was he to refuse that dulcetly importunate whimper than he would have been able to fly, or in his case bear a mountain on his broad shoulders--no, survive an atomic blast--er, circumnavigate the globe on foot--um, bounce a bullet off his manly eyeball--perhaps inscribe a greeting card; is calligraphy generally recognized as one of his superior gifts?--at any rate, amidst the endless litanies of possibilities, that which was least possible even unto the incredible reaches of his power was to refuse that softly spoken cry for assistance.

( but wait there's more )

would the real supervillain please stand up

(Yes, I know attempting to apply Earth-logic to any television, and most especially SV, is a schizophrenia-inducing shell-game, but someone has to do it, daggnabbit, and I'm just the loony for the job!)

Okay, I admit it. I am a Lex Luthor apologist. I've been trying to stay neutral, because I like villains. I like analyzing their motives and figuring out why they do the wicked things they do. I love redemption stories, but I also just enjoy villains being villainous. JLU's Lex Luthor rocks my socks, for being an unabashedly, thrillingly, evilly badass badguy.

I'm not talking about the comicbook or cartoon Lex Luthor now. Smallville's Lex, I can't see as a villain (I'm wondering if some of the show's writers genuinely believe he's the protagonist). It's not just that I think he's psychologically damaged, a victim of circumstance and a tragic puppet of destiny/AlMiles; or that I'm convinced he's got nobler intentions than are ever explained. It's that when I really analyze what he does, more often than not I find that I agree with him. Not only his motives, but what he's actually doing. In fact, the more I look at it, the more I think that Lex's fundamental problem is that he is the only sane man in a world of lunatics.

( Lex-nalysis, cont.: 33.1, 'Freak,' 'Static' and how this season could still be saved  )

Lex Luthor would totally have my vote. You know how they say of Mussolini, that he was a fascist dictator, but at least the trains ran on time? Lex Luthor - maybe he's an evil supervillain, but at least our kids aren't dying by the busload!