Usually, for me, I wouldn't get into something that is so tragically doomed. I think the problem here is that...well...it is doomed, and then--it's not. Because the Superman canon is an ever-mutating thing, and it never will end. It's different from most other fandoms in that over the decades it's become a mythology unto itself, apart from its origins. Even SW has something of a fixed canon, sprawling as it is; Superman has no absolute consistency, just eternals. Superman was killed, but he came back, and he always will; Lex Luthor will never really die. So while there isn't a happy ending for them on the horizon...there's not a sad ending, either. There is no ending. There is always, somewhere, sometime, down an alternate timeline or in another universe, the chance that it can work out, that they will come to an understanding, that Lex can be redeemed and their friendship will be restored. And the friendship SV presents (and the obsession Lex Luthor maintains through all his diverse incarnations) is irresistable...
I guess, ultimately, yeah, it's living in Denial Central. But it's a denial that never can totally be, hmm, denied, by canon, and therefore is more satisfying than most to me...
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Date: 2007-03-22 03:31 pm (UTC)I guess, ultimately, yeah, it's living in Denial Central. But it's a denial that never can totally be, hmm, denied, by canon, and therefore is more satisfying than most to me...