I'm really going to be dubious if Lana isn't found out. You're dead on for the flip-flopping and her being so bad at it. I knew she was good at being a phoney, but she shouldn't be about to out-Luthor Lex, and OMG security cameras. Not to mention turning up the music to deafening loud and then turning it off immediately. Like the servants don't know what that means. Like that shot up case isn't going to raise suspicions with Lex. *eyeroll* At the beginning of the season when she went all coldly evil, I thought, "Cool! She can learn from Lex and join in his fight!" But then they backtracked. So now it's just... not even as awesome. When she went evil in Arrow, it was For Lex and For Saving the World. Now it's for her own selfish reasons, which is really just Lana per usual.
pretty much everything that happened in the fic is totally supported in the episode, up to and including Chloe wanting to see Lex dead and Clark not being able to, for heroic reasons or something else. I was swearing at that when I watched, but I think this is an important reversal, since Clark pretty much copped out on being a hero in "Static" (despite Chloe arguing with him to save Lex) and been all I Wanna Kill Lex! for half the season. This step puts Chloe back in her place as Human, while Clark is Super.
Lionel is an asshole. Making an effort, in this case, means that ever since he came out of whatever Clarkthrall he was in since Clark was in his body, he has consistantly tried to cut Lex down in busness, in relationships, and emotionally. He has tried to control him on every level and then moves in on the family Lex was trying to get acceptance from. He's not really even magnificent anymore, manipulative, yes, but he's sucking Superman's ass so he can be on the side with the most power. Why the "good guys" listen to Milton Fine and Lionel Luthor about Lex is beyond me.
But he's not in it for profit or power; he's got a cause bigger than himself. He's found his Great Things and they're consuming him, he's letting them consume him for the greater good, and I can't help but find a tragic nobility in that. How flippin cool is that? I'm so proud of Lex for doing that much. I'd be prouder if he had more of a moral compass, but he IS trying so hard to fight when everyone else is running around like a bunch of idiots consumed with their own little lives.
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Date: 2007-04-29 05:15 am (UTC)pretty much everything that happened in the fic is totally supported in the episode, up to and including Chloe wanting to see Lex dead and Clark not being able to, for heroic reasons or something else.
I was swearing at that when I watched, but I think this is an important reversal, since Clark pretty much copped out on being a hero in "Static" (despite Chloe arguing with him to save Lex) and been all I Wanna Kill Lex! for half the season. This step puts Chloe back in her place as Human, while Clark is Super.
Lionel is an asshole. Making an effort, in this case, means that ever since he came out of whatever Clarkthrall he was in since Clark was in his body, he has consistantly tried to cut Lex down in busness, in relationships, and emotionally. He has tried to control him on every level and then moves in on the family Lex was trying to get acceptance from. He's not really even magnificent anymore, manipulative, yes, but he's sucking Superman's ass so he can be on the side with the most power. Why the "good guys" listen to Milton Fine and Lionel Luthor about Lex is beyond me.
But he's not in it for profit or power; he's got a cause bigger than himself. He's found his Great Things and they're consuming him, he's letting them consume him for the greater good, and I can't help but find a tragic nobility in that.
How flippin cool is that? I'm so proud of Lex for doing that much. I'd be prouder if he had more of a moral compass, but he IS trying so hard to fight when everyone else is running around like a bunch of idiots consumed with their own little lives.