the land of S

[xparrot]

Firstly, there was Supernatural 2x20 breaking our hearts. Oh, Dean. You're a pathetic alcoholic prom-date-stealing asshole in your dream world, but that's okay, because your mom is alive and your brother is happy. Also, it's saying something for this show that though Dean has been my favorite from the beginning, I was twitching from the lack of Sammy. It's both or nothing, with these boys...

And when everyone is advancing on Dean at the end, Jessica stands alone, while Dean's random girlfriend is just behind Sammy - Dean met Jessica only once but she's still that important to him, because she's that important to Sam. ...Even if that meant, darn it, he was hugging her instead of Sam. You are playing with us, show. This hug we're all on tenterhooks for better be worth it.



Then, Smallville 6x20, which should have come with a surgeon general's warning, because everyone was smokin'. Literally, in some cases. Lex in particular. Wowza. (I cannot stand the smell of cigarettes. Fortunately, on TV, I don't have to smell them. And anything that gets MR's hands near MR's mouth is a force of good in the name of the sexy.) And Clark in glasses is fantastic and gorgeous. And Lana is evil! And Lex is wearing a hat! And is with Lois! (yays for Lexis, and for Lois period! Have missed her!) (And then Lex is...dead. Oh, Lex. Even in random dream sequences you're still a pathetic loser who gets out-eviled by everyone around you. Sigh. In my mind, naturally, noir!Lex&Clark are running a sting operation together and Lex's death was faked...)

The non-noir portions weren't nearly as fun, mainly because Lana didn't actually get shot by Clark and die. Pity, that. gnine is also frothing at the about-face of Chloe saying that Lex couldn't have hurt Lana because he luuuurves her, when in "Progeny" two episodes before she was agreeing when Clark said Lex would throw Lana to the wolves. Not to mention the discrepancy about Lana's terrible "loveless marriage" in which apparently even Chloe believes that Lex does love her, so the love is only lacking on Lana's part. Dear Show, I am so baffled. I thought we're supposed to hate Lex for playing evil baby-faking mindgames. So why are you making us feel sorry for him for being in love with a woman who is plotting against him, for the love of another man? Whose side are we supposed to be on? Throw us a bone, please! --Konfused in Kansas

Has anyone noticed that Lionel's evilosity is inversely proportional to the length of his hair? His mane was remarkably tame here, when he's supposedly going good (I am confused as to how Lionel could possibly be seen as 'good' by any definition, but that's a matter to be taken up with the spoilers). In 4th season, he gets his head shaved and goes totally good for a time, then as it grows back, so does the darkness in his heart. So what does this say about Lex, hmm?

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Re: I haven't seen SV ep 20 yet...

[jakrar.livejournal.com]

Is there anything, anything at all Evil that Lex has done, that the other characters on SV haven't done? The Good Characters, I mean? The ones who don't get called Evil for what they do?

Offhand, I can't think of anything. Lex has killed -- both deliberately in order to save lives (Nixon), and unintentionally in the midst of what I see as temporary psychotic breakdowns (Duncan, certainly, and possibly Lana's crooked doctor, as well) -- but Clark has also killed, both intentionally and unintentionally, as have other SV 'good guys.'

And Lex has captured and studied mutants, but Oliver Queen had Lex kidnapped and actually got him tortured and nearly burned alive (and Lana with him), which is far worse than anything we've seen Lex and his people do to anyone, and clearly Queen felt no guilt about it at all. Actually, I have a theory that Queen had earlier set up cameras in the building where Lex was to be held, and taped/watched Lex being tortured and never bothered to intervene, though -- for form's sake -- he later mildly rebuked the surviving minion for ignoring his official orders. (Plausible deniability, as Lionel would say.) In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Queen plays those tapes when he wants to get himself off.... (Could be interesting if Clark someday caught him at that.)

Re: I haven't seen SV ep 20 yet...

[(Anonymous)]

God! What troubles me about this -- and I do feel obliged to explain why it troubles me, because SV is 'just a TV show' -- is that SV seems to be saying that it's okay to do 'bad things' if you're one of the Good Guys.