It's a testament to SV's...badness that Lex's lack of vengeful feelings hardly occurred to me while watching the ep; it wasn't 'til afterwards that I went, waaaaait a minute. So in this 'verse, Superman is the vengeance-driven one, and Lex Luthor just wants true love. Riiiiight. I think I want to slap Clark for the "Love is hard and hate is clean" line. Clark's the one who can't let go of hate, who takes out his anger on meteor freaks and whatnot (with the watch-stealers after Jonathan died, after the wedding), who can't love enough to be happy with his beloved's happiness but needs to possess her, cannot bear her being with anyone else even though he can't make her happy.
...Okay, calm, calm, breeeeathing...this show's still got it! Nothing can get me on a fan-tear faster than SV...
Chloe is in love with Lana. That's the only way I can make sense of her; as best friends, they're nonsensical, but Chloe helplessly in love - to the point that she does put Lana's happiness first, far above her own - at least works psychologically. I just choose to believe it's Lana's love-powers that inspire this overwhelming emotion.
I thought it pretty obviously could be referring to Lex as easily as to the Bizarro. I literally commented on this in IM when I was watching.
Ah, so you got that impression to! I read a review that seemed to think this was a leap of interpretation, but to me it seemed painfully obvious. If way too simplistic - the Bizarro is taking on the identities of others, presumably because he either lost or lacks his own identity; he's not just killing for the sake of killing (he is sometimes, but not always). Argh, I hate SV's moral sense...I know it's comic books, but it still drives me nuts. Or maybe it's the psychological sense...SV chars do good things, or bad things, for no particular reason whatsoever...seemingly just because they want to self-identify as "good" or "evil." It's D&D morality, chaotic good or lawful neutral...so irritatingly inhuman. Even Lex doesn't genuinely seem to believe he's doing the Right Thing; he thinks he's evil but doing it anyway, and just...why?! People don't work like that, darn it!
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...Okay, calm, calm, breeeeathing...this show's still got it! Nothing can get me on a fan-tear faster than SV...
Chloe is in love with Lana. That's the only way I can make sense of her; as best friends, they're nonsensical, but Chloe helplessly in love - to the point that she does put Lana's happiness first, far above her own - at least works psychologically. I just choose to believe it's Lana's love-powers that inspire this overwhelming emotion.
I thought it pretty obviously could be referring to Lex as easily as to the Bizarro.
I literally commented on this in IM when I was watching.
Ah, so you got that impression to! I read a review that seemed to think this was a leap of interpretation, but to me it seemed painfully obvious. If way too simplistic - the Bizarro is taking on the identities of others, presumably because he either lost or lacks his own identity; he's not just killing for the sake of killing (he is sometimes, but not always). Argh, I hate SV's moral sense...I know it's comic books, but it still drives me nuts. Or maybe it's the psychological sense...SV chars do good things, or bad things, for no particular reason whatsoever...seemingly just because they want to self-identify as "good" or "evil." It's D&D morality, chaotic good or lawful neutral...so irritatingly inhuman. Even Lex doesn't genuinely seem to believe he's doing the Right Thing; he thinks he's evil but doing it anyway, and just...why?! People don't work like that, darn it!