I didn't watch any of the show until after I'd started reading Clex, so I came into it biased. And then I didn't really watch the whole thing until last year, and seeing it all at once...is hard on SV, because it highlights how non-existent the continuity is, both character and plot.
But, yes. I often like villains myself, but I don't always sympathize with them. But with Lex...it's so hard to even see him as a villain; he's suffered so much, and he tries so hard. And the way people turn on him, repeatedly and unreasonably...if they made Clark et al more sympathetic, then maybe we'd be siding with Clark. But a hero who spends most of his time moping that he doesn't get the girl, who saves people mostly when it's convenient for him - the "good guys" have so few qualities that let us root for them, that Lex's perseverance is more compelling than any of them.
Someone else describes the scene at the end of 'Hero', where Clark walks, calmly and heroically, in slow motion, to bury Kara's bracelet in the barn. Then he looks all sad at the evil of humanity. Yeah, he's really becoming Superman at last.
Oh good grief! I haven't been reading ep reviews and this is probably good, as it would be detrimental for my blood pressure. gnine and I were screaming at the screen at that scene. WHY, CLARK? WHY?! I don't understand why he's lying to Kara, except for the specific plot point of driving her to Lex (just so she can turn on Lex later, naturally.) This show has started equating lying with heroism - no, wait, it's done that all along. But it still freaks me out. It's not just that the chars are trapped in Sitcom World, wherein they never learn their lesson about lying because it allows for new wacky hijinks every week. But we viewers are actually expected to see lying as heroic? Um. No.
(I can't see Clark as a Superman anyway if he keeps casually killing people. Okay, fine, maiming them for life. The way he tosses Lex's muscle in this last ep - and the guy wasn't even a meteor freak, far as I could tell - that'd kill a person easy.)
Oh, yeah, that's the Smallville rage! It's all coming back to me!
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Date: 2008-03-19 05:01 am (UTC)But, yes. I often like villains myself, but I don't always sympathize with them. But with Lex...it's so hard to even see him as a villain; he's suffered so much, and he tries so hard. And the way people turn on him, repeatedly and unreasonably...if they made Clark et al more sympathetic, then maybe we'd be siding with Clark. But a hero who spends most of his time moping that he doesn't get the girl, who saves people mostly when it's convenient for him - the "good guys" have so few qualities that let us root for them, that Lex's perseverance is more compelling than any of them.
Someone else describes the scene at the end of 'Hero', where Clark walks, calmly and heroically, in slow motion, to bury Kara's bracelet in the barn. Then he looks all sad at the evil of humanity. Yeah, he's really becoming Superman at last.
Oh good grief! I haven't been reading ep reviews and this is probably good, as it would be detrimental for my blood pressure.
(I can't see Clark as a Superman anyway if he keeps casually killing people. Okay, fine, maiming them for life. The way he tosses Lex's muscle in this last ep - and the guy wasn't even a meteor freak, far as I could tell - that'd kill a person easy.)
Oh, yeah, that's the Smallville rage! It's all coming back to me!
Superwoman?
You'll have my vote!