Good riddance, to bad rubbish
Bye bye SV. You will not be missed over here.
Although, to be fair, aside from the destiny 'Clark has to be a hero because everyone and his dog says so' crap, it was all moving along quite nicely.
Chloe/Oliver is maybe one of the best decisions the show has ever made (and I'm even starting to think taking Chloe from journalist to superhero was a smart idea, albeit badly realised) and all the iconic stuff (glasses, Clark saving the plane in his suit and all that) was artfully done.
And as for Lex, well what can I say? He was perfection, actually. Still clearly caring about Clark, touching his shoulder(!), lamenting their lost friendship and proclaiming his intent to stand up as Clark's enemy to, IMO, essentially maintain the balance. He's past struggling with the idea, the pain and betrayal and everything, he's just given in, he'll be the villain he never wanted to be. And so we get an inkling of the tragedy their relationship should have been all along.
...well, until the fucking MINDWIPE anyway.
Oh jesus, SV. Why? Why must you always screw up a good thing? What was the point?
Because wtf? Lex now has no memory of anything, and we're supposed to believe that that Lex, a clean slate with no abuse from Lionel or Lillian, Clark or Jonathan or anyone to mess him up, just obviously becomes the villain of Superman canon? Because he's inherently evil, of course, and it couldn't possibly be that his experiences and his memories led him to become the man we know from the comics - which, incidentally, would have been the perfect parallel to the theme you were pushing (with your usual anvil-like subtly in that extended montage of all Clark's 'heroic' saves projected in those crystals) that Clark is the hero he is today because of his past.
Fuck you, SV. You had Lex as the perfect villain in his scene with Clark. I was so fucking on board with that, with his reasoning, with his encouraging of Clark to go save the world so he can stand against a real hero when Clark comes back, with everything. And you took that away from me?
GTFO.
Killing Tess remains a highlight though :)
Nothing against you personally, Tess, honey. You were an awesome character. But you were an awesome character at Lex's expense. You stole his depth and his facets and that's just not on. Lex should have been the complex and engaging Luthor, not you. So it's only right he should take you down.
And this is perhaps the one thing I will take away:
Lex: What did you want Tess?
Tess: Something I'll never have.
Lex: Clark?
Because what else is there for a Luthor (especially a Lex-replacement Luthor) to want that they can't have but Clark, right? ;)
Although, to be fair, aside from the destiny 'Clark has to be a hero because everyone and his dog says so' crap, it was all moving along quite nicely.
Chloe/Oliver is maybe one of the best decisions the show has ever made (and I'm even starting to think taking Chloe from journalist to superhero was a smart idea, albeit badly realised) and all the iconic stuff (glasses, Clark saving the plane in his suit and all that) was artfully done.
And as for Lex, well what can I say? He was perfection, actually. Still clearly caring about Clark, touching his shoulder(!), lamenting their lost friendship and proclaiming his intent to stand up as Clark's enemy to, IMO, essentially maintain the balance. He's past struggling with the idea, the pain and betrayal and everything, he's just given in, he'll be the villain he never wanted to be. And so we get an inkling of the tragedy their relationship should have been all along.
...well, until the fucking MINDWIPE anyway.
Oh jesus, SV. Why? Why must you always screw up a good thing? What was the point?
Because wtf? Lex now has no memory of anything, and we're supposed to believe that that Lex, a clean slate with no abuse from Lionel or Lillian, Clark or Jonathan or anyone to mess him up, just obviously becomes the villain of Superman canon? Because he's inherently evil, of course, and it couldn't possibly be that his experiences and his memories led him to become the man we know from the comics - which, incidentally, would have been the perfect parallel to the theme you were pushing (with your usual anvil-like subtly in that extended montage of all Clark's 'heroic' saves projected in those crystals) that Clark is the hero he is today because of his past.
Fuck you, SV. You had Lex as the perfect villain in his scene with Clark. I was so fucking on board with that, with his reasoning, with his encouraging of Clark to go save the world so he can stand against a real hero when Clark comes back, with everything. And you took that away from me?
GTFO.
Killing Tess remains a highlight though :)
Nothing against you personally, Tess, honey. You were an awesome character. But you were an awesome character at Lex's expense. You stole his depth and his facets and that's just not on. Lex should have been the complex and engaging Luthor, not you. So it's only right he should take you down.
And this is perhaps the one thing I will take away:
Lex: What did you want Tess?
Tess: Something I'll never have.
Lex: Clark?
Because what else is there for a Luthor (especially a Lex-replacement Luthor) to want that they can't have but Clark, right? ;)