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bop_radar

Smallville 7.10 Persona

Feb 01, 2008 20:32

Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! My boyfriend's Smallville's back! :D :D :D

It's funny. I don't feel like anything's been missing from my life, but the second I press play on a new episode, it all comes flooding back to me... the special place that Smallville (in all its madness) has in my heart ( Read more... )

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mkitty3 February 1 2008, 12:12:01 UTC

I really enjoy reading your thinky thoughts:) And I think I might totally ship Lana/Bizarro now! LOL

bop_radar February 1 2008, 22:14:35 UTC

Aww, thank you! Cool Bizarro icon!

hoperoy February 1 2008, 12:27:05 UTC

A lot of my flist didn't like this episode, but I'm in agreement with you! I actually thought it was good, had some interesting twists, and was more like the show that I'd been missing. :)

bop_radar February 1 2008, 22:15:25 UTC

Oh, thanks! Yes, I liked it more than a lot of episodes in Season 7 so far, but I'm noticing a lot of people were 'meh' about it. Good to know I'm not completely alone!

radioreverie February 1 2008, 12:45:40 UTC

I can think of like five different Lex vids. But I think I know the one you mean.

bop_radar February 1 2008, 22:16:18 UTC

Ha! Yes, um, the big epic one. This episode put me in a very Lex place so I got to thinking about it.

serenography February 1 2008, 13:53:34 UTC

bop_radar February 1 2008, 22:17:27 UTC

Ohh, how fascinating. Shows how much I know about birth, LOL. Until you commented about that I had totally forgotten that that happens... and even now I'm struggling to remember why. Something to do with it being useful for transfusions, yes?

We are both easy and silly, yes. :d

huzzlewhat February 1 2008, 14:19:51 UTC

I love your thoughts on this episode... they are pretty much exactly mine, and you hit them all so well. I'm probably not even going to bother writing up what I thought of the ep, I'll just point people here!

I especially loved your analysis of Lex destroying Julian - how much did I love that he finally made himself guilty of that of which he'd been falsely accused? An argument can be made that Lionel's belief that Lex killed Julian is what turned him from merely a crappy father into an astonishingly terrible one. That Lex resurrected Julian only to ultimately kill him is a lovely, painful paradox - akin to time-travel paradoxes, in a way... thinking Lex killed Julian led Lionel to make Lex into the man who killed Julian.

Ouch.

And I wanted to say, that this:

the idea that the cost of exercising power selfishly is a loss of self. Lex takes this step willingly (but painfully) because the alternative is even more painful to him. What a fascinating construction of a villain that is!is so spot on for not only Lex, but the other ( ... )

bop_radar February 1 2008, 22:24:08 UTC

Wow, I'm really flattered!

how much did I love that he finally made himself guilty of that of which he'd been falsely accused?
I KNOW! My mind was 'splodey about that!

thinking Lex killed Julian led Lionel to make Lex into the man who killed Julian.
Right! Even the possibility of that is chilling. And Lionel himself said things would have been very different if he'd known it wasn't Lex who killed Julian... what a strange and tragic loop the Luthors are caught in.

Clark's reaction when Dax-Ur assumed he wanted the blue kryptonite to do the same? Giving up his power and refusing to be the Earth's savior is the selfish choice, and Clark won't make it.
Thank you for bringing that up--I ran out of time to tackle that scene but it was very important. And a great relief to me to see Clark acting so maturely about it! I'm sure he's able to empathise with Dax-Ur's reasons--he's longed for that himself in the past.