I'm also wondering how meeting all of five Kryptonians and one Kryptonian AI makes him an expert on what qualifies as sane or insane by their race's standards. Besides, sane vs. insane is really more dependent on cultural standards. It shouldn't matter if Clark is insane as long as he's sane by Earth standards, especially given no indicators that his relative insanity is unstable. Jeez Lex, I know you're into the hard sciences, but don't you think you should learn a little about psychology before you try to completely rework someone's mental framework? Because that kind of cognitive dissonance you're forcing on him is far more likely to make him unstable than just leaving him be.(Sorry, Psych major).
Lex admits that he is no Psych expert (...yet), which means that just because he doesn't see the indicators doesn't mean they aren't there ;) ...On the screwing with his mental framework? I've got nothing, other than that Lex apparently felt he had to start somewhere (thought processes), and he figured that he could tell Clark the opposite to undo things after the fact if there were problems (fairly sure that what he was gonna do wasn't gonna screw up the mental framework). --Hence, making Clark tell him what he believed first, before things changed. Not that Clark's brain is a computer a body could do a system restore on
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Ahh, see what's going on here re: sanity vs. insanity. There are two problems here, the question of what the canonical norm for Kryptonians are and the way we we're approaching Clark's assumed insanity
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...It occurs to me to add here for everybody else (since Nicnac and I jumped to PM's): I don't actually think Clark is insane; I do think he's crazy. Just not necessarily in the horrible 'oh-god-oh-god-run' or 'back away slowly' way. Nicnac and I both pretty much agree that practically everybody on the show is at least a little crazy (not that there's anything wrong with that, per se, 'normal' being overrated), and that they could all use some serious therapy ^_^;;
Very interesting story! Wow. Okay I read the story and I read both of the comments on it. Very deep!
I see it this way: at the beginning of the story as Lex feeling like what he is doing is "saving" humanity, and it all seems nobel and altruistic, but then about midway it kind of twists and morphs into something else. I felt at this point that the insanity that lex was afraid of getting well he basically got it. And anything he did to clark at this point seemed overly obsessive.
Either way wonderful companion piece!! I enjoyed it.
*lol* Trying to add realism to Smallville is always a tricky proposition!
*g* Glad it got twisty the farther in you got. (I like to think that happens with Lex's thought processes sometimes. On the surface, maybe it seems ok, but underneath... who can tell? ;)
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I'm also wondering how meeting all of five Kryptonians and one Kryptonian AI makes him an expert on what qualifies as sane or insane by their race's standards. Besides, sane vs. insane is really more dependent on cultural standards. It shouldn't matter if Clark is insane as long as he's sane by Earth standards, especially given no indicators that his relative insanity is unstable. Jeez Lex, I know you're into the hard sciences, but don't you think you should learn a little about psychology before you try to completely rework someone's mental framework? Because that kind of cognitive dissonance you're forcing on him is far more likely to make him unstable than just leaving him be.(Sorry, Psych major).
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I see it this way: at the beginning of the story as Lex feeling like what he is doing is "saving" humanity, and it all seems nobel and altruistic, but then about midway it kind of twists and morphs into something else. I felt at this point that the insanity that lex was afraid of getting well he basically got it. And anything he did to clark at this point seemed overly obsessive.
Either way wonderful companion piece!! I enjoyed it.
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*g* Glad it got twisty the farther in you got. (I like to think that happens with Lex's thought processes sometimes. On the surface, maybe it seems ok, but underneath... who can tell? ;)
Thank you -- I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
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