Fic: ...Clark Is Actually Pretty Ok With This, Thanks (Part 2, 1/3)

[josephina_x]

Title: ...Clark Is Actually Pretty Ok With This, Thanks (Part 2 -- Lois Gets In On The Bromance Shipping)
Author: josephina_xFandom: Smallville

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[josephina_x]

Well, I an only be so sad about that, because if they didn't try anyway, we wouldn't have had the cracky goodness that is Smallville! *lol*

Ok, I think that maybe we differ a bit here. I didn't -need- to see how Lex started being *evil* or EVIL. Frankly, I didn't -want- to. I don't -want- to see him as the "evil guy who experiments on people". I guess I have this mental line or zones of difference between "good" and "bad" and "evil". Evil, by my own personal definition, requires enjoyment as one inflicts pain and suffering and death on others, and I can't see Lex being like that with most people (or even Clark) without some serious additional mindfuckery going on with him that we never saw (or was even hinted at). I don't want to see Lex make the switch. (I'm perfectly happy with him skirting the line of "neutral", "bad", and "really bad" and making us all sweat uncomfortably when we start to agree with him a little too much...)

Speaking of which, the whole thing about he's such a horrible guy for experimenting on the meteor freaks is a pet peeve of mine. Those guys in Belle Reeve were killers, almost every last one, and definitely needed mental help at the least. It's also pretty apparent from the ep when Lex gets electroshocked that the freaks in Belle Reeve are mainly staying there at that point simply because they don't have a reason to leave, not because they can't break out if they decide they really want to. (They just don't have anything on the outside except police with guns after them.) A lot of what it sounded like Lex was doing was trying to come up with ways to boost/enhance and stifle powers (with Level 3 so that they could be controlled and not break out of places), and train and headshrink the others (Level 33.1 / Black Creek), and watch the non-actives to keep an eye on them (the catch-and-release thing where Chloe got nabbed -- though I admit the last one's a reach, because in canon Clark and Chloe believe that Lex was killing the other trackees, but considering that Jimmy called and said that the one guy was caught in a car accident a while ago, and then Clark checks the scanner and the chip goes out right then, -after-, and similarly the chip Chloe had in her didn't stop transmitting until Clark smushed it between his fingers, in my own headcanon Lex was just having them nabbed and the chips ganked out of them, not killed -- that many people dropping dead in town within an hour or so period is way too suspicious for anybody to get away with, honestly, and if he was really trying to kill them all off to cover loose ends, why wouldn't he have ordered Chloe killed instead of watched at the end when he was informed about her having been picked up as part of the program?). I figure the watching was possibly to be able to grab them before they hurt themselves or anyone else if the went active and psychotic like usual, but that's assuming 'kinder'/practical motives where there might have been none. (If he was 'evil', it could have just as easily have been to grab them for weaponizing, but he really didn't do that with the others at Black Creek, and if that was really what hewanted, I don't see why he'd just wait around for the activation instead of forcing it, if that was the case. Meh.)