SV 6-05, "Reunion"
Maybe at some point I'll get back to watching SV on the actual air night. Or, y'know, the day afterwards. Though last week and the past couple of days are especially rough, since it's around Halloween and everybody is running horror movies, so I've had the TV on that while it lasts.
Hahaha, oh geez. Lexian high school drama. Poor Lex, one would hope that after being his Dad's bitch so much, he'd at least be able to have some dominance at school. But alas, I suppose at that age even money can't overcome looking strange and being a comic book nerd, especially if everyone else is rich too. *sigh* I know I am too much into fanon, though, when this episode was sad due to no Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor schoolboy hijinks. Though we did get a mention of Gotham!
Oh Lex. Wanting to work with the poor just to spite your father. That's so perfect. XD
I see that Clark still hasn't learned his lesson in regards to intruding into people's houses when he wants something. I love Ollie dinging him on learning to knock; didn't Lex rag on Clark about the same thing back in the early seasons? It's interesting to see the similarities they're playing up between Ollie and Lex as handsome rich boys showing through here and there in Ollie's interaction with Clark. Watching them butt heads really echoes the old CLex interaction while still being different due to the different personalities involved and the different backgrounds/circumstances of the relationship.
It makes me even more sad on some level though, that Ollie has the advantage Lex didn't in being a costumed whatever (seriously, what are we supposed to count him as right now?) and getting to know about Clark's powers. I thought for a moment that perhaps if Lex had fully known about and revealed his own healing-factor weirdness that we might have seen Clark more willing to open up, but given that Clark is not only still different by virtue of being an alien, but would have guilt over inadvertantly being the *cause* of not only Lex's hairlessness but also granting him freak powers, it *still* wouldn't have helped. (I feel like I might be forgetting something, but I'm pretty sure that Clark didn't know--and maybe still doesn't--about Lex's healing.) Gah, boys.
That said, BOXING GLOVE ARROW OH GOD. ♥♥♥
I feel a bit torn about the reveal of what happened between Lex and Duncan. The characterization of Lex can be up and down on the show, shifting between "he's a guy who often means well but was raised a bit too compartmentalised and ruthless to not forget about other people's well being and do bad things in the pursuit of it" and "OMG bad seed, just wait for him to show his True Colors." Then there's the waffling between cold, calculating Lex who goes the roundabout way and has other people be the muscle for him, and anger management Lex who is just a step away from beating your head in if you piss him off. And often it doesn't feel so much like an organic range but a schizophrenic divide. I'm not really sure where this whole story falls.
On the one hand, Lex has certainly always known the value of power and status, and done questionable things to get it, so I can buy him wanting to at least fake being in with Ollie and gang even if he hated them; Lex is capable of valuing real relationships, but he's not so sentimental or straightforward that he won't ally himself with or use folks he doesn't actually like. I definitely felt comfortable with the move by him to blackmail the others with higher status rather than simply get them a one-off punishment.
But I'm not sure whether I feel that Lex going so violently batshit on his one friend makes sense given the character overall. Lex gets angry and he often lashes out, but not generally in such an immediate and highly brutal manner. Of course, he is much younger there and hence probably more impulsive, so...hmm. I think I would have been happier with it had Lex simply chased Duncan in order to talk to him, thus resulting in Duncan accidentally getting hit or something. But that sort of full scale psychotic freak out feels a bit OTT, like another case of writers forgetting subtlety in order to say "See, look how EVOL Lex is!" It felt like a shortcut.
I think I also would have preferred the finisher a bit if the death had been more accidental, and not prefaced by Lex actually almost killing Duncan with his bare hands. Because really, that fits so well into Lex's overall storyline. Lex puts a lot of things on himself, and we've seen him feel responsible even for deaths he had much less to do with. There's Julian of course, but I'm thinking primarily of Lex's dream Lana, who died through no fault of anybody's...yet Lex blames his imagined choices and relationship with Lana for "causing" her death and took the wrong path in order to avoid it. So even if Duncan's death was accidental (after all, none of the boys knew a car was coming) and there had been no violence beforehand, Lex *would* blame himself.
Gah. I don't know, I usually don't do meta because I only generally get to watch the episode once, and I forget a lot of stuff that happened before. So I could be totally wrong? I'll read some other people's reactions and think about it some more.
Oh Lois. That's retarded, indeed. I love you.
I'm interested to see where they go both with Lex's investigation of Duncan's kryptonite treatment and the escaped convicts from the Phantom Zone, but I don't think I have much to say about it at the moment.
Also, I got FFXII at midnight last night. Mmm, limited edition. But I got the strategy guide with the Ashe cover. >_< Anyway, I haven't been able to start it quite yet, but I will soon!
I've been re-reading JoJo's and reading some stuff I hadn't gotten to before. I should talk about that at some point.
Hahaha, oh geez. Lexian high school drama. Poor Lex, one would hope that after being his Dad's bitch so much, he'd at least be able to have some dominance at school. But alas, I suppose at that age even money can't overcome looking strange and being a comic book nerd, especially if everyone else is rich too. *sigh* I know I am too much into fanon, though, when this episode was sad due to no Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor schoolboy hijinks. Though we did get a mention of Gotham!
Oh Lex. Wanting to work with the poor just to spite your father. That's so perfect. XD
I see that Clark still hasn't learned his lesson in regards to intruding into people's houses when he wants something. I love Ollie dinging him on learning to knock; didn't Lex rag on Clark about the same thing back in the early seasons? It's interesting to see the similarities they're playing up between Ollie and Lex as handsome rich boys showing through here and there in Ollie's interaction with Clark. Watching them butt heads really echoes the old CLex interaction while still being different due to the different personalities involved and the different backgrounds/circumstances of the relationship.
It makes me even more sad on some level though, that Ollie has the advantage Lex didn't in being a costumed whatever (seriously, what are we supposed to count him as right now?) and getting to know about Clark's powers. I thought for a moment that perhaps if Lex had fully known about and revealed his own healing-factor weirdness that we might have seen Clark more willing to open up, but given that Clark is not only still different by virtue of being an alien, but would have guilt over inadvertantly being the *cause* of not only Lex's hairlessness but also granting him freak powers, it *still* wouldn't have helped. (I feel like I might be forgetting something, but I'm pretty sure that Clark didn't know--and maybe still doesn't--about Lex's healing.) Gah, boys.
That said, BOXING GLOVE ARROW OH GOD. ♥♥♥
I feel a bit torn about the reveal of what happened between Lex and Duncan. The characterization of Lex can be up and down on the show, shifting between "he's a guy who often means well but was raised a bit too compartmentalised and ruthless to not forget about other people's well being and do bad things in the pursuit of it" and "OMG bad seed, just wait for him to show his True Colors." Then there's the waffling between cold, calculating Lex who goes the roundabout way and has other people be the muscle for him, and anger management Lex who is just a step away from beating your head in if you piss him off. And often it doesn't feel so much like an organic range but a schizophrenic divide. I'm not really sure where this whole story falls.
On the one hand, Lex has certainly always known the value of power and status, and done questionable things to get it, so I can buy him wanting to at least fake being in with Ollie and gang even if he hated them; Lex is capable of valuing real relationships, but he's not so sentimental or straightforward that he won't ally himself with or use folks he doesn't actually like. I definitely felt comfortable with the move by him to blackmail the others with higher status rather than simply get them a one-off punishment.
But I'm not sure whether I feel that Lex going so violently batshit on his one friend makes sense given the character overall. Lex gets angry and he often lashes out, but not generally in such an immediate and highly brutal manner. Of course, he is much younger there and hence probably more impulsive, so...hmm. I think I would have been happier with it had Lex simply chased Duncan in order to talk to him, thus resulting in Duncan accidentally getting hit or something. But that sort of full scale psychotic freak out feels a bit OTT, like another case of writers forgetting subtlety in order to say "See, look how EVOL Lex is!" It felt like a shortcut.
I think I also would have preferred the finisher a bit if the death had been more accidental, and not prefaced by Lex actually almost killing Duncan with his bare hands. Because really, that fits so well into Lex's overall storyline. Lex puts a lot of things on himself, and we've seen him feel responsible even for deaths he had much less to do with. There's Julian of course, but I'm thinking primarily of Lex's dream Lana, who died through no fault of anybody's...yet Lex blames his imagined choices and relationship with Lana for "causing" her death and took the wrong path in order to avoid it. So even if Duncan's death was accidental (after all, none of the boys knew a car was coming) and there had been no violence beforehand, Lex *would* blame himself.
Gah. I don't know, I usually don't do meta because I only generally get to watch the episode once, and I forget a lot of stuff that happened before. So I could be totally wrong? I'll read some other people's reactions and think about it some more.
Oh Lois. That's retarded, indeed. I love you.
I'm interested to see where they go both with Lex's investigation of Duncan's kryptonite treatment and the escaped convicts from the Phantom Zone, but I don't think I have much to say about it at the moment.
Also, I got FFXII at midnight last night. Mmm, limited edition. But I got the strategy guide with the Ashe cover. >_< Anyway, I haven't been able to start it quite yet, but I will soon!
I've been re-reading JoJo's and reading some stuff I hadn't gotten to before. I should talk about that at some point.