some of these shots are very beautiful. i'm going to take and use #1, but i can't make up my mind yet which of the others to take. i love the base for #17.
(a serious note: i don't understand people judging lex fans as if we were morally challenged. this is fiction! i can love the antihero or the villain without being a bad person. when i was in the HP fandom, i was there for Snape. Torchwood? i loved Owen, whom many fans loathed. i like dr. cox on scrubs. i just tend to go for the darker side!)
Villains have (generally) always been far more interesting than heroes, and I have to say that I find MR's Lex fascinating and sympathetic to almost a fault! But hey! Diss the character and the writing, people, not the fans, come on!
Agreed. It was very hurtful for me to read those things, and I'm beyond arguing with people who want to call me names first and then try to understand me secondly. I really get enough of that. We're all going to have our different interpretations, and it bothers me that we're Lex 'apologists' when fans of other characters excuse just as much. I'd call myself a Chloe apologist in some ways, just not for this episode, and you'd better believe that there are Lana fans who pull the 'mentally ill' card in discussion of us. I think it's tasteless and a very poor method of argument. You don't know what someone else has been through. They aren't doing anything wrong by liking a character that you don't like
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i like your huge reply! thanks for responding to me. :)
i agree that a "good" villain/opponent is what makes the hero interesting. i'd never have watched SV if there hadn't been such a fascinating lex in the cast. lex needs clark, and clark needs lex. it works for me!
and i definitely agree with what you say about fans' differing perspectives. there's no need for any of us to judge the others, and i too was rattled by some of what i saw in people's threads yesterday. it's the psychological complexity of lex (as michael plays it) that draws me in. a cardboard villain wouldn't, any more than a cardboard hero would.
ooh, snupin. i love that pairing. i may've mentioned to you at some point that it was remus lupin who got me into the clex, via thamiris' fabulous story, "quicksand." hot!
I agree. It's a fictional tv show we're discussing here, and it hurts and offends me when I see fans spoken of as needing psychiatric treatment, or being compared to Nazi defenders. What?? We're talking about a show called Smallville for gods sake!
The Nazi comments are just so out there, really! It's a TV show (and let's not forget that Michael's a Jew?)!
Anyway, it must be the price you pay for appreciating the villain more than the hero. Normally all the name calling wouldn't bother me because I just don't have those people friended, but when there were a lot of them and all over my f-list, I just figured we'd own it!
And I thought politics were brutal. O_o If we're so out there in appreciating the development of Lex the Villain, then why are the producers and writers "wasting" time on telling Lex's story? Wasn't that half of the whole selling for this series, was to see the evolution/origin of the rivalry between Clark and Lex, to Superman and arch-nemesis?
Truthfully, I think too much time has been wasted on other characters (mainly Lana and her screwed up ancestry) and that killing Lionel has been over due. He should have died after the whole electro-shock therapy. >_>
On a side note to one of the links you sent me, Herohunter, Lex wasn't the only to commit patricide. Lionel killed his parents for insurance money. Who is the worse person now?
Just my two cents...I would probably have more if I had watched the last two seasons instead of giving up when Lex voluntarily dated and married Lana. >_o
some of these shots are very beautiful. i'm going to take and use #1, but i can't make up my mind yet which of the others to take. i love the base for #17.
(a serious note: i don't understand people judging lex fans as if we were morally challenged. this is fiction! i can love the antihero or the villain without being a bad person. when i was in the HP fandom, i was there for Snape. Torchwood? i loved Owen, whom many fans loathed. i like dr. cox on scrubs. i just tend to go for the darker side!)
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Thanks, babe!
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Oh now I agree, that's just ridiculous.
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i agree that a "good" villain/opponent is what makes the hero interesting. i'd never have watched SV if there hadn't been such a fascinating lex in the cast. lex needs clark, and clark needs lex. it works for me!
and i definitely agree with what you say about fans' differing perspectives. there's no need for any of us to judge the others, and i too was rattled by some of what i saw in people's threads yesterday. it's the psychological complexity of lex (as michael plays it) that draws me in. a cardboard villain wouldn't, any more than a cardboard hero would.
ooh, snupin. i love that pairing. i may've mentioned to you at some point that it was remus lupin who got me into the clex, via thamiris' fabulous story, "quicksand." hot!
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Anyway, it must be the price you pay for appreciating the villain more than the hero. Normally all the name calling wouldn't bother me because I just don't have those people friended, but when there were a lot of them and all over my f-list, I just figured we'd own it!
*hugs you guys*
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Truthfully, I think too much time has been wasted on other characters (mainly Lana and her screwed up ancestry) and that killing Lionel has been over due. He should have died after the whole electro-shock therapy. >_>
On a side note to one of the links you sent me, Herohunter, Lex wasn't the only to commit patricide. Lionel killed his parents for insurance money. Who is the worse person now?
Just my two cents...I would probably have more if I had watched the last two seasons instead of giving up when Lex voluntarily dated and married Lana. >_o
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Yeah, like I say, criticize the writing and the character, not the fans, please.
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