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From: [identity profile] calebbullen.livejournal.com Date: 2003-05-13 10:47 pm (UTC)
I agree the characters are not fantastically consistent. Although both fathers are, which is weird. The parts are all well cast though. And they almost get it right so often it's really irritating.

Lex does prefer deflecting because he still thinks he's a good guy. He must not have seen the trailers.

Of course your really creepy bad guys don't know that they are evil: Lex, Norman Bates, George W. Bush. The ones who do: lionel, Iago, Dr. who's the Master, Mephistopheles in Faust (to name a few); are much more likable. They enjoy being evil and it's infectious.

Although from what I recall from saturday morning cartoons. Lex is like the trix rabbit, good ideas, adequete follow-through but it never works out for him. It's too bad.

On the show, what draws me in about Lex is the fact that if he just gave up on being evil at all, he'd have a decent life. He's already rich and good looking. He doesn't really crave power now. Helen's a catch. He may not have a lot of close friends but Clark, the Kents and Lana would all give him a kidney. He could keep doing favors and become Kansas' own Don Corlione. But instead he's going to chase Helen away or get her killed and spend his adult life trying to kill his best friend and wear an inordinate amount of lycra. Does this sound like a good career path?

He could quit playing cat and mouse with clark and go, "Listen, I know you're an alien and have all kinds of weird powers. It was prying, I'm sorry but who wouldn't be curious? Wanna play some pool?" Then, he could join up with Pete and Clark in their ragtag bunch of boy crime fighters. It'd be a good match, Brains, Brawn and Sanity. But sadly, his obession will lead him to become the Lex Luthor, the millionare that nobody likes. Tragic really.

I'm rambling, sorry. I was getting online to apply for an auto loan and seem to have gotten distracted.

Austin, yeah I love it. Where are you at? I'm down in South Austin by Ben white and first. So far it has been like heaven on earth. With the exception of politics, most everything down here is the way it always seemed like it ought to be growing up in Chicago but wasn't. If that made sense. Except the smoke in the air, I could do without that.
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