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jdotmiSmallville last night was choppy. Not because of the story or because of the acting (which all worked), but because of all the freakin' plot holes! Plot resolution is apparently for wusses. So, Kara busts into a time capsule due to a Kryptonian treasure buried in Smallville, her gangsta' "friends" (who so were not) "turn her in", and she's eventually out of jail and home without issue, but nothing is said of the charges against her or if the kryptofreaks of the week wound up taking the blame. Then there's the left field "Lana siphoned away $10 million of Lex's cash and he's just going to let it slide" bit. Actually, that makes sense. Lex is batshit, but he genuinely loves Lana and knows he fucked up their relationship. And how on earth did they explain "Yeah, there was genetic matching on my !corpse, but I'm not dead, really!" without explaining the un-living Clone saga? Did Lana tell Clark about it? Did Kara keep her crown? What idiot police would arrest her on stage instead of backstage? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen (especially if/since the charges were dropped).
On the plus side, I love how Lex tells Kara in no uncertain terms he knows exactly who and what she and Clark are, and if they would just be honest with him he wouldn't be their enemy (which has been a theme of the show forever), but she was less than willing to be open with Lex. The look on her face was very reminiscent of looks Clark would get with him. There was the desire to be able to open up with him, but something holding them back. Both could tell that being in Lex's radar is bad, and that letting him in on the reality of the situation will not lead to good things. Lex has had plenty of opportunity to take the moral high ground, be on the right path, but he rarely selects it. So far, the ending of his relationship with Lana is probably the closest he's been since he was a child and took the blame for his mother's murder of his brother.
Would Lex be a better person if Clark and Kara were honest with him? Maybe for a little bit. But he gravitates so quickly towards darkness and deceit that I seriously doubt it. It's not even a question of Nature/Nurture. His father was a crook before he had quite the miraculous reform due to Clark's influence on him. Even after that he's ruthless in pursuing events to protect his "family", it's just that Clark is now part of that as well as Lex, due to Lionel's connection to Jor-El. Lex clearly got those traits from him. But he also got a bit of his mother's issues as well. She murdered her own son and went more than a lil nutso, so take that where you will. Add that to nobody really trusting him and psychotic exes and you've pretty much got a guy who is screwed.
Wow that was a lot of rambling. Back to work for me.
On the plus side, I love how Lex tells Kara in no uncertain terms he knows exactly who and what she and Clark are, and if they would just be honest with him he wouldn't be their enemy (which has been a theme of the show forever), but she was less than willing to be open with Lex. The look on her face was very reminiscent of looks Clark would get with him. There was the desire to be able to open up with him, but something holding them back. Both could tell that being in Lex's radar is bad, and that letting him in on the reality of the situation will not lead to good things. Lex has had plenty of opportunity to take the moral high ground, be on the right path, but he rarely selects it. So far, the ending of his relationship with Lana is probably the closest he's been since he was a child and took the blame for his mother's murder of his brother.
Would Lex be a better person if Clark and Kara were honest with him? Maybe for a little bit. But he gravitates so quickly towards darkness and deceit that I seriously doubt it. It's not even a question of Nature/Nurture. His father was a crook before he had quite the miraculous reform due to Clark's influence on him. Even after that he's ruthless in pursuing events to protect his "family", it's just that Clark is now part of that as well as Lex, due to Lionel's connection to Jor-El. Lex clearly got those traits from him. But he also got a bit of his mother's issues as well. She murdered her own son and went more than a lil nutso, so take that where you will. Add that to nobody really trusting him and psychotic exes and you've pretty much got a guy who is screwed.
Wow that was a lot of rambling. Back to work for me.
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