This was not an easy episode to watch from a Lex perspective. While I can understand how he came to project his own self-hatred onto Duncan and turn on him, I cannot condone it. Nor can I empathise with Lex in this. He is finally an unsympathetic character
This is the thing I can't stop thinking about. Clearly SV has done it deliberately - after all, as Lex moves closer to his future iconic self we *should* lose sympathy for him, but I'm actually shocked at how effectively they've managed it. In the space of one episode I stopped being on Lex's side. I actually sort of disliked him, which I just. I can't believe that happened.
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Date: 2006-10-28 11:19 am (UTC)This is the thing I can't stop thinking about. Clearly SV has done it deliberately - after all, as Lex moves closer to his future iconic self we *should* lose sympathy for him, but I'm actually shocked at how effectively they've managed it. In the space of one episode I stopped being on Lex's side. I actually sort of disliked him, which I just. I can't believe that happened.
How am I supposed to write Clex now? *weeps*