In this episode I loved the way (as you pointed out) Ollie was Lex to Clark and Clark to Lex, and both ways was used to illustrate the slightly different places the guys are in their lives now than they were back when Clark met Lex. I'm really impressed at how complex and fascinating they've made Oliver -- Justin's doing a terrific job as him.
Clark continues to be so grown-up this year! Again, as you pointed out, when Martha and Chloe fall back into the old pattern of simply comforting him, it isn't what he needs anymore. The guilt isn't eating him alive -- he's just using it as a way for him to figure out what he needs to do.
I do find it very interesting that they accelerated all three main comics folks all at the same time (Lana, too, if this is what they've made her future path -- they mentioned 'rewriting comics history' with Wither and I wonder if maybe making Lex and Lana real and lasting could be what they meant), though that's also very true to the way systems tend to develop in reality. A slow-build up, then once a certain threshold has been reached, a sudden upward spike.
Or downward, in the case of Lex. This episode fits together all the pieces of what will make him a supervillian in the future and they're all things that we've seen him do before. It works. The tragedy of Lex isn't that he can't make better choices, but that we already know that he won't.
Lois continued wonderful. I felt slightly bad for her at the party, when she came over to say, 'hi' to Lana and got... nothing back. But Lana has very definitely chosen her side and is making her loyalties of the moment very clear, so I can understand why she doesn't want to talk to Martha's CoS, one of Clark Kent's best friends (to use Oliver's words -- which can only be based on how often she talked about Clark to Ollie), and Chloe's cousin. She was investigative and ethical and continued to puncture Clark's seriousness. You can see why she'll be so essential to him in the future.
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Date: 2006-10-28 03:38 pm (UTC)Clark continues to be so grown-up this year! Again, as you pointed out, when Martha and Chloe fall back into the old pattern of simply comforting him, it isn't what he needs anymore. The guilt isn't eating him alive -- he's just using it as a way for him to figure out what he needs to do.
I do find it very interesting that they accelerated all three main comics folks all at the same time (Lana, too, if this is what they've made her future path -- they mentioned 'rewriting comics history' with Wither and I wonder if maybe making Lex and Lana real and lasting could be what they meant), though that's also very true to the way systems tend to develop in reality. A slow-build up, then once a certain threshold has been reached, a sudden upward spike.
Or downward, in the case of Lex. This episode fits together all the pieces of what will make him a supervillian in the future and they're all things that we've seen him do before. It works. The tragedy of Lex isn't that he can't make better choices, but that we already know that he won't.
Lois continued wonderful. I felt slightly bad for her at the party, when she came over to say, 'hi' to Lana and got... nothing back. But Lana has very definitely chosen her side and is making her loyalties of the moment very clear, so I can understand why she doesn't want to talk to Martha's CoS, one of Clark Kent's best friends (to use Oliver's words -- which can only be based on how often she talked about Clark to Ollie), and Chloe's cousin. She was investigative and ethical and continued to puncture Clark's seriousness. You can see why she'll be so essential to him in the future.