ext_7793 ([identity profile] norwich36.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] norwich36 2006-03-28 05:39 am (UTC)

Oh, yes. And I'm only doing the good ones. I was initially surprised, too, but for seasons 1-3, especially, Lionel was the primary antagonist in *most* SV stories that had an antagonist. I may even write an essay on trends in his characterization and how that affected story production. The largest number of Lionel stories seem to be (a) late season 1/early season 2 speculation about the Luthor backstory, which is not surprising since we didn't knowa lot, then, and there was lots of room for original ideas and (b) stories written during the period Lionel was blind and hanging around the mansion.

What there don't seem to be, though, are any stories dealing with Lionel's season 4 change of heart, which is too bad, because I'd like to see fanon at least try to paper over some of the worst gaps in canon for s4 Lionel. In fact, there aren't even a lot of "Lionel in prison" stories that I've found, and you would think that Lionel haters would use that scenario as a pretext to torture him, or Lionel lovers use it to explore how he negotiated and survived the experience--but other than Lenore's The Survival Game (http://scribblinlenore.popullus.net/survival_game.html) I can't even think of another good Lionel-in-prison story.

But SV story production has been down dramatically since mid-season 4, and I guess the people currently writing in the fandom just aren't into Lionel.

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