Becky, I wish I believed that Lionel was trying to be a better person, for real, and failing because, well, he's Lionel. Because honestly I love the old MB, and I hate his almost certain death in the future at the hands of Lex. And weren't you suggesting last week that maybe he's making an alliance with Clark because he knows who to ally with? I can definitely agree with that.
But what I'm afraid of (unless the writers are actually more brilliant than I think, and Lionel really *is* Jor-El who actually isn't Jor-El but ZOD) is that they're just flipping Lex and Lionel. Now that Lex is in charge of Luthorcorp and has symbolically replaced his father (and there have been a number of scenes showing that --like last week, Lex impatient to get on the helicopter while Lionel was trying to talk to him, mirrored some scene in season 1 perfectly, only it was Lionel trying to get on the helicopter), then Lionel gets to be the one all ambiguous and striving for goodness, and Lex is just pure evil.
And that particular reversal will drive me batty, if it turns out to be true and not just a deep Lionellian or Zodian plot.
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But what I'm afraid of (unless the writers are actually more brilliant than I think, and Lionel really *is* Jor-El who actually isn't Jor-El but ZOD) is that they're just flipping Lex and Lionel. Now that Lex is in charge of Luthorcorp and has symbolically replaced his father (and there have been a number of scenes showing that --like last week, Lex impatient to get on the helicopter while Lionel was trying to talk to him, mirrored some scene in season 1 perfectly, only it was Lionel trying to get on the helicopter), then Lionel gets to be the one all ambiguous and striving for goodness, and Lex is just pure evil.
And that particular reversal will drive me batty, if it turns out to be true and not just a deep Lionellian or Zodian plot.