I really enjoy Lionel as a character just because he is so evil and complex. I mean, Lex is totally my favorite, and so I hate Lionel for all the stuff he's done to hurt Lex. But Lionel is always exciting. I love seeing him onscreen and reading him in fic, doing his nasty thing. Some people lose the complexity and make him flat-out evil in a way he really isn't, and that's not as much fun. Other people try to redeem him and lose his complexity by making him good, and that just sucks. I thought it was really stupid when he was good for a while in S4, because he was boring then. I think he's most fun as a heavily layered magnificent bastard.
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I really enjoy Lionel as a character just because he is so evil and complex. I mean, Lex is totally my favorite, and so I hate Lionel for all the stuff he's done to hurt Lex. But Lionel is always exciting. I love seeing him onscreen and reading him in fic, doing his nasty thing. Some people lose the complexity and make him flat-out evil in a way he really isn't, and that's not as much fun. Other people try to redeem him and lose his complexity by making him good, and that just sucks. I thought it was really stupid when he was good for a while in S4, because he was boring then. I think he's most fun as a heavily layered magnificent bastard.