when they first walked into the room I was half expecting the Chamber of Clark Kent,
I have to think that that room still exists. It has to. (I demand that it does, and that Lana find it...)
what game is he playing with Lex? Regain control of 33.1 while attempting to completely blame it on Lex? Something else?
I think Lex was on-target in a lot of his early rants against Lionel — that he can't bear for Lex to be outside of his control. I suspect that this is Lionel's way of pulling Lex back into the fold — and on his own terms. I'm still fixated on Lana possessing Grohl's research, so it's fascinating to me that Lionel now possesses 33.1. So Lex is stranded between them, not in control of the information source of either of his major interests.
And that fit very well with Clark being gone.
I missed the first 15 minutes — business dinner, yuck! — so I have it on tape. So when I started watching, I couldn't figure out where Clark was. Wait... wasn't there a tall, dark-haired guy on this show? I could've sworn...
it's a step toward the kind of decisions Superman is going to have to make all the time: save the one person he is personally connected to, or hundreds of innocent people.
And very much what Ollie (and the audience) have been telling him — that there's a world beyond his immediate circle. Love that he's stepping out into it.
I'm not sure he actually needed to be rescued by the mystery man. And to end where I began, I thought that was cheating. If you're going to show Lex's descent in an episode by having him kill, even in self-defense, you should contrast that by showing Clark choose NOT to kill in self-defense, not have someone else do his killing for him.
I felt cheated by the fact that we never got a head-on fight between Clark and the Bone Eater... it wasn't really a test of Clark's strength, so there's no way to know if he would have come out on top. (Although c'mon, he's Superman...)
What was significant about the Lex scene to me was that I don't think he had to kll him. Disabling him was an option, once Lex had gained the upper hand, and an option that Lex didn't take — didn't even attempt. It seemed to me to be less of a contrast between someone who killed and someone who didn't (because yeah, someone else did the dirty work), but between the villains... the opponent that Lex faced wasn't the same physical threat, didn't have to be killed, and was in fact the victim.
I'm really curious to know what was going through Clark's head at the end, and it annoyed me that it was left so unclear. When Clark didn't talk to Chloe, it effectively shut the audience out of his head, too. Was it the ugliness and death he'd seen? Was he protecting the apparently new hero on the scene from discovery (obviously MM is very shy, in the way he ran away from Clark)? Was he thinking about the fact that it was necessary to kill the Bone Eater to stop him, and contemplating having to take that action himself? Talk about black boxes — they shut us out of Clark's thought process, and it really annoyed me.
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I have to think that that room still exists. It has to. (I demand that it does, and that Lana find it...)
what game is he playing with Lex? Regain control of 33.1 while attempting to completely blame it on Lex? Something else?
I think Lex was on-target in a lot of his early rants against Lionel — that he can't bear for Lex to be outside of his control. I suspect that this is Lionel's way of pulling Lex back into the fold — and on his own terms. I'm still fixated on Lana possessing Grohl's research, so it's fascinating to me that Lionel now possesses 33.1. So Lex is stranded between them, not in control of the information source of either of his major interests.
And that fit very well with Clark being gone.
I missed the first 15 minutes — business dinner, yuck! — so I have it on tape. So when I started watching, I couldn't figure out where Clark was. Wait... wasn't there a tall, dark-haired guy on this show? I could've sworn...
it's a step toward the kind of decisions Superman is going to have to make all the time: save the one person he is personally connected to, or hundreds of innocent people.
And very much what Ollie (and the audience) have been telling him — that there's a world beyond his immediate circle. Love that he's stepping out into it.
I'm not sure he actually needed to be rescued by the mystery man. And to end where I began, I thought that was cheating. If you're going to show Lex's descent in an episode by having him kill, even in self-defense, you should contrast that by showing Clark choose NOT to kill in self-defense, not have someone else do his killing for him.
I felt cheated by the fact that we never got a head-on fight between Clark and the Bone Eater... it wasn't really a test of Clark's strength, so there's no way to know if he would have come out on top. (Although c'mon, he's Superman...)
What was significant about the Lex scene to me was that I don't think he had to kll him. Disabling him was an option, once Lex had gained the upper hand, and an option that Lex didn't take — didn't even attempt. It seemed to me to be less of a contrast between someone who killed and someone who didn't (because yeah, someone else did the dirty work), but between the villains... the opponent that Lex faced wasn't the same physical threat, didn't have to be killed, and was in fact the victim.
I'm really curious to know what was going through Clark's head at the end, and it annoyed me that it was left so unclear. When Clark didn't talk to Chloe, it effectively shut the audience out of his head, too. Was it the ugliness and death he'd seen? Was he protecting the apparently new hero on the scene from discovery (obviously MM is very shy, in the way he ran away from Clark)? Was he thinking about the fact that it was necessary to kill the Bone Eater to stop him, and contemplating having to take that action himself? Talk about black boxes — they shut us out of Clark's thought process, and it really annoyed me.