What the hell happened to the Rosses? There they were, negotiating with Lionel, and suddenly they were gone, and Lionel's standing alone on a flattened field. Did they just drive away and leave him there when the meteors started falling?
Yes, it's ... odd that they apparently aren't helping Lionel look for wee!Lex although I suppose we could fanwank it that they went in a different direction from him to look. Alternatively, it was such a sudden yet clearly catastrophic event that Lionel may very well have told them to go ensure their own family was safe. Lionel is not entirely without actual human impulses and given his own frantic searching, he probably would have understood the Ross men wanting to make sure their loved ones were safe.
You know the other way the Rosses kill me? The whole "he cheated us out of our creamed corn factory" business. Because I've never been able to understand how they didn't know the worth of their own business. Particularly not if they'd undertaken the task of trying to sell it. Wouldn't ascertaining its actual worth be one of the things you'd do initially in that situation? And I have trouble with the idea that the contract was somehow over their heads since there was, canonically, a lawyer in the family (there may even be two; we know that Pete's mom is a licensed attorney because she couldn't be a judge without being a licensed attorney first; in Rogue it's "Bill Ross" that Jonathan calls when he gets into trouble for allegedly killing someone). Seriously, if Mrs. Ross is on the District/Circuit Court as of S3's Whisper, then she was a practicing attorney at the time of the meteor shower. Even if she was a litigator and somehow didn't feel qualified to review it herself, I refuse to believe she didn't have at least one professional colleague familiar with contract law who could have looked that thing over to ascertain whether it was hinky. So I've really never undersood the Rosses' claim that Lionel "cheated" them out of their factory. If they (a) didn't know how much their own property/business was worth and (b) didn't have the sense to avail themselves of the services of the lawyer(s) in the family to review the mechanism of the sale, that's hardly Lionel's fault (and you know I never willingly say that!). I always rolled my eyes when Pete - or Jonathan -- brought it up.
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Yes, it's ... odd that they apparently aren't helping Lionel look for wee!Lex although I suppose we could fanwank it that they went in a different direction from him to look. Alternatively, it was such a sudden yet clearly catastrophic event that Lionel may very well have told them to go ensure their own family was safe. Lionel is not entirely without actual human impulses and given his own frantic searching, he probably would have understood the Ross men wanting to make sure their loved ones were safe.
You know the other way the Rosses kill me? The whole "he cheated us out of our creamed corn factory" business. Because I've never been able to understand how they didn't know the worth of their own business. Particularly not if they'd undertaken the task of trying to sell it. Wouldn't ascertaining its actual worth be one of the things you'd do initially in that situation? And I have trouble with the idea that the contract was somehow over their heads since there was, canonically, a lawyer in the family (there may even be two; we know that Pete's mom is a licensed attorney because she couldn't be a judge without being a licensed attorney first; in Rogue it's "Bill Ross" that Jonathan calls when he gets into trouble for allegedly killing someone). Seriously, if Mrs. Ross is on the District/Circuit Court as of S3's Whisper, then she was a practicing attorney at the time of the meteor shower. Even if she was a litigator and somehow didn't feel qualified to review it herself, I refuse to believe she didn't have at least one professional colleague familiar with contract law who could have looked that thing over to ascertain whether it was hinky. So I've really never undersood the Rosses' claim that Lionel "cheated" them out of their factory. If they (a) didn't know how much their own property/business was worth and (b) didn't have the sense to avail themselves of the services of the lawyer(s) in the family to review the mechanism of the sale, that's hardly Lionel's fault (and you know I never willingly say that!). I always rolled my eyes when Pete - or Jonathan -- brought it up.