What is your goal? I want Lex not to turn evil for a really fucking stupid (or impossibly vague and unbelievable) reason. If he has to be evil, at least it should not suck.
What are you going to do to accomplish it, given the constraints on your powers? I have miraculous, selective, memory-restoring powers. I would sneak into Lex's room the night after 'Memoria' and, after admiring the fine scenery (please, oh please, let him sleep naked!), would restore Lex's memories of the entire six weeks except I would leave out what, exactly, Clark's secret was. Lex would know that he had known Clark's secret and had stayed loyal and kept that secret, but that Clark had still left him to Lionel and in Belle Reve and had stopped the experiments at Summerholt to keep Lex from remembering, but he wouldn't know the actual details of what Clark's hiding from him.
What do you think the effect of your change will be? Lex, hopefully, will be really fucking pissed off. Better still, he'll at least know that he was betrayed on so many different levels. I'm not sure if he'll confront Clark right off the bat, or he'll sit on the knowledge and let it fester. If he doesn't confront Clark (or Chloe), at least he'll be able to feed their guilt trips and get justifiably really pissed off whenever either of them suggests that he has mental problems because he was in Belle Reve. (WTF, Chloe?! You know better! *stabs her lots*) Either way, it doesn't matter. At least when Lex finally turns homicidal on Clark, it will be for a damn good reason. Also, since he'll remember that Lionel's taken a shine to poisoning his brandy, he probably won't fall for the same trick in the season finale. Which means we won't get the subplot where Lex has to replace his blood every umpteen hours which the writers conveniently forget after 4x01. o.O Anything that helps continuity can't be bad!
What might be the unintended consequences? Well, if Lex does confront Clark, and Clark's not being a total jerk that day, it's possible that they'll have a good screamfest and eventually work things out. I left out Clark's actual secret to give Clark one last chance to redeem himself in case this scenario were to occur. :P (And, OK, also to give Clark a fighting chance if Lex decides it's death time then and there.) But, yeah, I'm not seeing a Clex reconciliation as a downfall.
A possible negative consequence is that Lionel would somehow find out that Lex remembers (although, given that Lex would then remember why Lionel put him through electroshock in the first place, I think Lex would be savvy enough to play his cards close to his chest). In this scenario, Lionel might try to kill Lex even more, or throw him back in Belle Reve, or any of a wide variety of dumbfoundingly evil plans Lionel is capable of devising. Which would be bad. I can only hope that Clark would save him this time. But at least this time Lex would have decent forewarning of what exactly Lionel is capable of.
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What is your goal?
I want Lex not to turn evil for a really fucking stupid (or impossibly vague and unbelievable) reason. If he has to be evil, at least it should not suck.
What are you going to do to accomplish it, given the constraints on your powers?
I have miraculous, selective, memory-restoring powers. I would sneak into Lex's room the night after 'Memoria' and, after admiring the fine scenery (please, oh please, let him sleep naked!), would restore Lex's memories of the entire six weeks except I would leave out what, exactly, Clark's secret was. Lex would know that he had known Clark's secret and had stayed loyal and kept that secret, but that Clark had still left him to Lionel and in Belle Reve and had stopped the experiments at Summerholt to keep Lex from remembering, but he wouldn't know the actual details of what Clark's hiding from him.
What do you think the effect of your change will be?
Lex, hopefully, will be really fucking pissed off. Better still, he'll at least know that he was betrayed on so many different levels. I'm not sure if he'll confront Clark right off the bat, or he'll sit on the knowledge and let it fester. If he doesn't confront Clark (or Chloe), at least he'll be able to feed their guilt trips and get justifiably really pissed off whenever either of them suggests that he has mental problems because he was in Belle Reve. (WTF, Chloe?! You know better! *stabs her lots*) Either way, it doesn't matter. At least when Lex finally turns homicidal on Clark, it will be for a damn good reason. Also, since he'll remember that Lionel's taken a shine to poisoning his brandy, he probably won't fall for the same trick in the season finale. Which means we won't get the subplot where Lex has to replace his blood every umpteen hours which the writers conveniently forget after 4x01. o.O Anything that helps continuity can't be bad!
What might be the unintended consequences?
Well, if Lex does confront Clark, and Clark's not being a total jerk that day, it's possible that they'll have a good screamfest and eventually work things out. I left out Clark's actual secret to give Clark one last chance to redeem himself in case this scenario were to occur. :P (And, OK, also to give Clark a fighting chance if Lex decides it's death time then and there.) But, yeah, I'm not seeing a Clex reconciliation as a downfall.
A possible negative consequence is that Lionel would somehow find out that Lex remembers (although, given that Lex would then remember why Lionel put him through electroshock in the first place, I think Lex would be savvy enough to play his cards close to his chest). In this scenario, Lionel might try to kill Lex even more, or throw him back in Belle Reve, or any of a wide variety of dumbfoundingly evil plans Lionel is capable of devising. Which would be bad. I can only hope that Clark would save him this time. But at least this time Lex would have decent forewarning of what exactly Lionel is capable of.