When Lex played the motherless card as part of his attempt to manipulate Moira, I realized that at this point every single main character on SV has lost at least one parent, which just serves to reinforce the idea that it's not the loss, it's how you deal with it. Well, how you personally deal with it and your support system afterward. I think Chloe's father protected her from the truth about her mother (what he knew anyway. It's hard to tell what Gabe knows when he's MIA for three years). Lois' dad had a hard time relating to his girls, but he didn't withdraw his love. Martha is suffering from Alheimers is just confusing, and I think if Clark had been younger losing his dad, he'd be pretty screwed. And Lionel... o.O
Oi! I'm relating Chloe and Lex more and more to each other. Moira may have thought she was protecting Chloe, but she was also hurting her a lot. I think I'm reading Moira a little differently than you are, but just from what we saw on screen, I think that both Lex and Chloe are sadly better off without their mothers having an active hand in their lives.
Not only that, but his desire to control Moira made sense--he feels he needs to control the mutants both to reduce their danger to society and to counter the alien threat--I could actually kind of see that in this episode. I do like the continuity of plot, for sure. I think my belief that Lex has good motivation is why I haven't picked a side yet. I really should be angrier at him, but I'm not (I'm biased for both of them). Though I kind of want to kick him for his confrontation with Chloe at The Planet. Lex never bothers to explain himself, and no one ever really asks him why he does the things he does. Chloe should be asking him WHY WHY WHY, and Lex could definitely try to convince Chloe that his experiments are for the greater good. He gets no cookies for choosing to be mean and snarky rather than explain.
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Well, how you personally deal with it and your support system afterward. I think Chloe's father protected her from the truth about her mother (what he knew anyway. It's hard to tell what Gabe knows when he's MIA for three years). Lois' dad had a hard time relating to his girls, but he didn't withdraw his love. Martha
is suffering from Alheimersis just confusing, and I think if Clark had been younger losing his dad, he'd be pretty screwed. And Lionel... o.OOi! I'm relating Chloe and Lex more and more to each other. Moira may have thought she was protecting Chloe, but she was also hurting her a lot. I think I'm reading Moira a little differently than you are, but just from what we saw on screen, I think that both Lex and Chloe are sadly better off without their mothers having an active hand in their lives.
Not only that, but his desire to control Moira made sense--he feels he needs to control the mutants both to reduce their danger to society and to counter the alien threat--I could actually kind of see that in this episode.
I do like the continuity of plot, for sure. I think my belief that Lex has good motivation is why I haven't picked a side yet. I really should be angrier at him, but I'm not (I'm biased for both of them). Though I kind of want to kick him for his confrontation with Chloe at The Planet. Lex never bothers to explain himself, and no one ever really asks him why he does the things he does. Chloe should be asking him WHY WHY WHY, and Lex could definitely try to convince Chloe that his experiments are for the greater good. He gets no cookies for choosing to be mean and snarky rather than explain.