Yes, I agree with you about Lex easily justifying keeping Clark prisoner; in fact, it seems to me that his torture of Arthur and Victor and Bart symbolically represent torturing Clark, and his experimentation on Chloe is symbolically experimentation on Clark, too--and that can't be a good thing, from a Clex point of view.
I think Clexers are just going to have to do what they have always done: write AUs or stuff set in the past or the future. I still have a lot of investment in fanonical Lex, the one who gets redeemed, and I think the beauty of fanfic is we can always have that Lex, no matter how dark he goes in canon.
It will be nice to get an episode where Clark and Lex get lots of interaction (though let's not say too much more about the ep for folks who are trying to stay completely unspoiled).
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Yes, I agree with you about Lex easily justifying keeping Clark prisoner; in fact, it seems to me that his torture of Arthur and Victor and Bart symbolically represent torturing Clark, and his experimentation on Chloe is symbolically experimentation on Clark, too--and that can't be a good thing, from a Clex point of view.
I think Clexers are just going to have to do what they have always done: write AUs or stuff set in the past or the future. I still have a lot of investment in fanonical Lex, the one who gets redeemed, and I think the beauty of fanfic is we can always have that Lex, no matter how dark he goes in canon.
It will be nice to get an episode where Clark and Lex get lots of interaction (though let's not say too much more about the ep for folks who are trying to stay completely unspoiled).