Smallville-X

[sisabet]

Hey! I am not the only one that finds S4 Lana likable! Check out Omar's latest recap at Twop - see? Jason is a really good guy who brings out the best in people. If the WB did give him a spin-off, I would watch it every week and buy the products of its sponsors.

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I spent the morning thinking about Smallville and the larger Superman Mythos and the Seget/Naman (or however you spell it) prophecy. See - I love prophecies and I love when the thing is just vague enough that interpretation can be wildly different. This is not new - show me a favorite show and I'll show you a prophecy. Hell - show me my own religion. Heh. And the thing is - it doesn't even have to be true - Shanshu real or fake? I don't care. It is enough that it exists.

So then I am thinking about Naman - Seget and I realized that actually - they are just Kamui -Fuma from X and Kamui - Fuma are just Christ/AntiChrist from Revelation - except when they aren't - but really X was some Revelation-Crack. JMO.

But back to the Smallville-X thing: In X, Kamui is told that no matter which side he chose - Heaven or Earth - Fuma would then be the opposite to maintain the balance. Or something. It has been awhile but since I am obsessed with symmetry and I found the answer satisfying, it had to have been balance.

So, Fuma is destined to be his opposite. It does not matter if that opposite is good or evil - it will just be and Fuma has no say in it at all. It is Kamui's choice and Fuma will react to that choice intrinsically. And so then I start thinking along the lines of Clark as Kamui because everything we are given to date would suggest that Clark is the free-will participant here. He gets to make the choice. **

Except Clark is really much more of a Fuma, y'know? Big and affable, a bit troubled but with a good heart. Lex acts like the real Kamui - a troubled person that realistically can choose either side.

Because when you are prophetically bound to another person to provide balance, free will ceases for at least 50% of the participants. Maybe the choice actually will belong to Lex?

So then I disappear into the ether of crack-land speculation as I consider that by becoming evil, Lex is actually making the larger sacrifice for the world because which would be more damaging in the long-run: Evil Ass Clark bent on World Domination or Evil Ass Lex bent on World Domination but with a Superman to stop him?

Which would validate my ongoing wish that Lex is still going to be a good guy. He, like most of the boys I crushed on between 1989 and 1998, is just misunderstood.

And X taught me that no matter how much love exists, when prophecies call, you are Destiny's Bitch. Wait - Angel taught me that. Or was it Jesus?

And I am certain I am thinking all of this because I re-read Grail's Immortality last night and that always fucks me up. And in searching for something to cheer me up I remembered Kamui/Fuma and you know what? It really does not matter if Lex is the true Kamui or if it is Clark: either way someone is getting blood licked off their neck by the other and I am totally okay with that.

**ETA: okay I must have been smoking anime crack when I decided that Clark was the free-will participant cause that boy has none. Bless him. See comments for more.

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[lexcorp-hope.livejournal.com]

Because when you are prophetically bound to another person to provide balance, free will ceases for at least 50% of the participants. Maybe the choice actually will belong to Lex?

Now *that's* something to think on. Of course, instead of being all meta and contemplative, I'm sitting here thinking about Clark licking blood of Lex's throat... yet somehow, i can hardly hold you in contempt for that image. *mmmvampiresex*

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

It really does not matter if Lex is the true Kamui or if it is Clark: either way someone is getting blood licked off their neck by the other and I am totally okay with that.

I knew you'd like that part.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

When I got halfway through the entry I saw a bright light in the clouds above me and I heard the melodious choir of angels began to sing as the truth of Clark = Kamui was revealed to me finally, in words that only sisabet could deliver. And now I think I need to take up smoking just so I can have the satisfaction of lighting up after the orgasmic joy of seeing someone talk about Smallville and X in the same entry and it makes sense.

*dies happy*

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

So if Kamui is Connor and Kamui is Clark, does that mean that Connor is Clark? Because I thought Angel was Batman (Spike, I guess, is the Boy Wonder), so I'm not really sure Superman fits in the Angelverse.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

No - Conner is Connor. Hang on - I figured this out one time.

Angel is Batman but he is also Clark - Angel is All Things to All heroes. Angel wants to be Jonathan. Angel is not Jonathan.

Wes is Lex except sometimes Lex is Lilah. This works in my head. Last week I watched this show on ABC about lawyers and James Spader was Lex. It was very confusing but also kind of sexy.


Lionel is Wolfram and Hart as a whole and if we go into X he could actively be the all of the seven seals of earth because is just that evil.

Chloe is Cordelia and Lana is Fred and Lois is Gwen. Sometimes Lana is also Doyle, but that never works out just right. Sometimes Martha is Cordelia (when that happens it is because Chloe thinks that she is Gunn)and we all get very confused.

Lorne is not represented on Smallville, but damn if ever a show needed a Lorne it is this one.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I think the scariest part of that is that it kind of makes sense to me even though I don't watch Smallville.

If we get into X, you know Lana is Kotori. Martha might be Karen.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I wish Lana was Kotori. I'd cheer even harder.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

James Spader is Lex when Lex doesn't care if you think he is a total reprobate... in fact, he digs it when you do. And, if Lex got to play off a slowly-going-senile William Shatner. Genius, that show.

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

I think I need a nap. I totally read the first part of your post wrong & couldn't for the life of me why Saget (as in Bob Saget of Full House) had a legacy within the Superman genre.

Sigh. *sulks off to turn up the heat & curl up*

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

So wait, wait. Does that mean that when Lex tried to be good and do the right things, that actually forced Clark to put on the Red Kryptonite and flee to Metropolis? OMG - you've just explained that whole Dr. Helen thing to me and now, now, I see the truth. Marrying Helen was Lex's attempt to be good and respectable and choose the right path. And then Destiny said to Jor-El, hey, wake up: got to make your son evil now. OMG Liz. You're a genius.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well - when you think about it - Fuma had no choice at all, he was going to be whatever he was going to be based upon Kamui's choice.

It did not matter the person he had been up to that point - it did not matter about the people that he loved (illustrated quite nicely with the ritual murder of Katori - that was his sister, right?)- he would become what ever it was that he was to become as a result of Kamui's decision.

Sound like anyone we know? Cause really Clark, out of all other TV characters I am currently obsessed with, has the most problem with free-will. This is saying a lot cause Wes and company were manipulated by not only higher beings but also evil law firms for seasons and seasons. But Clark - he at times is not in control of himself at all. Jor-el is. Or Red K. Or whatever. Poor kid. It sucks to have no choice.

Lex - Lex makes decisions all the time and while other people try to control him (Lionel) and they try to take things away from him (Lionel again) and they may torture him endlessly (Lionel you bastard) he still is in charge of who and what he does and he DOES actively try to be good. And yeah - I think there is a correlation because all summer long Lex has been hiding Chloe and protecting her, taking care of business and looking for answers and Clark has been in a cave wall learning how to take over the world.

Martha might have stopped him with black kryptonite (WTF is BLACK kryptonite) for now but we know that this *want* - this part of Clark exists now. He might have looked like he murdered it, but dude - we figuratively kill parts of ourselves all the time. Doesn't mean they can't come back.

But the thing is - whatever Clark turned into - while it may be a part of him, it isn't him and it is not what he wants to be.

So now I am all aflutter because in a world where Lex is an actively good guy - it is a perfectly moral decision to go evil if by doing so you save not only the world from an Alien Tyrant, but also the man you love - you save his very nature and being.

God. If Lex did not go evil, Clark as we know it would cease to exist.

I want to read that story.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooooo Clark is pretty and mmmmmmmmm he cannot disappear.

Maybe it is like that fanfic I read where they defeat Glory and then Dawn slowly disappears and no one can see her and she goes away and lives somewhere else where all the other disappeared people went?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

NOOOO!!! I mean where Lex makes the active sacrifice to be evil to save Clark!

It is like when Jerry and Elaine had sex to save the friendship.

Lex loves Clark so much that he will cease to be Lex and will become Luthor in order to keep Clark, Clark.

Cause if Kamui had known the choice he was making would cause Fuma to cease being Fuma and turn into the Kamui of Earth - what do you think he would have done?

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Had sex with Fuma and then turned evil!

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

Everytime I read a post from you about SV, my obsession with it grows at huge rate. Just thought you should now.

[elz.livejournal.com]

So then I disappear into the ether of crack-land speculation as I consider that by becoming evil, Lex is actually making the larger sacrifice for the world because which would be more damaging in the long-run: Evil Ass Clark bent on World Domination or Evil Ass Lex bent on World Domination but with a Superman to stop him?

I love, love, love that idea.

*sigh* Every time I try to stop watching this show, I end up getting sucked back in. :)