Smallville-X
Oct. 13th, 2004 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetHey! 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.
::nods::
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.
::nods::
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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Date: 2004-10-13 10:10 am (UTC)I knew you'd like that part.
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Date: 2004-10-13 12:09 pm (UTC)*dies happy*
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Date: 2004-10-13 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 02:27 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-10-13 02:31 pm (UTC)If we get into X, you know Lana is Kotori. Martha might be Karen.
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Date: 2004-10-13 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-13 05:52 pm (UTC)