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 11:11 am (UTC)Sigh. *sulks off to turn up the heat & curl up*