Smallville-X

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.

::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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I could not be happier if I had Angel and Spike tied up in the basement.

Well - actually...

That is a lie.

But I am still in a pretty damned good mood.

Gakked from Tzikeh

A book you own that no one on your friends list does:

Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case by Dorothy Wayne and dude - this book - published in 1933 - follows the adventures of Miss Dixon - Pilot and adventurer extraordinaire! Mary Sue for the Greatest Generation pre-Generation! Nancy Drew only wishes she had the guts of Dorothy. Or Dorothy's bestest friend Betty Mayo - a girl's girl amongst girls.

An excerpt from the first page:

Above the speeding airplane, lowering black of approaching night and storm; below, the forest grim and silent, swelling over ridges, dipping into valleys, crestless waves on a dark green ocean.

"We can't make it, Betty."

Dorothy Dixon, at the controls, spoke into the mouthpiece of her headphone set.

Betty Mayo, in the rear cockpit, glanced overside and shuddered.

"But you can't land on those trees!" she cried shrilly. "We'll crash -- you know that!"

"Maybe we will -- and maybe we won't!" returned Dorothy, gritting her teeth.

There are more books about ole Doro - Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings, Dorothy Dixon and the Mystery Plane, and Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin. Sadly I do not have the Double Cousin book although how cool does that sound??

This was in the vast amount of old books I inherited from all my dead people. Most of the stuff is all about Clarence Darrow or Cicero or prayer or the history of scouts and then there is the really good crack.

::huggles crack books::

Old crack books smell good.


A CD you own that no one on your friends list does:


Keeping It Real Joe McBride and the Texas Rhythm Club


A DVD/VHS tape you own that no one on your friends list does:

See - this is the lame part cause I truly don't have anything that original and even when I know it is pretty one of a kind - I know that Lum has a copy. Hmmm - my 1993 Barren County High School Video yearbook? My "Best of the Beverly Hillbillies"?


A place you've been that no one on your friends list has been:

Okay - drdawn does not count - Bucksnort, Tennessee.

Chosen as alternates: Leestown, Louisiana -also- Hazard, Ky and Hiseville, Ky.

OH!!! Munfordville. Beat that America.

Not that any of you should go there - it was picked as mainly a cautionary tale.

Comment if I am lying!