Save Me: The Redemption of Lex Luthor
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| Title: | Save Me: The Redemption of Lex Luthor |
| Creator: | Justine |
| Date(s): | February 21, 2002 |
| Medium: | online |
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| Topic: | Smallville, Lex Luthor |
| External Links: | Save Me: The Redemption of Lex Luthor/WebCite |
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Save Me: The Redemption of Lex Luthor is an essay by Justine.
It is part of the Fanfic Symposium series.
Excerpts
Okay, so if you're not already one of the many converts to Smallville, I'm not sure I can help you. You must be immune or something, because the addiction is viral and intense.If you've been won in by Tom Welling's winsomely coy Clark Kent, with his clear-eyed idealism and clenched-jaw disillusionment … if you've been rendered sweaty-palmed and short of breath by Michael Rosenbaum's sex-on-a-stick portrayal of Lex Luthor … well, then you've probably also managed to ignore the things the show does wrong.
Like the scripts, for example, which are badly paced and contain painful clunkers in almost every episode. Like the editing, which lingers on the aforementioned clunkers and seems to have a passionate thing for egregiously bad CGI.
If you watch enough, it all changes. Kristin Kreuk's wooden Lana Lang becomes less an inexperienced actress in a passive role, and more of a foil for Lex's ruthless pursuit of Clark Kent's heart. Jonathan Kent's badly-written platitudes become less annoying screenwriting and more an illustration of a black-and-white world that will give Clark the basics of ethical behavior, but which cannot sustain him as he sees more of Lex's world -- Metropolis with its many shades of grey.
And then there's the thing with destiny.