GIP!

[schmevil]

You know, I'm really tired of the suggestion that Lex will turn eeevil because of lack of love, or because people punked him off. Neither of these excuse a blood shower. Also, they simplify the character to an alarming degree, making him little more than a stupid, hormonal boy (woobie! woobie! woobie!). emelerin and I had a long conversation about this. Clark may be able to save him from MMs and occasionally his Luthorness, but he's ineffective against the greater danger.

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[swanswan.livejournal.com]

Word. I mean... it's biblical, really. It even says it in the Psalms:

'Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe' [60:8]

How much pain does it take, you know?

[alee-gothphyle.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I see your point, but... the whole "rain of blood"?

Speaking from biblical texts (old testament), the closest analogies are the curses God reigned down on the Egyptians to secure the release of his people, AND the plagues visuted on Job as an allowed test of God's chosen one. So, you have Lex as either the entity responsible for enslaving the chosen people OR the most pious of loyal subjects -- while Lex may be a powerful man one day, neither rings true to me (mainly because canon tells us that Lex will be President/Lord of the US, and I find it really, REALLY hard to argue that the USA represents "God's chosen" *g*).

So, to me? The "Rain of Blood" is far more likely to represent loss of dreams and illusions, the slaaughter or the man Lex could have been, and in that sense I think I can lay a large portion of the blame on Lex's treatment by other's. It doesn't make him pathetic, or a stopid, hormonal boy -- it just makes him a living example of the validity of BF Skinner's theory of behavioral conditioning.