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.
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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.