Smallville: Phoenix....

[fajrdrako]

I am a happy fan. Anyone who saw Smallville tonight probably knows why I'm happy and it isn't just because maboroshimaki brought some delicious cheesecake to our Smallville party. No. It's because:

• Clark and Lex hugged. Warm, heartfelt, needy hug on Lex's part. Happy, tight, happy-and-relieved hug on Clark's part. That was worth waiting for.
  
  
  
• Lex and Lionel hugged. Lovely multiple levels of ambiguity. Lex's hug was loving but by gum, he's setting Lionel up and now Lex is a giant step further to running LuthorCorp too and Lionel knows it. They are allies now, and can't trust each other an inch.
  
  
  
• Clark said it wouldn't work with Lana. It certainly wouldn't. (What a shrew she is!) Clark broke up with Lana and reaffirmed his relationship with Lex.
  
  
  
• No more red!Clark, or so I hope.
  
  
  
• Morgan Edge. Morgan Edge! Morgan Edge with Lionel Luthor. Morgan Edge threatening the Kents. Morgan Edge seeing Clark use green kryptonite on himself, and then using it against him.
  
  
  
• Clark's blood in a jam jar.
  
  
  
• Lex set Helen up - and let her know it while he was doing it. I have almost begun to like the edgy, ambiguous, snarky, insincere like/dislike relationship relationship between them. As long as I don't have to like her as a person, I like her as a character! Love it that she worked for Morgan Edge. I still want to learn that she's been doing research for Somerholt.
  
  
  
• Clark back in flannel.
  
  
  
• Chloe. My goodness I love that girl.
  
  
  
• The Clex hug. Yeah, I know I mentioned it, but I went back to watch it again, so it bears mentioning again. Not to mention being watched in slow motion.
  
  
  
• Morgan Edge and his old friend Lionel Luthor. Who says it's just the young'uns who are sexy?
  
  
  
• I loved what Lex said to Clark about facing his enemy - the dark side of himself - and not being sure which side was which. Hey, it's the human condition.
  
  

Comments

[mlleelizabeth.livejournal.com]

Morgan/Lionel!!! Hugs! Chloe back to herself! Clex!

I also found most of the Helen/Lex scenes in this episode very good. There's so much better when they're playing off each other than in the S2 eps when they might as well have been reading the phone book to strangers rather than talking to each other.

Clark broke up with Lana and reaffirmed his relationship with Lex.

Yes!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

ALl of that... yes, I am *so* glad to have Chloe back. I like the way she understands what's going on - and acts according to her conscience.

Helen and Lex are great as antagonists. Not that they have any sexual chemistry even now, but it's a nice battle of wills. I loved it that he strung her along for a bit.

I'm looking forward to next week! And hear I was starting to fear that the Clex might be dead. Hah! It's alive and well and stronger than ever.

[glinda-north.livejournal.com]

Morgan Edge and his old friend Lionel Luthor. Who says it's just the young'uns who are sexy?

It sure as heck weren't me! In fact, Taylor and I were just squeeing over the geezers tonight, ourselves. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

They are about as squeeworthy as it's possible to be. This makes me very, very happy.