I agree with every word of this. Which is why making Lex - supposedly, after all he just gets elected president, we don't know if he is a villain but I think it should be implied from comic canon - evol without even the flimsy excuses they tried to establish during the show is even more asinine.
And taking away all his memories as a basic character destroying act? WTF? Besides, it's not like he can't research his past, look at photos, talk to people. So he could gather that he knew Clark, he could gather that they were friends for example, that weirdness surrounds Clark, the accident where they met and everything would start all over again. It's not exactly that big a leap to go Clark is Superman. People in the comics/movies/shows were always just too dumb to pick up on the clues.
Only for Lex there would be no emotional component in it this time since it erased all the stuff, bad AND good. If he'd had all his moments, he'd always be conflicted about Clark.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. And worthless storytelling IMO. Why tell a story in the first place if you basically erase it in the last chapter?
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Date: 2011-05-16 07:56 pm (UTC)And taking away all his memories as a basic character destroying act? WTF? Besides, it's not like he can't research his past, look at photos, talk to people. So he could gather that he knew Clark, he could gather that they were friends for example, that weirdness surrounds Clark, the accident where they met and everything would start all over again. It's not exactly that big a leap to go Clark is Superman. People in the comics/movies/shows were always just too dumb to pick up on the clues.
Only for Lex there would be no emotional component in it this time since it erased all the stuff, bad AND good. If he'd had all his moments, he'd always be conflicted about Clark.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. And worthless storytelling IMO. Why tell a story in the first place if you basically erase it in the last chapter?