Born from Lexmas...Lex to blame...

[SVSpector]

Lex in his coma seeing his life with Lana.

Lex saw something he liked in a dream, a normal happy life. The closest thing he could reference was Clark and Lana relationship, so he replaced Clark in his delusion with himself. Becuase it was so strong and felt so right to him he has tried to push his crush onto Lana. Lana, being his friend has tried to comfort him, but I have seen no real return of affection from her. She has acted more like she doesn't know how to handle the situation than anything else.

If this was a look at the future, in Lex's delusion Jonathan was still alive and the Senator 7 years later, everyone who is trying to pin JK's death on Clark is wrong.

Bad Lex made the first choice to save Lana and that set everything else in motion.

[smallvillefan26]

That's an interesting take on things. TPTB this season have definitely toyed with "what could have been" and "what might be" (if that makes sense!). What I enjoy is that the characters are beginning to realize that the decisions that make have effects.

[SVSpector]

Lex got the whole ball rolling......

[snafu2dj]

Lana's life has been saved countless times.

[KRAM-el]

Originally posted by SVSpector


Bad Lex made the first choice to save Lana and that set everything else in motion.

It's a marvellous theory, but it is coincidental (oops! The writers ****ed up again!). TPTB don't want the blame to fall on Lex's shoulders for JK's death... then Clark would have to be 'MAD AS HELL' instead of the 'broken-down idiot-savant' that the writers have painted him as. I know that sounds harsh, but that's how it appears.

[angelfire east]

Originally posted by SVSpector
Bad Lex made the first choice to save Lana and that set everything else in motion.

No actually Clark staying with Lana in Arrival, thus losting his powers, then dying and being brought back to life set everything in motion.

Someone's life fouce was going to be taken to make up for Clark being brought back. Remember what Jor-El said about fate? It was fated to happen because of Clark's actions in Arrival.

[xrayvision]

I have been repeatedly mentioning this theory. The only thing was that it wasn't a delusion really, it was a possible future presented to Lex by his mother's ghost (you can see her reflection at the end) if Lex changed his life around.

So this is what I mentioned. How can Jor-El's prophecy be correct if in that future, the death was so many years after and unrelated to Clark? It doesn't make sense. If his heart was so bad, he would have given out around the same time he did in the current timeline. This is why I don't buy this balance of the universe. I know they are using it inconsistently, but in order to not drive this issue too far, I'll accept it at that. To me, it seems like they're explaining it by this balance having to me maintained, and since Lana's life was going to be taken in the natural flow of events, it had to be replaced. Since Jonathan made the deal with Jor-El that he would do anything for Clark, he was chosen as the one to die.

This is what I think their intent is. But by the same logic, Clark is playing God anytime he saves anyone, since by stopping the natural selection of death, someone else's life must be taken. Do you see what I mean? Though it makes for an interesting arc, it also makes Superman look evil.

One last thing--we also saw in Lexmas how pissed Lex got when he found out Lionel played God with his life. This theme has been going around quite a bit this season. I'm predicting that Clark will learn not to do this anymore, but that Lex will go the other way and start taking that role more and more, even though he was clearly against it in Lexmas.

[jdg]

I think it's all Lana's fault ... personally ... I'm quite tired of 'Lanaville'. There was a whole season dedicated to her just about with the whole witch/possession thing. At the end of Lexmas, again, it was all about her. Arrival, all about her. Reckoning, all about her. If she was just written out of the story, Lex would be a good guy, Clark would be fine, and JK would still be alive. Maybe, just maybe, if the meteor that took out her parents were a little bigger, it would have taken her out too ...

I'm tired of the 'Oh Clark, I'm so sorry I ever doubted you, thank you thank you' and then, 'Clark, I can't believe you don't trust me, whine/nag/whine' ... I was thrilled at the car accident, realized it was only 30-past the hour and said, 'aww crap ... something will happen to undo this.' ... :(

[UpandAtom]

Originally posted by xrayvision
I have been repeatedly mentioning this theory. The only thing was that it wasn't a delusion really, it was a possible future presented to Lex by his mother's ghost (you can see her reflection at the end) if Lex changed his life around.

So this is what I mentioned. How can Jor-El's prophecy be correct if in that future, the death was so many years after and unrelated to Clark? It doesn't make sense. If his heart was so bad, he would have given out around the same time he did in the current timeline. This is why I don't buy this balance of the universe. I know they are using it inconsistently, but in order to not drive this issue too far, I'll accept it at that. To me, it seems like they're explaining it by this balance having to me maintained, and since Lana's life was going to be taken in the natural flow of events, it had to be replaced. Since Jonathan made the deal with Jor-El that he would do anything for Clark, he was chosen as the one to die.

The events of "Lexmas" must've diverged sometime before the pilot episode. In that reality, Lex never joined LuthorCorp so he never hit Clark with a car. If Clark had never been hit by a car, he wouldn't have questioned his mortality. If he hadn't questioned his mortality, Jonathan would have never told Clark that he was alien. If Jonathan never told Clark he was an alien, Clark wouldn't run away. If Clark never ran away, Jonathan would have to make a deal with Jor-El to bring him back. If Jonathan never made the deal, he wouldn't have had a heart condition and he wouldn't have died.