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aruanI stumbled on this Lex would be getting married in the episode close to two months ago completely inadvertently.
Needless to say it made me more emotional than the throes of PMS.
Luckily I was online, as was my friend and gradual Smallville convert Nia. And she of the level head and deliciously creative thinking actually managed to make me see this as a good development by the time all the laughing and postulation was done.
She made me laugh, people. We went from the brink of hysteria from (anger at Lionel's arranging it, Lex marrying due to necessity, i.e. money to fund the buyout, any number of other nasty thoughts to choked-up, tearful amusement. She rocketh above and beyond.
I received a phone call from a dear friend nearly in tears early Friday afternoon, lamenting that she, too, had just stumbled on said spoiler. Now, I've stayed away from anything even remotely possessing the possibility of being a spoiler ever since, so all I have are the loose rumors that were floating around on August 2nd.
Me: I was just ambushed by ugly ugly spoilers and my friend Jon is being good enough to coddle me through it
Nia: Aww. Smallville spoilers, I presume?
Jules: yes
Nia: I'm trying to figure out what an ugly Smallville spoiler would be, really. Other than, like, "Lex is going to leave for Metropolis and will not be around to cast the Big Gay Glances on a regular basis." Or maybe, "The show will now be called 'The Lana Lang Hour.'" Hee!
Jules: LOL
Jules: you've got me feeling a little better now
Jules: do you mind hearing it?
Nia: Not in the least. And I won't even spread it around.
Jules: :) you're a good soul
Jules: I don't read spoilers for a reason
Jules: this one was nestled in an interview, no prelude or warning
Nia: Oooh, bastards.
Jules: yeah
Jules: grr
Jules: Lex is apparently for some ungodly and downright heinous reason slated to marry someone (possibly) named Chantel DeVille
Jules: the last name makes me laugh and thing prescient thoughts of doom
Jules: but the fact remains
Nia: Ahaahahaha.
Nia: We're sure he's not marrying a *car*?
Jules: LOL
Jules: I really need a positive spin on this
Nia: And also!
Nia: Think about this -- it will in all likelihood be a *miserable* marriage. Which actually creates Still More Incentive for Lex and Clark, you know.
(Aside: My mind went immediately to Basingstoke's Ley Lines. Still bitter thoughts, but at this point I was a delicate flower in need of some serious (read: machete-facilitated) sunshine through the gloom, not possibilities of the leaves parting to allow some down onto the forest floor.)
Jules: the word 'arranged' popped into mind
Nia:: *nod*
Jules: and you have a very valid point
Jules: but it's still insanity
Jules: and it might be possible that I'm in an overemotional moment
Nia: Maybe Lex will ask Clark to be his best man.
(And this one made me immediately flash back to a fic whose title and author are long lost to memory but involved Lex getting ready in the church to marry Lana (which he'd asked Clark about) but who chose to profess his love at the last possible second. Lex ended up still going through with it for a slew of justifiable reasons, not the least of which of course included the usual trust spiel, but what breaks me is that I can see this happening, Clark realizing at the last second and trying to make things right but being too late.)
Jules: I'll just grin like a fool if he "politely declines" because he can't watch Lex go through with it and stand by to have his heart broken
Nia: Ahahaha.
Nia: Aww. Clark's impassioned objections...this could be really great! Honest!
Jules: ;) this really could
Jules: and suddenly nothing but happy fic thoughts dance in my head
Jules: like sugarplum fairies
Jules: only without tutus
Jules: they don't make them in Clark's size
Nia: And pink wouldn't really go with his complexion.
Jules: sigh
Jules: it's fine
Jules: and like you said
Jules: has massive, massive potential
Nia: I think Clark should agree to be best man and then express his discontent by bringing Lana as his date, and then he and Lex can make manfully injured eyes at each other all night.
Jules:!!!
Jules: ingenious
Nia: And then have *angry* eyesex. Possibly angry mansex too.
Jules:::more inappropriately loud laughter::
Jules: oh Nia
Jules: have I thanked you yet?
Nia: No need, no need.
Jules: because that just chased away any nagging little raincloud
Nia: *snicker*
Nia: I live to lighten the days of you wacky Smallvillians.
Nia: So long as you don't make me cave in and, like, watch the show or read the fic.
Jules: hey now
Jules: it is good though
Nia: *snicker* Like cod liver oil.
Jules: uhm, it tastes better going down? ;)
Jules: there are historical allusions and continuity and symbolism
Nia: Like, um, crucifying people?
Jules: there's more
Jules: but yeah
And let's not forget:
Jules: and the fic
Jules: oh Nia
Jules: the *fic*
Nia: So they tell me.
Jules: damn near *everything* is good
Jules: but if Te alone hasn't gotten you hooked...
Jules: I don't know what they've been feeding you in the other fandoms, but it must be the heroin to her cocaine
Nia: *cackle*
Snipped surprisingly (it was past two in the morning by the time we called it) intelligent discussion about RPS, its lamentable decentralization, reading fic before seeing the show on which it's based, Lex's education (the canon for which goes all ways but logical), Lex and Lance in a bathroom and in what kind of twisted universe of circumstances that would lead to sex, and the descent into popslash fandom. Great conversation.
There's to be red kryptonite involved, so far as stuff's leaked over the grapevine. Interesting that Clark's affectation seems to be a sudden attraction to women. ;) As far as proximity to the events of the premiere? Might be an ingenious move. Lex isn't in a good state of mind, Clark will pout and feel an overwhelming sense of abandonment like when Chloe hooked up with Crush boy, and this all might end up in a closet with lots of heavy breathing.
I am nothing if not an optimist.
Needless to say it made me more emotional than the throes of PMS.
Luckily I was online, as was my friend and gradual Smallville convert Nia. And she of the level head and deliciously creative thinking actually managed to make me see this as a good development by the time all the laughing and postulation was done.
She made me laugh, people. We went from the brink of hysteria from (anger at Lionel's arranging it, Lex marrying due to necessity, i.e. money to fund the buyout, any number of other nasty thoughts to choked-up, tearful amusement. She rocketh above and beyond.
I received a phone call from a dear friend nearly in tears early Friday afternoon, lamenting that she, too, had just stumbled on said spoiler. Now, I've stayed away from anything even remotely possessing the possibility of being a spoiler ever since, so all I have are the loose rumors that were floating around on August 2nd.
Me: I was just ambushed by ugly ugly spoilers and my friend Jon is being good enough to coddle me through it
Nia: Aww. Smallville spoilers, I presume?
Jules: yes
Nia: I'm trying to figure out what an ugly Smallville spoiler would be, really. Other than, like, "Lex is going to leave for Metropolis and will not be around to cast the Big Gay Glances on a regular basis." Or maybe, "The show will now be called 'The Lana Lang Hour.'" Hee!
Jules: LOL
Jules: you've got me feeling a little better now
Jules: do you mind hearing it?
Nia: Not in the least. And I won't even spread it around.
Jules: :) you're a good soul
Jules: I don't read spoilers for a reason
Jules: this one was nestled in an interview, no prelude or warning
Nia: Oooh, bastards.
Jules: yeah
Jules: grr
Jules: Lex is apparently for some ungodly and downright heinous reason slated to marry someone (possibly) named Chantel DeVille
Jules: the last name makes me laugh and thing prescient thoughts of doom
Jules: but the fact remains
Nia: Ahaahahaha.
Nia: We're sure he's not marrying a *car*?
Jules: LOL
Jules: I really need a positive spin on this
Nia: And also!
Nia: Think about this -- it will in all likelihood be a *miserable* marriage. Which actually creates Still More Incentive for Lex and Clark, you know.
(Aside: My mind went immediately to Basingstoke's Ley Lines. Still bitter thoughts, but at this point I was a delicate flower in need of some serious (read: machete-facilitated) sunshine through the gloom, not possibilities of the leaves parting to allow some down onto the forest floor.)
Jules: the word 'arranged' popped into mind
Nia:: *nod*
Jules: and you have a very valid point
Jules: but it's still insanity
Jules: and it might be possible that I'm in an overemotional moment
Nia: Maybe Lex will ask Clark to be his best man.
(And this one made me immediately flash back to a fic whose title and author are long lost to memory but involved Lex getting ready in the church to marry Lana (which he'd asked Clark about) but who chose to profess his love at the last possible second. Lex ended up still going through with it for a slew of justifiable reasons, not the least of which of course included the usual trust spiel, but what breaks me is that I can see this happening, Clark realizing at the last second and trying to make things right but being too late.)
Jules: I'll just grin like a fool if he "politely declines" because he can't watch Lex go through with it and stand by to have his heart broken
Nia: Ahahaha.
Nia: Aww. Clark's impassioned objections...this could be really great! Honest!
Jules: ;) this really could
Jules: and suddenly nothing but happy fic thoughts dance in my head
Jules: like sugarplum fairies
Jules: only without tutus
Jules: they don't make them in Clark's size
Nia: And pink wouldn't really go with his complexion.
Jules: sigh
Jules: it's fine
Jules: and like you said
Jules: has massive, massive potential
Nia: I think Clark should agree to be best man and then express his discontent by bringing Lana as his date, and then he and Lex can make manfully injured eyes at each other all night.
Jules:!!!
Jules: ingenious
Nia: And then have *angry* eyesex. Possibly angry mansex too.
Jules:::more inappropriately loud laughter::
Jules: oh Nia
Jules: have I thanked you yet?
Nia: No need, no need.
Jules: because that just chased away any nagging little raincloud
Nia: *snicker*
Nia: I live to lighten the days of you wacky Smallvillians.
Nia: So long as you don't make me cave in and, like, watch the show or read the fic.
Jules: hey now
Jules: it is good though
Nia: *snicker* Like cod liver oil.
Jules: uhm, it tastes better going down? ;)
Jules: there are historical allusions and continuity and symbolism
Nia: Like, um, crucifying people?
Jules: there's more
Jules: but yeah
And let's not forget:
Jules: and the fic
Jules: oh Nia
Jules: the *fic*
Nia: So they tell me.
Jules: damn near *everything* is good
Jules: but if Te alone hasn't gotten you hooked...
Jules: I don't know what they've been feeding you in the other fandoms, but it must be the heroin to her cocaine
Nia: *cackle*
Snipped surprisingly (it was past two in the morning by the time we called it) intelligent discussion about RPS, its lamentable decentralization, reading fic before seeing the show on which it's based, Lex's education (the canon for which goes all ways but logical), Lex and Lance in a bathroom and in what kind of twisted universe of circumstances that would lead to sex, and the descent into popslash fandom. Great conversation.
There's to be red kryptonite involved, so far as stuff's leaked over the grapevine. Interesting that Clark's affectation seems to be a sudden attraction to women. ;) As far as proximity to the events of the premiere? Might be an ingenious move. Lex isn't in a good state of mind, Clark will pout and feel an overwhelming sense of abandonment like when Chloe hooked up with Crush boy, and this all might end up in a closet with lots of heavy breathing.
I am nothing if not an optimist.
