Oh, Smallville.

[rivkat]

Because it's crazy! Okay, I suppose if Lionel engineered it as LaT suggests, maybe it doesn't invalidate much of what we've known about Lex for years, but my confidence is ... not high. Personally, I want it to be a con that Lex knows is a con, since no one outside the Luthor household knows what really happened the night of Julian's death. Also, the actor has a nice jawline, but I would prefer it if he could hit more than one emotional/vocal note. It's kind of distracting for him to be at the same pitch for every damn scene.

In sum: No, really, what just happened?

In writing news, I realized that I'm now on my third Buffy crossover. Buffy's like the little black dress of fandoms, at least for me. I've done SV and Knight Rider, and now SPN. Does anyone know whether there are any Knight Rider zines from the 80s? I'd really love to revisit Bonnie. It wasn't the first story I told myself, but I had an elaborate scenario whereby KITT kind of took over Michael's body and had a passionate affair with Bonnie. (Actually, that early story explains a lot about, or at least presages, my fondness for Dean/Impala stories.)

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[bluemeridian]

but I had an elaborate scenario whereby KITT kind of took over Michael's body and had a passionate affair with Bonnie.

Which would be brilliant because Bonnie/KITT was one of my first OTPs. Personally, I feel KITT and an early love of Kermit the Frog has made me partial to bald or balding men.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Bonnie/KITT 4eva! KITT taught me that a snarky machine is the best kind of machine.

[ladyclio16.livejournal.com]

I know I was like "The Hell?" I was expecting him to be Lucas all episode. That one threw me for a loop.

[cofax7]

You're writing a Buffy/SPN crossover? ::kermit flailing of joy::

Well, that's just neat.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

It was a Sweet Charity request, and I'm really having fun with it. I need to figure out how the two universes' vampires can coexist, or at least handwave-coexist.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's my gift to fandom. Don't thank her - thank me for forcing her to do it. It's all ME!!!

*preens*

Seriously, rivkat, I'm glad you're enjoying working on it :-).

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

No, you do get the credit (or blame), because these are really pretty much all your ideas -- just wait 'til the scene when Dean runs through a door and leaves a Dean-shaped hole behind him.

Don't think I'm joking.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

just wait 'til the scene when Dean runs through a door and leaves a Dean-shaped hole behind him.

Hey, if anyone can make Who-Framed-Roger-Rabbit!Dean work, it's you....

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

What happened? I hesitate to ask, but I am somewhat curious.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Okay, but I'm going to put some space here in case you want to reconsider ....







Grant, the new editor of the Daily Planet, who has had some shady connection with Lex all season, turns out to be ....

Julian, given away because Lilian was dying, and said to be dead himself so that Lionel wouldn't have to live with the public condemnation of someone who abandons his child.

How do you do superscript, because I need to write "WTF-[squared]!"?

Even if that made any sort of sense, does the show even remember Lex's stated age now, and his stated age when Julian was born? Okay, there's that twenty-something-year-old whose dad bought him the New York Sun, and I'll even spot you that the same could happen with a major national paper, but: twenty-something. Not sixteen.

Fuckers.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Okay, help? I just watched the episode ... Remind me what happened with Julian again? I vaguely remember something about a baby brother and Lex feeling guilty but I'm really not sure... I only barely pay attention to the mythology.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Okay. (Deep breath.) When Lex was twelve, his brother Julian was born. At first we learn that he died in his crib on the night of his christening. Later, we learn that Lex believes he killed Julian, as does Lionel. But it turns out that was a screen memory/cover story -- Lillian killed Julian to save him from Lionel. (Lex himself: apparently already beyond saving.) Lex took the blame for her so that Lionel wouldn't kill her.

It is in theory possible that all this went down and Lionel spirited away Julian's still slightly-breathing body, leaving his oldest son and his wife in the dark. But even so that involves a massive rewrite of Lionel's beliefs and motivations all this time.

And it still doesn't explain how a sixteen-year-old could be running the Planet!

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

And it still doesn't explain how a sixteen-year-old could be running the Planet!

Oh, I dunno. Watching mainstream news these days, I could totally believe it was all being run by a 16-year-old. In fact, that's the best explanation I've heard yet.