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How I see Lex these days: really fucking angry. (And by the way, if Ma and Pa Kent are going to switch positions on Lex, as if they're actively trying to emulate the random reward/punishment structure that drives rats nuts and makes fangirls rabid, then isn't the right answer to Clark's "He's lied to me since we first met" possibly, "Pots and kettles, Clark"?)
Anyhow, Lex is definitely a contributing factor in his own isolation and easily-betrayed status, a proximate cause as we lawyers might say, but I understand why he might feel forced into that position. Though it was apparently his screw-up that led Lionel's Kryptonator to Chloe, if I were him I'd have pointed out that three months had gone by with Chloe safe and only when Clark starts poking around does Chloe suddenly get put at risk again.
Side note: Lex's inability to pick reliable minions now reveals itself to be inherited. That, or decreed by the Plot Hole gods. I do hope Lex learns the lesson that if he wants Superman killed, he's going to have to do him himself. Do it, I mean. Whatever.
This may be my own changing perception of the show, but I don't see Lex as even really trying with Clark any more. He didn't think he could prove himself to Clark, so he didn't lose anything by lying. I thought that his father's promise of death lurking in every glass of wine hurt him – still wearing his heart on his sleeve and offering everyone he meets the shirt off his back, is our Lex (I forget who first said this about Lex, but I love it and have adopted it) – but I half expected him to point out that this was not a big change for him. He was hoping against hope that he could find someone trustworthy, through two marriages and one friendship of legend, and now he has accepted what he's always suspected, that trust is not for him, neither to be given nor received. If anything, he's the second worst liar on the show after Clark. He's going to have to be a lot better to convince me that he still has hopes of reconciliation with Clark.
Anyhow, Lex is definitely a contributing factor in his own isolation and easily-betrayed status, a proximate cause as we lawyers might say, but I understand why he might feel forced into that position. Though it was apparently his screw-up that led Lionel's Kryptonator to Chloe, if I were him I'd have pointed out that three months had gone by with Chloe safe and only when Clark starts poking around does Chloe suddenly get put at risk again.
Side note: Lex's inability to pick reliable minions now reveals itself to be inherited. That, or decreed by the Plot Hole gods. I do hope Lex learns the lesson that if he wants Superman killed, he's going to have to do him himself. Do it, I mean. Whatever.
This may be my own changing perception of the show, but I don't see Lex as even really trying with Clark any more. He didn't think he could prove himself to Clark, so he didn't lose anything by lying. I thought that his father's promise of death lurking in every glass of wine hurt him – still wearing his heart on his sleeve and offering everyone he meets the shirt off his back, is our Lex (I forget who first said this about Lex, but I love it and have adopted it) – but I half expected him to point out that this was not a big change for him. He was hoping against hope that he could find someone trustworthy, through two marriages and one friendship of legend, and now he has accepted what he's always suspected, that trust is not for him, neither to be given nor received. If anything, he's the second worst liar on the show after Clark. He's going to have to be a lot better to convince me that he still has hopes of reconciliation with Clark.
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