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When I write SV, I often listen to my Clex mix, which is a bunch of mostly depressing songs about truth and screwed-up relationships. These days, Tom McRae's "Dose Me Up (End of the World News)" and Prick's "Into My Arms" (http://www.prickmusic.com/press/satori.htm) are on pretty heavy repeat, along with Placebo's "The Bitter End."
Golden Rule: I had the idea for the first scene, with Lex waking up with amnesia, and I started writing -- it changed over the third season, obviously, because of Lex's previous memory troubles. But I actually liked the contrast between Lionel's use of memory wipes and Clark's -- Clark tried to change things comprehensively, rather than just buying himself a free pass for a particular bad act. I really wanted Clark to come off as both loving and twisted -- as Lex says in The Presence of Fire, "Because nothing says 'I love you' like involuntary brain surgery." The end was really hard to write. I couldn't figure out what Clark should say to Lex to make him stop asking questions. I still think that scene's a little stiff -- if you read Jenn's remix of the story, it's clear that the dialogue I wrote isn't quite right for Lex.
Did Lex seriously consider leaving? Good question, and one that's hard to answer. Where would he have gone? He'd let Clark so far into his life. His alternative seemed to be his father's way, and that was an awful thing to contemplate. In the end, I think Lex wanted to be the kind of person who could have walked away, but he knew going into that last conversation that he wasn't. He just wanted Clark to step into the darkness with him, which Clark did.
Sympathy: I never used to write Clark because I didn't get him and I'm here for Lex, but since I started writing Clark I think I can tell some stories that Lex's POV couldn't. I don't know if I'm more sympathetic to him -- I certainly tend to write Clark's POV as more than a little sociopathic, e.g. Golden Rule, Genesis, Clark's POV in Ruat Caelum, so maybe sympathy isn't the right word. But I do think I respect him more, because I've had to think more about his internal logic. Writing Lana hasn't given me any more sympathy for her, or more respect. In general, writing a character is useful to force me to think about that character's reasons for acting the way s/he does, so that even if I don't use the POV I use the character in a story not just as a plot device but as a person with his/her own plans, hopes and fears.