Final Intervention Notes
Oct. 27th, 2006 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danceswithgaryI received an email request to expand on Final Intervention so I've copied my response back .
What a nice compliment, to be asked what I meant this story to say.
I guess I wanted the reader to assign the character's motivation based on where the reader stood in the fandom and their 'relationship' with Clark/Superman and Lex. It depends heavily on certain portions of canon - both Smallville and DC Comics, but also on the fandom built around Clark and Lex having a future together.
Lex (first assumption) receives a mysterious DVD showing 'Superman' creating a memorial plot to be occupied in the near future. ( I suppose someone else could have created using clever manips - perhaps Batman?)
We know Clark Kent is only vulnerable to Kryptonite and Lex Luthor knows this and can build weapons accordingly, which Superman takes away from him and destroys. Or, Lex Luthor protects Clark from those weapons and destroys them. But not the one that appears by the grave, that weapon has survived with the implication it will be used the day after Lex dies.
But why will he die?
Lex shuts down a project immediately after receiving the threat/promise. Why?
What would drive him to shut it down so completely? The threat of his own death? Possibly, but unlikely in canon. The threat of Clark's death? (note, not Superman's death - Clark's death) Lex's stone states he was Beloved and Mourned, but Clark's does not echo the sentiment, implying he will die alone and unloved.
Has Clark/Superman/other argued the danger of this project to Lex and/or quite possibly the world, and failed?
Is this a threat that Superman will stop Lex from destroying the world by killing him and pay the price personally?
Is this a promise that if Lex dies, Clark will follow him, believing he has no one left to love him?
Is this a threat that Clark will be killed if Lex proceeds?
Lex seems to have no choice but to shut the project down, either to save his life or Clark's life or both.
He returns to his penthouse where he meets someone important to him.
But who says the final statement and why?
Lex promising never to take his projects so far again?
Lex saying he won't be manipulated again?
Clark warning he won't let Lex go so far again?
Clark promising he won't give him the choice in the future?
The reader chooses their interpretation.
Mine was that Lex couldn't face the loss of Clark, even though he could chance his own death, and promises never to put Clark in that position again. But that's because I love them both and believe they belong together.
A little clearer than mud? :-D
Thanks for letting me ramble.
What a nice compliment, to be asked what I meant this story to say.
I guess I wanted the reader to assign the character's motivation based on where the reader stood in the fandom and their 'relationship' with Clark/Superman and Lex. It depends heavily on certain portions of canon - both Smallville and DC Comics, but also on the fandom built around Clark and Lex having a future together.
Lex (first assumption) receives a mysterious DVD showing 'Superman' creating a memorial plot to be occupied in the near future. ( I suppose someone else could have created using clever manips - perhaps Batman?)
We know Clark Kent is only vulnerable to Kryptonite and Lex Luthor knows this and can build weapons accordingly, which Superman takes away from him and destroys. Or, Lex Luthor protects Clark from those weapons and destroys them. But not the one that appears by the grave, that weapon has survived with the implication it will be used the day after Lex dies.
But why will he die?
Lex shuts down a project immediately after receiving the threat/promise. Why?
What would drive him to shut it down so completely? The threat of his own death? Possibly, but unlikely in canon. The threat of Clark's death? (note, not Superman's death - Clark's death) Lex's stone states he was Beloved and Mourned, but Clark's does not echo the sentiment, implying he will die alone and unloved.
Has Clark/Superman/other argued the danger of this project to Lex and/or quite possibly the world, and failed?
Is this a threat that Superman will stop Lex from destroying the world by killing him and pay the price personally?
Is this a promise that if Lex dies, Clark will follow him, believing he has no one left to love him?
Is this a threat that Clark will be killed if Lex proceeds?
Lex seems to have no choice but to shut the project down, either to save his life or Clark's life or both.
He returns to his penthouse where he meets someone important to him.
But who says the final statement and why?
Lex promising never to take his projects so far again?
Lex saying he won't be manipulated again?
Clark warning he won't let Lex go so far again?
Clark promising he won't give him the choice in the future?
The reader chooses their interpretation.
Mine was that Lex couldn't face the loss of Clark, even though he could chance his own death, and promises never to put Clark in that position again. But that's because I love them both and believe they belong together.
A little clearer than mud? :-D
Thanks for letting me ramble.