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Episode IV: A New Hope (Or "Well, someone's a cunt.")
By popular demand: hot, juicy Smallville wank.

Wednesday night's episode featured a Kryptonite-enhanced canine named Krypto. Or Clarkey. Or Shelby. That doesn't matter. What matters is that said dog only growled at three things: the bad guys, another Kryptonite-infected pooch, and Lex Luthor. Naturally, this got some Lex fans in an uproar, including aelora.

(She locked the original post "because things are getting a little out of hand with it and the comments herein. One thing this fandom doesn't need is more kerfluffles over a show we're all attached to." C'mon! I live for kerfluffles! However, someone was kind enough to cap the thread pre-locking. Links to the entire thread can be found at the bottom of this post.)

Nutshell: Showing the dog growling at Lex as evidence of his current or future evilness is either sloppy writing or completely fine. Discuss.

aelora says "Goodbye, Smallville. And fuck you very much." in her LiveJournal. kryptonsite steps in to play devil's advocate.

And I don't understand why the hint that Lex is evil is so bothersome when the story has ALWAYS been that Lex is the bad guy. Do you really expect them to change it just because Michael Rosenbaum does a great performance? Him being evil is inevitable. Smallville has taught us that circumstances have made Lex the way he is, but he's not a bad guy at heart. But maybe his experiences do make him a bad guy. The problem is, we're being told it and not seeing it really. Kind of like Clark lies and this and that and yet he's supposed to be "good."
Maybe it was a failing of the show to make us like Lex Luthor TOO much, but if you were watching expecting a series where Lex Luthor never becomes the bad guy, maybe you'd be better off not watching the series to begin with, because the writing's been on the wall that "Lex will be bad" since the series pilot. Even Michael Rosenbaum wants that for the final year of his character. Villains are interesting and fun.

kryptonsite wants to know what aelora thinks. In fact, he says, "This is your forum, I'd be curious. I do respect your opinion and I hope you don't hate me for my response because I do consider you a friend. And anyone else reading, too, is welcome to tear into me, because I could be wrong with my response here."

Maybe he shouldn't have offered. j_keller is more than happy to oblige.

Who are you to lecture her like she's some kind of child? Maybe you're happy sucking down the "story" as it has been so shoddily presented this year, but that doesn't make you the queen of all that is right of Smallville. Here's something for you to pound through your network-shill head: telling us that Lex is EEEEEEEEEEEVIL and showing us Lex doing evil are two vastly different things, and TPTB have utterly failed to show Lex doing anything particularly evil this year.... And if you can't get that, then I can't help you. I dunno what you're doing up in here trying to school Aelora about it anyway, since YOU ALREADY KNEW WE WERE GOING TO BITCH ABOUT THIS IF IT HAPPENED since you COMMENTED ON WHAT WE HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT THIS MORNING IN SOMEONE ELSE'S JOURNAL! Go pimp your rose-colored vision of Smallville somewhere else, Craig, 'cause we ain't buying tonight.

Craig's response to this unknown person is succinct. "Well, someone's a cunt."

DAMN!

Also, he wants to know "Who are you to tell me what I say or think of Aelora?" Somewhere between j_keller's
"you do too know me" and "we're even," j_keller reveals that she once wrote reviews for Kryptonsite. First she was rosenho, then lexcorp_hope, then just Hope. (Here at F_W she was luthor_hope.) She "left fandom" several months ago, but apparently she still writes reviews for a rival website and has an LJ with the j_keller moniker.

Kryptonsite admits he might not have attacked so vehemently had he know it was her. He apologizes for using the c-word, but he doesn't appreciate the way rosenho-lexcorp_hope-Hope-j_keller is talking to him. Indeed, aelora doesn't like kryptonsite's tone, but after he says he's sorry, the two seem to part ways on good terms. Which, you know, could have been done without the rest of this.

Elsewhere, stone_princess wishes the Smallvile fandom could just get along, so scribblinlenore suggests everyone concentrate on "the hot man-on-man sex" instead. Several people happily agree. (As do I. Pretty!)

Perhaps the wankiest part of this whole thing is how angry some of the SV fen are that Hope said she was stepping away from fandom when, in reality, she didn't. There's a sense of betrayal and entitlement that is kind of baffling. Links to any of that would be appreciated. Although I think ingrid_m sums it up pretty darn well:

"Don't announce you're leaving fandom. Ever. Just fucking leave, drama whore, even though we know you won't because you can't live with us and damned if you can live without us. Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!"

The entire thread (with a sidetrip talking about Lex's black turtleneck of hottitude): (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7),
(8), (9), (10), (11), (12).

Thanks to the people who sent me the screencaps.

ETA: Looks as if Hope has left fandom again. The j_keller LJ has been deleted. However, she did respond to this wank in the comments below. Also, massive defriendings everywhere. The fallout seems huge.