Oh, wait, they took crappy option #2. Blah.
Weepy, wailing, *weak* Lillian and the plot out of the *worst* of the badfics, implausible and overwrought, and not in the good-crack way. (Basically, there's a point where "Luthorian grand opera" turns into "Have you ever actually, you know, known other human beings?", and "I murdered my baby because my husband 'chips away at our other child's spirit'" is it.) Blah!
Everything else in this episode was sooooooo good, so why this? Why this way?
*plugs ears* It was post-partum depression. Post-partum depression. Not her normal reasoning. Not some kind of "sound decision" based on Lionel's parenting for which Lionel can be blamed.
You know, Millar and Gough, much as I love you, and much as this episode was extremely good in other ways, I'm never going to forgive you for the way you've handled the theme of mothers. More than an episode about Clark and Lex, this was an episode about Lara and Lillian (and Martha), and what do we learn? Mothers may mean well, but they're mostly good for whimpering on the sidelines while the manly men lay down the destinies. At best, they're only capable of murderously misguided destruction in the name of love. They have no other options.
Blah!
Posted by Sarah T. at April 28, 2004 08:55 PM | TrackBack