Smallville
1 March 2004 21:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandragorahurts. Just watched Asylum.
Oh Clark, you blew it. You should have told Lex what the missing part of his memory was. Oh, not your secret, maybe, but what Lionel did and why. I can understand why you didn't but, that was probably it. The beginning of the rift.
As for Lex... *wibble* He's doomed because of his sociopathic father. It seems apparent that Lionel is incapable of caring for anyone other than himself. What love he has for Lex is as an adjunct of Lionel, not for Lex in his own right. Poor Lex, he tries so hard to do the right thing and never succeeds. He's not evil but is tragic in the extreme.
However, riveting and painful and good though the episode was, I couldn't help thinking throughout all of the asylum scenes that the production staff clearly have no idea what a mental hospital is actually like, let alone one for the criminally insane. I have visited such places and they're nothing like that and the patients don't behave as they were portrayed in the episode. I know, I know, Smallville, right. Which usually bears no resemblance to reality but the asylum scenes (sans Lex) were sufficiently laughable to distract from the drama. And that was a real pity in an otherwise excellent episode.
Even the Lana bits worked for me, although I thought Martha overplayed her hand somewhat in the 'let's cheer Clark up' campaign.
Oh Clark, you blew it. You should have told Lex what the missing part of his memory was. Oh, not your secret, maybe, but what Lionel did and why. I can understand why you didn't but, that was probably it. The beginning of the rift.
As for Lex... *wibble* He's doomed because of his sociopathic father. It seems apparent that Lionel is incapable of caring for anyone other than himself. What love he has for Lex is as an adjunct of Lionel, not for Lex in his own right. Poor Lex, he tries so hard to do the right thing and never succeeds. He's not evil but is tragic in the extreme.
However, riveting and painful and good though the episode was, I couldn't help thinking throughout all of the asylum scenes that the production staff clearly have no idea what a mental hospital is actually like, let alone one for the criminally insane. I have visited such places and they're nothing like that and the patients don't behave as they were portrayed in the episode. I know, I know, Smallville, right. Which usually bears no resemblance to reality but the asylum scenes (sans Lex) were sufficiently laughable to distract from the drama. And that was a real pity in an otherwise excellent episode.
Even the Lana bits worked for me, although I thought Martha overplayed her hand somewhat in the 'let's cheer Clark up' campaign.
