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The Big Picture We all know that Smallville is about a young Clark Kent on his way to becoming Superman. It takes him a decade to get there, but once he's there, it feels both earned and about time. But what makes Smallville, especially in its earlier years, work so well is the well-placed juxtaposition between Clark and his best frienemy Lex Luthor, played to perfection by Michael Rosenbaum.
But both nature and nurture had a profound effect on the Luthor heir, and by Season 5, he finally succumbed to his own darkness in a Christmas-themed episode that had the opposite impact as It's A Wonderful Life . By Seasons 6 and 7, Lex no longer shied away from morally impermissible deeds, and his questionable decision to experiment on metahumans and alien technologies, consequences be damned, was justified by his personal quest to save the world.
Early episodes of Smallville often discussed themes of destiny and fate, with heartfelt codas at the end about writing your own story. This was considerably true of the friendship between the show's two leads, and oftentimes, episodes like "Hug" made sure to poke at that idea .
Lana Lang aside, the most dramatic characters in Smallville's catalog generally come from the Luthor dynasty. The power dynamics the LuthorCorp magnates hold over each other makes for compelling and fascinating television. In dark contrast to the beautiful father/son relationship between Clark and Jonathan, Lex and Lionel's strained connection is what ultimately sets our tragic villain on his fated path.
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