Luthor's Choice
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Date: 2011-04-30 10:07 am (UTC)Of course, the idea doesn't bear much examination as a plot point as I'm not sure how the "universal bliss" would work in a universe where there are those for whom bliss involves the destruction of everything.
The Joker's usual idea of bliss involves a dead Batman and an large pile of dead Robins, sorted by body part. Circe's would involve a dead Wonder Woman, so what would happen to them?
Plus, since when is entropy automatically a BAD thing? Were people who were dying in pain suddenly left with no pain, but now immortal in wrecked bodies as suggested here? Would they starve? Could they heal?
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Date: 2011-04-30 10:36 am (UTC)I can't blame Luthor. Did he mention omniescence along with his omnipotence? Because if he didn't have that, I can excuse him for making the very human choice.
Plus, eternal bliss may be good on paper but it makes it so that life isn't life anymore. A bit screwy, really.
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From:Ooo... I just realized something.
Date: 2011-04-30 11:37 am (UTC)Foreshadowing!
Re: Ooo... I just realized something.
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Date: 2011-04-30 12:35 pm (UTC)This was the second greatest part of this story. I'd wanted to post the very greatest, but it would have maxed out the scan limit here. Namely, the entire section on Lex tormenting Superman, who--as an alien godlike being--couldn't possibly understand loss.
In that scene, Lex going from seeming like the most badass character in the world to the callous dickhole he always was. The heartwrenching irony is that he honestly had no idea that he's genuinely hurting Clark, and when he does learn... oh, it's so great.
That's the moment we learn that, thank to the Kents, Superman is more human than Lex could ever be or even understand. I wanted to hug the issue right there.
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Date: 2011-04-30 01:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-04-30 04:16 pm (UTC)I feel sad for that dude, tho. :/
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Date: 2011-04-30 04:29 pm (UTC)Didn't Jim Shooter already do this one back in Secret Wars II in the mid-80s?
Though there, the consequences were that making the Universe into Paradise, no death or confict or hunger or anything bad, was creating the ultimate entropy. Everything would be at an eternal standstill, since there was no reason for individuals, or species, to continue evolving.
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Date: 2011-04-30 10:33 pm (UTC)"Santa claus? Santa claus!"
He's looking very Von Trapp family in that, is what i'm saying.
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Date: 2011-05-01 01:32 am (UTC)What I hated? That Lex will never learn his lesson until he's on his death bed. Perhaps not even then. Sometimes I pity the man.
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Date: 2011-05-01 07:09 am (UTC)Jeez, he could at least threaten to renounce the power and leave the universe to misery unless Superman nobly kills himself. Worth a try.
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