Sad day when your brother becomes your enemy and they were like brothers that's why I like this series so much they both understood the characters they were playing even more than the big screen movies that never got it right
Lex Luthor(talking to Clark years earlier): Friends and family will come to your father’s funeral. Kings will be at my father’s. Years later we have this. Two former best friends now mortal enemies.
When our parents passed away, their friends came to their funerals. Rest in peace Mom and Dad. We miss you and love you so much. They were a lot like Martha and Jonathan, good people always willing to help someone in need if they could.
They are talking about doing a sequel series, only in animated form though which is a shame because these 2 are the best live action Lex & Clark in my opinion.
@TheMegaUzumaki He was already beyond salvation at that point so it doesn't exactly count, would have been different if he did that when they were children
I think this scene was very nice but the episode was a huge letdown for me. I imagined Lionel's death being done in a brilliant manner in a scene that would show how magnificent & dangerous of an enemy Lex will be for Superman and instead we got Lex whining to Lionel about how the meteor shower and everything that happened to him ruined his life instead of embracing how it made him stronger like he did early on in the show. And to make it worse they linked it to the atrocity & ridiculous retcon that was the Veritas plot that I utterly despised. I used to blame the garbage quality of season 7 on the writer's strike that happened at the time but as a fan of Supernatural, season 3 of that show, which aired as Smallville's season 7 aired, had excellent writing though it was cut short. They had a very interesting plot involving the clone of Lex's brother Julian that they pissed away and did nothing with. Same with Bizarro, who they turned into a Lana obsessed wussy. The blue crystal plot with Zor-El made Clark look like a bigger idiot than their overall plan of him doing nothing but watch over Lana and do various farm chores (he could have done farm work while being a college student and having his future career in journalism be developed). You'd think Lionel's death would have happened towards the end of the episode that it actually happened in with the following episode covering the aftermath, but no, Descent killed Lionel off at the beginning and that episode was followed by Sleeper of all things. I also expected opera/classical music but that was not present in the death scene either. And I also expected Lex to pin the murder on Lucas Luthor/Dunleavy from Prodigal since I had no idea Julian would be brought back as a clone, but with the Grant Gabriel (Julian's clone) plot they could've easily had Lex frame him for murder and tie Lionel's death not to the shitty Veritas plot but to Lionel's lack of love for Lex and his love for Grant/Julian. Instead they did the most cliche and anti-climactic thing they could have done and had Lex be responsible for 2 deaths instead of him killing Lionel and then not only framing Grant/Julian but also doing something worse than death by tarnishing Grant's/Julian's credibility in such a way that nobody would ever listen to, believe, or care about anything he had to say and subject his own brother to a lifetime of pain & suffering. Also by keeping him alive & in such a state, they could have brought him back in season 10 by having Tess find him not long before the Earth-2 Lionel showed up on Earth-1 and involving him in some heavy Luthor family plots, perhaps for Lex to finally murder at that time while he (Lex) has Tess take his place of suffering & buried in a facility for the rest of her life. The only other plot I liked in season 7 was the Brainiac plot, which I think should have been the biggest plot. I think that season should've taught Clark the importance of the past being the way it was by having Brainiac on Krypton's past causing changes that would have to be reverted by Clark by the end of the season and that should have scrapped the whole Veritas plot. For example, they could have had the universe/timeline alter to what it was in the 18th episode, Apocalypse, and have it be a world where the was no record of Clark Kent and Lex would be president and Clark would have to not only deal with the changing past and present and learn what caused the changes, but also have to deal with Brainiac on present day Earth as well. Such a plot could have been used to explain the existence of Earth-2 later on in season 10. I always wanted to see what exactly the Lionel of the Apocalypse timeline did for Kara as he raised her a Luthor. Similarly I think a dual Earth plot throughout season 10 would have made that season much better than it was. Episodes like Prophecy, Supergirl, Harvest, Isis, and Fortune just make it obvious that they were lacking ideas and were just throwing anything out to fill out the last season of the show, which simply shouldn't be the case for a show in its last season where it should be pulling out all stops. The best episodes of Season 10 involved Earth-2, the Luthors, Lex's clone (the old one in Lazarus and the Alexander/Conner clone), and of course the real Lex. The Darkeid plot was a failure in my opinion as the writers have no idea how Darkseid works (he doesn't possess people, etc) and they had no money for a proper Darkseid plot & effects. It would've been much smarter for them to reference Darkseid by having a plot about the rise of Intergang & have them obtain their weapons from Apokolips and have Darkseid minions like Desaad, Granny Goodness, etc but no Darkseid himself and reveal Darkseid's plan as arming Intergang to weaken/destroy the heroes of Earth, mainly Kal-El, so that he could take over unopposed and have Clark stop the coming of Darkseid by the end of the season/series while taking the final steps to becoming Superman. Smallville always did human villains better than it did alien ones, so Intergang could have been amazing if they brought back Rutger Hauer or Patrick Bergin as Morgan Edge as its leader (which would make it all the more dangerous since he knew Clark's secret) and Bruno Mannheim as his 2nd in command.
A magnificent series I was a fan of Superman during my childhood and after the death of Christopher Reeves I said to myself that there would not be another actor qui sera top pour reprendre le flambeau je me suis trompé cet acteur qui joue le rôle de clark Kent es un acteur magnifique il es a la hauteur pour jouer le rôle de clark Kent allias Superman un grand bravo àlui
The two parents who die, the two funerals, are basically the expression of what they were in life: 1 Jonathan dies in the arms of his son and his wife, happy and his funeral was attended by many. 2 Lionel died and no one went to his funeral, it was only Lex because she was his son and Clark out of respect. Symbolizing that although Lionel was a powerful man he did not have what Jonathan had a wife and son who wanted him. No one else went to Lionel's funeral because no one wanted Lionel. In fact, the weather at those funerals is an expression of what their children feel. At Jonathan's funeral, the snow symbolizes Clark's grief, and at Lionel's funeral, the good weather symbolizes that Lex is fine.
Why are people giving this a thumbs down? He's just saying that he loves this scene, that it's one of the best and as most people on here have been asking, what the name of this song is.
Funny how back in season 3 lex told Clark that for his funeral's father the most powerful men of the world would assist;Superman and the USA president.
It really sucks that Lex tried his best to be a good friend to Clark but the Comics wont allow Clark and lex to be real friends... Smallville is wrong for making us feel so bad for Lex... He really didnt deserve it... Literally everyone in Smallville knew about Clarks powers but he still chose to lie to Lex...
I know. Things would have been so different if Clark had just trusted him. Lex's whole life people kept him at arms length or shunned him completely. his childhood backstory is one of the most tragic & lonely I have seen.
allison mack will always be to me, a kind of embodiment of good, a reflection of Clark's better nature. I don't care what the press has to report about her personally.
What a bizarre thing to say. You can love a character and a performance while separating the character from the actor, you know. No person in the world is "an embodiment of good."
Even with all of the evil shit Jor-El has done to the Kent family Clark still tried to save his clone’s father life because that’s what true heroes do, and it’s what separates the heroes from the villains, anti-villains, and anti-heroes, so yes it’s very obvious that Lex Luthor by this point in time from this clip onwards became the true villain of Smallvile.
@@karenkench1413 , Jor-El is just as cruel and sadistic if not more sadistic than Lionel is, and if it wasn’t for the Kent family Clark would have turned out just as evil as Lex Luther if not more evil than him, so clearly Lex Luthor killing his own father is what led Lux Luthor into being Clark’s ultimate villain from here onwards.
@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I don’t recall Jor-e outing his son through the tortures of electro shock therapy, or being repelled by his boy being bald, or continuously belittling him, or poisoning him. Lionel did NOT love Lex. How the hell could he learn to love anyone with that kind of upbringing. There is no compariso,
@@karenkench1413 , Jor-El did electric shock therapy on his son to force him to do the alien trials Jor-El wanted Clark Kent to do, and we’ve seen in the Earth 3 comics and the New 52 Earth 2 comics where if Clark Kent didn’t have the Kent family to raise him he turns as evil as Lex Luthor if not more evil than him because it was the Kent family that made him the true hero he is today nor Jor-El, and as for appearances Superman’s Cousin from Earth 1 Supergirl judged one of Lex’s female member, and she judged her appearance to being pure evil just like Lex Luthor even though she hasn’t fully seen in person that person committing the evil acts that person has committed if she really is true pure evil, and considering that Supergirl blindly follows Jor-El and blindly follows his obedience unlike Clark Kent then it’s very obvious that yes Jor-El isn’t any different than Lionel Luthor as a person.
A truly great and sad scene and a defining moment between the two characters; to this day I genuinely believe that if Clark disregarded his father's extremely harsh and semi hypocritical Judgment; gave lex benefit of the doubt and told him his secret right then and there when he came to him about his suspicions I'm pretty sure that Lex would have went down an entirely different path where they both would have became greatest allies instead of mortal enemies, sure there would have been up and down moments between the two where Lex's curiosity and thirst for knowledge would test Clark's patients but in the end they would have been able to come to terms with each other and been on the same destiny of changing the world for the better rather than vying for control over the fate of the world, it would have been extremely nice if we had gotten a what if Episode to show that being the case plus rewriting the finale where the alternate version of Lex being the classic villain we all know coming to there Earth and this version facing off against his doppelganger and even though tragically taking his sister tess mercer's place in losing his life being the one to wipe his memory of everything he learned of Clark's identity as Superman symbolizing his ultimate Victory against his inner Darkness as well as a parting gift to team Superman; solidifying his loyalty to his best friend and brother!
Hate to break it to you. I've researched and researched the music for this episode. Most people mistake it for the instrumental version of the song "Apologize" by Timbaland. Yours truly downloaded the song only to find out this isn't the came. Unless someone rips it or Warner Bros. comes out with a Musical Score Soundtrack, nobody is getting this excellent song.
