I always thought Lionel was a fascinating character. I always liked how he slowly began to redeem himself while Lex went the opposite direction down a darker path.
Agreed, i also liked lionel in the first seasons. When im high and watch smallville, he always make me laugh badly. He is so bastard. And i Lion-el was one of my favourite characters. Even thou with his own means, lionel truly wanted to help and do good.
I would have liked to have Clark kind of stumble once he realizes that Lionel is telling the truth. It's just a subtle thing. Tom did an excellent job and this is more like me nitpicking a little
I know! Lionel is a perfect example of someone who really can change. He was still manipulative, yes, but it was to protect Clark all the time. I have something further to say about that, but I don't want to give anything away if you haven't seen season 7 yet.
I love this scene so much, you can see every single thought and notion as it happens in his head the whole way through, he only SAYS about 10% of the dialogue that happens here. Everything else is pure bodily expression, freakin marvelous acting on both of their parts.
I love this scene, Lionel tells to Clark that Lana is died. But in fact Lex did something to her. I think Lex made another Lana and he didn't know. Lana tricked Lex to go to jail but, she hurt her true love Clark and I think she went to China to hide. But she return to see Clark in season 7 episode Fierce and she finds Kara Clark's cousin.
It came to light that Lionel did it to protect Clarck, Clark did try to kill Lionel but the Martian Manhunter intervened and explained Lionel was a vessel for Jor El or something like that.
@quanita17 me too... I will ALWAYS want a CLANA HAPPY ending ...! they are the only ones who DESERVE the BEST....! but SV is NOT a show OF PAY OFFS... it is UNGRATEFUL show that does not care to anything beautiful and replaced everything that is SV with something UGLY!
i had a feeling that lionel had to say something to get lana to marry lex and seeing how lionel was in the episode the traveler really showed the langths that lionel would do to protect clark even if some of us might not get it morally.lionel would not kill clark when he said that to lana he might have clark or lana kidnapped or somehow make lana think he killed clark but killing him in season 6 no way.
I dont know I figured put she faked her death by the way she was acting before the car blew up and then theres chloe's death in season 3 Fool me once shame on youfool me twice shame on me
Even though John Glover has said he didn't personally like exploring Lionel's lighter side, I still think he did an excellent job in moments like this. The role was originally created as a sharp contrast to Jonathan Kent, but after the latter's death the show's writers had more freedom to expand his arc.
I didn't see this episode but i heard that Clark finds out that Lionel was the one who forced Lana to marry Lex. So how come in S7 when Lionel returns, Clark hugs him and they are all close again??!!
Vixin24 that is not okay you and I wholeheartedly understand why would Clark forgive him he shouldn't despite the fact that Johnathan is dead he should remember even if he's gone he should never forget what he taught him Lionel did something that goes against everything Johnathan did to raise Clark by forcing Lana into that marriage and not telling her why he threatened her is clear evidence that he has sent her in on a suicide mission without her even knowing about it
Lionel only did that to protect clark he knew if lana was close to lex she would tell Lionel if lex had anything on clark so he did all that for clark even if it did seem like it
I wished Lionel would have been more like this to Lex showing a father’s love for a son maybe Lex would have turned to the dark side but lex was destined to go there anyway
