Welcome to Gaia! ::

After reading Foetus' pm I dismissed the idea of Grant being Julian thinking she was joking. You know, messing with me cause we often joke about stuff like this. Oh how I was wrong.

There are many things that make my eye twitch about the current situation with our new Daily Planet editor... aside from him macking on Lois.


arrow Apparently he is another one of the Luthor spawn between Lionel and Lillian correct? But as see in "Memoria" Julian is "killed" by this mother. Lex takes the blame which causes great trauma and mental instability later on. Lex wouldn't be rocking that blue blanket in his hands and singing to it if he knew his brother was alive. Let's face it, Lex is no Hamlet faking his crazy, he totally lost is marbles. Now, all of a sudden, Julian is alive and well with no explaination as to how the two found eachother or got into contact. I would think Lex wouldn't believe anyone who came to his door saying they were Julian. It took Lex seven months to find Lucas but that was only because Lex knew there was a possibility he was alive. Why search for Julian when you saw him get killed?

Age
arrow Lets give a general timeline. Lex lost his hair in the 1989 meteor shower when he was nine. That makes him 26/27 now. Julian was born when Lex was 12. Making Julian about 15.

Does this look 15?!


Exactly. I doubt the Daily Planet could hire a 15 year old to be editor even if he was a Luthor.


Theories

arrow That Grant is Julian's clone. Yes it sounds perposterous and is joked about but it isn't all that out there knowing what Lex has been doing right? Lex was obviously attached to Julian so why now make himself a little brother. He did make himself a fake wife. But Grant stated that he didn't want to be another one of Lex's experiments which gives me the ickling that he is human. He doesn't seem like a zombie or a robot pieced together. But you never know.

arrow Not really Julian. Just another child named Julian. Could be another one of the Lionel Luthor children like Lucas that was named Julian or Lex really really wanted an actual brother and took some kid off the street. However, I don't think they would make this big of a deal out of a different kid named Julian.

All I know is the writers had Lex do something with his vast technology and supply of meteor rock and infected people to concoct up some way for this storyline to work.


As the show progresses I am more and more confused and aggrevated by the retroactive continuity. So Smallville, a toast to you, you have really outdone yourself this time. I am no longer able to predict your next step other than by shouting out crack theories. Cheers.

Anyone notice the episode number backwards? It's how I see smallville now, all backwards.

Yeah it makes a lot of sense. [/sarcasm]

I just don't get how they manage to do this. Like we haven't been watching for the past seven seasons.

Ya, that doesn't make any sense! scream

I'm telling you he's a clone!

He had like eight million lines about Lex not creating him in a test tube, and how he wouldn't be there if not for Lex and so on and so forth.

He doesn't know it -- but he's a clone.

Plus it's a parallel with the Zor-El/Lara storyline.

I think they just expect people not to notice. Or not care enough. But not US! We see e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.

Yeah, I felt like that episode really undermined the love between Jor-El and Lara -- although I wonder if they were trying to do a version of the Clark/Lana rehash (obviously) rolled up with the Clark/Lori storyline from the comics (Lori, the mermaid who lived on land as part of her coming of age and chose to go back to the sea instead of staying with Clark).

The problem is, while we can plainly see why Clark and Lois are better for eachother than Clark and Lana and why it works in the comics, we've never been able to see what was so great about Jor-El and Lara -- so you could say Jor-El loved Lana's aunt more, and there's nothing to say otherwise on the show.

Although I guess if we're talking nature v nurture for Clark's development, and how he got his morality from Jonathan and Martha, it doesn't really matter what Jor-El thought about Lara.

But now they're undermining "Memoria", you're right, which is their own canon, and which sucks.