Lex, This Is Your Life - 
by J-Unit
Clark agrees to help, even though he knows people in Smallville will wonder where he is. Clark immediately starts racing around Metropolis, giving presents to all of the less fortunate (taking enough time to take the milk and cookies meant for Santa Claus), or at least they were supposed to be less fortunate. Some of those kids seemed like they had some nice houses, and every single one of them had nice trees. So unless Kansas subsidizes conifers and fireplaces for it's poorer citizens, I am not sure what qualifies these kids as poor. Couldn't we have had some orphans or kids with leukemia to notch up the melodrama a bit?
Well, the writers didn't have to turn up the melodrama with the kids, because we were given something even more dramatic. In one house, a sleepy little girl caught Clark putting presents under the tree. She wasn't so surprised to see Santa, but wondered why he wasn't old, and fat. Clark tries to explain that he was the new and improved model, but the girl said he couldn't be, and pointed to a man in a Santa outfit on the roof of the next building, apparently about to fall off, or perhaps jump. Clark rushes to this guy, and it's yet another mall Santa boozing it up and crying about how the spirit of Christmas has been ruined with all of the materialism, yada, yada, yada, why don't I kill myself. Clark manages to talk him down off the ledge, and tells him that the spirit of Christmas is not gone. In fact, Clark has been helping deliver toys to poor kids all over Metropolis. This simple act of kindness easily counteracted the four weeks of kids sitting on his lap asking for Barbies and Playstations, and Santa decides to come off the ledge. Being a little drunk, however, Santa slips and falls. If this had been any other show, I would have laughed at the morbid humor and the irony of Santa falling off the roof after getting back on the wagon, but Clark saved this poor guy from breaking his neck, and even managed to save that hip flask of whiskey so Santa can keep warm on his way to passing out and peeing himself in the back of his 84 Impala.
Dwight Clark and Willie Mays have nothing on Clark.
While all of this is going on, Lex is still in trouble. He is out of immediate danger, but when his father visits him for surgery, Lionel is told that Lex will never walk again because there is internal bleeding applying pressure to his spinal cord. The hospital is not equipped to handle such a procedure, but Lionel wants him moved to a special facility where they will perform the operation. As anybody knows from watching ER or any other hospital show, moving patients in such a condition could prove dangerous and fatal. Lionel knows this, and is almost happy that it will be dangerous. When he first came into the hospital room and told him Lex had been shot, Lionel sort of had this look of "he lived?" mixed with what looked to me like a whole lot of disappointment. Did Lionel really want Lex to walk, or was he just being as aggressive as possible, knowing that if the doctors killed him, nobody would think twice?
Back in dreamland, Lex's life is much different than he knows in his own world. First, he is driving a Vintage Grand Wagoneer. In other words, his current car made it to 60 MPH about the same time it took his Ferrari to do a quarter mile. Then again Lex wasn't in this for flash, he was in it for family, and I guess there would be some tradeoffs for making an honest woman out of Lana after all of her years she wasted on Clark. He goes to pick up a tree with his son Alex and sees Clark and Chloe. Yay! They appear to be a couple AND they look successful. I know this because Clark is wearing one of those "Look at me, I'm successful" trench coats that only really look natural on people who occupy corner offices of art deco high rises built in the 30s, and only then because they don't have any soul. You would have to agree, that this whole Lex scenario is working out great for everybody, including the fans. He is a reporter, and she made herself famous by writing a book exposing Luthorcorp, with help from none other than Lex himself. Hmm, that explains why Lex is living in a humble farmhouse and isn't driving a Cayenne. Did daddy cut him off after the expose? Surely looks like it.
Although we have had moments before where we get to see that Lex is human and not pure evil, this alternate scenario really makes us feel for his character. Removed from the burden of wealth and the drive to amass more of the same, Lex's true feelings come out. There is no better example than his thoughts on Christmas. Despite the fact that he is on a budget, Lex got a huge tree. As a kid, he was never allowed to celebrate Christmas after his mom died, so the holidays were always tough on him. It seemed strange that the shooting might have been the best thing that ever happened to him.
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