Lexmas
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| Written by: | Holly Harold |
| Release date: | December 8, 2005 |
| Available on: | DVD |
"Lexmas" is the Christmas episode of the DC Comics-based drama television series Smallville.
Synopsis
Lex considers whether to turn an operative loose to obtain or fake damaging information against Jonathan to upset his Senatorial race. Yet when Lex is shot, he falls into a coma and is visited by the ghost of his mother, who shows him what his life could be like if he frees himself from his father. Meanwhile, Clark helps deliver Christmas presents.
In the vision provided by his mother, Lex sees an alternate world where he and reporter Clark are still friends, and Clark is enormously supportive of Lex's marriage to Lana Lang, who is pregnant with their first child. (Clark's powers and abilities do not come into play in Lex's vision). A joyous Christmas celebration takes a dark turn when Lana takes deathly ill, threatening both her and the baby unless Lex can get some expensive expert help. A plea to Lionel falls on not only deaf but contemptuous mocking ears, and Lex is crushed as his hopes for love and family die. He pleads to his mother to change this, but she says that part of being free of Lionel is facing things without money, muscle and power to change them, sometimes at hideous cost. She argues that he should be happy for the time Lana and he had together. Lex horrifies his mother by coming to the conclusion that only by being powerful can he protect those he cares about, and embraces his father's path. As Clark rediscovers the true meaning of Christmas, the battle for Lex's soul has taken the worst turn conceivable.
Trivia
- Some few months later, Lex would again encounter his mother's spirit by accident, and they would argue over the events of his vision in this episode.
- Michael Rosenbaum, who portrayed Lex Luthor, also voiced the Flash on the Justice League animated series, including its own Christmas episode, "Comfort and Joy". In a later episode, Luthor and Flash switched bodies, meaning that Rosenbaum in essence got to voice Lex Luthor as well. Ironically, the more well-received end of the episode featured Clancy Brown (best known as the voice of Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants) playing it up as the Flash-inhabited Luthor.
