I am up to Season 2 of Smallville and it is a new way of looking at the life of Superman. Tom Welling to some degree does look like a younger Christopher Reeve. There are many wonderful lessons, some very sad, but sometimes very lifelike.

The life of Lex Luther is interesting, and sometimes more interesting than the Kents because he is suffering some real life issues that can make a person very dark indeed, such as the way his entire life is twisted around by his father.

Many episodes he finds out something bad happened because of his fathers previous nasty dealings with innocent people being used, abused and taken advantage of. Seems like nearly every business deal that Lionel Luther takes part in someone is hurt.

Lex is clearly trying to be a better man, and he admires Clark, but his father is always in the background grinding away at the good version of Lex and leading him closer to darkness. And because of this one can feel very sorry for the ever suffering Lex brilliantly acted by Michael Rosenbaum.

Knowing that he turns out bad, one can see a path from where Lex is in Season 2 to becoming more and more like his father and much worse one tends to imagine, while also becoming a major enemy of Superman.

Lex is constantly doing good deeds and his father is constantly putting him down for this and also messing up Lex’s mind, leading him closer and closer to being a different person.

I have met many people in my life who ended up very Narcissistic, even nasty, and enjoying being like that as if being nasty is something to celebrate and make them feel like a high achiever by the amount of people who they hurt during their lifetimes.

Often though, when you get to know such males and females, you find that they turned out just like their own parents did, narcissist manipulators, who see no wrong in that behaviour. Lex says in an episode, “In life, the road to darkness is a journey, not a light switch.”

Many people probably don’t even know that they are on that road and travelling that way, because it is all that they have seen because the adults in their life or the adult that bullies them or who they admire the most is in fact a narcissist, manipulating people in front of the children and unknowingly teaching their young to grow up to be a kind of copy of the narcissist parent/s.

When we see some behaviour in those who are our parents day by day all through our childhood we can assume that this is how we are to be, and copy without thinking about it, just becoming like them.