i truly think that the clex murder suicide in smallville shouldve worked and the good guys have to race against the clock to get clark revived before he can never come back to life again and they find clark's soul (which is more like a little blob of light than a ghost that looks 1-to-1 like him) and lex's is wrapped around it like tree roots, just totally enmeshed, and the souls make this sortve high pitched screeching as the team works to disentangle them that shatters windows and other glass and makes tables shake and wood creak ominously, and chloe is there reassuring this noncorporeal representation of clark that she knows it hurts but they've almost got the rot out, lex wont be able to hurt him anymore soon, and they get the souls separated and clark put back in his body (and presumably they must do the same with lex's corpse who they have in a jail cell for safety, otherwise the procedure wont work) and clark wakes up with a gasp and he's trembling like a fawn and gagging and in obvious agony and he just keeps asking "where's lex," and they realize he is not asking because he's afraid of a threat, he's asking because clark had been holding on just as tightly as lex was in their little soulblob forms and the screeching was because NEITHER wanted to be seperated and clark starts sobbing "put me back, put me back" and lex is awake and enraged and throwing himself against the bars of his cell because he can FEEL that clark is nearby but cant see him, and they wont calm down until theyre back together and holding each other, and it turns out little ripped off pieces of their souls were left behind in each other and they have a permanent link to each other now, and everyone who is presumably a good guy is really really really uncomfortable with the enmeshment soulbond of these two
i blacked out what was i saying? the show doesnt have to do all that other stuff but i do stand by that the murder suicide shouldve worked
