bvs and the way it does lex jr is so good bc. in lex’s introduction scene you hear him talk about his father and how he didn’t really name the company after him and you kinda think, oh okay seems like this guy might not have had the best relationship with his father but he still runs his company now. sure. and ofc you’re immediately distracted by the kryptonite plot right. then he mentions him again to finch and you don’t really think much of it, it’s like. oh yeah he kinda misses his father who obviously died earlier than most people do. sure! and it’s not until like the third act that you realize, oh no his father was actually abusive, and superman is both god and the devil and so was his father and for that reason his mere existence just cannot be allowed to stand. lex’s childhood trauma is just so much of what drives him and forms his ideology and you certainly get clues leading up to his big speech but it’s not until then that you really realize the full story. it’s just very well-done storytelling imo