This was a great episode, wasn’t it? As always I get so much more out of your reviews, especially with relation to previous seasons. My comment is long because, LANA!
Ah, Lana. Isn’t great that Lana was actually herself and let Clark see her real self in this episode? I feel very lucky that I am seeing the results of what must have been years of secrets and angst. Well, yay! I really, really liked the Lana I saw here. I really liked the honesty.
Their relationship is so often about silent communion=--joyous, sad or wistful--but not often about talking openly and expressively about their lives. Yay, some TV couple actually talked about their relationship! And it wasn’t cheesy or out-of-character, either but very necessary.
OMG SUPER!SEX OMG! THEY MADE THE EARTH SHAKE. *ROTFL* That will NEVER get old. Never, never! \o/ I try so hard not to ship them because I know they are doomed but this makes it so hard!
However, Clark made me laugh A LOT in this episode with his earnest innocence. See, this is where we differ on Clark. You are amused at his innocence and I just got more and more annoyed. Yes, he’s sweet and romantic but the cluelessness about Lana really got to me. I don’t know why I expected him to know her better but I did. And according to your review, he has this cluelessness about his effect on Lex too. I guess in someone with superpowers I expect that they would be smarter, more intuitive. Careful. Even Chloe will pull out claws to try to protect him. Clark needs to know that these very breakable humans will put their souls at risk for him. It’s not all his fault, everyone has free will, but I thought he’d tread a bit more carefully, have eyes a bit more open by now but he doesn’t. I think there is plenty of innoncence in there left for Lois to wake him up to someday.
Seeing Lana throw Lex around was both chilling and strangely cathartic. Um, there was also this undeniable chemistry there and Lana can’t always resist it. It makes me worry for her. Her path is not clear and with Lex as a sort of the devil on her shoulder, I don’t know which way she’ll choose.
Good question: IS Lex to blame? I don't think so. Lana's always had fewer moral boundaries than Clark. Is Lex to blame what Lana’s become? Is Clark? She says, “I sound like you.” Hmm . . . I don’t know. This is where my own lack of the backstory here fails me. But my instinct is to agree with you. No one can make you do anything. You make those choices for yourself. Even Lana owns it at the end. She knows her failings and weaknesses and is refreshingly honest about it. She’s angry at Lex but he doesn’t own her personality. Neither does Clark. She owns herself, whatever she’s becoming, and that ownership and independence is what I most wanted for her, wherever her path leads.
Of course a moment later she asks Clark the impossible--to give her unconditional love--the one thing he really CAN'T give her. But why? If he could, if she knew that he loved her no matter what (is this what Lex wanted?), that might be the very thing that could help change her.
So many questions! So much Lana. :-) I truly need to think more about this episode. But it is such a relief to see little girl grown up. Whichever way she goes, Lana is coming into her own. And her growth is forcing Clark to mature as well. He can’t just bury his head in the sand or in the farm in Smallville anymore. With each episode, Clark is learning about responsibility and his future role.
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Date: 2007-11-10 02:35 pm (UTC)Ah, Lana. Isn’t great that Lana was actually herself and let Clark see her real self in this episode? I feel very lucky that I am seeing the results of what must have been years of secrets and angst. Well, yay! I really, really liked the Lana I saw here. I really liked the honesty.
Their relationship is so often about silent communion=--joyous, sad or wistful--but not often about talking openly and expressively about their lives.
Yay, some TV couple actually talked about their relationship! And it wasn’t cheesy or out-of-character, either but very necessary.
OMG SUPER!SEX OMG! THEY MADE THE EARTH SHAKE. *ROTFL* That will NEVER get old.
Never, never! \o/ I try so hard not to ship them because I know they are doomed but this makes it so hard!
However, Clark made me laugh A LOT in this episode with his earnest innocence.
See, this is where we differ on Clark. You are amused at his innocence and I just got more and more annoyed. Yes, he’s sweet and romantic but the cluelessness about Lana really got to me. I don’t know why I expected him to know her better but I did. And according to your review, he has this cluelessness about his effect on Lex too. I guess in someone with superpowers I expect that they would be smarter, more intuitive. Careful. Even Chloe will pull out claws to try to protect him. Clark needs to know that these very breakable humans will put their souls at risk for him. It’s not all his fault, everyone has free will, but I thought he’d tread a bit more carefully, have eyes a bit more open by now but he doesn’t. I think there is plenty of innoncence in there left for Lois to wake him up to someday.
Seeing Lana throw Lex around was both chilling and strangely cathartic.
Um, there was also this undeniable chemistry there and Lana can’t always resist it. It makes me worry for her. Her path is not clear and with Lex as a sort of the devil on her shoulder, I don’t know which way she’ll choose.
Good question: IS Lex to blame? I don't think so. Lana's always had fewer moral boundaries than Clark.
Is Lex to blame what Lana’s become? Is Clark? She says, “I sound like you.” Hmm . . . I don’t know. This is where my own lack of the backstory here fails me. But my instinct is to agree with you. No one can make you do anything. You make those choices for yourself. Even Lana owns it at the end. She knows her failings and weaknesses and is refreshingly honest about it. She’s angry at Lex but he doesn’t own her personality. Neither does Clark. She owns herself, whatever she’s becoming, and that ownership and independence is what I most wanted for her, wherever her path leads.
Of course a moment later she asks Clark the impossible--to give her unconditional love--the one thing he really CAN'T give her.
But why? If he could, if she knew that he loved her no matter what (is this what Lex wanted?), that might be the very thing that could help change her.
So many questions! So much Lana. :-) I truly need to think more about this episode. But it is such a relief to see little girl grown up. Whichever way she goes, Lana is coming into her own. And her growth is forcing Clark to mature as well. He can’t just bury his head in the sand or in the farm in Smallville anymore. With each episode, Clark is learning about responsibility and his future role.