It was an episode of AWESOME, yes. There are always some patchy eps every season but when they turn it on for the big power eps, it's very exciting.
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. Yup! 'Tis a good time to tune in from a Lana pov--she's very powerful and interesting right now. I loved seeing her be herself too.
And it wasn’t cheesy or out-of-character, either but very necessary. *nods* Definitely! It was great and I really liked seeing Clark's maturity in the exchange. He didn't have the capacity to handle a conversation of this sort when he was younger but he seemed like a grown man here.
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. *nods* I can understand that, especially if you're heavily in Lana's point of view. Clark has this very idealised view of the world and he can be very black and white in his thinking. In the S1 pilot we learnt that he had always loved 'the girl next door' (Lana--he used to watch her through his telescope) and he has always held this image of her as perfect and pure. His mother, very very gently, suggested to him that perhaps Lana wasn't quite the woman Clark thought she was. But he's always resisted that and clung on to this 'I love her therefore she must be perfect' line.
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. Nope. Intuition he's not high on at ALL. They always played it a little as if he found human nature hard to comprehend. For instance, he couldn't understand that his mother was not on speaking terms with his grandfather: to him, family was family and he found it really hard to understand. He used to read books about human psychology to try and 'get it'.
I think there is plenty of innoncence in there left for Lois to wake him up to someday. Ha! Nice line, and yeah, you're probably right. All i can say is he really has improved. A bit.
there was also this undeniable chemistry there and Lana can’t always resist it Hee! Yeah, there was. Lex is dangerously seductive and they always did have chemistry. Except once they were actually married and then they had the coldest relationship you've ever seen. *shudders*
You make those choices for yourself. Even Lana owns it at the end. Yeah, I think that was important and it's what the writers wanted us to take away. Yes, Lana has reacted to Clark's betrayals in the past (his secret was always an issue between them) and she's reacted to Lex's abuse. But she had a choice about the way she did so.
that ownership and independence is what I most wanted for her, wherever her path leads. Yes, me too--and so I was torn watching this because part of me was all 'yay! power!Lana!' and the other part was really sad because it seems a dark and lonely path.
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. You nailed it. Yes, that's what Lex wanted too. And that's the one thing that might have prevented him sinking into darkness (he used to say he could feel it clawing at the edges of his mind and appeal to Clark for understanding, which Clark didn't offer). Same thing here. The reason Clark can't give it is because he's got such a firm moral line--he is deeply troubled by the idea that others are willing to kill, willing to cheat, willing to lie, etc, even if it's to protect him. If he blinds himself to the actions of those he loves, he becomes a hypocrite--hence his crisis. He's going to be Superman, remember! And Supes always was pretty hardline and judgemental. :p (I'm not excusing him, btw, just explaining. The dissolution of the Clex relationship broke my heart because there was a time when Clark DID protect Lex but his own fears and discomfort with Lex's less noble actions ate at him so much he couldn't love Lex when Lex most needed it. It's all being replayed here.)
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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.
Yup! 'Tis a good time to tune in from a Lana pov--she's very powerful and interesting right now. I loved seeing her be herself too.
And it wasn’t cheesy or out-of-character, either but very necessary.
*nods* Definitely! It was great and I really liked seeing Clark's maturity in the exchange. He didn't have the capacity to handle a conversation of this sort when he was younger but he seemed like a grown man here.
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.
*nods* I can understand that, especially if you're heavily in Lana's point of view. Clark has this very idealised view of the world and he can be very black and white in his thinking. In the S1 pilot we learnt that he had always loved 'the girl next door' (Lana--he used to watch her through his telescope) and he has always held this image of her as perfect and pure. His mother, very very gently, suggested to him that perhaps Lana wasn't quite the woman Clark thought she was. But he's always resisted that and clung on to this 'I love her therefore she must be perfect' line.
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.
Nope. Intuition he's not high on at ALL. They always played it a little as if he found human nature hard to comprehend. For instance, he couldn't understand that his mother was not on speaking terms with his grandfather: to him, family was family and he found it really hard to understand. He used to read books about human psychology to try and 'get it'.
I think there is plenty of innoncence in there left for Lois to wake him up to someday.
Ha! Nice line, and yeah, you're probably right. All i can say is he really has improved. A bit.
there was also this undeniable chemistry there and Lana can’t always resist it
Hee! Yeah, there was. Lex is dangerously seductive and they always did have chemistry. Except once they were actually married and then they had the coldest relationship you've ever seen. *shudders*
You make those choices for yourself. Even Lana owns it at the end.
Yeah, I think that was important and it's what the writers wanted us to take away. Yes, Lana has reacted to Clark's betrayals in the past (his secret was always an issue between them) and she's reacted to Lex's abuse. But she had a choice about the way she did so.
that ownership and independence is what I most wanted for her, wherever her path leads.
Yes, me too--and so I was torn watching this because part of me was all 'yay! power!Lana!' and the other part was really sad because it seems a dark and lonely path.
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.
You nailed it. Yes, that's what Lex wanted too. And that's the one thing that might have prevented him sinking into darkness (he used to say he could feel it clawing at the edges of his mind and appeal to Clark for understanding, which Clark didn't offer). Same thing here. The reason Clark can't give it is because he's got such a firm moral line--he is deeply troubled by the idea that others are willing to kill, willing to cheat, willing to lie, etc, even if it's to protect him. If he blinds himself to the actions of those he loves, he becomes a hypocrite--hence his crisis. He's going to be Superman, remember! And Supes always was pretty hardline and judgemental. :p (I'm not excusing him, btw, just explaining. The dissolution of the Clex relationship broke my heart because there was a time when Clark DID protect Lex but his own fears and discomfort with Lex's less noble actions ate at him so much he couldn't love Lex when Lex most needed it. It's all being replayed here.)