She's been carrying secrets for so long now. Not just that, but she's been restraining herself, constantly modulating her behaviour, her speech, her carriage and demeanour to the circumstances she finds herself. The opening scenes really brought home to me how long it's been since we've seen Lana look... free. I've possibly never seen her look so carefree and happy as in the riding scene or their first little superspeed chase.
I really like this observation--I hadn't consciously noticed it, but you're right. Lana has really been adapting her demeanor to the situation, and it was really nice to see her truly happy. (It reminded me a lot of the beginning of whicever episode it was, Hidden or Mortal--I always get those two mixed up--when Clark and Lana finally got to have sex. Lana is so darn cute when she's happy!)
Smallville has this hidden capacity to shock--it's extremely subtextually sexual beneath the pretty sets and the clean country atmosphere. 'Wrath' was a perfect example--um, they just textualised the fact that Clark makes the earth shake when he fucks. *jaw drop* Yeah, no wonder he's a bit worried about having sex with a regular human.
Yeah, but to be fair, it's when two superpowered beings have sex that the earth shakes. Normally Clark will never be able to let go like that (and Lana has probably never had to think about that kind of control before).
Still: FUNNIEST SMALLVILLE SCENE EVER, hands down.
The sex is not that important to Clark, of course. He turned on the romance not, as a normal boy some people would, to get laid, but to discuss the emotional distance in the relationship. (OMGSUCHAGIRL!) When they kiss and make up he says, 'If everything we've been through was just for that, it's all worth it'. Oh, Clark! One perfect kiss? You are so hopelessly sappy!
I really loved that, though. Oh Clark, you really are the perfect boyfriend, except for how you're never going to be around due to world save-age and stuff like that.
The anger that she feels about their secret-keeping (irony much!) is expressed physically--she smashes a mirror. We discover that the powers have not just given Lana greater physical strength--they've also made her less able to control her emotions. This was a very Lexian moment, with echoes of him smashing his glass into the fireplace in 'Reckoning'.
Oh, thanks for drawing that parallel. When I rewatched that scene, I knew there had to be some significance to the mirror smashing, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was.
While clearly Lana is out of control here, I was still excited to see her turn the tables after all this time. She was so trapped, abused and stripped of all power by Lex. It was a little like seeing Lana tear out the knife with which Zod speared her to the wall. We saw then, even when she loved Lex, that she was willing to risk killing him to defeat Zod and that same stop-at-nothing approach comes through here
I have no coherent comment to this--it's just a beautiful parsing of her motivations, and I wanted to cut and paste it for emphasis.
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Date: 2007-11-13 08:02 pm (UTC)I really like this observation--I hadn't consciously noticed it, but you're right. Lana has really been adapting her demeanor to the situation, and it was really nice to see her truly happy. (It reminded me a lot of the beginning of whicever episode it was, Hidden or Mortal--I always get those two mixed up--when Clark and Lana finally got to have sex. Lana is so darn cute when she's happy!)
Smallville has this hidden capacity to shock--it's extremely subtextually sexual beneath the pretty sets and the clean country atmosphere. 'Wrath' was a perfect example--um, they just textualised the fact that Clark makes the earth shake when he fucks. *jaw drop* Yeah, no wonder he's a bit worried about having sex with a regular human.
Yeah, but to be fair, it's when two superpowered beings have sex that the earth shakes. Normally Clark will never be able to let go like that (and Lana has probably never had to think about that kind of control before).
Still: FUNNIEST SMALLVILLE SCENE EVER, hands down.
The sex is not that important to Clark, of course. He turned on the romance not, as a normal boy some people would, to get laid, but to discuss the emotional distance in the relationship. (OMGSUCHAGIRL!) When they kiss and make up he says, 'If everything we've been through was just for that, it's all worth it'. Oh, Clark! One perfect kiss? You are so hopelessly sappy!
I really loved that, though. Oh Clark, you really are the perfect boyfriend, except for how you're never going to be around due to world save-age and stuff like that.
The anger that she feels about their secret-keeping (irony much!) is expressed physically--she smashes a mirror. We discover that the powers have not just given Lana greater physical strength--they've also made her less able to control her emotions. This was a very Lexian moment, with echoes of him smashing his glass into the fireplace in 'Reckoning'.
Oh, thanks for drawing that parallel. When I rewatched that scene, I knew there had to be some significance to the mirror smashing, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was.
While clearly Lana is out of control here, I was still excited to see her turn the tables after all this time. She was so trapped, abused and stripped of all power by Lex. It was a little like seeing Lana tear out the knife with which Zod speared her to the wall. We saw then, even when she loved Lex, that she was willing to risk killing him to defeat Zod and that same stop-at-nothing approach comes through here
I have no coherent comment to this--it's just a beautiful parsing of her motivations, and I wanted to cut and paste it for emphasis.