I guess I'm just finding it painful watching Lex put his foot in it with Lana! He needs to ease off if he's to have any chance with her.
The funny thing is I actually think that had Jonathan not just *died*, thus triggering a certain amount of guilt on Lana's part and sense that she can't start moving away from Clark right now, she would have been more receptive to Lex's approach to her, at least this week (last week was just too soon for him to move in, but I also don't think Lana holds that against him because it's really not how he would have acted had he not been drunk).
Lana doesn't ever go for very long without being romantically entangled with someone; I think the longest she may have gone was that period in S2 between breaking things off with Whitney in Heat and receiving the news of his death in Visage. Shortly after he died, though, she and Clark were making eyes at each other and finally hooked up at the very end of S2. And even though they broke up at the beginning of S3, she and Clark did the "more than friends but not quite dating" dance throughout the entirety of that season until she fled to Paris and hooked up with Jason. She didn't even *break up with Jason* properly before rekindling things with Clark at the tail end of S4.
Given her prior pattens, I actually think that in the wake of the demise of her relationship with Clark, Lana probably would be receptive to Lex's attentions *but for* the way Jonathan's death and the way its timing unfortunately coincided with her dumping Clark. That complicates things (in much the same way she put her decision to dump Whitney and possibly make a play for Clark on hold in S1 when Whit's dad died (also, coincidentally, of heart problems)). Now, I agree that Lex should realize the complication and thus adjust his approach, but ... If he's been paying the kind of attention to Lana they keep trying to tell us he has been all this time, I can absolutely see where he'd think moving in quick is the way to go. 'Cause she *doesn't* leave a lot of gap time between boyfriends, please her tiny, princessy heart. ;-)
Re: part II
The funny thing is I actually think that had Jonathan not just *died*, thus triggering a certain amount of guilt on Lana's part and sense that she can't start moving away from Clark right now, she would have been more receptive to Lex's approach to her, at least this week (last week was just too soon for him to move in, but I also don't think Lana holds that against him because it's really not how he would have acted had he not been drunk).
Lana doesn't ever go for very long without being romantically entangled with someone; I think the longest she may have gone was that period in S2 between breaking things off with Whitney in Heat and receiving the news of his death in Visage. Shortly after he died, though, she and Clark were making eyes at each other and finally hooked up at the very end of S2. And even though they broke up at the beginning of S3, she and Clark did the "more than friends but not quite dating" dance throughout the entirety of that season until she fled to Paris and hooked up with Jason. She didn't even *break up with Jason* properly before rekindling things with Clark at the tail end of S4.
Given her prior pattens, I actually think that in the wake of the demise of her relationship with Clark, Lana probably would be receptive to Lex's attentions *but for* the way Jonathan's death and the way its timing unfortunately coincided with her dumping Clark. That complicates things (in much the same way she put her decision to dump Whitney and possibly make a play for Clark on hold in S1 when Whit's dad died (also, coincidentally, of heart problems)). Now, I agree that Lex should realize the complication and thus adjust his approach, but ... If he's been paying the kind of attention to Lana they keep trying to tell us he has been all this time, I can absolutely see where he'd think moving in quick is the way to go. 'Cause she *doesn't* leave a lot of gap time between boyfriends, please her tiny, princessy heart. ;-)