First off, you've got an unclosed bold tag somewhere (right around "Lex's investigative techniques") so half the post is in bold.
Second, ITA with you on this:
Is this really the end of the Clana? Because I think I've finally run out of patience in that area. If this is another fake break-up, I may have to just stick my fingers in my ears and sing 'la la la' through all future Clana scenes, and that's not like me!
This really better be then end, otherwise, with the exception of the Lex-Fine stuff, this episode will have been a *complete waste of my time*.
I respect it largely because his call that hurting Lana has become a daily occurrence is completely true. I'm annoyed at Lana for staying in an unequal relationship, but that it was Clark who recognised this inequality and who decided to be selfless about it (finally!) was fantastic. In making the decision, he had to accept that Lana would hate him--an enormous sacrifice for the previously love/adulation-seeking Clark. But he recognised that hate in this instance was healthier for Lana. Clark is, finally, growing up.
You know, I actually agree with all of this. I just think it would have been even more fantastic if Clark had organically come to all of these conclusions instead of them giving us the whole stupid hypnosis plot as the means of basically forcing his hand. I know it's realistic that sometimes people do have to have their hands forced to end bad relationships, but this was a situation that didn't need convoluted machinations from other characters to get Clark to the same emotional end-point. I like it that Clark finally realized he was being unfair to Lana and that *someone* needed to break the relationship off. I'm just not crazy about the *way* he came to that epiphany, especially because it's something he's arguably been aware of since as far back as the end of *Hidden*.
Lex and Lana, and their experiences with Clark, have been paralleled all season. It may appear foolish of Lana to rush to Lex as the 'first person' she wanted to tell about the break-up.
Oh, it wasn't foolish but it *was*, to me anyway, *hilariously* in-character. Lana never gets out of one relationship without making sure the back-up relationship is ready to go. I mean, seriously, did she just go *straight* to the mansion from the farm? Did she even stop on the road to have a good cry? Nope. 'Cause Lana might be devastated, but she's not so devastated that she doesn't have the presence of mind to ensure the back-up boyfriend is ready to step up to the plate. *g*
I'm being flippant because it was just so *funny* to me, but it does make sense that Lana would turn to Lex as a means of commiserating because he's the only other person she knows who has a frame of reference similar to hers around the issue of being hurt by Clark in a very specific kind of way.
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Date: 2006-04-01 02:16 am (UTC)Second, ITA with you on this:
Is this really the end of the Clana? Because I think I've finally run out of patience in that area. If this is another fake break-up, I may have to just stick my fingers in my ears and sing 'la la la' through all future Clana scenes, and that's not like me!
This really better be then end, otherwise, with the exception of the Lex-Fine stuff, this episode will have been a *complete waste of my time*.
I respect it largely because his call that hurting Lana has become a daily occurrence is completely true. I'm annoyed at Lana for staying in an unequal relationship, but that it was Clark who recognised this inequality and who decided to be selfless about it (finally!) was fantastic. In making the decision, he had to accept that Lana would hate him--an enormous sacrifice for the previously love/adulation-seeking Clark. But he recognised that hate in this instance was healthier for Lana. Clark is, finally, growing up.
You know, I actually agree with all of this. I just think it would have been even more fantastic if Clark had organically come to all of these conclusions instead of them giving us the whole stupid hypnosis plot as the means of basically forcing his hand. I know it's realistic that sometimes people do have to have their hands forced to end bad relationships, but this was a situation that didn't need convoluted machinations from other characters to get Clark to the same emotional end-point. I like it that Clark finally realized he was being unfair to Lana and that *someone* needed to break the relationship off. I'm just not crazy about the *way* he came to that epiphany, especially because it's something he's arguably been aware of since as far back as the end of *Hidden*.
Lex and Lana, and their experiences with Clark, have been paralleled all season. It may appear foolish of Lana to rush to Lex as the 'first person' she wanted to tell about the break-up.
Oh, it wasn't foolish but it *was*, to me anyway, *hilariously* in-character. Lana never gets out of one relationship without making sure the back-up relationship is ready to go. I mean, seriously, did she just go *straight* to the mansion from the farm? Did she even stop on the road to have a good cry? Nope. 'Cause Lana might be devastated, but she's not so devastated that she doesn't have the presence of mind to ensure the back-up boyfriend is ready to step up to the plate. *g*
I'm being flippant because it was just so *funny* to me, but it does make sense that Lana would turn to Lex as a means of commiserating because he's the only other person she knows who has a frame of reference similar to hers around the issue of being hurt by Clark in a very specific kind of way.