--Lana's plotline, which continues to thicken. I wonder if the Isis foundation is doing any good whatsoever, or is it just a front for Lana's spygames?
I imagine it's a mixture of both. Lana being community-service minded goes back to the very first season, so it's not out of character that she'd want to help... but that back room with its spy cameras is a huge part of it, too. The two sides of Lana Lang-Luthor.
--Kara and Jimmy, who continue to be very cute.
Aren't they? They're pinging all over for me. I loved that Kara was so sincere in apologizing to Jimmy, and that he was so sincere in accepting it. Oh, help me, I think I'm starting to ship them!
--Agent Carter. Sure, he was doomed once he found out Clark's secret, but damn! Those Kryptonite cuffs (and his eagerness to use them) were pretty impressive, and even more so was his acquisition and improvement of Summerholt technology.
I loved the continuity on the Summerholt stuff. They do watch their own show!
--And that scene with Lex again makes me wonder what the hell his true motives are. His schizophrenic attitude about Lex (cautioning him at the same time he condemns him) seems to make even less sense than normal, if his goal is to worm his way into Lex's confidences again.
I find it very interesting that that dual approach — cautioning him and condemning him — is a very old pattern with Lex, and it's exactly the approach he took with Lana last week. So... is Lana a Luthor in Lionel's book?
I did like that he pointed out the obvious, though, that everyone Lex goes after is connected somehow to Clark.
I LOVED that moment. Talk about making it canon.
--The whole Lara plotline. Um, yes, it makes sense that we find out more about her because Kara knew her, and it was interesting to get the backstory about why exactly Zor-El hated Jor-El, but a love triangle? SERIOUSLY?
My problem with the love-triangle was the cloning thing. They were obviously paralleling Zor-El and Lex, and their cloning the woman they loved without her knowledge. Which made Clark so proudly showing the crystal with Lara's DNA to Lana just so... weird to me.
but honestly? This seemed like so much overkill it kind of spoiled the Lara memories from "Memoria" from me. It was better, for me, just having hints of her.
I agree. It just fell... emotionally flat to me. I felt like the whole thing should have been so sweet and moving and it just... wasn't. When compared with Memoria, there wasn't any heart there.
My God, the fact that CLARK STOLE IT and HE TALKED ABOUT WANTING TO SEE HER AGAIN SOMEDAY makes me think of really crazy but fun plotlines--is Clark going to try to clone his mom? That would of course be completely awesome the most whacked-out plotline ever.
I'm hoping that the crystal is going to get inserted into the Fortress somewhere, and infuse the place with Lara's sensibility as well as Jor-El's. That place needs a woman's touch. :-)
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I imagine it's a mixture of both. Lana being community-service minded goes back to the very first season, so it's not out of character that she'd want to help... but that back room with its spy cameras is a huge part of it, too. The two sides of Lana Lang-Luthor.
--Kara and Jimmy, who continue to be very cute.
Aren't they? They're pinging all over for me. I loved that Kara was so sincere in apologizing to Jimmy, and that he was so sincere in accepting it. Oh, help me, I think I'm starting to ship them!
--Agent Carter. Sure, he was doomed once he found out Clark's secret, but damn! Those Kryptonite cuffs (and his eagerness to use them) were pretty impressive, and even more so was his acquisition and improvement of Summerholt technology.
I loved the continuity on the Summerholt stuff. They do watch their own show!
--And that scene with Lex again makes me wonder what the hell his true motives are. His schizophrenic attitude about Lex (cautioning him at the same time he condemns him) seems to make even less sense than normal, if his goal is to worm his way into Lex's confidences again.
I find it very interesting that that dual approach — cautioning him and condemning him — is a very old pattern with Lex, and it's exactly the approach he took with Lana last week. So... is Lana a Luthor in Lionel's book?
I did like that he pointed out the obvious, though, that everyone Lex goes after is connected somehow to Clark.
I LOVED that moment. Talk about making it canon.
--The whole Lara plotline. Um, yes, it makes sense that we find out more about her because Kara knew her, and it was interesting to get the backstory about why exactly Zor-El hated Jor-El, but a love triangle? SERIOUSLY?
My problem with the love-triangle was the cloning thing. They were obviously paralleling Zor-El and Lex, and their cloning the woman they loved without her knowledge. Which made Clark so proudly showing the crystal with Lara's DNA to Lana just so... weird to me.
but honestly? This seemed like so much overkill it kind of spoiled the Lara memories from "Memoria" from me. It was better, for me, just having hints of her.
I agree. It just fell... emotionally flat to me. I felt like the whole thing should have been so sweet and moving and it just... wasn't. When compared with Memoria, there wasn't any heart there.
My God, the fact that CLARK STOLE IT and HE TALKED ABOUT WANTING TO SEE HER AGAIN SOMEDAY makes me think of really crazy but fun plotlines--is Clark going to try to clone his mom? That would of course be completely awesome the most whacked-out plotline ever.
I'm hoping that the crystal is going to get inserted into the Fortress somewhere, and infuse the place with Lara's sensibility as well as Jor-El's. That place needs a woman's touch. :-)