It's also an interesting reversal of Lana's plot. She started out with an internalised image of her parents as having a perfect happy marriage and loving smalltown life. Then the reality surfaced in her mum's diary and the photos of her with Henry Small. So the internalised vision was disrupted/distorted/destroyed.
That's a really good point. (Gee, I guess drunken Lex was, in a way, right in "Reckoning" that Lana's lucky her parents are dead. Ok, maybe not, but she had so little heritage from them that at least she's no longer haunted by them. If they hadn't written Nell off the show, maybe she could have been the bad parental influence (after all, it's pretty strongly implied in the Pilot that Nell was having an affair with Lionel).
Oh. DUH. Now Lana is going to have an affair with a Luthor, just like her aunt did. I can't believe I didn't think of that before.
Hmmm. Nell actually seems to have maintained a cordial relationship with the Luthors after she got her diamond earrings--maybe that foreshadows a non-traumatic breakup for the Lexana, when it ends?
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That's a really good point. (Gee, I guess drunken Lex was, in a way, right in "Reckoning" that Lana's lucky her parents are dead. Ok, maybe not, but she had so little heritage from them that at least she's no longer haunted by them. If they hadn't written Nell off the show, maybe she could have been the bad parental influence (after all, it's pretty strongly implied in the Pilot that Nell was having an affair with Lionel).
Oh. DUH. Now Lana is going to have an affair with a Luthor, just like her aunt did. I can't believe I didn't think of that before.
Hmmm. Nell actually seems to have maintained a cordial relationship with the Luthors after she got her diamond earrings--maybe that foreshadows a non-traumatic breakup for the Lexana, when it ends?