Well, Lana was dumb as a box of hammers with that plan anyway. I mean, did she really think Lex wouldn't be able to track his own car? Did she really think *anyone* would be all "Oh, cool, a car STOLEN FROM LEX LUTHOR! Can't wait to drive it!!" (in fact, Lance's incredulity was also a stunning bit of realism in that scene because hell *yeah* he should pee his pants at realizing some dumb bitch stole and then tried to *pawn off to him* a car belonging to one of the richest and most powerful men *on the planet*; of course they ruined it by then having Lance kill Lex and leaving all that *physical evidence* behind).
Lana's actually pretty useless in the episode but what I like is how the ep (inadvertently, IMO) acknowledges (1) how pathetic Lana really is (and I mean that in the true sense of the word, "Lana as object worthy of pity"), and (2) that she's simply not in the same league as Clark and Lex in terms of being epic or destined for greatness or anything like that. I'm sure we're supposed to view this as an isolated incident, predicated specifically by Lana's break-up pain, but it reveals that she's really fucked-up and sad, especially her emotionally arrested development when it comes to her parents. She's *still* not over them being dead; she still can't process it in a way she's able to *move beyond*. And that's really very sad.
Re: part I (Reposting with better formatting)
Lana's actually pretty useless in the episode but what I like is how the ep (inadvertently, IMO) acknowledges (1) how pathetic Lana really is (and I mean that in the true sense of the word, "Lana as object worthy of pity"), and (2) that she's simply not in the same league as Clark and Lex in terms of being epic or destined for greatness or anything like that. I'm sure we're supposed to view this as an isolated incident, predicated specifically by Lana's break-up pain, but it reveals that she's really fucked-up and sad, especially her emotionally arrested development when it comes to her parents. She's *still* not over them being dead; she still can't process it in a way she's able to *move beyond*. And that's really very sad.