I also think regardless of how much or little sympathy you have for Lana these days, you have to admit KK has really been excellent, recently. I am actually finding myself sympathetic to how trapped Lana is feeling, even though *rationally* I don't agree that I should feel sympathetic, just because KK was really *on* tonight, especially in those last three scenes.
That's exactly where I am: rationally, I'm not particularly sympathetic to Lana feeling all trapped by the relationship with Lex. Because honestly, she's known for a long time that Lex was a shady mofo. She may not have known the depth of it, but she's *known* it. Their entire dynamic in the first third of S5 was predicated on Lana (a) thinking Lex was a shady mofo, and (b) not particularly trusting him because of it. Clark warned her. *Chloe* warned her. And this is *on top of her already knowing he was shady*.
So I'm not really feeling her "Oh, noes! Lex is *really* shady!" trauma. Particularly since, as I said elsewhere in the thread, the series hasn't even presented it as though she *can't* walk out of the relationship. She hasn't tried yet (and it doesn't look like she's going to) only to be thwarted, so I'm not going to just assume that she can't. I'm especially not going to make that assumption when *Lex*, as a character, has gotten to the point that he's no longer bothering with begging people to love/care about him. I actually think that if Lana broke up with him, he might not be happy about, but he wouldn't try to block her because he's not particularly interested any more in people who aren't as invested in him as he believes himself to be in them.
I do think KK did a great job of *selling* the idea that Lana feels trapped and desperate. But that's different from the *series* actually successfully laying out that argument; I don't think it has.
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That's exactly where I am: rationally, I'm not particularly sympathetic to Lana feeling all trapped by the relationship with Lex. Because honestly, she's known for a long time that Lex was a shady mofo. She may not have known the depth of it, but she's *known* it. Their entire dynamic in the first third of S5 was predicated on Lana (a) thinking Lex was a shady mofo, and (b) not particularly trusting him because of it. Clark warned her. *Chloe* warned her. And this is *on top of her already knowing he was shady*.
So I'm not really feeling her "Oh, noes! Lex is *really* shady!" trauma. Particularly since, as I said elsewhere in the thread, the series hasn't even presented it as though she *can't* walk out of the relationship. She hasn't tried yet (and it doesn't look like she's going to) only to be thwarted, so I'm not going to just assume that she can't. I'm especially not going to make that assumption when *Lex*, as a character, has gotten to the point that he's no longer bothering with begging people to love/care about him. I actually think that if Lana broke up with him, he might not be happy about, but he wouldn't try to block her because he's not particularly interested any more in people who aren't as invested in him as he believes himself to be in them.
I do think KK did a great job of *selling* the idea that Lana feels trapped and desperate. But that's different from the *series* actually successfully laying out that argument; I don't think it has.