Lately I get the very real feeling that the only reason Lana is sticking this out (before learning she was pregnant that is) is because he's all she's really got now- and Not Being Alone is her *foremost* priority, even before setting boundaries. It's not like she's not trying to be stubborn- she has, even to the point of silliness (the cameras). But she's behaving like someone with no options (or more accurately, can't conceive of any herself).
That's a good point and remember -- we'd talked about having this sense back when Sneeze/Wither aired, this feeling that she was compromising not for the sake of the relationship per se but because she doesn't really have anywhere else to go and can't think of/won't come up with any options for where else she could go. Again, though, I don't think it's *organic* at all because this show has had *no trouble* in the past with having Lana be capable of whatever it needed her to be capable of (savvy enough to successfully run a business at 16? check. good enough artist to win a scholarship to a prestigious summer art program? check. and so on). Now, the story needs her to be incapable so we can get Poor Lana, Trapped In Her Loveless Relationship With Lex, so incapable is what she's become.
This is a classic Lana mindset, even when things were going well in Lexana, she pushed aside those icky thoughts and "duh" questions about Lex doing shady as hell things to forge a relationship with him.
Very true. I'd *love* it if she'd acknowledge this to herself, though. That would make the Lexana horrow show a lot more palatable to me than it currently is. If Lana would even just tell herself -- like her reflection in the mirror -- that this apparently miserable situation is partly because of her near-pathological fear of being alone, I'd ... forgive a lot. Because at least then she's taking ownership of the *choices she's made* that brought her to this place. I'm just not in the mood for more victim!Lana. Lots of people makes bad choices that result in them finding themselves in untenable situations. But I'm a lot more sympathetic to the people who *own* that that's what they've done than I am to people who act like it's all somehow someone else's fault. As long as Lana doesn't resort to the latter (and her telling Clark that "Lex hasn't done anything" was a decent start), I'll tolerate the storyline.
ITA on the space-thing being a show-wide problem ('cause seriously -- why *doesn't* Chloe have her own apartment at this point, for example).
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That's a good point and remember -- we'd talked about having this sense back when Sneeze/Wither aired, this feeling that she was compromising not for the sake of the relationship per se but because she doesn't really have anywhere else to go and can't think of/won't come up with any options for where else she could go. Again, though, I don't think it's *organic* at all because this show has had *no trouble* in the past with having Lana be capable of whatever it needed her to be capable of (savvy enough to successfully run a business at 16? check. good enough artist to win a scholarship to a prestigious summer art program? check. and so on). Now, the story needs her to be incapable so we can get Poor Lana, Trapped In Her Loveless Relationship With Lex, so incapable is what she's become.
This is a classic Lana mindset, even when things were going well in Lexana, she pushed aside those icky thoughts and "duh" questions about Lex doing shady as hell things to forge a relationship with him.
Very true. I'd *love* it if she'd acknowledge this to herself, though. That would make the Lexana horrow show a lot more palatable to me than it currently is. If Lana would even just tell herself -- like her reflection in the mirror -- that this apparently miserable situation is partly because of her near-pathological fear of being alone, I'd ... forgive a lot. Because at least then she's taking ownership of the *choices she's made* that brought her to this place. I'm just not in the mood for more victim!Lana. Lots of people makes bad choices that result in them finding themselves in untenable situations. But I'm a lot more sympathetic to the people who *own* that that's what they've done than I am to people who act like it's all somehow someone else's fault. As long as Lana doesn't resort to the latter (and her telling Clark that "Lex hasn't done anything" was a decent start), I'll tolerate the storyline.
ITA on the space-thing being a show-wide problem ('cause seriously -- why *doesn't* Chloe have her own apartment at this point, for example).