I buy that the majority of her concern was how he would take the news of the pregnancy, but I also think there were trust issues and her own reaction to being pregnant also in the mix.
Oh, sure. I'm just overly sensitive to the show's five-year pattern of *more often than not* letting Lana off the hook for her poor choices, bad behavior, etc., and I reserve the right to consider Lex/Lana to be one of the worst creative choices they've ever made if they go some route whereby Lana's ultimately just a victim of Lex's evil machinations when it comes to her hooking up with him. Last week felt like more of that same thing (I still think there's a difference between being freaked out about an unexpected pregnancy and acting like you've been scheduled for execution) and that's why I reacted badly to it. This week, it feels like they clarified Lana's issues in a way that *wasn't* about Lana-as-victim and if they stay consistent with that, it'll go a long way towards me being patient about Lex/Lana in general and about the pregnancy storyline in particular.
Oh, I agree that it shows a lot of character continuity--it's just that her fear of aliens was also character continuity, and yet in the end she condemned Lex for the research on the hard-drive thingy.
See, I still think that was less about Lana suddenly no longer thinking aliens are a threat and more about Lana not liking it when she isn't the top priority in her boyfriend's life**. As long as Lex found a balance between his interest in Lana and his interest in meteor mutants that Lana could handle, she probably wouldn't change her tune about 33.1 (I mean, in a scenario where Lex had been honest with her about its existence).
** Even if Clark had been honest with Lana, they wouldn't have lasted because ultimately Clark's need to help people would be the greatest priority and Lana's simply not suited to being with that kind of person. Lana needs to be the *most* important thing to whomever she's with; she probably couldn't be a cop's or fireman's wife, either, because there's ultimately an element of other people come first in that lifestyle that she simply doesn't have the disposition to withstand.
Re: part I
Oh, sure. I'm just overly sensitive to the show's five-year pattern of *more often than not* letting Lana off the hook for her poor choices, bad behavior, etc., and I reserve the right to consider Lex/Lana to be one of the worst creative choices they've ever made if they go some route whereby Lana's ultimately just a victim of Lex's evil machinations when it comes to her hooking up with him. Last week felt like more of that same thing (I still think there's a difference between being freaked out about an unexpected pregnancy and acting like you've been scheduled for execution) and that's why I reacted badly to it. This week, it feels like they clarified Lana's issues in a way that *wasn't* about Lana-as-victim and if they stay consistent with that, it'll go a long way towards me being patient about Lex/Lana in general and about the pregnancy storyline in particular.
Oh, I agree that it shows a lot of character continuity--it's just that her fear of aliens was also character continuity, and yet in the end she condemned Lex for the research on the hard-drive thingy.
See, I still think that was less about Lana suddenly no longer thinking aliens are a threat and more about Lana not liking it when she isn't the top priority in her boyfriend's life**. As long as Lex found a balance between his interest in Lana and his interest in meteor mutants that Lana could handle, she probably wouldn't change her tune about 33.1 (I mean, in a scenario where Lex had been honest with her about its existence).
** Even if Clark had been honest with Lana, they wouldn't have lasted because ultimately Clark's need to help people would be the greatest priority and Lana's simply not suited to being with that kind of person. Lana needs to be the *most* important thing to whomever she's with; she probably couldn't be a cop's or fireman's wife, either, because there's ultimately an element of other people come first in that lifestyle that she simply doesn't have the disposition to withstand.