Believe it or not, save the pancakes aka Lana’s parents.
What are you going to do to accomplish it, given the constraints on your powers?
Telekinesis. I’ll just move them fifty feet to one side.
What do you think the effect of your change will be?
Honestly, I think that with her parents alive, she wouldn’t be on the cover of the Time magazine. Also, she wouldn’t be known and pitied as an orphan or be wearing that horrible little necklace which I still think made her into a freak with the “pity power.”
I think that a lot of Clark’s interest initially was her unavailability due to her necklace and pity/guilt for the meteor that whacked her parents. I think that w/o them, she wouldn’t have stood out quite so much and Clark would’ve found out a lot sooner that she’s not the perfect saint that he thought she was for such a long time. Clana would’ve happened sooner and burned out faster as she would show that she’s not as interested in the stuff he comes to be interested in and probably starts getting a roving eye. W/o Lana’s previous history of woe, I think Clark might’ve grown up a lot sooner.
I also think that Lana wouldn’t be able to demand perfection from loved ones since she wouldn’t have idolized a memory to the point where love = being flawless. With a father figure in her life, maybe she wouldn’t keep hopping from guy to guy to guy. Having a flesh and blood father and mother doing imperfect things and screwing up would give her a more reasonable expectations of what a relationship is really like or at least make her realize that nothing is perfect. She wouldn’t be able to blame everything on being an orphan or have the deep-seated abandonment issues or at least she would have been forced to own them. The thing about Aunt Nell is that Lana got to think “My parents would be better/more honest/more understanding/more loving” and without that, she’d have to face some hard facts of life sooner.
I like to think that if her parents had decided to move out of Metropolis to keep her from being stalked, she would simply have gone with them or that Chloe wouldn’t have opened her house to her considering that it was her PARENTS telling her to pack, not simply her aunt.
Without the dead parents thing, I don’t think she would’ve taken on the Talon but just continued just being a regular high school girl for the most part since she did say that it was her parents’ history that inspired her to reopen it.
What might be the unintended consequences?
I think Nell might’ve been happier and found a guy w/o Lana. Perhaps she could’ve made a move on Lionel once Lillian was dead. Hmmm . . .
Lana’s parents could have divorced and Lana’s mom might’ve married Henry Small. Depending on custody battle, Lana might be Lana Small or Lana Lang. It would’ve gotten a bit messy.
Without Lana, I’d like to think Clark & Lex would have talked about different and other things than her. Also, I’d like to think with a more honest/realistic view of Lana, Clark would have been able to have a more varied romantic life including Chlark, not necessarily but possibly.
The show would’ve actually improved as Lana would hopefully have parents who did view her as a human being and not someone to worship. It would’ve been nice to see her yelled at, grounded, etc.
If her parents were stupid enough to want to stay in SV and let her get stalked over and over again, well not sure how to change that. Maybe they’d get killed trying to protect her or may end up just being more proactive about protecting her. I’d like to think they’d move.
I’d like to think her parents wouldn’t be indulgent enough to let her go to Paris and get involved in the stone arc of S4.
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Believe it or not, save the pancakes aka Lana’s parents.
What are you going to do to accomplish it, given the constraints on your powers?
Telekinesis. I’ll just move them fifty feet to one side.
What do you think the effect of your change will be?
Honestly, I think that with her parents alive, she wouldn’t be on the cover of the Time magazine. Also, she wouldn’t be known and pitied as an orphan or be wearing that horrible little necklace which I still think made her into a freak with the “pity power.”
I think that a lot of Clark’s interest initially was her unavailability due to her necklace and pity/guilt for the meteor that whacked her parents. I think that w/o them, she wouldn’t have stood out quite so much and Clark would’ve found out a lot sooner that she’s not the perfect saint that he thought she was for such a long time. Clana would’ve happened sooner and burned out faster as she would show that she’s not as interested in the stuff he comes to be interested in and probably starts getting a roving eye. W/o Lana’s previous history of woe, I think Clark might’ve grown up a lot sooner.
I also think that Lana wouldn’t be able to demand perfection from loved ones since she wouldn’t have idolized a memory to the point where love = being flawless. With a father figure in her life, maybe she wouldn’t keep hopping from guy to guy to guy. Having a flesh and blood father and mother doing imperfect things and screwing up would give her a more reasonable expectations of what a relationship is really like or at least make her realize that nothing is perfect. She wouldn’t be able to blame everything on being an orphan or have the deep-seated abandonment issues or at least she would have been forced to own them. The thing about Aunt Nell is that Lana got to think “My parents would be better/more honest/more understanding/more loving” and without that, she’d have to face some hard facts of life sooner.
I like to think that if her parents had decided to move out of Metropolis to keep her from being stalked, she would simply have gone with them or that Chloe wouldn’t have opened her house to her considering that it was her PARENTS telling her to pack, not simply her aunt.
Without the dead parents thing, I don’t think she would’ve taken on the Talon but just continued just being a regular high school girl for the most part since she did say that it was her parents’ history that inspired her to reopen it.
What might be the unintended consequences?
I think Nell might’ve been happier and found a guy w/o Lana. Perhaps she could’ve made a move on Lionel once Lillian was dead. Hmmm . . .
Lana’s parents could have divorced and Lana’s mom might’ve married Henry Small. Depending on custody battle, Lana might be Lana Small or Lana Lang. It would’ve gotten a bit messy.
Without Lana, I’d like to think Clark & Lex would have talked about different and other things than her. Also, I’d like to think with a more honest/realistic view of Lana, Clark would have been able to have a more varied romantic life including Chlark, not necessarily but possibly.
The show would’ve actually improved as Lana would hopefully have parents who did view her as a human being and not someone to worship. It would’ve been nice to see her yelled at, grounded, etc.
If her parents were stupid enough to want to stay in SV and let her get stalked over and over again, well not sure how to change that. Maybe they’d get killed trying to protect her or may end up just being more proactive about protecting her. I’d like to think they’d move.
I’d like to think her parents wouldn’t be indulgent enough to let her go to Paris and get involved in the stone arc of S4.