I suppose I ought to be appalled at the way she was exploiting the Kents' hospitality, but I was more amused than anything.
It's appalling in a theoretical sense, I think, because of course in RL this is intrusive, indefensible behavior. But Chloe and Lex also engaged in this kind of behavior, so it felt like Lana was going through a rite of passage as a SV character. So it didn't bother me from a practical perspective because it's part of the show's ethos. What did bother me was Chloe, once again, trying to pawn Lana's bad behavior off on Lex/Lana's association with Lex. I'm pretty sure I'm not misremembering that entire episode in S2 where Chloe didn't talk to Lana because Lana invaded her privacy by snooping on her computer, so it was weird to hear Chloe excusing similar behavior as though Lana could have only ever done something like this if she were dating the Prince of Darkness. I liked it that Lana multi-tasked in her (975th) hour of peril; it showed moxie and agency on her part. So I can't help but dislike it when the writers undercut those moments of moxie, agency or initiative on her part by hardly ever letting the other characters hold her accountable for them.
The thing that impressed me about the final Lexana scene is how much better Lana is getting at lying to Lex.
She's definitely smoother at it, but he didn't believe her, IMO. Like I told Bop, his line to Clark about "understanding the allure of trying to unravel the mystery of Clark Kent," or whatever it was pretty much only makes sense if Lex did not believe Lana. If he'd believed her but was still inclined to think she had mixed motives, then he would have assumed that her un- or subconscious motive was that she still had feelings for Clark. That he so specifically honed in on the idea that Lana's trying to unravel Clark's mysteries strongly suggests to me that he correctly pegged what she was really up to.
I wish they would let those two actually kiss, though. For an engaged couple, they are remarkably sexless.
I find this really weird, particularly when one remembers that the entire denoument of Wither was about them getting busy with each other. Like, if the show was trying to say that theirs is a chaste relationship because they don't really love each other or whatever, then why spend the entire denoument of an episode on them sexin' each other? It also doesn't make sense as any kind of statement about Lana, either, because we know she wanted to get with the sexin' when she was with Clark even after he pulled away from her. And wasn't Bound all about Lex's voarcious sexual appetite? The sexlessness of current Lex/Lana doesn't make sense from any perspective of character continuity that it would be examined.
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It's appalling in a theoretical sense, I think, because of course in RL this is intrusive, indefensible behavior. But Chloe and Lex also engaged in this kind of behavior, so it felt like Lana was going through a rite of passage as a SV character. So it didn't bother me from a practical perspective because it's part of the show's ethos. What did bother me was Chloe, once again, trying to pawn Lana's bad behavior off on Lex/Lana's association with Lex. I'm pretty sure I'm not misremembering that entire episode in S2 where Chloe didn't talk to Lana because Lana invaded her privacy by snooping on her computer, so it was weird to hear Chloe excusing similar behavior as though Lana could have only ever done something like this if she were dating the Prince of Darkness. I liked it that Lana multi-tasked in her (975th) hour of peril; it showed moxie and agency on her part. So I can't help but dislike it when the writers undercut those moments of moxie, agency or initiative on her part by hardly ever letting the other characters hold her accountable for them.
The thing that impressed me about the final Lexana scene is how much better Lana is getting at lying to Lex.
She's definitely smoother at it, but he didn't believe her, IMO. Like I told Bop, his line to Clark about "understanding the allure of trying to unravel the mystery of Clark Kent," or whatever it was pretty much only makes sense if Lex did not believe Lana. If he'd believed her but was still inclined to think she had mixed motives, then he would have assumed that her un- or subconscious motive was that she still had feelings for Clark. That he so specifically honed in on the idea that Lana's trying to unravel Clark's mysteries strongly suggests to me that he correctly pegged what she was really up to.
I wish they would let those two actually kiss, though. For an engaged couple, they are remarkably sexless.
I find this really weird, particularly when one remembers that the entire denoument of Wither was about them getting busy with each other. Like, if the show was trying to say that theirs is a chaste relationship because they don't really love each other or whatever, then why spend the entire denoument of an episode on them sexin' each other? It also doesn't make sense as any kind of statement about Lana, either, because we know she wanted to get with the sexin' when she was with Clark even after he pulled away from her. And wasn't Bound all about Lex's voarcious sexual appetite? The sexlessness of current Lex/Lana doesn't make sense from any perspective of character continuity that it would be examined.