Good point about Tobias being another example of a mutant with good intentions.
I liked it that they showed Lana spending some time with him and talking to him (the "lip gloss and pom-poms" exchange was super-cute) because I think that's important for her growth and maturation. As long as she thinks of Clark as an Exception, she can't reach true acceptance of meteor mutants. So I think it was very smart of the writers to give her that time with Tobias, to have her being protective of both him and Clark so that when she got the reveal that Clark wasn't a mutant, she wouldn't also necessarily lose any capacity for acceptance she was developing -- because she'd still have her brief but meaningful interaction with T to think back on.
Are you really expecting Lana to marry Lex? I'm not spoiled on this point, but I think that horrible clunky encouragement from Chloe for Clark going to the wedding is to set up some awful The Graduate -esque scene at the wedding.
:::groans::: I don't mind her calling off the wedding at all (especially given the fact that Lex is manipulating her via the pregnancy), but I really hope we're not going to get something like that or the horrible Spider-Man 2 nonsense where she leaves him at the altar with a note she doesn't even have the decency to hand to him face-to-face (my hatred of movie-verse!Mary Jane was forever cemented by that image of her running from the church to be with Peter with a ginormous smile on her face, nevermind that she'd left Mr. Jameson's perfectly kind and loving son standing at the altar humiliated in front of hundreds of wedding guests). If Lana doesn't go through with it, I really hope the creative team has the sense to have her end it in a manner that does not make her look like a thoughtless asshole. Even if she does it on the day of the wedding, I at least want her to look Lex in the eye and articulate why she's not going through with it. The only way I'll give her a pass for being heartless or thoughtless with it is if it comes on the heels of learning that he manipulated her via the pregnancy, 'cause under those circumstances, she absolutely gets to be as bitchy as she wants to be about it. But if it's just Lana realizing she can't marry him if she doesn't love/trust him, then I want her to at least be adult about it.
the deleted scene from Scare (I really have to stop lending out my DVDs and not getting them back) but wasn't Lex's biggest nightmare in that scene Lana leaving him at their wedding? Or was it turned into marrying his mother--I haven't seen it, so I don't remember which was the actual scene and which was the leaked spoiler that turned out to be false.
The original script sides (which I kept screencaps of for the longest time prior to deleting them late last year) -- which were for the officiating minister -- featured Lex and Lana at the altar and Lana telling Lex "I could never love you." The actual filmed scene, of course, was Lex and Lillian and Lillian had this whole speech about how Lex ruined everything he touched, blah, blah, blah (and as you know, that got cut in favor of a kickier, trippier version of the Lexocalypse from Hourglass). So technically, I suppose the Lex/Lana version of Lex's nightmare was the foiler; that was the version of the scene used to cast the minister, but by the time it came to film the scene, it was changed to Lex and Lillian.
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I liked it that they showed Lana spending some time with him and talking to him (the "lip gloss and pom-poms" exchange was super-cute) because I think that's important for her growth and maturation. As long as she thinks of Clark as an Exception, she can't reach true acceptance of meteor mutants. So I think it was very smart of the writers to give her that time with Tobias, to have her being protective of both him and Clark so that when she got the reveal that Clark wasn't a mutant, she wouldn't also necessarily lose any capacity for acceptance she was developing -- because she'd still have her brief but meaningful interaction with T to think back on.
Are you really expecting Lana to marry Lex? I'm not spoiled on this point, but I think that horrible clunky encouragement from Chloe for Clark going to the wedding is to set up some awful The Graduate -esque scene at the wedding.
:::groans::: I don't mind her calling off the wedding at all (especially given the fact that Lex is manipulating her via the pregnancy), but I really hope we're not going to get something like that or the horrible Spider-Man 2 nonsense where she leaves him at the altar with a note she doesn't even have the decency to hand to him face-to-face (my hatred of movie-verse!Mary Jane was forever cemented by that image of her running from the church to be with Peter with a ginormous smile on her face, nevermind that she'd left Mr. Jameson's perfectly kind and loving son standing at the altar humiliated in front of hundreds of wedding guests). If Lana doesn't go through with it, I really hope the creative team has the sense to have her end it in a manner that does not make her look like a thoughtless asshole. Even if she does it on the day of the wedding, I at least want her to look Lex in the eye and articulate why she's not going through with it. The only way I'll give her a pass for being heartless or thoughtless with it is if it comes on the heels of learning that he manipulated her via the pregnancy, 'cause under those circumstances, she absolutely gets to be as bitchy as she wants to be about it. But if it's just Lana realizing she can't marry him if she doesn't love/trust him, then I want her to at least be adult about it.
the deleted scene from Scare (I really have to stop lending out my DVDs and not getting them back) but wasn't Lex's biggest nightmare in that scene Lana leaving him at their wedding? Or was it turned into marrying his mother--I haven't seen it, so I don't remember which was the actual scene and which was the leaked spoiler that turned out to be false.
The original script sides (which I kept screencaps of for the longest time prior to deleting them late last year) -- which were for the officiating minister -- featured Lex and Lana at the altar and Lana telling Lex "I could never love you." The actual filmed scene, of course, was Lex and Lillian and Lillian had this whole speech about how Lex ruined everything he touched, blah, blah, blah (and as you know, that got cut in favor of a kickier, trippier version of the Lexocalypse from Hourglass). So technically, I suppose the Lex/Lana version of Lex's nightmare was the foiler; that was the version of the scene used to cast the minister, but by the time it came to film the scene, it was changed to Lex and Lillian.