Yes Mary Jane angered the hell outta me for leaving the poor groom at the alter. I honestly think that's one of the top ten worst things you could do to somebody.
I certainly think the best thing to do if you have doubts about getting married is to postpone the wedding before the wedding day. But if it takes getting to the wedding day for you to realize that you can't go through with it, the least you can do is to tell your fiance/fiancee this information face-to-face and before he or she has made it to the altar. Otherwise, it's just needless additional hurt and humiliation. I mean, you're already hurting them by saying you can't get married to them; why rub salt in the wound via ditching them at the altar?
That's why I can't get into the Lexana. Why is she even with him? And I don't buy the "she loves him" idea, either. We're talking about a girl who told the guy she is supposed to marry to his face that she also loves another guy.
I try not to reach for super-textual explanations for things before coming up with intra-textual ones, but I can't help but wonder if the weirdly sexless, passionless nature of the Lex/Lana isn't a network-mandated sop to the very vocal contingent of Clark/Lana fans who expressed their displeasure at Lana hooking up with Lex so soon after breaking up with Clark. Gough mentioned in an interview that they got approximately 250 angry letters from Clark/Lana fans and while that may not seem like a lot. I remember reading an interview with a studio executive once where he said that the rule of thumb in the industry is to assume that for every one letter you get, at least 100 other fans feel the same way. So that was basically 25,000 people telling the network/show-runners that they didn't like Lex/Lana. For a struggling network like the CW, 25,000 viewers isn't anything to sneeze at. So I do wonder if the tonal shift in Lex/Lana in this last handful of episodes -- because they weren't like this with each other at the start of the season -- isn't a way for the series to play out the Clark/Lana/Lex triangle that was always part of the game plan without stepping on the toes of Clark/Lana as the show's true Great Romance. It's a very juvenile idea of love -- this notion that you can only ever deeply love one person in your entire life and for Lana that person is Clark -- but it's a mindset that's sadly consistent in a lot of contemporary pop culture media (and especially in the comics).
I wonder if she's just with Lex to get back at Clark and got in way over her head.
Possibly, but you know, if we're really supposed to think they don't love each other, then Static was a complete waste of everyone's time. Because the emotional point of that episode seemed to be the idea that Lex and Lana Really Do Love Each Other, given that they confessed their feelings at points when they weren't even sure the other could hear it (certainly the plot-based point of the episode -- the existence of 33.1 -- wasn't dependent on Lex/Lana to be a revelation).
My fanwank is that Lana does care about Lex (she always has, since late S1), she's just not in love with him. But her constellation of personality traits and emotional needs dictate that she be in a relationship and, well, he's the one offering. She'd rather be in a friendly marriage than completely on her own. By the same token, I think Lex cares about her in his Lexian way, but his involvement with her is clearly about his larger and more emotionally charged chess game with Clark.
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I certainly think the best thing to do if you have doubts about getting married is to postpone the wedding before the wedding day. But if it takes getting to the wedding day for you to realize that you can't go through with it, the least you can do is to tell your fiance/fiancee this information face-to-face and before he or she has made it to the altar. Otherwise, it's just needless additional hurt and humiliation. I mean, you're already hurting them by saying you can't get married to them; why rub salt in the wound via ditching them at the altar?
That's why I can't get into the Lexana. Why is she even with him? And I don't buy the "she loves him" idea, either. We're talking about a girl who told the guy she is supposed to marry to his face that she also loves another guy.
I try not to reach for super-textual explanations for things before coming up with intra-textual ones, but I can't help but wonder if the weirdly sexless, passionless nature of the Lex/Lana isn't a network-mandated sop to the very vocal contingent of Clark/Lana fans who expressed their displeasure at Lana hooking up with Lex so soon after breaking up with Clark. Gough mentioned in an interview that they got approximately 250 angry letters from Clark/Lana fans and while that may not seem like a lot. I remember reading an interview with a studio executive once where he said that the rule of thumb in the industry is to assume that for every one letter you get, at least 100 other fans feel the same way. So that was basically 25,000 people telling the network/show-runners that they didn't like Lex/Lana. For a struggling network like the CW, 25,000 viewers isn't anything to sneeze at. So I do wonder if the tonal shift in Lex/Lana in this last handful of episodes -- because they weren't like this with each other at the start of the season -- isn't a way for the series to play out the Clark/Lana/Lex triangle that was always part of the game plan without stepping on the toes of Clark/Lana as the show's true Great Romance. It's a very juvenile idea of love -- this notion that you can only ever deeply love one person in your entire life and for Lana that person is Clark -- but it's a mindset that's sadly consistent in a lot of contemporary pop culture media (and especially in the comics).
I wonder if she's just with Lex to get back at Clark and got in way over her head.
Possibly, but you know, if we're really supposed to think they don't love each other, then Static was a complete waste of everyone's time. Because the emotional point of that episode seemed to be the idea that Lex and Lana Really Do Love Each Other, given that they confessed their feelings at points when they weren't even sure the other could hear it (certainly the plot-based point of the episode -- the existence of 33.1 -- wasn't dependent on Lex/Lana to be a revelation).
My fanwank is that Lana does care about Lex (she always has, since late S1), she's just not in love with him. But her constellation of personality traits and emotional needs dictate that she be in a relationship and, well, he's the one offering. She'd rather be in a friendly marriage than completely on her own. By the same token, I think Lex cares about her in his Lexian way, but his involvement with her is clearly about his larger and more emotionally charged chess game with Clark.