That sounds like what I was going through with Mortal and with what Lex did with Lana. I dislike Lana but that was beyond the pale. It was inhumane on every level and regardless of the target it's the type of thing that indelibly impacts my view of a character. It's one thing to hurt people you don't know or care about, it's another to do it the one you love or care about, to utterly break that person. It made me realize why they set up Lexana in the first place (since Clex can't be textual on the show and they wanted something stronger than Lex hurting a friend, they wanted to show what he'd be capable of doing to a lover/fiance/etc).

I do wish Chloe was more strident about forming a plan of action to get the story printed in the end though. I'm interested to see what Lex's next move is. Interestingly enough, I liked him in this episode in the sense that he was owning what he was.