The way she took all those things that she used to use subconscious and innocently and just manipulated and covered and worked with them... it blew me away. She was so incredibly smart in this episode, too.
Oh yes! This reminds me of a conversation I had after last week's episode, I think maybe with huzzlewhat, about Lex using his past losses to manipulate people, straddling the line between sincerity and manipulation, but Lana's learned to do this much more rapidly and I think maybe even more effectively. It was fascinating to watch.
And I loved seeing the difference between Clark and Lana/Chloe's morality. Chloe brings up the idea of maybe not saving Lex. Lana sits on the info to save Lex until she needs it to save Clark. Neither of these things thrill Clark. This is a very good, solid reason why Clark and Lana could never actually work out in the end -- Clark couldn't live with the things that Lana would be willing to do.
Yes, and those scenes were interesting, because both Chloe and Lana had very valid reasons to be angry with Lex this week, so they were actually I think representing the more human perspective and Clark got to present the heroic perspective, which is always nice to see. Though I've seen a certain amount of criticism of Lana for sitting on the plans while just waiting for Lex to die, and while that certainly seems to be what that scene with Chloe was implying, if you actually do the math with the timeline (that bomb timer was set for 20 minutes, wasn't it?) or even just watch onscreen, Lana had *just* discovered the schematics to the tunnels right before Chloe walked in, so it's not like she had even really had time to make a definite decision to leave Lex there.
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Oh yes! This reminds me of a conversation I had after last week's episode, I think maybe with
And I loved seeing the difference between Clark and Lana/Chloe's morality. Chloe brings up the idea of maybe not saving Lex. Lana sits on the info to save Lex until she needs it to save Clark. Neither of these things thrill Clark. This is a very good, solid reason why Clark and Lana could never actually work out in the end -- Clark couldn't live with the things that Lana would be willing to do.
Yes, and those scenes were interesting, because both Chloe and Lana had very valid reasons to be angry with Lex this week, so they were actually I think representing the more human perspective and Clark got to present the heroic perspective, which is always nice to see. Though I've seen a certain amount of criticism of Lana for sitting on the plans while just waiting for Lex to die, and while that certainly seems to be what that scene with Chloe was implying, if you actually do the math with the timeline (that bomb timer was set for 20 minutes, wasn't it?) or even just watch onscreen, Lana had *just* discovered the schematics to the tunnels right before Chloe walked in, so it's not like she had even really had time to make a definite decision to leave Lex there.