Smallville 8x14 - Requiem

[butterfly]

While I'm glad that they gave Lana a powerful goodbye, I really wish that they'd let Clark and Lana have a choice.

I've been one of the people going, "Well, we don't know how Lana's arc will end," so I didn't want to rush to judgement on whether or not it would be in a place that would make any potential Lois relationship look less important.

But making the Clark/Lana separation based on him dying if they touch? Yes, that makes it look they're setting up Lois to be second-best. And if they completely drop the Lana angst, Clark will look like a heartless monster. I can't see any possible way for them to actually get to the relationship that Lois and Clark are supposed to have. She deserves better than a guy who's only picking her because his OTL will kill him if they get too close.

And I missed Tess.

I just... I'm not sure that I understand why the show decided to do this particular way of breaking up Lana and Clark. It seems short-sighted.

Comments

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

But making the Clark/Lana separation based on him dying if they touch?

o.O how very... Dark Angel?

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Hee. I wasn't planning on saying that!

But, yes, exactly. Also, apparently, this is also true in Pushing Daisies, but that is based entirely on what I've heard, as I haven't see the show (yet).

[fresne.livejournal.com]

Yes... but on Pushing Daisies' it's part of the baked-in-premise, and therefore creative solutions are applied by both parties. So it just as often felt like a way of getting the characters together in cute ways: ballroom dancing in beekeeper outfits, clear plastic divided car with rubber glove for hand-holding, etc.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

*nods*

On Dark Angel, it's also an obstacle that the characters try to work around.

Whereas on SV, Lana takes it as her cue to give up on the relationship.

But she and Clark have never been good at creative solutions (especially to their relationship problems).