Lana Lang
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AdtjosMS89 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 05:49 PM)
I'm watching it through for the first time now, and I'm currently on season 7. I absolutely cannot STAND Lana. I think Kreuk terribly over acts and is completely a waste of a character. I'm not being critical either, that is literally the ONLY part of the show I have a problem with. I love this show, but Lana just drives me nuts, even more so now that she's divorced Lex and is back with Clark. Thanks for reading. That is all.
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mgreen9715 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 09:18 PM)
I had no problem with the actress but her relationship with Clark lasted way too long just like her character did. I celebrated when she left. She took up way too much of Clark's story on the show even when he got older. I'm glad that the show writers admit that Lana should have left a lot sooner than she did; or at least her relationship with Clark.
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AdtjosMS89 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 09:28 PM)
Spoiler alert! Lol! Well I'll now be awaiting her departure with anticipation! I was done with her before the Lex thing, now that she and Clark are back together I can barely watch her scenes. I just finished the episode where she got Clark's powers temporarily. Only episode I've disliked thus far.
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DebLovesBeccy — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 10:23 PM)
I had no problem with the actress but her relationship with Clark lasted way too long just like her character did.
I agree. I liked Lana and the actress too but her relationship with Clark just dragged on way too long throughout the show and by the time she left I was actually happy to see her go so they could focus on Clark and Lois. I think it would have benefited both characters if they had Clark with Alicia for one or two seasons and Lana with another love interest 'cause their one and off relationship did more damage to them than good.
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glynis23-282-577521 — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 09:41 AM)
They strongly felt early on they should not end Clana until the very end, they thought if they ended it sooner the show would take a turn for the worst or once she's no longer the love of his life the show will end. The whole love interest can never know the hero's identity has become a dying clich as you see with Arrow, Flash and Supergirl with people finding out all the time.
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glynis23-282-577521 — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 12:00 PM)
Q: Looking back, is there anywhere you wish youd taken the characters of Smallville?
AG: I wish we had a better trajectory for Lana Lang. That was probably a three-season love story that lasted six seasons.
MM: Its so torturous and slow. Ultimately, it damaged Lana in the audiences mind. Because Clark refused to tell her the truth about his identity, he was constantly forced to lie to her. Although justified, Lanas response to his behavior made her seem cold and unsympathetic even though from her POV, Clark was a sneaky, bold-faced liar.
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ajhdettmer — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 09:30 PM)
Well,imho the root cause of all this was the bad idea to split Lana Lang into Lana the love interest and Chloe the friend in the show. That developed into a toxic
teen melodrama that went on far to long and resulted in a couple very frustrating
to watch episodes. Like for example the episode were Clark finaly decided to let
Lana in on his secret and propose to her. OMG,what a desaster. -
mgreen9715 — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 11:22 PM)
Clark having a lover in Lana and a best friend in Chloe was not a problem at all. It was the absurdity between Lana and Clark that drag everything down. Luckily they got past that and moved onto the Metropolis stuff.
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ajhdettmer — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 01:22 PM)
Well,for the most part good old Clark was pretty much cockblocked by
alien and artificial circumstances. Lovers,or even potential lovers where
quickly killed off. Its was a mess,realy. But imho splitting Lana Lang in
two characters was a most stupid idea. Anyway,the whole unnecessary melodrama
is the reason why i only watched this show one time. Enough is enough. Never
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DebLovesBeccy — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 09:58 PM)
You are definitely not alone. I know a lot of people that couldn't stand Lana and celebrated when they wrote her out of the show at the end of Season 7 only to bring her back again in the following season when it looked like Clark and Lois were going to get together. I personally didn't mind her and think her and the actress got a lot of unfair hate from fans over her relationship with Clark. I think the relationship between Clark and Lana was dragged out too long and it would have benefited both characters more if they had Clark with Alica and Lana with Jason for a few more seasons but the actor who played Jason left to do 'Supernatural' so they had to cut him out of the following season and end his story early.
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glynis23-282-577521 — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 07:11 AM)
They could've easily let Lana in on Clark's secret a lot sooner, the reasons for not doing so became nonsensical after season 3. It was evident that they didn't want her to find out and end their love story until at least the very end but when the show went on for four more seasons and when she left after the 7th season it took a different direction.
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sawfan1414 — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 10:34 AM)
Actually i kind of liked the reason he chose not to tell her, insecurity, something everyone can relate to in some form. He knows Lana's life changed forever the day of the meteor shower, and he doesn't want to connect himself to that event in her eyes. I think it's a season 5 episode it shows Clark's biggest fear is Lana rejecting his secret and blaming him for her parents.
Also, the fact that Lana had to force his secret out vs him telling Lois, kind of shows you who he's meant to be with. Same thing with the power swap episodes Lana gets the powers and uses them like the freak of the week from S1, Lois used them in a way to honor Clark. -
stephen-63895 — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 10:52 AM)
funny thing is i actually dislike both of those episodes where they gave power swaps and i never could get very interested in the Lois Lane character either also might be why i dislike seasons 7-10 so much although my big issue with season 7 is supergirl
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RjanaR — 9 years ago(February 04, 2017 05:51 PM)
The most used and abused character on this crap show. And for that she gets the blame? Everyone (Martha, Jonathon, Chloe) thinks Lana is trash not worthy to know super duper douche's secret. And super douche is nothing but abusive to her but somehow it's because there is something wrong with her. Victim blaming at it's finest.