Same! I was disappointed that the fandom (even those that always complained about the repetitiveness of the Clana) were SOOO against Lexana, I always thought that was why the writers backtracked so much and suddenly had Lana only fake pregnant, even after those season 5 interviews with A&M about how Clana were finally over forever (their words!) and they wished that they had kept them broken up in Reckonning, instead of dragging it out until Hypnotic.
I started liking Lana's character a lot more in season 5 actually when she was looking into the ship with Lex, it seemed like late season 5 and early season 6 were setting up Lana to become a darker character who believed that Level 33.1 had its uses for keeping track of the meteor infected (something that would have been consistent with her past attitudes after being stalked by them so much). Instead she suddenly became all about Clark again around the time of Hydro, and by season 7 her characterisation was all over the place. One minute she is holding Lionel prisoner and seeming to be about to go off the rails, the next she's back at the farm with Clark and the writers are giving interviews about how much good she was doing with the Isis foundation and how justified she was to go after Lionel and Lex. I mean yeah I'm not saying that she didn't have very good justifications for what she was doing, but it was still some pretty messed-up stuff that the writers were just brushing under the rug with ~Lana had every right to fight back~, the kind of stuff that they would have taken seriously if it was Lex driven to hold Lionel hostage. And then don't even get me started on her being in the suit and being the one to talk the future Superman down from killing by season 8.
The writing was just all over the map, and it's a shame because if they had followed through on what they were starting to set up in season 5 it would have been a lot more consistent than the writers never seeming able to decide if they wanted to write her as allied with Clark or Lex this week
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I started liking Lana's character a lot more in season 5 actually when she was looking into the ship with Lex, it seemed like late season 5 and early season 6 were setting up Lana to become a darker character who believed that Level 33.1 had its uses for keeping track of the meteor infected (something that would have been consistent with her past attitudes after being stalked by them so much). Instead she suddenly became all about Clark again around the time of Hydro, and by season 7 her characterisation was all over the place. One minute she is holding Lionel prisoner and seeming to be about to go off the rails, the next she's back at the farm with Clark and the writers are giving interviews about how much good she was doing with the Isis foundation and how justified she was to go after Lionel and Lex. I mean yeah I'm not saying that she didn't have very good justifications for what she was doing, but it was still some pretty messed-up stuff that the writers were just brushing under the rug with ~Lana had every right to fight back~, the kind of stuff that they would have taken seriously if it was Lex driven to hold Lionel hostage. And then don't even get me started on her being in the suit and being the one to talk the future Superman down from killing by season 8.
The writing was just all over the map, and it's a shame because if they had followed through on what they were starting to set up in season 5 it would have been a lot more consistent than the writers never seeming able to decide if they wanted to write her as allied with Clark or Lex this week