I really miss Smallville and it will always have a special place in my heart. I was actually thinking the other day that I needed to sit down and re-watch the whole series from beginning to end. I remember watching the pilot the night it aired, thinking this was going to be a pretty good show. Lex, was actually the reason that I tuned in, and then I soon discovered that my two biggest loves of the show would be the relationship between Clark/Lex and then of course Lex/Lana.
Which brings me to this...
Q: Looking back, is there anywhere you wish you’d 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: It’s so torturous and slow. Ultimately, it damaged Lana in the audience’s mind. Because Clark refused to tell her the truth about his identity, he was constantly forced to lie to her. Although justified, Lana’s response to his behavior made her seem cold and unsympathetic — even though from her POV, Clark was a sneaky, bold-faced liar.
I've always said that I thought that Clark/Lana should have been over by the end of the S2, at the very least by the end of S3. It lasted way longer than it should have, with too many barn/loft sad eyes and tears, looking back over your shoulder's at you scenes. I'll admit they were cute for the first handful of episodes, but it soon got old and stale there after a while, because I started to feel like the writer's just didn't know which direction they were going to take Lana's character in and I didn't like how they tried to portray her as betraying Chloe because she liked Clark and Clark liked her back, but didn't see Chloe the way that she wanted him to see her. (If that makes any sense...) That friendship that could have been so much more between Lana and Chloe, just wasn't in large part due to Clark and I sort of think that's what you and other's were saying. That Lana seemed to be there to represent either "the girl next door" or "the girl that came between two best friends" and by that I mean Clark/Lex and it was that stupid love triangle that caused the rift between them and not something that could have made the storyline infinitely better and stronger. And you know me and you know that I have made no bones about the fact that Lana is one of my absolute favorite female characters on Smallville and it was because I looked between the lines and saw more to her than what those idiot writer's couldn't seem to figure out what to do with her. I was the most proud of her from S5 onwards in the way that she was written, but even then I still wish she would have been developed more and had been given a chance to grow and figure out who she was, instead of coming across as this scared young woman who was afraid to love the man Lex was and I do believe that she loved him. Nobody can ever convince me otherwise. But, anyway, I did find this interesting to say the least. :)
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Date: 2014-09-17 06:30 am (UTC)I really miss Smallville and it will always have a special place in my heart. I was actually thinking the other day that I needed to sit down and re-watch the whole series from beginning to end. I remember watching the pilot the night it aired, thinking this was going to be a pretty good show. Lex, was actually the reason that I tuned in, and then I soon discovered that my two biggest loves of the show would be the relationship between Clark/Lex and then of course Lex/Lana.
Which brings me to this...
Q: Looking back, is there anywhere you wish you’d 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: It’s so torturous and slow. Ultimately, it damaged Lana in the audience’s mind. Because Clark refused to tell her the truth about his identity, he was constantly forced to lie to her. Although justified, Lana’s response to his behavior made her seem cold and unsympathetic — even though from her POV, Clark was a sneaky, bold-faced liar.
I've always said that I thought that Clark/Lana should have been over by the end of the S2, at the very least by the end of S3. It lasted way longer than it should have, with too many barn/loft sad eyes and tears, looking back over your shoulder's at you scenes. I'll admit they were cute for the first handful of episodes, but it soon got old and stale there after a while, because I started to feel like the writer's just didn't know which direction they were going to take Lana's character in and I didn't like how they tried to portray her as betraying Chloe because she liked Clark and Clark liked her back, but didn't see Chloe the way that she wanted him to see her. (If that makes any sense...) That friendship that could have been so much more between Lana and Chloe, just wasn't in large part due to Clark and I sort of think that's what you and other's were saying. That Lana seemed to be there to represent either "the girl next door" or "the girl that came between two best friends" and by that I mean Clark/Lex and it was that stupid love triangle that caused the rift between them and not something that could have made the storyline infinitely better and stronger. And you know me and you know that I have made no bones about the fact that Lana is one of my absolute favorite female characters on Smallville and it was because I looked between the lines and saw more to her than what those idiot writer's couldn't seem to figure out what to do with her. I was the most proud of her from S5 onwards in the way that she was written, but even then I still wish she would have been developed more and had been given a chance to grow and figure out who she was, instead of coming across as this scared young woman who was afraid to love the man Lex was and I do believe that she loved him. Nobody can ever convince me otherwise. But, anyway, I did find this interesting to say the least. :)