We're being Punk'd with the Lexana!

[Kreukie]

They're pushing Lexana so badly that it's not making any sense. Lana out of nowhere is like deeply in love with Lex now in this episode when last week she thought the kiss was wrong?

Never before this episode did Lana ever show interest in Lex in that way, but tonight she said she "misses him"?

There's been zero build up on Lana's side for liking Lex.

With Clark we got build up, for Jason/Whitney it was off screen how they got together, but at least it was explained.

With Lexana is just happened out of thin air tonight.

Did anyone else get the where the freak did that come from feeling when Lexana were all over each other kissing in the office?

It's like TPTB weren't planning on actually putting them together, flirting with the idea yes, but to actually put them together no.

But by Fade they were like "what the heck, why not! The viewers won't notice that Lana thought their kiss was a mistake in the previous episode or that she never ever showed interest in Lex in that way before this!"

Even their kiss in Fragile was a “what the freak” moment as well, with Lex kissing Lana, Lana being confused and kissing him back to then running off leaving Lex with a smirk on his face.

I think TPTB are Punkin’ us. ASHTON WHERE ARE YOU?

[shy175223]

yeah it doesn't make ANY sense does it? I mean the in the 5th season preimere they were talking about Clark and Lana's unrequited love for each other and now that the season is coming to a close she seems to be in love with Lex. Seems impossible.

[Wildfire]

Not even Ashton Kurtcher would put his name to this as a Punk. It just too unbleablable and badly written.

[alienkinfolk]

yes on lana's end her love for lex seems forced and silly. Who goes with their exboyfriend's once best friend turned enemy?
Unless....we've missed something in previous seasons. All along she's secretly loved him sike... no you're right we're being punk'd:)

[Kreukie]

Originally posted by alienkinfolk
yes on lana's end her love for lex seems forced and silly. Who goes with their exboyfriend's once best friend turned enemy?
Unless....we've missed something in previous seasons. All along she's secretly loved him sike... no you're right we're being punk'd:)

Exactly, but nothing in any episode before this ever showed that Lana had any feelings for Lex in that way.

Whitney was her first boyfriend.

Jason was the guy she was dating to get over Clark basically, she wanted a mature relationship away from the drama she had to put up with, with Clark all season three.

Then Lex, donno what exactly is the reason why Lana with him because they didn't explain it at all.

It just happened! :eek:

[bluegayle]

Originally posted by Kreukie
They're pushing Lexana so badly that it's not making any sense. Lana out of nowhere is like deeply in love with Lex now in this episode when last week she thought the kiss was wrong?

Never before this episode did Lana ever show interest in Lex in that way, but tonight she said she "misses him"?


This is the contrived part that some readers are complaining about. There was no decent build-up to it. Clark and Lana hooking up at the end of Season 2 was fine...there was plenty of foundation for that to get going.

Also keep in mind, just a few more episodes ago, Lana was running away from a drunken Lex who basically almost killed her in a car accident (as far as she knows). I forgot if he kissed her in the 2nd time line also, though, causing her to run off.

[Kreukie]

Originally posted by bluegayle
This is the contrived part that some readers are complaining about. There was no decent build-up to it. Clark and Lana hooking up at the end of Season 2 was fine...there was plenty of foundation for that to get going.

Also keep in mind, just a few more episodes ago, Lana was running away from a drunken Lex who basically almost killed her in a car accident (as far as she knows). I forgot if he kissed her in the 2nd time line also, though, causing her to run off.

Exactly, you don't run scared from someone you had feelings after they kiss you.

I swear, TPTB pulled out Lana liking Lex back out of their a** these last episodes.

[TampaVille]

I think the basic problem is that Lana has no role in the show anymore. They introduced her as love interest for Clark... and that's it. Chloe had some love interest potential too, way back when (and hopefully that's the direction they're taking her now!). But for Lana, that was it.

And since the show's producers don't seem to have the courage to write her off... they just have to keep finding new guys for whom she can be a love interest.

[Kreukie]

Originally posted by TampaVille
And since the show's producers don't seem to have the courage to write her off... they just have to keep finding new guys for whom she can be a love interest.

If that's the case, why didn't they hint Lana's feelings for Lex? If they planned to ship her off to him my seasons end wouldn't they had to not rush it like they did it tonight? :confused:

[CK&CK]

Originally posted by Kreukie
If that's the case, why didn't they hint Lana's feelings for Lex? If they planned to ship her off to him my seasons end wouldn't they had to not rush it like they did it tonight? :confused:

Actually, the hints have been there.....but it doesn't change the fact that for me it feels rushed and contrived at certain points. And that's a shame, because Lana has gotten a lot more interesting of late.....except when she's pulling that Pink,Pouty, reverse Physcology trip on Clark during their never ending loft scenes. Uggggggggg!......I think I actually could have put up with everything in that final scene if it were simply shot somewhere else.......the Talon, the Kent House, the Frikin Daily Planet.....anywhere but that blasted loft.

Someone on this sight once wrote "Clark/Lana Loft scenes make me want to scratch my eyes out!"......and Loft scenes with those two are always reminding me of this post.......and it makes me laugh.....and in the midst of such angst & stupidity......it makes for awesome therapy from the Lofty pain of watching these two stupid teenagers.

[Kreukie]

Originally posted by CK&CK
Actually, the hints have been there....

Where?

[tjpw fanatic]

Yeah we'll see ashton run out in the season finale!

:lol::lol: you's have been PUNK'D! Did you really think the writers would do that you?

yeah right I wish that would happen

[MamaK]

Originally posted by TampaVille
I think the basic problem is that Lana has no role in the show anymore. They introduced her as love interest for Clark... and that's it. Chloe had some love interest potential too, way back when (and hopefully that's the direction they're taking her now!). But for Lana, that was it.

And since the show's producers don't seem to have the courage to write her off... they just have to keep finding new guys for whom she can be a love interest. Holy $%*# - I never really thought of it like this! But definitely a very valid idea, because at the very core of Smallville, besides the obvious Superman storyline, is the very essential "love story" factor that Smallville's fan base tunes in for every week.;) ;) ;)

[Dangerous George]

I think the key to Smallville is that one has to view each episode as an independent thought, for surely there is nothing in the way of continuity from one episode to the next on key minor details. It does appear that the writers have amnesia at times. Perhaps this is due to the fact that different writers write different episodes from one to the next? This fragmenting of the storylines is a consistent theme throughout the history of Smallville, as many have reflected on this website from time to time, pointing out the nauseating inconsistencies which bring some hilarious results.

Unfortunately, Smallville is more soap opera than the revisiting of the history of the greatest legend of comic book lore. Perhaps its makes good copy at the sacrifice of said legend. For it surely does not make any sense in the way of said lore. Its rather insulting to say the least. Small wonder regarding the lawsuit and other legal scenario that may very well impact on the series. Hope not.

Peace

[jimmyolsenblues]

I certainly fell Punk'd when I see Lana kiss Lex.
Wonder how Clark feels?

I wish Clark would move on ASAP.

[myankskent]

Originally posted by Kreukie
They're pushing Lexana so badly that it's not making any sense. Lana out of nowhere is like deeply in love with Lex now in this episode when last week she thought the kiss was wrong?

Never before this episode did Lana ever show interest in Lex in that way, but tonight she said she "misses him"?

There's been zero build up on Lana's side for liking Lex.

With Clark we got build up, for Jason/Whitney it was off screen how they got together, but at least it was explained.

With Lexana is just happened out of thin air tonight.

Did anyone else get the where the freak did that come from feeling when Lexana were all over each other kissing in the office?

It's like TPTB weren't planning on actually putting them together, flirting with the idea yes, but to actually put them together no.

But by Fade they were like "what the heck, why not! The viewers won't notice that Lana thought their kiss was a mistake in the previous episode or that she never ever showed interest in Lex in that way before this!"

Even their kiss in Fragile was a “what the freak” moment as well, with Lex kissing Lana, Lana being confused and kissing him back to then running off leaving Lex with a smirk on his face.

I think TPTB are Punkin’ us. ASHTON WHERE ARE YOU?

I totally agree with everything that you say. The only thing that I can assume is that maybe the writers didn't want the buildup because the buildup would be more unrealistic than what happened this episode, so they just did it quickly so we only had to complain about it once. But Lana's feelings for Lex in this episode either has to do with some of the worst writing in the world, or she's a Brainiac clone sent in to destroy Clark and monitor what Lex is doing. When a theory like the one that I have just proposed is the only thing that makes Lexana believable, you know that the storyline is a trainwreck.

[tw190]

I think Lana's feeling really vulnerable/dependent, so she quickly turned to Lex, like, "OMG, I love you." She just wants to be in a relationship so badly, me thinks. :p

[Kreukie]

Originally posted by tw190
I think Lana's feeling really vulnerable/dependent, so she quickly turned to Lex, like, "OMG, I love you." She just wants to be in a relationship so badly, me thinks. :p

And that goes against everything she said before about not depending on anyone anymore.

Why even have Lana say that if they're going to have her hook up with Lex?

To make her look bad (again) to the viewers?

I swear either the writers thought up about putting Lexana together in the last minute or they just like making Lana look bad for the sake of it. :rolleyes:

[Clanafan731]

Originally posted by alienkinfolk
yes on lana's end her love for lex seems forced and silly. Who goes with their exboyfriend's once best friend turned enemy?
Unless....we've missed something in previous seasons. All along she's secretly loved him sike... no you're right we're being punk'd:)

Actually, if you remember in season 1 Nicodemus when her inhibitions were released she broke up with Whitney, took Clark to the pool and stripped in front of him before going swimming, and then went to the Talon and started hitting on Lex before she took off with his porsche. I'm not a Lexana fan, as you can tell from my screen name, but I've always known that there was an attraction between Lex and Lana, it was just never pursued until now.

[pocketfullokryptonite]

Yeah, the way this is going, I'd rather they just kill off Lana...I used to be a semi Clana fan, but the way they're writing Lana now...what a b****! Not that she hasn't always had tendencies...I guess her love of Clark just made her a better person than she actually was... :)

[Clanafan731]

To add to my post above, I feel that this story line between Lex and Lana is fake. At the end of Splinter she told Clark "There could never be anything between me and Lex." At the end of Arrival she was freaked because of the note Lex left on the newspaper next to the article about the Teagues. She knows that he was trying to break up her and Jason all of last season. She knows that she can't trust him because of all of these reasons and the fact that Lex said she was crazy when she was talking about the ship and then low and behold he has the ship stowed away in warehouse 15. I honestly think that Lana is using Lex to get to the bottom of both of the meteor showers. She just does not seem like she's in love with Lex. Yes, she was attracted to Lex, but that is all it is. Attraction is not love. Luthor's do not know how to love. Lana wants to know why the meteor showers happened and she knows that Lex has the resources to do that.

[pocketfullokryptonite]

Interesting theory, but I think we would've had hints of that by now if it were true. I think TPTB just think it's a neat little plot twist...but I don't think they could ever have developed it enough to make it work...I think they think of it as the ultimate rebound. Lana doesn't have any other guy friends and the love of her life tells her he doesn't love her anymore, so she turns to the only other guy in her life for comfort.

[Sweetie]

It looks like they're rushing Lexana to get back faster to the maine story:spaceship,Brainiac,Zod ect.Fine by me,they spend too much time building Clana for nothing that I'm glad they doesn't loose time with this one.I'm really tired of the soap's style romance on this show anyway.

[Clanafan731]

The thing that gets me is, they spent all these years on developing the relationship between Lana and Clark to have it end like this. I know she is not the one he is supposed to be with, but she was supposed to have found out his secret by the end of high school according to the comics.

[paolinki25]

I don't think Lana is "deeply in love with Lex" right now. I honestly didn't get that impression from the episode. She might have feelings for him, and she's exploring those feelings.

As for Lexana "story". Well, if you think about it, they've been hinting this since the beginning of the show, which it's probably why I'm not surprised they're together now. I would had liked though, to have some sort of explanation of what went down between "Mercy" and "Fade".

[Watching Smallville]

I'd say it was rebound except for Lana leaving Jonathan's victory party to go see Lex. Why did she do that? Was she unsure about her engagement...?

It's impossible to make sense out of any of it. Chalk it up to OOC.

[Clanafan731]

The whole Lexana story does not make sense and it makes me sick to see them two together. Lana can always tell when Clark is lying to her, she knows that Clark was lying to her when he told her he didn't love her. She broke up with him because of all of his lies, but then she rebounds to Lex.

I don't know. The whole thing when Graham was strangling Lex and Lana walked in, it just was not believable that she was upset about him being strangled like she was when Clark was shot and died (she was hysterical). I just don't know if her feelings for Lex were really there. After everything they've been through, I'm just not convinced that Lana really cares for Lex the way that the writers want us to believe.

[auxvis]

Yeah they seem to have gone from one extreme (in the episodes like Mortal, etc) to the other (here recently) with very little build up

[mmvmartha]

Actually now that YOU mention it.. I did feel PUnked too!!!
I just feel for Clark.. I hope the producers follow the DC comic more closes so that He moves on with His job to Save The WORLD!! Maybe then they could write Lana Out.. She did a good job and suckered me into a Great Love Story.. Ok I am over it!!

[Fly by guy]

Originally posted by mmvmartha
Actually now that YOU mention it.. I did feel PUnked too!!!
She did a good job and suckered me into a Great Love Story.. Ok I am over it!!

I don't feel Punked but I'm not about to bend over and tie my shoes around those guys. Lexana fell out of the sky and my stomach had the proper reaction. Quesy and rumbly.
The last few episodes of SV with Lexana have made the Adam or Witch arcs seem like pure genius.
Muttering to self as I....................:mad:

[Dangerous George]

lol.... true story

[kamphausd1]

I agree with all of you! I mean sure, you could argue that they've been subtly suggesting since day one that Lex has a thing for Lana (even though it always seemed to me more like he thought of her as a little sister), but before "Fade", Lana's never shown any romantic interest in Lex whatsoever. I mean my reaction was the same as yours, I was like "Whu?".