Lana with Superpowers ... been there, done that!!

[bluehybrid69]

am i the only one who thinks this is a horrible idea, and are very disappointed this is the route they are taking Lana. i mean c'mon we have been down this road before, and it didn't end well with kryptonite or not - lame idea. am i alone on this opinion that its bad, or is it good?

[KryptonStones]

Man, they keep putting this woman on such an INSANE pedestal it's ridiculous. I really hope she DOES die next time. She IS a distraction, she DOES hold Clark back just by EXISTING in a SV screen. And on top of all that, WTH is the relationship between Clark and Lois, leftovers? Season 8 seemed to have.....debacle as soon as the woman's arrival. I can't wait until she's gone.

[Rival X The Great]

Man, they keep putting this woman on such an INSANE pedestal it's ridiculous. I really hope she DOES die next time. She IS a distraction, she DOES hold Clark back just by EXISTING in a SV screen. And on top of all that, WTH is the relationship between Clark and Lois, leftovers? Season 8 seemed to have.....debacle as soon as the woman's arrival. I can't wait until she's gone.

I can't wait til she's gone either buddy.

[whiteflag]

Go Lana, go, and never come back!!!

[drew24]

Seriously what kind of Potion KK use to influence the writers. It's pathetic how they drag the idea.

[kaam]

^ She doesn't have to influence them, they love putting Lana in that position. This episode was okay, because of Tess and Todd Slavakin and Dareen Swimmer's crazy plot twists!!

[lifelovedestiny]

History repeats itself. This is gonna end badly, for everyone involved!

[FLyxNERD]

im a big fan of lana but i dont think she should have powers

[Carito_2p]

wow how can they give her powers!!

has anyone remembers how she acted the fisrt time she had supernatural powers!?
And how she used the Kryptonian powers when this were transfered to her?

OMG she is such a power hunger woman!
I can't believe the way they destroyed Lana!

She was fine as the highschool sweetheart, she would have been fine being that but now this has gone insane, powers! She has never been an important part of Superman or Clark's life!

PS3 is making horrible decision, i don't know how can they fix this, this Supes is a whiny kid and ... OMG.

I can't even keep going... This ep killed my brain...

[ann91]

wow! I love the two super XD
and this suggests a way for a ninth season?

[ironman29758]

wow how can they give her powers!!

has anyone remembers how she acted the fisrt time she had supernatural powers!?
And how she used the Kryptonian powers when this were transfered to her?

OMG she is such a power hunger woman!
I can't believe the way they destroyed Lana!

She was fine as the highschool sweetheart, she would have been fine being that but now this has gone insane, powers! She has never been an important part of Superman or Clark's life!

PS3 is making horrible decision, i don't know how can they fix this, this Supes is a whiny kid and ... OMG.

I can't even keep going... This ep killed my brain...
she did the training to take better control of her powers.

[paolinki25]

It is horrible. Again, they have no idea what to do with Lana as a character. They keep bringing her and giving her these awful storylines (even when she's only in for 4 episodes). Fakebaby! Luthor's "I love you, Lex!" wife, witch and now SuperLana! It's plain ridiculous.

[zorasuperman]

Y'all think Lana lang is a superhero wanna be?

yes
no

[MetropolisGirl4SV]

wow how can they give her powers!!

has anyone remembers how she acted the fisrt time she had supernatural powers!?
And how she used the Kryptonian powers when this were transfered to her?

OMG she is such a power hunger woman!
I can't believe the way they destroyed Lana!

She was fine as the highschool sweetheart, she would have been fine being that but now this has gone insane, powers! She has never been an important part of Superman or Clark's life!

PS3 is making horrible decision, i don't know how can they fix this, this Supes is a whiny kid and ... OMG.

I can't even keep going... This ep killed my brain...

ITA with you...its been done before and it always ends badly for Lana...they totally destroyed her character and Clark of course is going o be all mopey and dopey, the whole guilt thing when it ends badly with Lana and her powers :\....

[6-Super-Man -5]

Yes!

[I_am_LEX]

technically its the suit that makes the abilities possible. she doesnt actually have powers, the suit does. My guess is that the kryptonite is going to destroy the suit because its kryptonian based... or something to that effect. Doesn't really matter I think the next episode it Lana's last isnt it? God she looks good with short hair!! lol
oh and THIS supes... is not supes yet... its just clark kent. do people not get that yet after 7 1/2 seasons?

[Dyanara]

I dont know what pisses me off more, the fact that the writers have forgotten that Lana has had powers before or the fact that Clark has forgotten that Lana has had powers before and it didnt go well. What does she spontaneously give guys lobotomy's everytime she enters a room now?

[Batman/Superman#1]

I couldn't stop laughing and smiling at the end because it's just ridiculious of making Lana some knid of supergirl wannabe.

[zorasuperman]

lol yea i was screaming at my tv like the job of supergirl is already taken thank u very much by clarks own cousin

[Ray Man]

I hope she does something stupid and loses her powers, and gets herself killed for it! Too much Lana!!!!!!!!!

[paolinki25]

Yeah. She's always looking to be a hero...Oh wait, unless we count that time where she married Lex Luthor and wanted to kill all the super freaks because they were a threat to the world. :rolleyes:

[Steve-El]

Yeah. She just wanted to be a superhero herself. A Super Lana.

[BadToad]

I always come back to the same point with Lana....if she's just so amazing and awesome, why do they always have to find new ways to make her MORE awesome? For instance, wouldn't a Lana that just wanted to help the world be enough?

[Dorkside]

I dont know what pisses me off more, the fact that the writers have forgotten that Lana has had powers before or the fact that Clark has forgotten that Lana has had powers before and it didnt go well. What does she spontaneously give guys lobotomy's everytime she enters a room now?

I'm not wanting to defend this episode, but Clark did mention that Lana has super powers earlier and that it didn't end well.

Still, this was far and away the worst episode of the season and easily one of my 10 most hated episodes of the series. The show had some awful episodes in seasons 5 to 7. I thought things had turned around until Lana came back this season. They need to let her and Lex go and expand to new storylines and not reuse ones that have been beaten to death.

[paolinki25]

I always come back to the same point with Lana....if she's just so amazing and awesome, why do they always have to find new ways to make her MORE awesome? For instance, wouldn't a Lana that just wanted to help the world be enough?

There's no logic whatsoever. If she's redeemed after playing with the devil (aka marrying Lex and carrying his fake baby), isn't it enough to let her have he rIsis Foundation, and help humanity as regular people do? Why go the extra mile and make her extra awesome if she already is awesome? It's either just never enough for TPTB or her character lacks so much that they have to resort to this sort of things.

[SGuthrie27]

It seemed almost downright ridiculous to me. I felt like they were shoving "Super Ninja Lana" down our throats. I've LIKED Lana a lot more this season, but I DON'T understand why they chose to take her in this direction. It's certainly not what I was predicting would happen when they originally brought her back, and I'm rather disappointed that they're rehashing an already-used plotline. Besides, it'll be as useless as Chloe losing her memory, since we know Lana's powers can't last past next week's episode. In other words, what's the point?

--SGuthrie ><>' :)--

[NaYa]

This really irritates me! Then to add to this Tess saying "Lana was born to be a martyr" come on, this is just too ridiculous!

[blink2matrix]

i vote good. considering next week's preview it seems like it's a good thing she did get those powers, lol.

[ginnyfan]

I thought it was good. But now I'm starting to think it's contrived for another reason. *shudder*

But... I liked the twist that Lana orchestrated the whole "kidnapping" because she wanted the POWER!

[pizzahead2490]

lana is pathetic attempt to look like an angel... SHE NEED TO LEAVE!!!

[devilneedsaride]

I was surprisingly unirritated by Lana in the beginning of this episode. I'm left with all this feeling rather confused.

a) How on earth are they going to end this newly redone Clana saving-the-world-together relationship in the one episode KK has left? How on earth are they going to bring good closure this way? Also Lois? Man.

b) I get that this show doesn't follow canon, and generally I'm pretty okay with that, but Lana Lang with what appear to be permanent superpowers? What? Also, I can't help feeling that she just doesn't have the right mindset for this and/or that her motivations aren't quite as altruistic as she claims. I guess we'll have to see, but I'm dubious about Lana living up to her own expectations.

[kal-el returns]

it's bad, because the last time she had kryptonian powers, she abused it in trying to kill lex. What's stopping her from going after him now...besides clark? Does she have all of clarks powers...as far as i know she only has superspeed...?

[MrZeppo]

I was surprisingly unirritated by Lana in the beginning of this episode. I'm left with all this feeling rather confused.

a) How on earth are they going to end this newly redone Clana saving-the-world-together relationship in the one episode KK has left? How on earth are they going to bring good closure this way? Also Lois? Man.

My guess is Lana gets irradiated by that Green K bomb from the preview and it prevents her and Clark from being close to each other otherwise it will kill Clark.

So essentially, she does the heroic thing and saves the day and sacrifices any hope she had for her dream of being with Clark to save him.

And regarding Lois. I think that should be put on the back burner. Clark should have some time to deal with things. I think they should just be friends for now and maybe in Season 9 they can try. For now, it would be better if they set things up more. Clark would look like a jerk and a cad if he made a play for Lois right after Lana leaves.



b) I get that this show doesn't follow canon, and generally I'm pretty okay with that, but Lana Lang with what appear to be permanent superpowers? What? Also, I can't help feeling that she just doesn't have the right mindset for this and/or that her motivations aren't quite as altruistic as she claims. I guess we'll have to see, but I'm dubious about Lana living up to her own expectations.

Well in the comics she did have powers. She was like the Bumblebee Queen or Insect Queen or something weird. In SV, I suspect she does have better motives then she did in "Wrath", her lecture to Tess shows she's moved past mere revenge against Lex. At least I hope so. But I don't think she'll have a happy ending.

[bluehybrid69]

it sucks this had to be Allison Mack's first episode in the director chair. the episode was shot beautifully with some new angles and effects; however, the material sucks especially with Lana become as someone said before Supergirl 2.0 ... all around bad. Kristen and Michael left the series so for the writers to play a swan song for them is wrong in my opinion. should have let Lana leave and not come back, but anyone else think about this from LEGION ... Imra said Lana is the reason Clark becomes the hero they live up to, i have this feeling Lana sacrifices her life to save the world and so that makes Clark own up ... take flight? all around i wish they had Lois more involved the Lana-centric episodes but oh well ... bring back the good episodes!

[kmbrly]

I am probably one of the biggest Clana/Lana/Kristin Kruek/Smallville fan ever but this episode disappointed me. I mean seriously, who is writing this stuff. Boring! Been there, done this... I have been a fan of this site as well for years but all of a sudden felt compelled to register and start discussing.

I never thought I would say this, but I will be glad when Lana's episodes are over. And have yall noticed that their conversations are almost exactly the same since she got back, fight the good fight, help people, I'm a distraction..blah blah blah blah blah blah

[17GABRIELA17]

I think smallville has enogh superheroes...
we have olli,
the justice league,
an ocassional meteor freak
and ofcourse Clark.

Now super Lana?....
I think the point of Smallville is about Clarks superpowers, not Lanas...
I'm a little bit of a Lana hater...not much because I want Clois...
Still this episode has been interesting

[quietone]

I always come back to the same point with Lana....if she's just so amazing and awesome, why do they always have to find new ways to make her MORE awesome? For instance, wouldn't a Lana that just wanted to help the world be enough?

THANK YOU! This is my problem with this entire story arc. I have no problem with Lana wanting to do good things, help others, help the world but it seems as though tptb want her to OUTSHINE everyone including Clark in this regard.

[marcella]

Terrible

It made me remember Wrath,and it's not good

[Reeve_290]

I don't think Lana having superpowers is a good idea in the slightest. But I don't think saying "been there done that" is a fair comment.

Seen Red K Clark before back in Season 2. Been there. Done that. Does that mean you think all other Red K episodes were a bad idea and we don't want anymore?

Now I know what you're going to say. "But the subsequent Red K episodes have developed off the original, not just rehashing the same stuff." Well neither is this. Power had Lana saying, "Look, I messed up with the powers last time. I've matured, trained and now I can handle them." Plus she got them in a totally different (albeit stupid) way this time where as in Wrath they recycled the lightning-kryptonite combo. Now to that you could say been there done that.

So. Lana 'permanently' with superpowers. No, probably best idea. But not cos they've done it before. Smallville recycles a bunch of stuff and some of it works over and over.

[BlueKryptoKalEl]

Funny enough, its not all that strange. Lex did create a suit with super powers to keep him alive. So why not stretch it into a small Lana episode or two. Any fan knows that Lana is a strong character in Clarks life and in the comics. Lets face it, It's NOT always about Lois and Clark. What about his parents? Jimmy and the whole other few in Clark/Superman's life they have all be a part! Your all just mad because you want to see another "Lois and Clark" tv show. (ewww) I would say many of you also liked "Superman Return's"? Shame!

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There's nothing wrong with Lana and power, they have one last fling, she loses them, and leave's the show. It's pretty simple. They will NOT kill her! And she will not go nuts with power. Shes the Lana from the comics now.

[Mr.Magic]

Yeah. She's always looking to be a hero...Oh wait, unless we count that time where she married Lex Luthor and wanted to kill all the super freaks because they were a threat to the world. :rolleyes:

Lana never wanted to be a hero. It's all about what she wants. She's looking out for #1, as always.

[LoveHurts38]

***zzzZZZZZ**

[Super Maverick]

frikkin lame

[BillBoeBaggins]

Great idea, horrible for THIS show in THIS time.

[Griffin]

Not happy with this at all. I get sick of other cast members temporarily getting powers like Clark has. I also didn't like the "were equals now Clark" comment from Lana. Ummm no NOBODY is equal to Superman!

[Alexander III]

I think Lana's superpowers will somehow lead to her death next episode. Wait will she die? We'll find out soon.

[TWLOVER03]

I agree with this thread completly. Not only was that part overdone but so was pretty much everything else. 1Clark and Chloe's discussion that happens like EVERY season that goes a little something like this:
Clark: Chloe how could you keep this secret about Lana from me
Chloe: She asked me not to tell you, I'm her friend too...
blah blah blah.
Seriously, are they just rewording old scripts

[smallvillefreak24]

horrible
this storyline actually made me question my love of smallville
of course i will never stop watching but even questioning told me something big
LANA LANG MUST GET THE RIGHT KIND OF CLOSURE
not the kind where she is more amazing then clark

[Demien]

Bad!!plz somebody get lana out of this tvshow or i'm gonig to shoot somebody

[tippership commander]

WHY?

the writers are building the superman skills in clark ,and Lana is back ,to help him become superman, as Saturn girl SAID SO


SO, why do you hate the eposide?
because you don't think she's redeemed herself, despite her good actions once getting her power, you hate lana because of previous arcs, and you think the writers don't want to move forward?



well, then ,you need to realize they KNWO what they're doing

supergirl 2.0? SHE HAD POWERS IN THE COMICS

so, nothing's wrong with this...
CLark's STILL becoming superman,

He STILL is in love with Lois, for SURE, after maxima confirmed it..

Lana with powers ...this is her chance for redemption..

don't be so harsh, when a master plan is beign created

[j-kent]

I'm sorry but no suit in any universe by human technology in any such fiction should make someone as strong as Superman...it totally devaluates the idea of such great power

[Iowa_Gent]

What I am trying to figure if Lex invented a suit to give him super powers and stay alive and now Lana has it on. What is to stop Lex from making another suit? It was a dumb idea for a show. They needed Lana to come back then have her and Clark find out it is over. In the show "Abyss" Jor-El said Clark had grown up a lot but now they have him going back to how he was.

[Coyote]

Lana is hot. Of course she should have powers.

[Iluvgreen]

Well we all remember last time when she almost killed Lex, and put Lois in the hospital. :mad:

[malcrew]

Super Lanafu! he he.

[Tompouce]

THANK YOU! This is my problem with this entire story arc. I have no problem with Lana wanting to do good things, help others, help the world but it seems as though tptb want her to OUTSHINE everyone including Clark in this regard.
Exactly. This epi was absolutely egocentric with Lana's character...

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Doesn't really matter I think the next episode it Lana's last isnt it? God she looks good with short hair!! lol
oh and THIS supes... is not supes yet... its just clark kent. do people not get that yet after 7 1/2 seasons?
YES, IT WILL BE THE LAST, YOUHOOOOOOOOOU !
As I said, Lana has never disturbed me but "power" was really a peak of insanity, crazyness,...And I don't want this awesome season to be spoiled like this so Lana, you can't go, I will not cry after you leave...And the most important, the true hero of the story will come back : CLARKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. You know, Lana, the man you will never be...:rolleyes:

[tippership commander]

tHAT's really harsh

For ONE, you say no sort of human technology should make someone as strong ac clark

1. She may not be

2. e's still geting stronger, he's not suprman YET

3.Victor Stone...you lose buddy ;)



Quit saying that she steals from clark's storyline.. DIdnt you see the final scene? he's finally realizing he doesnt have to worry about his loved ones so much and that he should give second chances

why can't you?

[pizzahead2490]

lana :rolleyes:

[F..l]

Bad for me ...
I wonder how she lost it :) ... She will be probably immune compared with greenK I think :eek:

[ClLaLeChFAN01]

What is intereting is that she learned from the time when she had Clarks powers.. She wasnt ready and it showed. She then prepared herself by going to this trainer dude. Lana has grown and I will give her credit! But please, i beg you...please end it with the Clana! I dont know how much more I can take!!!!! (One more episode! I can do it! This is tougher than going without spoilers for a month!)

[umm]

What is intereting is that she learned from the time when she had Clarks powers.. She wasnt ready and it showed. She then prepared herself by going to this trainer dude. Lana has grown and I will give her credit! But please, i beg you...please end it with the Clana! I dont know how much more I can take!!!!! (One more episode! I can do it! This is tougher than going without spoilers for a month!)

Oh please not even Clark is ready for those kind of powers and he proves it every time again and again, what makes the little diva think she is?
Twice she has had similar powers, and it has ended badly every time! She is power hungry and Clark hungry and that's all, she wan's her cake and to eat it too!

[tippership commander]

Yes, She is...

she had been lost ,and went through wha twas necessary for her...

Clark..is STILL learning...he's ready, he just needs to be fine tuned.....

I mean, he's already saving people, and Lana has finlyl settled on helping people, and not hurting..

SO, whats the problem again?

[malft]

I have another idea to throw in. Lana now becomes Wonder Woman. She has been trying to get Clark to come around for years. She is as strong as Superman. If they can rewrite dogma for Superman why not WW too?

[Welling_is_pretty]

I was kind of torn. While it was nice to see Lana trying to find power, to get strength and become Clark's equal (and not just be his 'damsel in distress' anymore) it was also annoying to have so much of the focus on her.

I do like that she thinks that she has to be as powerful as Clark so he doesn't have to protect her anymore. That was a nice bit.

But her powers coming from a suit?

Also, when she was all "now we can be together" I was thinking "but that's not what Clark needs. If it was he'd be with Wonder Woman, not Lois. He needs an ordinary human woman to bond with his 'humanity' and keep him human and sane. He's got 'superfriends'."

So I'm kinda torn (did I mention that?).