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xrayvision

03-26-2009, 06:50 PM

Does anyone think that Clark not wishing he could make Lana normal again is a sign that he's either over her or a sign that he realizes that he was just fooling himself with her?

abbaspice1

03-26-2009, 06:53 PM

Yeah, lately it seems that Lana doesn't exist for Clark anymore.

Snowfire

03-26-2009, 06:53 PM

Kristin Kreuk is not on the show! Stop making something out of nothing. It didn't work in the Infamous thread it's not going to fly here. Ah, not flying an occuring trend in S8.

Skaterpen357

03-26-2009, 07:00 PM

More likely that the writers already forgot about her.

I'd like to think that cannonically, you're theory is correct, though...

O'Neill

03-26-2009, 07:02 PM

Either way, im just glad I didnt have to endure anymore scenes with Lana.

thehenry89

03-26-2009, 07:03 PM

it's very telling, if he was still over the moon for lana then you'd think that would be his first wish.

abbaspice1

03-26-2009, 07:04 PM

Snowfire,

You simply cannot ignore the fact that he didn't wish for Lana.

You cannot ignore the fact that he made puppy-eyes at Lois a lot (according to Chloe).

Those 2 facts together says a lot.

Batman/Superman#1

03-26-2009, 07:18 PM

What was Clark's wish anyways?

moviefan2k4

03-26-2009, 07:22 PM

I think Clark has switched from Lana to Lois way too quickly; it makes him seem like he doesn't know what (or who) he wants, and it makes both Lana & Lois look like objects, and little else. the writers really need to work on that a lot.

Karafan1

03-26-2009, 07:22 PM

He's moved on from Lana..Finally!!

AndiGirl

03-26-2009, 07:25 PM

I'm honestly not sure he's over Lana...
I think the whole point was Zatanna just grants something they could be wishing for at that moment.

I dont think Chloe's secret wish in life is to be Lois.....at her birthday Lois seemed so carefree, and for a split second thats what she wanted.

Same with Clark...outside he and Chloe were talking about simpler times, so when he met up with Zatanna....thats what he was thinking about.

I dont think either of them sat there and thought of their deepest darkest secrets, it's just something they wanted at that moment. It really has nothing to do with Lana IMO. :\

Alexander III

03-26-2009, 07:26 PM

I dun think Clark remembers who Lana is, :lol:

Supsfan

03-26-2009, 07:27 PM

myankskent

03-26-2009, 07:28 PM

Does anyone think that Clark not wishing he could make Lana normal again is a sign that he's either over her or a sign that he realizes that he was just fooling himself with her?

I think it's a sign that KK is no longer on this show anymore, to be honest.

warriorrenegade

03-26-2009, 07:30 PM

Both. Oh and KK is no longer on the show.

Batman/Superman#1

03-26-2009, 07:33 PM

I am so lost since my local tv staion was havng problems with 20 minutes of the show without audio.

Dyanara

03-26-2009, 07:34 PM

Clark gets on my nerves with his ability to forget any woman who is not standing right in front of him. Lana's gone, he forgets she ever existed. Through the 5 he**ish episodes of CLana he forgot Lois existed. And lets not forget how easily he got over his girlfriend Alicia's death.

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I am so lost since my local tv staion was havng problems with 20 minutes of the show without audio.

I hate when that happens...always on the good shows too

kryptotrite

03-26-2009, 07:35 PM

KK's gone...so they pull these wishes out of their butts.
And Zatanna said it wasn't the DEEPEST desire...just what he was thinking of at that one moment, which he had just talked to Chloe about on the street.

O'Neill

03-26-2009, 07:36 PM

Ahhhh... the wonderful life of a superhero..... able to make huge leaps between women in a single bound.

Batman/Superman#1

03-26-2009, 07:37 PM

Clark gets on my nerves with his ability to forget any woman who is not standing right in front of him. Lana's gone, he forgets she ever existed. Through the 5 he**ish episodes of CLana he forgot Lois existed. And lets not forget how easily he got over his girlfriend Alicia's death.

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I hate when that happens...always on the good shows too

I guess I'm saying what did he wish for?

Snowfire

03-26-2009, 07:49 PM

As much as I hate defending Lana, it was what his wish at that moment was, not his greatest desire. They set up the scene to have him make an offhand comment just before he went into the place that sometimes he wished he was normal.

Thank you. That's exactly what he wished for or rather had on the top of his mind at the moment. It's not rocket science.

xrayvision

03-26-2009, 08:21 PM

I think they could have had a scene where Chloe talked about why Lana wasn't what he wished for and them hinting that Clark's over her. It would be nice to finally get a sign of Clark moving on rather than eventually having a thing for Lana & Lois like they did with Lana when she wanted to marry Lex but also loved Clark.

Batman/Superman#1

03-26-2009, 08:25 PM

Was his wish about lana?

xrayvision

03-26-2009, 08:28 PM

No, obviously not. I think the lack of it being about Lana could have been verbally discussed as a sign that he was moving on.

redeem147

03-26-2009, 08:37 PM

I think it's a sign that he wasn't thinking about Lana when he was talking to Zatanna.

Aries83

03-26-2009, 08:39 PM

He wished to find true love, meaning he inadvertently wished for Lois' love. That's how I took it at least.

paolinki25

03-26-2009, 08:39 PM

Yeah, I agree. It's clearly a sign that Lana is not longer (FINALLY!) priority for them.

SGuthrie27

03-26-2009, 08:41 PM

I think it's just a sign that Clana is done and that Lana Lang probably will not be coming back to Smallville again. But I think he's realized that, as beautiful as their relationship was at times, it's not what defines Clark, and that Lana was ready to move on. Their last little run together was more of an echo of what they once had -- they were both completely different people who tried to live life like they used to be and it didn't work. It's good for both of them that they separated and moved on with the rest of their lives, and that he didn't wish for Kryptonite Woman to have a retcon of her abilities, LOL.

--SGuthrie ><>' :)--

Batman/Superman#1

03-26-2009, 08:45 PM

He wished to find true love, meaning he inadvertently wished for Lois' love. That's how I took it at least.

So his wish was to find true love.

Jor-Fer

03-26-2009, 10:00 PM

Is not that he doesn´t want to wish for a cure for Lana , is that KK are out and the plot can´t take her as an option to go through.

Lilah

03-26-2009, 10:04 PM

I think the last scene with Chloe is what showed him moving on. She said something really true, you'll never get to where you want to be if you keep looking over your shoulder wondering what could have been.

ReDKrYpToKaL

03-26-2009, 10:05 PM

If anything, he should have wished for Alicia Baker to come back to life. Then he would truly be able to be happy.

Alicia Baker is stronger than kryptonite!!!!!!!

Clana4Life

03-26-2009, 10:48 PM

Clark never got a chance to make an official wish. Zantanna just took something he said outside and granted it. She didn't give him the option of having his deepest wish fulfilled. It was the same setup that Chloe got at her birthday party. Perhaps if she had asked, "Clark what is your deepest wish. If you could have any wish in the world granted, what would it be?" Maybe it would be to have Lana cured and by his side or world peace. While it is debatable, we'll never really know.

herolee10

03-26-2009, 10:55 PM

well despite the fact that KK is no longer on the show, it's still very possible to ask these questions of why Clark hasn't taken some of the opportunities he's had to undo on what happened to Lana (Legion ring and Zatanna's wish), I mean even with MR not present to play Lex, his presence is still very felt.

Normally in the past, if asked on what Clark would wish for, his thoughts would have fallen on Lana..but here, it seems like the more time passes..the less he thinks about her.

Clana4Life

03-26-2009, 10:57 PM

amberdawn

03-26-2009, 10:59 PM

Clana4Life

03-26-2009, 11:01 PM

I don't know. He's not over it, but I think he's slowly healing. And he wasn't even thinking of Lana at the time, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't wish for her to be normal again. I'm just being fair.

I agree. If he'd had a moment to actually wish for something - without Z just granting a random thing said downstairs, the outcome might have been different.

Djonn

03-27-2009, 12:36 AM

There are a lot of answers to this one, but I think the most convincing answer is that we haven't really nailed down the way Zatanna's wish magic actually works.

Clearly, she doesn't read minds. Zatanna didn't recognize Chlois as such, when Clark and Chlois walked in on her, until Chlois referenced the cupcake.

She also didn't appear to know what Chloe had wished for, in specific, even after realizing who Chlois was. Thus, it's not really accurate to say that Zatanna grants wishes in the sense that an Arabian Nights genie does. Rather, Zatanna sets off the wish-spell, the magic hits its target, and the magic acts on whatever it finds in the target's/wisher's mind. In Chloe's case, it does a physical morph and transforms her into a Lois-clone. In Clark's case, what it does is actually pretty odd; it does not physically remove his powers, but it does jigger his memory so that he thinks he's a normal human being. It's not at all clear what it did for the antique dealer, though the implication is that it was a mental rather than physical manifestation. One is left with the general impression that the wish-magic follows the path of least resistance, and that wherever it can it works directly with the target's/wisher's own mind and body rather than altering the larger world. And it's temporary -- as Zatanna says, it stops working when you stop wanting what you wished for.

This last, it might be noted, is distinctly at odds with what she promises Oliver when she presses him for the book. In that scene, she says he can use his wish to turn back time or bring back someone he's lost -- implying that he can change the world, or at least his personal fate, on a much larger scale than what we see Chloe and Clark receive.

Which suggests, ultimately, that it's just as well that Clark didn't wish for Lana to be de-Kryptonized. That could have been decidedly awkward in any number of ways, both when the magic activated itself and when it eventually de-activated....

Lilah

03-27-2009, 01:37 AM

Lana has become Grant and Alicia... out of sight out of mind.... By the season finale Clark and everyone else will forget she even existed.... Myself included.

skugers

03-27-2009, 02:05 AM

We've gone through this in Infamous too, with the Legion Ring... KK is not longer on the show so why took on the opportunity to wish Lana back :D? It's story related. Given the "love" between those 2 we've been shown in Requiem he should've, normally,wished her back.. But oh well... It's ok.

Clark_Camp

03-27-2009, 07:55 AM

I don't think he actually was wishing... or focusing on a wish... what happened to him has always been a though in his head and had just happened. Had he put thought into an official wish.. then he'd possibly wish the suit Lana has on didn't have the krytonite absorbing package included in the suit!

costas22

03-27-2009, 07:57 AM

Well he never got the chance to wish for anything.So it's not like he had the choice and decided to leave Lana like that.I was more confused about Oliver.Why choose Lex over his parents?

Hopefulsuicide

03-27-2009, 08:02 AM

Just because he wasn't thinking of Lana for two seconds out of his day, doesn't mean that given some thought this might be his wish (as much as i hate him for it :lol:)

Isabel14

03-27-2009, 08:28 AM

Like I said..the writers will act like the Lana arc never happened..But we, the fans won't forget so easily..

Smallvillebabe08

03-27-2009, 08:49 AM

Does anyone think that Clark not wishing he could make Lana normal again is a sign that he's either over her or a sign that he realizes that he was just fooling himself with her?

I sure hope so !

Hopefulsuicide

03-27-2009, 08:56 AM

Like I said..the writers will act like the Lana arc never happened..But we, the fans won't forget so easily..

In this one instance... I'm quite happy they are ignoring the continuity of Power/Requiem... they less they mention it the better :)

stenochick

03-27-2009, 08:57 AM

Well, Zatanna told Chloe that her wanting to be Lois was not her deepest desire, but what she wanted in the moment.

If you translate that to Clark, he had just finished telling Chloe that half of his life was like "this" (referring to finding out that Lois was really Chloe) and that the freakiness was so common to him that it was becoming normal and that he does not know what normal is anymore.

Right after that, Zatanna granted his "wish" without even directly asking his permission. She just said, "I wonder what your wish is" and granted it. What was on his mind at that time was a wish to no longer be immersed in so much weirdness. That would include SuperLana if she was even on his mind at that moment.

What I thought was brilliant was that if you catch Clark or anyone else off guard, he has a different wish than if you give him time to think about what his wish should be.

Iluvgreen

03-27-2009, 05:00 PM

who's lana. :lol:

stenochick

03-28-2009, 10:45 AM

who's lana. :lol:

:rotfl:

devilneedsaride

03-28-2009, 11:32 AM

More likely that the writers already forgot about her.

I agree. As much as I love that Lana's gone and all, I kind of feel like that whole arc is an elephant in the room. I wish they would address it somehow and try and show some kind of closure on Clark's part instead of going straight from a tearful goodbye to "Lana who?"

I think Clark has switched from Lana to Lois way too quickly; it makes him seem like he doesn't know what (or who) he wants, and it makes both Lana & Lois look like objects, and little else. the writers really need to work on that a lot.

Seriously :\

Ahhhh... the wonderful life of a superhero..... able to make huge leaps between women in a single bound.

Oh that's a superhero thing now? Man, my exes must have been keeping some secrets.