am I the only one who sees this ?

[Offworlder 1]

Who would kill themselves just to see their daed parents when theres a possibility you can't spend more then 2-4 minites without not coming back ?

Lana is pathetic if shes willing to off herself constantly to see her parents, if it was a recent death I could understand like Clark but its been more then 15 years. Her statment on feeling alone proves shes in need of some therapy or a straight jacket even with her friends and especially with Clark when hes kinder then he should be with her. This really shows how weak she is that she literaly became a "death junkie/death addict" , but the sadest part is that she pays a ridiculess amount of money for each trip.

I had some respect for Lana before this episode even with all her issuses but not after this display of disgrace.

[eas]

Well, I think that they've built a case for it. She has talked a lot about her dead parents since the first episode. I do think it was weird that all she could talk about was her break-up with Clark when she saw them. You'd think she'd worry about other stuff....

Honestly, I don't like Lana so I didn't really question her decision to do this. I thought, 'hhmm, yeah sounds like something Lana would do....'

[tejdog1]

I didnt question it because Lana is weak willed and stupid.

[Offworlder 1]

Wow , I expected hate to takle this one , glad there other people out there who see Lana isn't the perfect little angel she pretends to be.


CLOIS will happen people its a cold hard fact written in stone.

[photogirl]

I don't like Lana, so this was just one of those things that I was willing to accept that Lana was stupid enough to do. She's got issues, and I am willing to accept that!

[MBCorp]

I thought Lana's actions were harmful and pathetic in this episode too. She willingly put other people in danger, stole from people, and all for a selfish wish to see her parents. I understand that it was traumatic for her to lose her parents but that doesn't make her actions in this episode any less foolhardy and selfish.

[Watching Smallville]

I thought it was completley out of character for Lana to experiment with death until someone on this board posted about Lana visiting her parents' gravesite in season 1. Now I think it's pretty consistent with her past. I'm willing to think she got into this thinking it wouldn't affect anyone else -- and it didn't until Chloe started looking into it. I don't think she expected to harm other people. But it was risky for her own safety right from the start. Definitely a low point for her character.

[Happy Random]

Originally posted by Watching Smallville
I thought it was completley out of character for Lana to experiment with death until someone on this board posted about Lana visiting her parents' gravesite in season 1. Now I think it's pretty consistent with her past. I'm willing to think she got into this thinking it wouldn't affect anyone else -- and it didn't until Chloe started looking into it. I don't think she expected to harm other people. But it was risky for her own safety right from the start. Definitely a low point for her character.

Speaking of Lana visting gravesites, I like to read those Smallville novels, and there is one by Nancy Holder called Hauntings. And in it, we find out that Lana has a seance (sp?) book because she wanted to try and communicate with her dead parents (I don't know how old she was, it doesn't say). So I guess that this really is a reoccuring thing for Lana. :D

[bubble_burster]

yeah lana needs to get over it....her parents died when she was 3 freaking years old i cant even remember ONE THING from when i was 3....and i hate to think that she's like this to get attention. she can get loads of attention without having to play the pathetic lonely girl with dead parents....its really annoying.

[Watching Smallville]

Originally posted by Happy Random
Speaking of Lana visting gravesites, I like to read those Smallville novels, and there is one by Nancy Holder called Hauntings. And in it, we find out that Lana has a seance (sp?) book because she wanted to try and communicate with her dead parents (I don't know how old she was, it doesn't say). So I guess that this really is a reoccuring thing for Lana. :D
Lana also told Clark she had a premonition that she was going to die young. So there's been this preoccupation with death all along, I guess. Isn't it ironic - she turned out to be right. :\

[All about Clark]

It's ironic that she went from the perfect shade of pink (hehe) to a death junkie.

What TPTB will do to ruin a character, I bet KK isn't too excited. But TPTB cornered themselves by having Clark love her so and needed an escape route.

[Watching Smallville]

It could be that KK likes playing someone less perfect and more complicated. She didn't like the pink outfits -- maybe she wasn't that crazy about the pink personality either. :lol:

[MBCorp]

I think some people are making some interesting points about Lana being more interesting now that she's less perfect. Why do people always want her to be a perfect princess, anyway?

[Offworlder 1]

when was Lana ever a "princess" like character other then wearing pink ?

[The Astronomer]

My objection to this episode is that there was no hint of the depths of her loneliness before this episode, that it just suddenly came out. If there had been a reference in an earlier episode (post "Reckoning") of Lana spending time with medical students and/or looking exhausted after staying out all night, I would have accepted this story. I wish there could be more "hints" and "clues" placed in preceeding episodes to give a more even flow to the season/series story.

[Offworlder 1]

no one answering my question speaks for itself cause Lana was far from being princess like (unless you count going from guy to guy thinking no ones "good enough" for her and tells her everything)

[peterk]

Originally posted by The Astronomer
My objection to this episode is that there was no hint of the depths of her loneliness before this episode, that it just suddenly came out. If there had been a reference in an earlier episode (post "Reckoning") of Lana spending time with medical students and/or looking exhausted after staying out all night, I would have accepted this story. I wish there could be more "hints" and "clues" placed in preceeding episodes to give a more even flow to the season/series story.

Yeah, it's called writing. Something the folks who get paid to come up with this stuff don't do. How many plotlines have gone nowhere? How much time have we wasted when there could have been character development? We're in season 5 and we still have no reason to be interested in Lana? Speaking of having no warning, remember Lana going off to Paris for art school? Where did that come from? Had we ever seen Lana do art before that? Since? Ever? Chloe is the only reason I watch the show anymore. When they get rid of her (okay, granted, TPTB have laid the groundwork for Chloe eventually going insane like her mother and being institutionalized) I'll stop watching.