She's the personification of a high school boy's first love, and just as unattainable. However, I don't think they should have kept her in that mold for more than one season.
Hear, hear and yes! I can actually empathize with her in a very distant way about the difficulties in being placed on a pedestal and how it feels that no one really cares about the *real* you - but rather their *impression* of who you are. But the closest they get to having Lana to the point of throwing off that is by her rejecting being a fairy tale princess - but then not following thru on it.
I think I am mainly upset by lost potential. The actor who plays Lana is gorgeous and I think she could possibly do more than she is being allowed - and in such I think the PTB at the show are falling into the same trap as the high school boy who adores the "perfect princess" from afar and never acknowledges that she is real - that she sweats and burps and farts and has really bad days where she hates everybody but still does what she has too and sometimes she fucks up and it is totally her fault and good god does everything have to be so fucking *dainty* all the time!? And if they are attempting to make this *ideal* a central character and still maintain the ideal status, well then I might as well be watching Seventh Heaven.
I guess it is stupid of me to ask for realism in a show about young!Superman but...no. You know what? It isn't stupid at all. I want characters that I can relate too and that strike me as actually going through these fantastical situations and you know I get that from a vampire with a soul and from an Astronaut that got sucked through a wormhole and from a girl that died and now is a grim reaper just trying to make it in corporate America. I see no reason I cannot have that here as well.
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Hear, hear and yes! I can actually empathize with her in a very distant way about the difficulties in being placed on a pedestal and how it feels that no one really cares about the *real* you - but rather their *impression* of who you are. But the closest they get to having Lana to the point of throwing off that is by her rejecting being a fairy tale princess - but then not following thru on it.
I think I am mainly upset by lost potential. The actor who plays Lana is gorgeous and I think she could possibly do more than she is being allowed - and in such I think the PTB at the show are falling into the same trap as the high school boy who adores the "perfect princess" from afar and never acknowledges that she is real - that she sweats and burps and farts and has really bad days where she hates everybody but still does what she has too and sometimes she fucks up and it is totally her fault and good god does everything have to be so fucking *dainty* all the time!? And if they are attempting to make this *ideal* a central character and still maintain the ideal status, well then I might as well be watching Seventh Heaven.
I guess it is stupid of me to ask for realism in a show about young!Superman but...no. You know what? It isn't stupid at all. I want characters that I can relate too and that strike me as actually going through these fantastical situations and you know I get that from a vampire with a soul and from an Astronaut that got sucked through a wormhole and from a girl that died and now is a grim reaper just trying to make it in corporate America. I see no reason I cannot have that here as well.