Spoilers For Smallville - do I really have to Cut? S2, S3 and 4x01 mentioned

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So I'm re-watching parts of S2 for a vid and y'know - that end scene with Lana in "Visage" isn't really that bad. She's actually really pathetic and totally giving up on the sticking points she has had keeping Clark away - that he is holding back and keeping secrets and is just generally strange - and she is totally saying that she will forget all of that if he will just not leave and keep her safe.

Well, that is just sad as can be. I like miserable and pathetic and giving up - this is interesting. And of course, Clark does leave and leave her - they just fucked up the momentum they have going here with all the stuff that happens between Visage and Exodus.

Also - I can never watch that scene without cringing due to Smallville's unforgivable usage of "Mad World" - just no. No you can't have that song and use it all inappropriately. I felt similarly about them using Johnny Cash's "Hurt" in Shattered - but you know, the song just felt premature for Lex - he ain't there yet - I got over it. I'll never be okay with "Mad World" at the end of Visage.

I think Lana has really grown on me since she woke up passed out on her dorm bed in Paris, naked, covered in sweat and with no memory of how she got there. If she had to run outside to see the number on the mailbox so she could tell the cab where to come and pick her up, she could have been me at 18. Or twenty. There was that one time when I was 24 but I don't count it cause it ain't like I was the only one that did not know where the fuck I was...Awwww - memories. Or lack of...

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"Hurt" sorta worked if you mentally pretend it was for Lionel. Which probably wasn't what they intended, but that's never stopped fandom before. *g* And yeah, using "Mad World" was just...painful. And not even funny-bad like "Don't Fear the Reaper" while Lex was proposing to Helen.