It is the day of Lex
and Lana's wedding. Lana uses Chloe to put Clark to the test so that
she can learn his secret. Lex fears that Lana won't show up at the
church, prompting Lionel to manipulate her into following through on her
promise to Lex, which means breaking Clark's heart in the process.
Also, Lex ends up killing Lana's doctor after the man tries to blackmail
him with threats of revealing the truth about Lana's pregnancy.
When
Clark throws the photo in the pre credits sequence it suddenly dawned
on me just how painful this would all be for him. The woman he loves
marrying the man he's grown to hate and "having his baby". It's obvious
really. But, for whatever reason, it's this moment in which I have felt
it most. Maybe because it's the day of the wedding, which means the
window of opportunity to turn things around has all but disappeared.
It's very relatable to see Clark dealing with the probability that all the reasons he's had for not telling Lana his secret were really just to hide the fact that he was too chicken to set himself up for rejection. However, I feel that it's way too late in the day to be exploring this aspect of his character, for the simple fact that Clark flipping well knows that Lana loves him. Not to sound like a stuck record but, he proposed once already and she said yes, so to have doubts at this point about how she feels is mind numbingly stupid on his part. This would have been more suitable to explore in season one or two, not season six.
I love the look on Clark's face though when Lana tells him to meet him at 5 because she's "not going to marry Lex". He looks like the cat who got the cream. But I can't help but feel that Lana has acted selfishly in some respects in waiting until now. Would she still be acting this way if she hadn't secretly learned Clark's secret? Don't get me wrong, I'm not feeling sorry for Lex at this point given what he's done, but as far as Lana is concerned, she is unaware of the truth concerning their baby, which means that, right now, she is a woman preparing to run off with another man and betray the father of her child. It's almost a callback to the behaviour we saw from her great aunt in the season 2 episode 'Relic'.
The scene between Lex and Lionel at Luthorcorp, where Lionel promises Lex that Lana will be there at the wedding, is a really great scene. Lex shows a rare moment of emotional vulnerability in front of Lionel and I believe, in this moment, Lionel truly loves his son. It's obvious that he's about to go off and plot something, but it will be a devious act that is intended for the right reasons, not to hurt Clark and Lana but to look out for the wellbeing of his son.
When Lex snaps and kills the doctor who tries to blackmail him, I feel it was a mistake to have it looking accidental in the last moment. There should have been no ambiguity here. Given everything Lex is already guilty of this would have been the perfect moment to have him commit the ultimate tresspass with total intent.
Love the callback to Tempest and Vortex with Lana's dream. It's nice to see that such a pivotal moment still plays through her mind after all this time.
It's pretty funny that we haven't seen Aunt Nell in, like, forever and now she finally pops up to offer Lana some "sage" advice that leads her into acting deviously in order to learn the truth. This scene only serves as a way of trying to absolve Lana of having acted the way she does. But it's unnecessary. There's no reason she couldn't have made this decision on her own. But the writers would rather turn Nell into the irresponsible parental figure than allow Lana to be painted in a negative light. As a result they only make her look worse.
There's a moment where Lionel strikes Lex after finding the doctor's body in the crypt. He suggests that Lana has made him weak and it is Lex's grovelling response that shows us that, in the most twisted of ways, Lex really does love Lana. But when he loves something or someone, his fear of losing them gives way to his need to control everything. It's tragic! He creates the whole phantom pregnancy situation, presumably to make Lana feel like she has to marry him. He does this because he loves her so much that he genuinely wants her to be his wife. But the level of doubt in himself is so great that he cannot trust that he is enough to make Lana want to spend her life with him. And so... control the outcome... phantom pregnancy. Like I said, tragic, on so many levels.
It's very relatable to see Clark dealing with the probability that all the reasons he's had for not telling Lana his secret were really just to hide the fact that he was too chicken to set himself up for rejection. However, I feel that it's way too late in the day to be exploring this aspect of his character, for the simple fact that Clark flipping well knows that Lana loves him. Not to sound like a stuck record but, he proposed once already and she said yes, so to have doubts at this point about how she feels is mind numbingly stupid on his part. This would have been more suitable to explore in season one or two, not season six.
I love the look on Clark's face though when Lana tells him to meet him at 5 because she's "not going to marry Lex". He looks like the cat who got the cream. But I can't help but feel that Lana has acted selfishly in some respects in waiting until now. Would she still be acting this way if she hadn't secretly learned Clark's secret? Don't get me wrong, I'm not feeling sorry for Lex at this point given what he's done, but as far as Lana is concerned, she is unaware of the truth concerning their baby, which means that, right now, she is a woman preparing to run off with another man and betray the father of her child. It's almost a callback to the behaviour we saw from her great aunt in the season 2 episode 'Relic'.
The scene between Lex and Lionel at Luthorcorp, where Lionel promises Lex that Lana will be there at the wedding, is a really great scene. Lex shows a rare moment of emotional vulnerability in front of Lionel and I believe, in this moment, Lionel truly loves his son. It's obvious that he's about to go off and plot something, but it will be a devious act that is intended for the right reasons, not to hurt Clark and Lana but to look out for the wellbeing of his son.
When Lex snaps and kills the doctor who tries to blackmail him, I feel it was a mistake to have it looking accidental in the last moment. There should have been no ambiguity here. Given everything Lex is already guilty of this would have been the perfect moment to have him commit the ultimate tresspass with total intent.
Love the callback to Tempest and Vortex with Lana's dream. It's nice to see that such a pivotal moment still plays through her mind after all this time.
It's pretty funny that we haven't seen Aunt Nell in, like, forever and now she finally pops up to offer Lana some "sage" advice that leads her into acting deviously in order to learn the truth. This scene only serves as a way of trying to absolve Lana of having acted the way she does. But it's unnecessary. There's no reason she couldn't have made this decision on her own. But the writers would rather turn Nell into the irresponsible parental figure than allow Lana to be painted in a negative light. As a result they only make her look worse.
There's a moment where Lionel strikes Lex after finding the doctor's body in the crypt. He suggests that Lana has made him weak and it is Lex's grovelling response that shows us that, in the most twisted of ways, Lex really does love Lana. But when he loves something or someone, his fear of losing them gives way to his need to control everything. It's tragic! He creates the whole phantom pregnancy situation, presumably to make Lana feel like she has to marry him. He does this because he loves her so much that he genuinely wants her to be his wife. But the level of doubt in himself is so great that he cannot trust that he is enough to make Lana want to spend her life with him. And so... control the outcome... phantom pregnancy. Like I said, tragic, on so many levels.
It annoys me that Lana can't at least be honest with Clark at the end. It feels like she is unnecessarily putting herself into the role of martyr when, actually, she should come clean with Clark and give him a headsup about Lionel threatening to kill him. If she believes that Lionel truly has a way to kill Clark, then she is putting him more at risk by keeping him in the dark than what she would if she gave him valuable warning.
8/10
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