Here is the problem, there is stuff I hate about the show. I don't really care for Clark's life to be written using scripts that Dawson Creek didn't feel were usuable for TV mainly. I also don't like the show runners feel the need to build up female character X by dumbing Clark down.
I want to see a show about a guy who may have a couple problems in his life but isn't constantly depressed, and that guy should be the main character on the show and everything should be written on it to put Clark in the best light at the end of the day.
And this is were my frustrations come from Legion(which i did think was a good episode for the most part) and alot of the spoilers coming out recently. Do the fans of the show really need it shoved down our throat how important Lana Lang is? Worse off is the fact they feel the need to play up Lana's "importance" only tells me they are going to regress to the crappy Lana plots I despise on the show for the next 3 episodes doing no favors for Clark Kent's character.
We really didn't need Irma telling Lana 2 times how important she was and refering to all her "sacrifices"(like what sacrifices, sleeping with Lex and Bizzaro?). I wonder if the producers realize that alot of viewers view Lana as a major hinderence to Clark's life and they seem to have a very unhealthy relationship, but the producers pass it off like Lana can do no wrong and Clark is the problem. Beyond that, did they really need Clark to run to Lana so she could tell him it's wrong to kill Chloe? I hated this storyline when Clark had to constantly run to Chloe in seasons 5-7 and while the Lana/Clark scene not as bad as some similar Chloe/Clark scenes from previous years, I wish they could make Clark more often then not be able to come to 'obvious' conclusion independantly without looking like a clueless meathead who needs female character X to tell him how to act(only to build that character up, as if Clark needs somebody to fill the role of his brain in his life)
Message to producers, Kristen is leaving in 3 episodes and Clark will hopefully be on the show come Season 9(so that 30 more episodes after she leaves). It's in there best interest to make these Lana episodes about Clark moving on with his life so he looks like a stronger character, not some 5 episode arc about how wonderful Lana is and her getting(according to producers) some heroic sendoff. What's the use of going all out trying to please a group of fans who won't give 2 poops about the show once Lana leaves, and in the process demeaning the main character of the show just to build up the almighty Lana. I know I MAY be jumping the gun on my belief but the way Lana was written in Legion brought out all my fears how she would be used.
What makes matters worse is the one female character I do not find that demeans the character of Clark Kent(that being Lois)constantly gets spit all over. With Lois we hardly get the angsty plots that involve Lana or meathead Clark who hangs around Chloe(who to often needs to be saved), instead Clark is usually proactive and doesn't have to think twice about crap and involved in scenes that are more light hearted. Basically for the first 10 episodes we constantly see Lois gaining feelings for Clark, with Clark being ambigious about his feelings for her, the one episode he actually shows initiative, boom she is gone for 4 episodes and when she comes back we seem to get a AU type episode that will be erased and then she isn't in 2 of the next 3 episode(and that one episode she is playing Chloe). If they planned to cut romantic Clois mid stream, they shouldn't have played it up so much those first 10 episodes, they should have just waited till this Lana arc was over then start there. Beyond that it seems like the writers over the years alot of times like putting Lois in a bad light(kicked out of college, drinking, sleeping with her editor, getting stuff magically come out of air for her like a pay raise) which doesn't do wonders for her character and weren't needed for plot purposes. While I don't want Clark's character demeaned to build Lois up, why the producers constantly demean Clark to build up Chloe and Lana is beyond me, yet they tear down Lois(who we all know is supposed to be the love of his life) when it not needed. It's almost as if the showrunners feel that Lana and (to a much lesser degree) Chloe are there 2 big "additions" to the mythos and in there minds they have to make both more important then they should be to put there stamp on the Superman legend, all while passing off Lois as comic relief. (Getting back to Legion's ramifications on the show overall)What makes it worse is I feel when all is said and done Lois will be made to look like 2nd choice, after Lana "sacrifices" herself for the better good of the world.
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