Lana Lang (Smallville)

[lexcorp_hope]

Title: Smallville's Girl
Author: Hope
Spoilers: Through Third Season
E-Mail: hope@secrets-and-lies.com
URL: Secrets & Lies

Comments

[chiri_chan]

I love this analysis of Lana. Love it. So often on the show, she's characterized by who she's associating with either dating-wise or friendship-wise and I love how you've thrown out that, yes that happens but then cut through it to show Lana Lang how she is - and who she is (fandom aside) is really of her own choosing. And that is, as you said, worth chering for.

[lexcorp_hope]

Thank you so much! It was a challenge to try to sort her out when the canon is so conflicting sometimes, but I'm glad it all came together. I just wish I had been as clever as you and come up with quotes for each section, that was brilliant!!

[suzycat]

You made me like her, damn you.

[lexcorp_hope]

Heh heh heh. My evil plot continues unthwarted!!! (Thank you for reading, I'm glad it was effective!)

[spikendru]

I enjoyed this essay very much (even if the only parts of Smallville I've ever seen were the bits at the end while setting up my DVR to tape Angel *g*) I figured it was time to broaden my mind (and have discovered I'm addicted to essays). But, I seem to have somehow formed the impression that Lana was a mermaid? WTF did I get that idea?

Anyway, thanks for the well-thought out interpretation.

[thelana]

You mean like this?

[spikendru]

Yes! In the original Superman story, wasn't Lana Lang a mermaid?

[thelana]

No that was Superman's other girlfriend Lori Lemaris. He met her in college.

[elli]

Wonderful sweetie *kisses*

I think you voiced what TPTB try to show us, but sometimes don't really achieve.

[lexcorp_hope]

My secret to Lana Lang? Work from the scripts instead of the performance. KK sometimes rises to the occasion, but the character's *mostly* consistent on the page. Mostly. :) THank you so much for reading!

[joanne_c]

Terrific essay, Hope.

I really love that you used the Tori Amos song to describe Lana as that's been a "Lana song" in my head from about midway through S1.

[lexcorp_hope]

Shamefully, I must admit, I had no idea Tori had a song by that title! I was just playing on the theme of her belonging, but I'm glad that it evoked a positive for you!! Thank you so much for reading and commenting!

[joanne_c]

Oops. The song is Everybody Else's Girl (or at least that's the chorus lines I remember), and I thought you'd borrowed from it for the titles. But it's still very muc how I think of Lana, particularly "she's everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own."