Whew! Also, I'm Looking For Your Opinion.

[disbelief11]

Wow, I'm tired now. Tired and satisfied, because I've been cleaning the house. Not just the dishes and stuff - I'm talking about the Martha Stewart/Holy Grail/This Old House kind of thing. My Mom arrives for a visit tomorrow night, so my normal procrastinating self has been shoved aside by this crazed person who wants her house to be "perfect" by the time Mom gets here.

It's good to have company every once in a while. Makes you actually get stuff done.



Speaking of Mom, she and my Favorite Sister (okay, she's my only sister) had a polite freak-out last weekend when I was telling them about visiting my friends in Florida. Seems they haven't gotten the memo that not everyone who is on the Internet is a rapist/murderer/child molester. So when they asked me where I had met these people and I my answer was "online," their eyes bugged out and later I was subjected to a mild interrogation by the Moms.

So, my first question of y'all tonight: what do YOU say when people ask you where you met your online friends?



I have another question for all of you SV fans, this one about Lana. I was thinking about all of the SV peers of Clark, and what lessons Clark learns from each of them. Pete teaches him about friendship and trust, and helps him scooby things. Chloe helps him with the scoobying and helps him develop his journalistic interest. Lex is teaching him all kinds of new things, from Greek mythology to how to deal with the girl of your dreams to corporate espionage and of course, trust and mistrust.

And Lana? Really, all I could come up with was guilt over smooshing her parents. But I thought that might be because of my intense dislike of Lana, so now I'm turning the question to all of you...what does Lana have to offer?

Comments

[bunglegirl.livejournal.com]

I don't usually bring up meeting people online. It depends on the people. I have a couple of friends who fancy themselves supercool and made fun of me. I don't tell them anything anymore. If people press me I usually say it's people I talk to about Smallville (since most people know I'm a Smallville freak). My parents would definitely freak, I usually just say I'm going out with friends they don't know and hope they won't press.

RE: Lana, I agree with what Pun said above. I think Lana serves to remind Clark that he's different. That he's an alien. Even before he knew he was one she (and the necklace) made him feel like an outsider, looking in at the life he really wants. I think Chloe and Lex would be interested in alien Clark, see him as a mystery or discovery. I think Clark could deal with that. Pete see alien Clark as cool, like a toy with cool powers he can play with. Lana is wary of alien Clark. We saw how she reacted to Clark tossing the 3 frat boys in her defense, she was fairly outraged at first. She was scared of him. Lana serves to remind Clark of what most of humanity/society is like. It reminds him that people will be scared of him and ultimately teaches him why he has to have a secret identity.

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you reminded me of the tossing of the 3 frat old dudes, because her outrage was a more active instance than normal. As I mentioned to Pun, one of the reasons I dislike Lana so is that she's so passive.

Of course, right now my brain is coming up with more instances of times when she's been more active. Guess I'm going to have to keep working at learning to like Lana, or at least respect her.

Now if only the writers would help me with that.