I’m astounded that anyone could actually say with a straight face this ep was anything other than the travesty it was and it trashed every character. Even Lana, who was certainly totally self-centered, manipulative and whiny as usual, was nontheless out of character since she has repeatedly dissed Clark, impugned his motives, made the cruelest most cutting remarks (I don’t know how I ever could have loved you!) and refused to hear anything bad about Lex though both Clark and Chloe have repeatedly tried to convince her it was a bad idea to get involved with him. She may have had some reservations but she clearly came down on the side of wanting Lex for whatever selfish or stupid reasons. Lana willingly lived with, slept with and got pregnant by Lex and never minded all the money and perks that came with it like shopping in Paris. So she wasn’t forced into marrying him in any way and it’s past time Lana Lang had to face some consequences for her actions. She is no martyr at all yet that is how she was portrayed.

The fact that she was going to LEAVE Lex a NOTE instead of having the guts to tell him face to face was simply outrageous but then she did the same thing to Whitney so I suppose we should realize she’s just that kind of nasty little girl who thinks only of herself.

Everyone else was out of character, too, especially Martha and Chloe who have been saying Clark needs to move the hell on and suddenly were turned into Lana cheerleaders who tell him he should save her from marrying a monster. Did they forget we watched the other episodes and know this is total retconning of everyone? Even Lionel, always great when he’s bad, was muddled since he had previously been a help to Clark for the most part. But he gave Lana what she deserved and forced her to do the right thing by Lex. When Lionel has to make people do the right thing and Lex, who brutally murdered a man is made to be the most sympathetic character then there is something seriously wrong with this show.

But let’s move on to the worst possible thing about the whole episode. That Clark Kent, who is such a moron he can’t see Lana for the awful person she has always been is shown making out with another man’s bride right before her wedding to the guy whose child she is carrying and further, making plans to spirit the bride away and MARRY HER, also knowing how badly THAT turned out before, then the hero’s character is trashed and he is truly stupid beyond belief. That is NOT heroic behavior and at Clark’s age he should know better. As a freshman in high school Clark had a better lock on his morals than now, apparently. That the writers thought it was okay to show this and tried to make it seem romantic is outrageous but then, I understand that they were responsible for the horror or Relic, too, in which we saw Lana’s aunt was the same kind of unfaithful girl as Lana, with Louise having an affair with TWO men and further that Lana had the nerve to say, “I know it was wrong but it was kind of romantic.” Unbelievable. No Lana, it is never romantic to cheat on husbands or boyfriends but then she has done the same thing repeatedly with always having the back-up boyfriend to run to when her actual boyfriend isn’t paying her enough attention and Lana always wants to be the center of attention.

She is exactly the same kind of selfish person on Smallville as she is in the comics and why the producers ever thought she deserved to be the love interest that Clark obsesses over to the exclusion of all else is incomprehensible because there is nothing nice about her (locking Chloe in the wine cellar to spy on Clark- she should be called out on that and so many other things). It’s simply outrageous that this angsty nonsense has been made the focal point of a show which claimed we would see the hero growing up and learning to act like the hero he should be but this puts Clark right back where he was in season one without the excuse of youth. The writers should be ashamed of themselves.

It’s too bad that the actors who try so hard have to be handed crap like this for scripts. Tom Welling is the best Clark ever and I feel truly sorry for him and everybody else who has to deal with crap like this. Promise was not romantic or sweet or anything other than a horror show. As for the style of differing viewpoints, even that was poorly done and confusing. It was the worst episode ever in this series and should be hidden away in that crypt for good.