It's a shame that it took 6 seasons and 11 episodes for the character of Lana Lang to win me over, but I am happy to report that she finally has. While arguing with Clark over Bizarro and the things she's done recently, Clark does what he usually does, and tries to make her the bad guy. But Lana does one better, and throws his constant hypocrisy in his face. Lana says, "every transgression I have made you have answered with a hypocritical judgement." Nail on the head Lana. Nail on the head. She follows that up with "no one can live up to your self-righteous standards." I give this honor away more often than I should, but truer words were never spoken. Do these words get through Clark's thick skull though? Of course they don't. Lana points out how she wakes up every morning knowing that she is going to fail in the eyes of the only person she's ever really loved, and then Clark throws the fact that she fell in love with Lex and Bizarro in her face. Worst of all, this actually seems to hurt Lana, while her words seemed to fall on deaf ears. I mean, is this guy for real? What does he expect? The only reason Lana ever fell for Lex was because Clark didn't trust her. Her and Lex had that in common. And as for Bizarro, not only does he look exactly like Clark, but from what I could see he seemed to be more considerate of Lana's feelings. Bizarro had his issues, but he genuinely seemed to care for Lana. None of that should matter though, because in the end Lana chose Clark over Bizarro. Does that mean anything to Clark though? Apparently not. God, what a jerk! Lana is better off without him. Another thing that bugged me in this episode is how Clark jumped all over Oliver for getting Chloe's help. The exact same thing Clark himself does in every single episode. How many times has Clark almost got Chloe killed? Too many to count? Yeah, that's what I thought. Just because the show is all about Clark Kent shouldn't give him a pass to be a complete jerk. Why is Clark allowed to get away with everything, and yet Lex, Lana, and sometimes even Chloe get painted as the bad guys when a lot of the time, what they've done, isn't any worse than what he's done? Just once I'd like for someone to throw the truth in Clark's face, and it actually get through, but it never does. If anyone could have succeeded I would have thought it would be Lana, but not even her can get through to him. He is so freaking ignorant! As much as I enjoyed the return of Green Arrow, and the introduction of Black Canary, as usual Clark's hypocrisy is too big a hurdle for me to overcome. He tried to make up for it by admitting to Lana some of the bad things he did in Metropolis way back when he was infected with red kryptonite, but it was too little too late. Props to Lana for her earlier points, even though she ultimately backed off in the end. For that brief moment she was the one who really shined in this episode, and made it worth watching. Still only worth 6/7 stars though.
