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Smallville episode 8.14 "Requiem"
Airdate: February 5, 2009
Someone wants Oliver Queen dead. A bomb went off in his office as the Queen Industries head talked of merging with a subsidiary of LuthorCorp. Tess Mercer is getting back at her former boss for destroying her life and Lex is not too happy about it.
Oliver is the sole survivor of the blast. At the hospital, the new super-couple of Metropolis – superLana and Clark – discuss possible suspects and Lex Luthor’s name comes up. But Oliver says Lex should be coming after Lana not him. Something else is going on.
“Requiem” is the farewell episode of Kristin Kreuk in her comeback role as the Lana Lang of Smallville. It would be interesting to see how the writers fit Lana Lang’s final scenes with the bigger Superman mythology. After all, we have not heard a Lana Lang mentioned in the DC comics until Smallville came along. I stand corrected! Lana Lang has been with the Superman mythology since the ’50s, and was featured as the romantic interest of Superboy. Lana Lang was indeed played by Annette O’Toole in Superman III.
“After all, we have not heard a Lana Lang mentioned in the DC comics until Smallville came along.”
Are you kidding? Lana has been a part of the Superman mythology since the earliest days of the Superboy comic. She was Clark’s early love, and in the comics, ended up married to Pete Ross for awhile. So, she is not a creation of the show. She’s been around for 58 years.
Chloe, on the other hand, is a new character.
/agree with Aaron, Lana was also the main love focus of Superman 3 and she was played by Annette O’Toole, also known as Martha Kent in the Smallville world.
But you are correct that she is never shown to have powers of any kind in the comics…
Aaron, I stand corrected! It just slipped my mind that yes, Lana Lang was Superboy’s love interest.