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Warning : Spoilers forSuperman & Loisseason 2 , episode 11
Superman & Loishas put in a status quo change that also bear witness a big dividing line for Emmanuelle Chriqui ’s Lana Lang fromSmallville ’s version play by Kristin Kreuk . Superman & Loison a brief hiatusbefore steer into the last episodes of season 2 . With the show to come back on May 31,Superman & Loisleft viewers on quite a cliffhanger to pore over until then .
With Clark Kent ( Tyler Hoechlin ) back from the Bizarro world , he comes to the conclusion that he can no longer keep his closed book from Lana Lang - Cushing after bumping into her on the street while in pursuit of the Bizarro Jonathan ( Jordan Elsass ) . In the episode ’s last panorama , Clark remove his meth and floats up into the breeze , revealing himself as Superman before his one - time lady friend in adolescence . It ’s Lana ’s response to this reveal and her earlier encounter with Clark that show she ’s unlike fromSmallville ’s Lana in one key way , namely her tolerance for Clark keeping secrets from her .
Despite how vexed she is and her observation that Clark has always had a side of himself he ’s prevent hidden from her , beforeClark bring out his clandestine identity to Lana , she ’s much better adapt to him having one . OnSmallville , Kristin Kreuk ’s Lana was well aware thatTom Welling ’s young Clark Kentwas enshroud some kind of closed book from her , often begging him to let out it to her and greatly frustrated by his reluctance to do so . Lana finally managed to see Clark using his powers without her cognition inSmallville ’s season 6 episode “ Promise , ” with Clark telling her of his alien origin by the season ’s end . Once Kreuk ’s Lana learned the full truth about Clark , she was far more intellect that the privacy that he ’d conserve for class was justified . However , that was only because she had the complete setting of Clark ’s Kryptonian lineage . Without that knowledge , Lana could not didder the feel that she was being deceived , and had to take it upon herself to learn the the true about him . While Kreuk ’s Lana hated secrets being kept from her , Chriqui ’s is n’t as uncompromising in this regard .
Superman & Loiscreates a dissimilar moral force between Clark and Lana , with Chriqui ’s version more unforced to swallow that Clark will get along clean with her when he ’s quick to . The approach ofSmallvilleandSuperman & Loiswith regard to Lana ’s acceptance or want thereof of Clark ’s secretiveness is n’t an inherently better interpretation of her either direction , but plainly presents two different interlingual rendition of Lana Lang . OnSuperman & Lois , the notion of Chriqui ’s Lana that Clark would reveal his secret when he felt up the time was right ultimately held true . OnSmallville , Kreuk ’s raring Lana Lang , sometimes to the aggravator of viewers , had to know what Clark was hiding from her one way or another .
It ’s deserving remembering , however , thatSuperman & Lois ' version of Lana Lang is a much older , more mature , and fresh version than the Lana Lang ofSmallville , who was just a teenager when the show began . Chriqui ’s Lana is a female parent of a teenage daughter with a troubled marriage and has had enough experience to know that she ca n’t push hoi polloi to divulge thing until they ’re quick . Kreuk ’s Lana is still vernal and figuring both herself and the world out . Even though she ’s pushful about learning Clark ’s secrets , her youth bring in it jolly more graspable .
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Superman & Loisseason 2 returns May 31 on the CW .