yes im not overly impressed with the fact that they recast her, but like you I think she has a part to play in Sam's story arc & characters development.
"The CW Is Going Girly, And I Don't Like It..."
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Linda Hamilton is several orders of magnitude a better actress than Ms. Kreuk and even then, Sarah Connor still runs away from them until she has the advantage like a smart, trained person would.
Lana would just beat the Terminator up. She's presented as more of a superhero than Clark is. They have repeatedly found excuses to give her powers too. Thankfully that backfired on her and now she can't go anywhere near Clark because she might kill him! (She's permanently contaminated with Kryptonite radiation now)
Again, really, guys don't have trouble with tough female characters. We liked Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley and the like just fine. Why ? Because they were scared when the walking metal killing machines or the huge aliens were after them like normal, real people would be. It's infallible, shoved down our throats, perfect people we don't like.
I admit, it kind of freaked me out for about half a second too. I think it was just because I didn't realise they had gone that far at that point.
She definitely has a part to play. Sam would be too distrustful of a male demon posing as a physically demonstrative, caring friend. A slightly dangerous female demon who saved his life--that's something else. And it ties in to character growth. Sam one night standing the doctor and choosing not to say goodbye shows how much the character has changed in three years, how he's gotten colder and less personal. He has sex with Ruby, then a doctor. When did Sam ever go from woman to woman? The only two women he'd ever slept with before then both died by acts of murder. That's gotta mess a guy up. At least Dean's one night stands don't end up dead...and Dean's never had to shoot one of them like Sam did, poor guy. Some of the more delicate audience members were offended that Sam ended up shooting Madison in the head but I liked it. Yeah, we can actually keep someone locked up in a cage every full moon for the rest of our lives? Dean was right. Just because she was a "nice" werewolf didn't mean that something bad wouldn't happen and she'd already killed.
More importantly, can you imagine Clark bland boy Kent ever lowering himself to look at a woman other than Lana if he weren't under a Kryptonian spell?
Clark who, of course, found the miracle 11th hour solution so he wouldn't have to kill Chloe....because he "believed enough," of course. If you're a good enough person, you'll never have to make a horrible choice. 
Sarah and Ripley aren't Mary Sue caricatures. They're tough in a believable way. There's definitely a difference. Didn't you love it when Starbuck could beat up men? Could box with men who outweighed her and had better reach? Apollo would have knocked her unconscious in half a second with those meat hooks of his. Mary Suedom in the extreme.
More importantly, can you imagine Clark bland boy Kent ever lowering himself to look at a woman other than Lana if he weren't under a Kryptonian spell?
Clark who, of course, found the miracle 11th hour solution so he wouldn't have to kill Chloe....because he "believed enough," of course. If you're a good enough person, you'll never have to make a horrible choice. Sarah and Ripley aren't Mary Sue caricatures. They're tough in a believable way. There's definitely a difference. Didn't you love it when Starbuck could beat up men? Could box with men who outweighed her and had better reach? Apollo would have knocked her unconscious in half a second with those meat hooks of his. Mary Suedom in the extreme.
I wish Smallville's writers would realise that. On the other hand, they also have Chloe who guys absolutely love. One day they will just admit that Jimmy is gay and that will finally explain the scene where Chloe was waiting in bed for him when he got home and he just carried on waffling on about some story he'd discovered.
It's true. We all want Chloe to be our girlfriend.
the problem with Clark & Lana, is they were not meant to be, when the show was on theWB, the shows around it often had stories about teen couples, who fans could "ship" and believe they could be together for ever.
Smallville could never pull that off, as everyone knows that Clark will one day leave Lana & Smallville for Lois & Metropolis, but whilst the show was set in Smallville & Lois was not around it was not a massive problem, now that its pretty much set in Metropolis & Lois is around, Lana has no point.
Like so many other things Clark should have been doing two years back (being a hero) he should have been doing Lois (sorry about that) but with the show being run like it is, that didnt happen, and the show will never completely let Lana go.
Smallville could never pull that off, as everyone knows that Clark will one day leave Lana & Smallville for Lois & Metropolis, but whilst the show was set in Smallville & Lois was not around it was not a massive problem, now that its pretty much set in Metropolis & Lois is around, Lana has no point.
Like so many other things Clark should have been doing two years back (being a hero) he should have been doing Lois (sorry about that) but with the show being run like it is, that didnt happen, and the show will never completely let Lana go.
Chloe's very cute in a non obnoxious, non Mary Sue way. Obviously she can't be the sexual interest of a main male character. The CW doesn't work that way. How is it that Smallville has lasted for eight seasons now? It's really a bad teen show. It even made Jensen Ackles seem bland, which is pretty impossible to do, but Smallville's writers managed. It must have been the longing for Lana factor. Jason whatshisname can't hold a candle to Dean Winchester. Nothing like a man who'll hold a vampires head under an electric saw. 
I've never actually seen Lois on Smallville. I don't watch it that much. I just watched the Chloe/Brainiac whoever the hell it was thing because I was waiting for Supernatural and I'd finished my book. Lana has a special destiny fighting villains all her own.
I've never actually seen Lois on Smallville. I don't watch it that much. I just watched the Chloe/Brainiac whoever the hell it was thing because I was waiting for Supernatural and I'd finished my book.
Lana has a special destiny fighting villains all her own.again I agree, Lois & Clark do work really well together (who would have thought)
It's the "we haven't got anything else to show" plan.
Sometimes the show can be really good, however. It feels like the last season of Enterprise somewhat when Manny Coto and the Reeves-Stevenseseseseseseseses were adding fanboy/girl references in to every episode. There have been loads of relatively minor DC characters making appearances lately. That was offset, unfortunately, by their desire to give some closure to Lana's fan(s?) by having her come back for five dreadful episodes.
Of course, the best time for Lana to come back was right in the middle of Jimmy and Chloe's wedding, thus stealing all of Chloe's attention. The average male Smallville fan would probably walk if they don't renew Allison Mack's contract.
I've never actually seen Lois on Smallville. I don't watch it that much. I just watched the Chloe/Brainiac whoever the hell it was thing because I was waiting for Supernatural and I'd finished my book.
That episode gave Chloe another special new look. There was something rather sexy about it, actually - the whole messed up jilted bride look.
