Originally Posted by
SuperCrab
Lana has disappointingly come very close to almost taking an anti-human rights anti-rehabilitation guilty-until-proven-innocent attitude to possible criminals and former criminals in some of the early issues. I am not saying that she is outright taking those stances, I am just saying that she is by implication closer to them than I would like.
The bright side is that she is new to being a superhero, and experiences she is having and the influence of her peers may lead to a process of evolution in the way she approaches things. For example, she's now seen the Atomic Skull, a felon, at least very temporarily turn over a new leaf and help her power the Metropolis electric grid after Ultrawoman took it down. She hates Lex Luthor and assumes the worst, but perhaps he will pay a key role in resolving this crisis and that will give her pause. Her husband (Or fiance?), Steel, is also much more pro-human rights and pro-rehabilitation pro innocent-until-proven-guilty and such than she is, or at least more balanced, and I assume they talk to each other and will continue to talk and have those type of conversations- Steel did say something once to her about this stuff in one of these issues, if I recall correctly. She's under a lot of stress right now and making certain assumptions based on stuff she hasn't really dealt with directly in the past- when she is less stressed and can calmly evaluate her new experiences, talk them over with people, and integrate them into her worldview; she may do better with this stuff.
I hope that the comic does deal with that in future issues and develop her character. People do sometimes change as the result of the things they experience. I know when I was young, I had a lot of views that changed when I got out into the world, because when I was young I believed things without having much of a basis for knowing if the underlying assumptions behind them were true. Once I got into the world and experienced things for myself and saw things for myself that were contrary to the assumptions I was making to form some of my views, my views changed.
Lana is an adult, of course, and has been for a while, but she's never been a superhero before. She has had some limited experience with current, former, and alleged criminals because she was Superman's friend, worked with Steel informally at times, and had work that occasionally put her into the line of fire; but she's mostly a novice to really being the protagonist in these stories. As she gets more experience working more directly and more frequently with and against people who may been or be villains at times, she may grow to respect them more as human beings and understand that some of them have their good points and a capacity for change.