Kristin Kreuk on Smallville Finale and Lana

Today, to be a little different, I’ll post the moral of this Smallville update up front. Here it is, folks: Don’t hate.

As CW watchers know, the super series Smallville is in its 10th and final season. Aside from bringing the action like never before, and pushing Clark and Lois into each others’ arms plenty, season ten has also brought back some familiar faces. To ring in the end with some sentimental style, actors like Allison Mack (Chloe), Michael Rosenbaum (Lex), V‘s Laura Vandervoort (Kara), and John Glover (Lionel) have returned to the set.

Well, fans have been understandably bitter with no appearance scheduled for Kristen Kreuk (who happens to be heading to NBC), who portrayed Clark’s first love, Lana Lang. Kreuk commented on the series finale of Smallville, and fans reacted negatively, perhaps taking things a bit out or proportion.

Kruek said, “I probably won’t watch [the Smallville finale when it airs on May 13...] Maybe later on — like, on DVD or something.”

Wuh-oh. Kruek set the record straight according to TV Line, insinuating that just because she isn’t watching her former show every week, it doesn’t mean she has negative feelings toward Smallville. On her Facebook page, she wrote, “There are many people who are just waiting for me to say something that they can hate me for. There is no personal reason why I am not watching Smallville weekly. Honestly, I never really did. I know people want to make it a drama … but there is really no drama.”

So, what are Kruek’s totally not personal reasons for not attempting to reprise her role as Lana this season? “I do not believe there was ever a real offer for me to come back — though I am pretty sure that if I showed interest in returning, [showrunners] Kelly [Souders] and Brian [Peterson] would find a way to fit me in.”

TV Line reminds us of her sentiment shared in early 2010. “The show has changed so much, it would be weird for [Lana] to come back. She was from a different Smallville time.”

She also commented, “I may be in the minority, but I thought Lana’s story ended well,” she says of her seven-year run, which was followed by a brief 2009 encore. “I liked that she gained inner strength and … had the courage to walk away from Clark, that her commitment to a greater good outweighed her very human desire to be with Clark. That she saw that her love for Clark would never diminish, even if they could not be in the same vicinity. …I think her story is done.”