why did clark kent get screwed?

for the last six years, i've been known to watch smallville semi-regularly. if you're not familiar, it's this drama tv show on the wb about Clark Kent during his high school years. i really got out of watching it & have probably only watched a few episodes between its numerous seasons.

most honestly, lana lang is the reason i watch -- we have the same birthday, along with tiger woods. it's hot. lana is hot, not tiger -- anyway, there was a rerun just yesterday & i caught part of it. lana is a mystery b/c you don't ever know why she's in the series & not lois lane, but you like it b/c she's way hotter than lois ever possibly could dream to be and she delivers her lines much better than some nerdy girl named lois.

like any "good" soap opera, apparently you don't miss much when you don't watch. i jumped into a part of the story and knew exactly what was going on. clark's dad had just won the a public office of some sort over lex luthor. lex was really frustrated with the entire kent family. clark proposes to lana. lana gets killed in a car accident on the very same day by lex.

what gives? so this is how you write my birthday-sharing mistress out of the show?! such script-writing deserves a big wtf!! clark deserves her. clark shouldn't have to go through this crap. clark & lana were it. why do bad things happen to good guys like clark? why does he have to wait? why must he suffer? why should her family suffer?