meimichi

I don't really think there's much room for argument on whether the Action meta's intentional anymore: the writers mentioned in November that they were rewatching Action as research. S9's been crazy blatant in how they kept emphasizing that Clark kept "standing up" Lois, and Tess saying, "Your girlfriend is in way over her head," in Slegends.

So I don't think the question is so much whether they're doing it on purpose, so much as whether they're just doing it to screw with us for the lulz as opposed to it paying off.