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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 1998987" data-attributes="member: 1405">First off:  I loved this episode.  I will miss the Alicia character, but I think that her death had to happen.  She would have revealed his secret and already broke a promise to him by showing Chloe.In fact, she takes a bullet a few weeks before, just to keep his secret and then breaks a life promise?!  The other thing I loved about this episode was Martha Kent.  It has become patently clear that she does NOT trust her son any longer.  She took no excuses from Clark about the marriage, even though he was dosed with red kryptonite and constantly derided his choice to care about Alicia.At the end of the episode, notice how she does not tell Clark that she was sorry, or wrong.  She looks as if she feels guilty, but offers no comfort to her only son.  In my opinion, she has slowly started to buy into Jorel's concept of Clark as the conquerer.  She is afraid of Clark and what he may do when someone influences him negatively.  After all, he already killed the only child she ever could have born.  This episode shows a patent lack of trust on her part for her son.Notice that Johnathan Kent believes in the inherent goodness of his child.  He may diagree with Clark on some issues, but seems more content to let him make decisions and readily apologizes to his son when he is proven wrong.Martha even attempted to pair Clark with Lana one evening.  Even though Lana has proven to be a jerk to her son, especially since Jason showed up.  Lana has constantly provided a negative influence on Clark.  Neither of them are good for each other and would destroy the other.  This past show proved one thing to Clark.  If the villain had known that Superman existed, he may have chosen not to kill Alicia.  Superman offers the ultimate accountability to people with special powers.  Use them wrong, and there is someone who can deal with you.  Also, it showed him that he needed to trust himself and his feelings.  Listening to the doubts of others will only lead to ruin.  Even the police chief tried to tell him that.  Every time Clark fails to trust himself and take a stand, something bad happens.This epiosde was critical for character development on a host of issues.  And I did not even tough on Chloe, who also underwent a true epiphany!</blockquote>

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