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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1560059" data-attributes="member: 835">Clark Kent Clark reaches a low point at the end of Season 2. He had been called by Jor El to fulfill his destiny, which, according to Clark's interpretation, is to conquer the world. I forget the exact wording but it was something like "Rule them well, my son." He starts questioning his entire reason for being, and the way his father looks at him after learning this definitely changes. Each episode following this contains at elast one instance of Clark questioning himself. He rejects Jor-El, but when he does so, weird stuff happens. For example, you may have seen the scar on his chest in shape of the Superman symbol, but with a figure 8 ("8" being the Kryptonian symbol of the El family) - that was bruned onto Clark's chest by Jor El after Clark rejected the call to come back to him. Jor El speaks to Clark in his mind, as well. Clark ultimately decides he needs to destroy the ship, because he thinks that's the only way Jor El is communicating with him. The resulting explosion makes a massive crater where the Kent storm cellar used to be (and it's actually noticed by the local media, and commented on by Lex later on - yay continuity <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) Worst for the Kents, however, Ma Kent loses the baby. Both Jonathan and Clark blame Clark for this.  Now, Clark had already been feeling like he, through the meteor shower, had been the cause of everything bad in Smallville. So he decided to leave. Not only did he decide to leave, but he put on a Smallville High Class ring, knowing that these beauties had a gemstone made of red kryptonite set in them. He rode a motorcycle to Metropolis, and became "Kal." He worked as a bouncer, smashed ATMs to get money, and eventually came into the employ of Morgan Edge, the same crime boss who Lionel Luthor had hired way back when to murder his parents. Lana comes and finds him, but, under the influence of red kryptonite, he treats her atrociously and meanly. She's hurt, but still goes back and tells the Kents where he is.  Jonathan knows he can't stop Clark or bring him back against his will, so he goes down to the Kiwatchi caves and makes a deal with Jor-El. In return, Jonathan gets powers equivilent to Clarks. Big fight between Father and son, which ginds to an impasse until Jonathan shatters the red kryptonite ring, and Clark comes out of it. Clark spends the next few episodes mending fences. Jonathan starts exhibiting signs of heart trouble, likely as a result of the deal he made with Jor-El, and Clark blames himself for this as well. After that feeling abates (and his criminal behavior over the summer is utterly forgotten - Boo! Lack of continuity! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> ), there are several freak of the week episodes that don't advance the main story arc or develop the main characters much. Then he meets Perry White (played by Michael McKeon, Annette O'Toole's husband - and quite well, at that), a once great reporter, now reduced to chasing down paranormal stories for an Enquirer-like rag because he once crossed Lionel Luthor. Clark saves Perry while the reporter is drunk, but he remembers quite a bit of it and doggedly investigates the lead for the rest of the episode. He even jumps off a bridge, convinced that Clark will be able to save him, but Clark can't because he was under the effects of Kryptonite at the time - luckily, Perry hada secret bungie cord. As he leaves town, with a new sense of purpose, Perry offers Clark a job if he ever wants to get into journalism. The next big bit of the story occurs when Clark finds a Kryptonian amulet that lets him see into the past, at elast where it's connected to Jor El. This is told in flashback - Jor El was apparently in Smallville in 1961. He had apparently been sent there by his father as some kind of punishment or to lear a lesson about humility. Close to the time he was to return to Krypton, he met and fell in love with Lana's great aunt, who was unfortunately married at the time. The present day mayor (the then sheriff) was the girl's husband's best friend, but was also in love with her. The sheriff kills the girl's husband, and the girl, and blames it on Jor-El. Jor-El flees, and Jonathan's father, Hiram Kent, gives him sanctuary. Jor-El thanks him, and Hiram says he can always tell and honest man, and offers him help if there's ever anything he can do for him in the future. Clark realizes that the Kents probably didn't find him by chance. The thing he doesn't seem to process is that throughout this whole episode, Jor El behaves honorably, doesn't kill anybody, even when the guy threatened him and killed his love.  <CONT. later></blockquote>

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