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Finally saw the SV pilot, of course the truck stacking scene was cut so I haven't seen that. I liked seeing Clark almost hual off and hit Whitney becuause-- Clark would have killed Whitney I think. Not on purpose of course, it would have been a horrible, tragic accident, but still he would have killed Whitney, because of he was mad and out of control and he's strong, all in all a bad mix.

Lex is yummy. Everyone knows this, I just feel like repeating it.

Jonathan is just an ass, I mean really.

I think the meteor rocks are starting to weld some power over me because I'm starting to like Lana. Don't look at me funny, I know it's weird. Okay she's all with the Fairy Princess deal in the Pilot, but she sticks up for Clark and in later epsiodes (I forget the titles of the episodes), especially the one with the Blood Drive, she's ready to break up with Whitney to be with Clark. I'm not saying this is a good thing, because it would seem she's trying to go about it a rather careless way, but there's some sort of inner conflict going on in there. I think with a better actress it would show through more. Or maybe I'm just projecting.

One question has been troubling me and this maybe because I haven't seen all the episodes nor have I seen them in the right order, but---how did the Kents explain to Clark about him being stronger and faster than everyone else? Obviously in the Pilot he's fine with running faster than the bus, so that must have been mentioned before. He's surprised he survived gettting hit by Lex's car, so I'm assuming that's a new thing. But Clark is completely floored at finding out he's an alien, he's shocked at finding Chloe's Wall of the Weird--how the hell did Martha and Jonathan explain Clark's extra little gifts to him and how he had to hide them? I know he gets stronger as the show progress and gets X ray vision, etc. But did I some how miss what the Kents told Clark when he was growing up?

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In the pilot we notice Clark surfing the net in the Kent kitchen, reading stories about people who perform amazing feats while charged up by adrenaline. You'll notice if you watch the first scene where he's not a toddler that he's reading a webpage about a kid in Korea who rescued his father who was trapped under a car.

I would imagine that Clark was curious, was seeking *reasonable* explanations, but had spent his entire life to date being told by his parents that he was 'special' and he must hide it. I doubt they encouraged him to ask direct questions, so he goes looking for answers that make sense (adrenaline etc) in other venues.

He might also have wondered if his biological parents were freakishly strong and or fast. However, given that he must know he was adopted as a three year old, not an infant, and presumably knew that he was abandoned, he might be reluctant to think about his biological family. Or he might hypothesize that his biological parents discovered that he was a freak, and abandoned him because they were scared/disgusted.

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Okay, I didn't catch that. Still it's very irresponsible of the Kents *not* to tell Clark anything if he's showing signs of being stronger and faster than everyone else. I realize that they wanted to protect him, but what if there had been witnesses when Lex had hit him? Okay, sure it's a show and of course there weren't witnesses, but there could have been and then what? Clark would have been taken off to some government facility and tested on...or something.

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Well, as my own post made clear, I think it's irresponsible the Kents kept him in the *first* place. Sure, sure, he comes to them all wee and cute, but they know, from the outset, that something isn't right. I'd argue that, upon finding the pod, they even know he's probably not *human*. But they *take him home with them*? Don't tell anyone what they saw and found? It's sheer luck he *wasn't* the first wave of some kind of invasion, or that he didn't turn out to be a monster or something, but in all seriousness, they were irresponsible from the get-go. The fact that they continued to be so is confounding, yes, but hardly surprising.

I have to keep telling myself "it's Smallville and Smallville's logic doesn't always resemble Earth logic--it's Insane Troll Logic!" Or insane Meteor logic.