Davis is a very interesting character and Sam is doing an amazing job at making him human.
Clark does show signs of maturity and thinking about others and putting them first. However, I think how he expresses that and the choices he makes are still very much rooted in feelings of guilt about how he feels he has ruined and negatively impacted the lives of the people around him.
One of the hardest adult lessons there is to learn is that you can't control much of life, particularly the choices of people who choose to become a part of your life and to let you into their lives. By choosing to take Chloe's memory of his powers, regardless of how she found out, he's still trying to control this.
And though he is acting out of selfless love for Chloe by putting what he thinks is best for her above his need for someone in his life who knows him fully, alien Clark especially, he is isolating and punishing himself in a way. Again because if not for his secret/powers/alien nature, Chloe wouldn't be in this fix.
I think that Clark relies more on Chloe for the comfort of having someone in your life who knows you, good and bad, and still stays than for her to do his thinking and problem solving. He's not ready to carry the burden of his alien heritage alone.
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Date: 2008-11-15 12:46 am (UTC)Clark does show signs of maturity and thinking about others and putting them first. However, I think how he expresses that and the choices he makes are still very much rooted in feelings of guilt about how he feels he has ruined and negatively impacted the lives of the people around him.
One of the hardest adult lessons there is to learn is that you can't control much of life, particularly the choices of people who choose to become a part of your life and to let you into their lives. By choosing to take Chloe's memory of his powers, regardless of how she found out, he's still trying to control this.
And though he is acting out of selfless love for Chloe by putting what he thinks is best for her above his need for someone in his life who knows him fully, alien Clark especially, he is isolating and punishing himself in a way. Again because if not for his secret/powers/alien nature, Chloe wouldn't be in this fix.
I think that Clark relies more on Chloe for the comfort of having someone in your life who knows you, good and bad, and still stays than for her to do his thinking and problem solving. He's not ready to carry the burden of his alien heritage alone.