But didn't you say he traded his father's life somehow for Lana's ? Maybe he didn't know it would be his father, but it would have been someone. How moral was that? How different was that?
Well ... it wasn't quite that clear-cut. Jor-El told Clark that if he used the Time-Reversal Crystal to save Lana the universe would still find a way to balance itself out. He didn't come right out and say, "If you save Lana, someone else is going to die." Now a lot of the audience understood that this is what Jor-El was saying -- and earlier in the same season, when Jor-El brought Clark back to life after Clark was shot in Hidden, he did specifically tell Clark that someone else's life force would be traded for his -- but Clark was in no frame of mind to suss that out. Lana had just died in his arms. He was knee-deep in the immediate force of grief. So Clark's emotional mindset + Jor-El's elegant but not completely direct phrasing = Clark glossing over that part where saving Lana meant someone else would die.
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Date: 2007-11-11 07:06 pm (UTC)Well ... it wasn't quite that clear-cut. Jor-El told Clark that if he used the Time-Reversal Crystal to save Lana the universe would still find a way to balance itself out. He didn't come right out and say, "If you save Lana, someone else is going to die." Now a lot of the audience understood that this is what Jor-El was saying -- and earlier in the same season, when Jor-El brought Clark back to life after Clark was shot in Hidden, he did specifically tell Clark that someone else's life force would be traded for his -- but Clark was in no frame of mind to suss that out. Lana had just died in his arms. He was knee-deep in the immediate force of grief. So Clark's emotional mindset + Jor-El's elegant but not completely direct phrasing = Clark glossing over that part where saving Lana meant someone else would die.