Lex Luthor is powerful, rich, intelligent, curious as Hell -- and best friends with their Alien son. He's Danger Personified. So, what do they do? Try the best they can to antagonize him. Yeah, that will save Clark from any bad intentions Lex might have toward him.
This is an awesome point. I've never really thought about it that way but yeah. Not to mention, umm, Parenting 101? Telling your teenage son not to do something - e.g. "don't hang around with Lex Luthor" - is tantamount to saying "THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING DO IT RIGHT NOW!" That's just the way teenagers work. The much wiser parental strategy would've been getting close to Lex to be able to keep an eye on him, and whatever he got up to with Clark. Especially since Lex himself was being scrupulous about...er...courting the Kent family. (He totally was scoping Jonathan out to ask for Clark's hand :P)
I like the Kents in theory more than practice - I love close families and they're very caring of Clark. But the way they care is often highly suspect...raising Clark to be so suspicious of everyone that he lies without thought to the consequences, man, that's disturbing, especially since it's pretty much unjustified - there's all these people with wacky powers around town, and none of them have ever been dragged off by the government. Where exactly did they get their paranoia of laboratories? Was Martha an X-phile or what?
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Re: Hey, I don't know you, but...
Date: 2007-05-02 11:05 am (UTC)This is an awesome point. I've never really thought about it that way but yeah. Not to mention, umm, Parenting 101? Telling your teenage son not to do something - e.g. "don't hang around with Lex Luthor" - is tantamount to saying "THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING DO IT RIGHT NOW!" That's just the way teenagers work. The much wiser parental strategy would've been getting close to Lex to be able to keep an eye on him, and whatever he got up to with Clark. Especially since Lex himself was being scrupulous about...er...courting the Kent family. (He totally was scoping Jonathan out to ask for Clark's hand :P)
I like the Kents in theory more than practice - I love close families and they're very caring of Clark. But the way they care is often highly suspect...raising Clark to be so suspicious of everyone that he lies without thought to the consequences, man, that's disturbing, especially since it's pretty much unjustified - there's all these people with wacky powers around town, and none of them have ever been dragged off by the government. Where exactly did they get their paranoia of laboratories? Was Martha an X-phile or what?