Originally posted by VirginiaR: What if Clark didn't save Jonathan's life, because Jonathan told him (after the bus incident) that Clark should let people die, so others wouldn't know of his abilities. So, Clark let Jonathan die, because he was doing what his dad's had told him to do.
That's exactly what I think Jonathan was doing, but in my opinion it was poorly executed. They shouldn't have had him saving a dog, and they should have set up a threat to Jonathan's life where there was absolutely no way that Clark could have saved him without revealing himself. He and Clark were close enough that it was conceivable that Clark could have walked over and helped him to safety without being obviously super.
"It is a remarkable dichotomy. In many ways, Clark is the most human of us all. Then...he shoots fire from the skies, and it is difficult not to think of him as a god. And how fortunate we all are that it does not occur to him." -Batman (in Superman/Batman #3 by Jeph Loeb)
