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And now for my FDK.
More suspense grows. Clark and Lex hit it off at the after lecture discussion. I wasn't expecting that. I was expecting Lana to hang off Lex's every word (as she did with the lecture) and for Clark to be bored. Interesting twist to have it be the opposite.
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Lois admitted going behind Clark's back and making an interview with Luthor?
Frog alert!
I like that they are getting closer and confiding in one another. I'm glad that Clark warned her against Luthor and his tactics but his warning was a bit too vague for it to be useful to Lois. Let's hope she's on her guard.
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Clark stifled a yawn, feeling his eyelids droop. He forced them back open. The drive down Interstate 35 always tired him out.
So, it is possible since Lana died in a car accident that she too got tired behind the wheel while on this drive? Nah! It must have been Luthor's fault! So sad, that apparently Lana dumped Clark after he told her the truth about his origins.
There was one thing that confused me:
Anyway, Clark had been amazed to meet someone who was even remotely like himself - someone who had seen as many things and whose life was as strange, although for completely different reasons. Luthor seemed detached, he was an orphan like Clark, though he lacked the loving family Clark had grown up in. Most importantly, Luthor seemed to strive for something he had not found yet. Clark felt that they yearned for the same thing – a sense of belonging.
First Clark says he's an orphan, and then Lana refers talks about Martha in the present tense:
And don’t you dare tell me that this is some religious thing. I know for certain that Martha isn’t that puritanical.
It threw me through a loop thinking that this Clark is alt-Clark, orphaned at 10, but Lana's statement seemed to say otherwise. I also vaguely recall Clark visiting his folks and having dinner at an earlier part of this story and them telling him to give this woman (Lois) a chance.
So, when Clark is thinking of himself as an orphan was he referring to his Kryptonian heritage? I don't know if I'm splitting hairs here, but I thought Clark never saw himself as orphan (even if he was technically a "foundling" who doesn't know his birth folks), since he always had a family, even if it was an adopted family. Only if his adopted folks died would he consider himself in the term of "orphan" (someone who has lost his family). Clark losing his birth folks he doesn't even remember and Luthor's parents dying when he was 13 (wasn't it?) doesn't seem very similar at all. Clark has always known loving home environment, while (in Clark's eyes) Luthor was wrenched away from it when he was teenager. It seems strange that Clark would consider it something that would bond them as they are completely different scenarios. I don't know. I could see it bonding Alt-Clark and Luthor, but not canon Clark as they were similar ages when they both lost their parents. It just confused me and threw me through a loop on what Clark's backstory was.
I'm curious if Lois is going to be wary of Luthor from Clark's warning or not.
