For me the issue is character assassination, or pretty close to it. I kept thinking, "Where are Jonathan and Martha?"
Never mind Clark/Superman. The Kents walked from the airport to Clark's apartment in one episode through a city going through the chaos of the nightfall asteroid's threat to life on Earth. It couldn't have been easy but they did it because their son needed them. I don't see how they could sit around the farm ignoring his need after an event as emotionally wrenching as this. And for Jonathan to brush him off on Perry instead of getting on the next plane to Metropolis and taking the matter into his own hands - way out of character. Especially since he knows what his son has experienced and still he hates getting this kind of call from him? True, it does have to be this way for the story to unfold, but that isn't the Kents as portrayed in that universe.
