Yeah...., there was no way that was going to end well.
Everyone in Smallville are "good people" - god fearing, pious, trying to live a good life - but they are not now, nor really will they ever be all (see Smallville circa 2005) that open minded and tolerant. There is no way they can be really. As a collective they follow and accept the mores of the time. The boxes people are put in and the ways in which people can move through society are prescribed and there are not many - if any - people, regardless of there own place in society, out there who are going to buck that trend. I am so sorry for Clark that taking that "red pill" is leaving him so isolated. If you follow through with the rest of Clark's path - not personally but professionally, Clark as reporter - I can see him being an activist reporter, shining a light on the things that are wrong.
Clark still has one more thing to lose - I fear his parents' reaction. Heck, not even Jonathon's as much as Martha's. I so don't want Clark shunned, but I think that that is what is coming. I hope that before he tells them he is able to clear things up with Lex and/or Whitney because he is going to need someone to hold him while he cries (hey maybe killing Lionel will be cathartic). Clark's just going to have to create a new family and wait out society (he, along with maybe Lex (I don't know if Whitney's mutation extend life), is going to live a loooooong time). But for a while he is going to very sad for a while. *hugs*
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2/17/05 12:49 pm (UTC)Everyone in Smallville are "good people" - god fearing, pious, trying to live a good life - but they are not now, nor really will they ever be all (see Smallville circa 2005) that open minded and tolerant. There is no way they can be really. As a collective they follow and accept the mores of the time. The boxes people are put in and the ways in which people can move through society are prescribed and there are not many - if any - people, regardless of there own place in society, out there who are going to buck that trend. I am so sorry for Clark that taking that "red pill" is leaving him so isolated. If you follow through with the rest of Clark's path - not personally but professionally, Clark as reporter - I can see him being an activist reporter, shining a light on the things that are wrong.
Clark still has one more thing to lose - I fear his parents' reaction. Heck, not even Jonathon's as much as Martha's. I so don't want Clark shunned, but I think that that is what is coming. I hope that before he tells them he is able to clear things up with Lex and/or Whitney because he is going to need someone to hold him while he cries (hey maybe killing Lionel will be cathartic). Clark's just going to have to create a new family and wait out society (he, along with maybe Lex (I don't know if Whitney's mutation extend life), is going to live a loooooong time). But for a while he is going to very sad for a while. *hugs*
Good section, very realistic.