Clark doing nothing but farm work could only go for 4-5 seasons?
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SilentDues — 10 years ago(March 04, 2016 02:35 PM)
He was going to high school in the first four seasons and a semester of college in the first half of Season 5, a big problem with Clark's character came after the 100th ep when he dropped out of college and his time of basically just running the farm lasted until the Season 8 premier.
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glynis23-282-577521 — 10 years ago(March 04, 2016 02:54 PM)
Did it kinda ruin the character afterward? it seems they didn't know what to do with him until the last hour, they didn't want him to get into journalism until after the show had run it's course.
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SilentDues — 10 years ago(March 06, 2016 11:46 AM)
I think the 150th ep "Apocalypse" put Clark's progress back on the right track leading to the Season 8 premier, but when you got over two years of putting your primary social life into basically just running the farm, I'd say the damage was done. That's not to say Clark didn't make baby-steps, I admire how he took responsibility for finding the released Zoners between "Fallout"-"Bizarro" and undertook Jor-El's first 'direct trial' of Fortress Training (watching over Kara) within "Kara"-"Blue", but I personally felt let down he didn't try some world travels (other than when being forced to) or even try a small job at the Smallville Ledger. There's nothing wrong with working a farmer's life, but the way the writers presented it just didn't show off Clark in the best of lights during that era IMO.
It's too late to change anything now, but maybe it would've served Clark's character better if he had some world travels during the bigger scoped early and mid-season eps in Seasons 6 and 7, a side-job for the Ledger before applying for the Daily frickin Planet (Lois at least had a year in at the Inquisitor when she joined)? Dunno. I do know ilmy least favorite part of Smallville between the 100th and 150th eps was Clark's character evolution, which from my point of view in following that up, Seasons 8-10 went the right path.
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glynis23-282-577521 — 10 years ago(March 06, 2016 12:15 PM)
As said many times I wish they had a better post high school plan for Clark, he could've had a job at the Smallville Ledger, it felt like they tried too hard to postpone his development into mild mannered reporter Clark Kent until the very end.
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SilentDues — 9 years ago(July 08, 2016 03:55 PM)
To me he was in a pretty deep mourning stage in the second half of Season 5, which I can relate to as when my own father passed, there was a nearly four month period I wasn't working or maintaining a social life. I totally understand where Clark was coming from in that point of the show and eventually attempting a civil break-up with Lana didn't make things better, he made a very human decision to drop out of college and though he had the excuse of the farm needing him, Martha and us viewers could see he just didn't wanna deal with the outside social world so soon after losing his Dad. In the second half of Season 5, I don't mind Clark's progress taking that stall, raised like a human he needed to mourn like many of us (I've been there) end up doing as flawed as our choices can be.
I felt Clark was at a good point after defeating Zod for the first time and learning Super-Breath that he was done mourning Jonathan's passing and as over his break-up with Lana as he was gonna get, he was just at a very confused place because he only had his mother to talk to. "I don't know how to bring back Jor-El, Dad's gone, I can't talk to Lex, Lana's I don't know where to go from here." Granted he could've tried getting a job at this point just to do something with his life outside of the farm, at this point I agree just keeping him on the farm got a bit silly. I'll admit Season 6 did some stuff right by letting Clark hunt down Zoners and even experiment with pre dual-identity superhero actions in a few eps ("Hydro", "Justice", "Combat"), the main stuff that would damage his progress is he didn't yet know how to balance a social life (he would learn from this later) and be prone to letting his lingering love for Lana border on obsession.
While silly in Season 6, this just got to the point of being ridiculous within Season 7, literally nothing was keeping Clark from either going out to explore the world a bit more or getting a job at the Ledger, hell maybe even take some online classes! At least Season 6 had him hunting down the Phantoms and actually hero-experimenting in a few eps, Season 7 gave him a 'direct trial' to watch over Kara (which she ran away for a couple eps!) during the short "Kara"-"Blue" span and a single training lesson to fly which he didn't even make an attempt for. His social life was no better than in Season 6, the only reason he could even get into the Daily Planet to use their computers after Chloe was fired was being a friend of Lois and Henry-Jim's, and he had to make excuses to himself about why Lana was worth loving even when she openly preferred a killer clone over him.
Yeah, Seasons 6 and especially 7 pre-"Apocalypse" are pretty hard for me to stay braced with regarding Clark..
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glynis23-282-577521 — 9 years ago(July 08, 2016 04:43 PM)
It didn't help that all the journalism on SV was being taken up by Chloe, also didn't help that everyone's obsession with Lana was taking up Clark's future romance with Lois.
Constantly obsessing over Lana, doing nothing but farm work and reluctant to learn to fly made him come off as weak and pathetic.
Think they feared once he was off the farm and no longer loves Lana the show would end.
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glynis23-282-577521 — 9 years ago(July 12, 2016 05:33 PM)
he had to make excuses to himself about why Lana was worth loving even when she openly preferred a killer clone over him.
Think everything they established from the beginning had become exhausted by season 7.
Made Clark so desperate for normalcy by making excuses to himself by making Lana worth loving, trying to keep him from falling out of love with Lana was getting tiring because it made Clark look weak and pathetic.
In season 7 Clark was becoming de-infatuated with Lana with her being Luthor like, her Dear John DVD could've been the last of Clana if KK hadn't gone to do Street Fighter. -
zeldaxlight — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 01:42 PM)
I just wish they had more time travel , world travels , and justice league type stuff. Sucks we only had about I think 2 or 3 episodes with the justice league? I'm not sure though. But I would have loved to see more team ups I understand though they didn't get the justice league established until late in the series but still.
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