When immigrants arrive to their new country, the adults look for media in their language made for their cultural mindset. The kids however? Soak up their adopted country’s pop culture like a sponge. So while I’m befuddled that Davis spoke English while Wee!Clark was mute, picking up on Warrior Angel makes sense to me because those comics were age-appropriate and very popular for the age that he was supposed to be.
I think, the tragedy of Davis is that, here is someone who was given the worst hand and yet, managed to make a hero out of himself. He was given a hand that was as bad as what Lex was given, if not worse and yet, he still genuinely loves and cares for people and truly loved being an emt. But because of forces beyond his control — namely that he was programmed to kill, and above all kill Kal-el — he is a monster. And that’s the tragedy of Davis — that unlike Lex, he had no choice. Oh what might have been if he had had that choice.
To be honest, I don’t think that being found by the Kents would have made a difference for Davis and that the Kents would have ended up dead. That said, the story, as Tess presents it to Clark, leads Clark to believe otherwise. Which leads me to the awe of just how much she really knows about Clark. You have to know how much Clark blames himself, via his arrival, for all the suffering that went on in Smallville otherwise, pulling a stunt like that risks too much.
As for Tess. I think she’s the Judas. There’s a hypothesis that Judas thought, that if the Romans arrested Jesus, Jesus would somehow find a way to overcome them and end up triumphant. Instead, what he got was a man suffering on a cross and the shame of what he did lead him to suicide. Tess thinks Davis is the Judas. But Judas is Rome — really, who is the only canonical character to kill Superman? — and Tess is Judas. Tess so badly wants a hero but, oh. That’s so not the way to go about doing it.
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I think, the tragedy of Davis is that, here is someone who was given the worst hand and yet, managed to make a hero out of himself. He was given a hand that was as bad as what Lex was given, if not worse and yet, he still genuinely loves and cares for people and truly loved being an emt. But because of forces beyond his control — namely that he was programmed to kill, and above all kill Kal-el — he is a monster. And that’s the tragedy of Davis — that unlike Lex, he had no choice. Oh what might have been if he had had that choice.
To be honest, I don’t think that being found by the Kents would have made a difference for Davis and that the Kents would have ended up dead. That said, the story, as Tess presents it to Clark, leads Clark to believe otherwise. Which leads me to the awe of just how much she really knows about Clark. You have to know how much Clark blames himself, via his arrival, for all the suffering that went on in Smallville otherwise, pulling a stunt like that risks too much.
As for Tess. I think she’s the Judas. There’s a hypothesis that Judas thought, that if the Romans arrested Jesus, Jesus would somehow find a way to overcome them and end up triumphant. Instead, what he got was a man suffering on a cross and the shame of what he did lead him to suicide. Tess thinks Davis is the Judas. But Judas is Rome — really, who is the only canonical character to kill Superman? — and Tess is Judas. Tess so badly wants a hero but, oh. That’s so not the way to go about doing it.