his lifelong choice not to attempt to reign in his temper Yes!
even more impulsive and ill-considered than Clark's bargain with Jor-El to save Lana Oh, I'm very glad I scrolled back and found this post of yours! That's an excellent observation, and I agree. Jonathan frequently lost my sympathy through this trait off his. It frustrated me that he never saw how destructive his actions could be. His death was perfectly, if stupidly, in character.
Maybe they're trying to (eventually) make Clark into a golden mean between the extremes of his two parents (especially vis-a-vis Luthors): he needs to avoid Jonathan's extreme judgmentalism and his impulse to solve everything with his fists, AND to avoid Martha's extreme of trusting too soon and making herself too vulnerable because her faith in people swings too much the other way *nods* I can see them going that way--they've already played with the idea that a balance of maternal and paternal influence is ideal.
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Yes!
even more impulsive and ill-considered than Clark's bargain with Jor-El to save Lana
Oh, I'm very glad I scrolled back and found this post of yours! That's an excellent observation, and I agree. Jonathan frequently lost my sympathy through this trait off his. It frustrated me that he never saw how destructive his actions could be. His death was perfectly, if stupidly, in character.
Maybe they're trying to (eventually) make Clark into a golden mean between the extremes of his two parents (especially vis-a-vis Luthors): he needs to avoid Jonathan's extreme judgmentalism and his impulse to solve everything with his fists, AND to avoid Martha's extreme of trusting too soon and making herself too vulnerable because her faith in people swings too much the other way
*nods* I can see them going that way--they've already played with the idea that a balance of maternal and paternal influence is ideal.