Now, maybe it's a backwards way of looking at it because as of Phoenix Clark had been her son for 14 years and he was a stranger to her in the Pilot, but still. He was a toddler; he couldn't possibly be held accountable for the meteor shower. Even if she investigated and found out he came with the meteors, I just can't wrap my mind around the idea of her blaming him for it.

I'm not sure she would have to *consciously blame* the little alien toddler for Jon's death, you know, for Jon's death to affect the way she treated Clark. If a puppy ran across the street and your husband swerved to avoid it and died, you wouldn't blame the puppy, but you might not want to take it home and adopt it, either.

But even assuming she doesn't blame Clark *at all*, and ends up adopting him--that doesn't mean she wouldn't feel that deranged sense of responsibility people often feel when their loved ones die, and that perhaps somehow by wanting a child so much she was responsible for Jon's death, because she only got Clark via the meteor shower.

I can't remember the Martha-Clark scene in Phoenix very well--do they actually talk about the miscarriage, or does Martha just issue blanket forgiveness for everything (Clark running away, what Jonathan had to do to bring Clark back, etc.)?