Clarks accepts his Kryptonian heritage sooner rather than later.
How will you accomplish this?
With my special KryptoNorwich powers, I would clarify Jor-El's message in Rosetta. Instead of "Rule them with strength," the message would clearly read -- and thus be clearly translated by Clark as -- "Teach them by your example, Kal-El. Be a shining beacon of truth and all that is just and fair. If they are to follow your lead, then your lead should be as far above reproach as you can make it."
What do you think the effect of your change would be?
Clark becomes less self-loathing about/fearful of his alien heritage. I think a big part of Clark's resistance to Jor-El in Exodus is his terror that Jor-El's teachings/trainings/lessons for him were in Dictatorship 101. If Jor-El's message is more clearly about him wanting to show Clark how to be the best possible person he can be, I think Clark would have been more receptive when Jor-El said it was time for Clark to actively train. Jonathan and Martha might not have liked it, indeed, they might have actively resented it, but the important thing is that Clark would not have viewed his alien heritage as something he needed to flee/avoid/ignore.
If Clark is more receptive to being mentored by Jor-El, then he never tries to blow up Shippy Sue. If he doesn't blow up the ship, then Martha never loses the baby. There is, of course, the possibility that if Clark submitted to Jor-El's training sooner, he'd have been more Kal-El-esque during most of S3, but I also think that he would have recovered the elements quickly enough that if he got pulled back to his old life, the extreme alienness would eventually be tempered by the connections made because of his humanized upbringing.
If Clark/Kal-El collected the elements himself sooner rather than later, then Lana never stabs Genevieve Teague with one of them and the second meteor shower and the calling forth of Zod's spaceship doesn't happen. Alternatively, even if events transpire in such a way that we still get Zod's spaceship, Clark/Kal-El is a lot less likely to fall for Brainiac's shenanigans and in turn, Zod himself is never called forth. So. No possession of Lex by Zod, no Black Thursday.
What might some of the unintended consequences be?
I think the Shattered/Asylum arc might have gone down a lot differently, since Clark/Kal-El probably would have had the sense to force Darius into a police station to tell the truth re: the drugging of Lex. At a minimum, he'd probably have the full complement of his powers, so he would have used his super-hearing to get the goods on Lionel and Morgan Edge and probably would have ascertained that Dr. Foster was in on it, too.
Lionel would have gone to prison for killing his parents much sooner, I think, and because Clark/Kal-El had already collected the stones and created the Fortress of Solitude, Lionel wouldn't have been able to pull the body-switch; Lionel would have died in prison. Genevieve Teague might have still gotten him out, but I thought she did that because she knew of Lionel's own interest in the stones. I'm not sure the stone storyline plays out the same way in this scenario if Clark/Kal-El collected them all at the start of S3. Even so, it's the body-switching with Clark that healed Lionel's liver disease, so if the body-switching doesn't happen Lionel eventually dies because of his liver.
I'm not sure that Clark(/Kal-El) and Lana would have hooked up. I think it's more likely they would have stayed broken up and she and Lex might have drawn closer together earlier in S3. Lana probably would not have gone to Paris, since part of the reason she went was to get away from the relationship merry-go-round with Clark. If they've definitively not a couple for all of S3, though, she might not feel the impetus to leave. Jason never comes into the picture meaning, again, the likely possibility that the stone storyline plays out differently.
Basically, I think that if Clark accepts his heritage/Jor-El's mentorship at the end of S2, it has the potential to change a lot about the events of S3 and S4.
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What is your goal?
Clarks accepts his Kryptonian heritage sooner rather than later.
How will you accomplish this?
With my special KryptoNorwich powers, I would clarify Jor-El's message in Rosetta. Instead of "Rule them with strength," the message would clearly read -- and thus be clearly translated by Clark as -- "Teach them by your example, Kal-El. Be a shining beacon of truth and all that is just and fair. If they are to follow your lead, then your lead should be as far above reproach as you can make it."
What do you think the effect of your change would be?
Clark becomes less self-loathing about/fearful of his alien heritage. I think a big part of Clark's resistance to Jor-El in Exodus is his terror that Jor-El's teachings/trainings/lessons for him were in Dictatorship 101. If Jor-El's message is more clearly about him wanting to show Clark how to be the best possible person he can be, I think Clark would have been more receptive when Jor-El said it was time for Clark to actively train. Jonathan and Martha might not have liked it, indeed, they might have actively resented it, but the important thing is that Clark would not have viewed his alien heritage as something he needed to flee/avoid/ignore.
If Clark is more receptive to being mentored by Jor-El, then he never tries to blow up Shippy Sue. If he doesn't blow up the ship, then Martha never loses the baby. There is, of course, the possibility that if Clark submitted to Jor-El's training sooner, he'd have been more Kal-El-esque during most of S3, but I also think that he would have recovered the elements quickly enough that if he got pulled back to his old life, the extreme alienness would eventually be tempered by the connections made because of his humanized upbringing.
If Clark/Kal-El collected the elements himself sooner rather than later, then Lana never stabs Genevieve Teague with one of them and the second meteor shower and the calling forth of Zod's spaceship doesn't happen. Alternatively, even if events transpire in such a way that we still get Zod's spaceship, Clark/Kal-El is a lot less likely to fall for Brainiac's shenanigans and in turn, Zod himself is never called forth. So. No possession of Lex by Zod, no Black Thursday.
What might some of the unintended consequences be?
I think the Shattered/Asylum arc might have gone down a lot differently, since Clark/Kal-El probably would have had the sense to force Darius into a police station to tell the truth re: the drugging of Lex. At a minimum, he'd probably have the full complement of his powers, so he would have used his super-hearing to get the goods on Lionel and Morgan Edge and probably would have ascertained that Dr. Foster was in on it, too.
Lionel would have gone to prison for killing his parents much sooner, I think, and because Clark/Kal-El had already collected the stones and created the Fortress of Solitude, Lionel wouldn't have been able to pull the body-switch; Lionel would have died in prison. Genevieve Teague might have still gotten him out, but I thought she did that because she knew of Lionel's own interest in the stones. I'm not sure the stone storyline plays out the same way in this scenario if Clark/Kal-El collected them all at the start of S3. Even so, it's the body-switching with Clark that healed Lionel's liver disease, so if the body-switching doesn't happen Lionel eventually dies because of his liver.
I'm not sure that Clark(/Kal-El) and Lana would have hooked up. I think it's more likely they would have stayed broken up and she and Lex might have drawn closer together earlier in S3. Lana probably would not have gone to Paris, since part of the reason she went was to get away from the relationship merry-go-round with Clark. If they've definitively not a couple for all of S3, though, she might not feel the impetus to leave. Jason never comes into the picture meaning, again, the likely possibility that the stone storyline plays out differently.
Basically, I think that if Clark accepts his heritage/Jor-El's mentorship at the end of S2, it has the potential to change a lot about the events of S3 and S4.