"God said to Abraham, go and kill me a son..."
Last season ended with a distraught Clark running off to escape his problems. That Clark at least had the excuse of feeling that he was bringing destruction to every life he touched. It was dumb, it was selfish, it did far more harm than good, but his flight to Metropolis was ultimately a good-hearted (and rock-headed) gesture.
This season ended (or would have, without Jonathan's intervention) with Clark, having learned NOTHING, apparently, from all the hurt he caused before, making the exact same mistake--and this time for the utterly selfish reason that he feels abandoned and betrayed by some of the people around him.
Clark's been fucking up a lot this year, but I was willing, mostly, to call it growing pains, even if I didn't call it very attractive. It seemed to me that the show was increasingly stressing the way his bad choices were causing pain to other people, and I thought the season finale might finally bring that home to him in a way that allowed him to acknowledge his mistakes and grow. That would have shaped the whole season into something meaningful.
Instead, we get Clark making the same stupid, inexcusable blunders as before and essentially getting a pass for them. What the hell else was this season of unsympathetic Clark *for*, if not for him to learn something?
Clark had learned nothing by the end of "Covenant" except some tidbits about Lex's interior decorating style. And I fear, with LaT, that Millar & Gough are going to try to do his character development off-screen.
That doesn't leave me very happy looking forward to next season.
Posted by Sarah T. at May 21, 2004 01:29 AM | TrackBack