If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret was?

[Guy Gardener]

He's a simple farmboy from Kansas, but Lana and Lex in the first few seasons were treating the safety of his secret like National security. So what do you think that they might have thought was this dumb dopes huge secret?

Married to his cousin already at a young age in some freemason ceremony?

Murdered and ate his sister?

He's really Mexican?

Gayer than a handbag full of rainbows?

 

[Anwar]

Re: If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret w

If you mean his powers, they may have assumed he was either a super-kryptonite freak or a random mutation. They probably thought "The Government will chop him up to learn his powers!"

 

[Guy Gardener]

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No buddy, I mean so close to the year dot when they didn't know or suspect or have a twinkling that he would have anything other than normal human simple secrets and problems, when it was such early days that they didn't expect a new meteor infectee every week... Lana and Lex knew nothing about what he was hiding, only that he was hiding something and that it might change how they thought of him...

Every week, they both said stuff like "Tell me your secret, why won;t you tell me your secret, your secret better be really important Clark because it's getting in the way of our friendship, if you can't share your secret with wioth me, then why should i share mine with you... etc, etc, etc.

For all his ducking out on Lana, you might suspect he had mono, and sisn't want to pass it on, or somethign as simply innocuous.

Welling or the TPTB decided to make Clark a god awful liar, and above wwere the consequences.

 

[Anwar]

Re: If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret w

Alternatively, we can say that Lana and Lex were both nosy as hell towards Clark. Lex, this is true. And it's also pretty much true for Smallville Lana as well. You're making it sound like they pestered the poor guy 24/7.

 

[Nick Ryder]

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^ Close enough!

I mean, he should have said "Okay look Lana, if it will shut you up... my secret is, I've looked at you naked about a million times through my telescope and everytime I see you I picture you in the buff dancing to <insert name of pop group here> alright! That's my secret! Happy?!"

"I don't buy it Clark... you're still hiding something..."

"BURN BITCH!" heat vision zaps her once and for all.

 

[Brent]

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Knowing Lex, he probably suspected Clark was an advanced scout of an alien fleet coming to destroy and enslave humankind.

 

[Newski]

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I'm only three seasons into the show (I know, I'm far behind). So, I'm really trying to understand this too.

Then again, halfway through the first season, I began to realize that Lana had no reason to suspect he was anything but socially awkward, but kept insisting he had this giant secret. And the fact that he did have this giant secret was merely dumb luck on her part.

 

[Nick Ryder]

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Yeah that's what I never could understand either, "Why won't you tell me your secret?" I mean what... she knew Clark loved her, so its not that she was trying to goad him into saying "Fine, I love you Lana." only thing that it COULD Have been, but the writers haven't borne that out, was that she knew he had super powers and kept wanting him to tell her. Like a "Look I know you can bend steel in your barehands and drive nails with your fingers and you can drives holes into the earth with your dick... so just tell me that already, or don't you love me?" Now Lex on the other hand, he knew and fully suspected that Clark had super-powers of some sort, and probably even suspected meteor rocks to be the source of it. Although a part of him I'm sure wondered if there wasn't a natural part of it too since c'mon how many times did he see Clark do some amazing feat or arrive juuust in the nick of time with no other visible means of transportation?

Maybe all will be revealed in the next season when Lana tells Clark "I know your secret... and I wished you would have told me first instead of me telling you... you have a huge stack of Playboys in your loft and you have all the naked women's faces pasted over with mine. Right? Just tell me, I won't think you're a perv."

I REALLY don't know what kind of secret she thought he was hiding waaaay back in Season 1. Sure by what, 4 or 5 when she stabbed him with that pick that he was super-powered or something, but c'mon like he was the first meteor freak she ever encountered?

 

[Guy Gardener]

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She was amazed when she finally tweaked, sorry Newski, but she had been trying to prove that he had meteor abilities for a couple episodes before that but she kept getting proved wrong.

I liked the secret ned kept from Chuck in pushing daisies that he killed her father some 2 decades earlier... And so did Clark, well he brought the meteor storm with him that crushed Lana's parents, more so than he killed Chucks dad too.

Of course these days they've replaces "secret" with "destiny" and they harp on about the good he will do in the world "one day" eventually as soon as he stops waxing laconically around the farm... Which i admit has come to pass, but they were takling about the good he was doing in the world as loudly back when he was still spending all his time tilling ron firlds and spooking milk out of cows at the speed of sound.

 

[gastrof]

Re: If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret w

I'm only three seasons into the show (I know, I'm far behind). So, I'm really trying to understand this too.

Then again, halfway through the first season, I began to realize that Lana had no reason to suspect he was anything but socially awkward, but kept insisting he had this giant secret. And the fact that he did have this giant secret was merely dumb luck on her part.

After a while you'll look back and realize that Clark gave Lana plenty of reason to suspect something was going on. The sudden disappearances, the hesitant answers to questions, etc.

Lex had been wondering since the day of the car accident.

"I could'a sworn I hit you..."

 

[Aragorn]

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It's just typical lazy writing that's par for the show.

Could you imagine anyone around you constantly demanding to know what secrets you have even if they have no bearing on them?

 

[Broccoli]

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With Lex, he was curious since he knew he hit Clark with a car (and Clark survived w/o a scratch). Add that to the fact they then started bumping into Meteor Freaks weekly, Lex probably quickly began to wonder if Clark was a Meteor Freak.

As for Lana...I honestly don't remember her whining about Clark's secret, but she probably was. Why? I dunno.

 

[Admiral_Young]

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Lana was more interested in why he kept lying to her all the time...she must've figured that he had some secret...there probably was some kind of line a few times about this. Lex on other hand was more aggressive, i.e. his ongoing investigation into Clark. I think that Lex probably thought that he was altered or affected by Kryptonite. It's also possible given how intelligent Lex is supposed to be that he already made a connection between Clark and the alien artifacts. He knew there was something their to be exploited for his own means though.

 

[Guy Gardener]

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Quoth broccoli

As for Lana...I honestly don't remember her whining about Clark's secret, but she probably was. Why? I dunno.

Because all women look for reasons not to take their clothes off. They surround themselves with millions of these little reasons every second of the day, but the more she fell for that barrel chested hayseed the fewer these reasons she felt compelled to conjure new reasons or obey the many she was becoming tired of listening to, because she ached to be completely uncovered up around him, but Clark chose to be difficult and clog up her gumball machine with "lies" which quite frankly only an idiot wouldn't consider a deal breaker.

Men of course are the opposite of women in all ways, and it is millions and millions of reasons to desmock our wears that are in orbit of our every faculty which only by the strongest inner compunction and outright fear of public condemnation can we allay our inner pervert to resist what should be, weather permitting, logically comfortable.

Either driving force, amounts to same lack of fulfilment however.

 

[Broccoli]

Re: If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret w

Quoth broccoli

As for Lana...I honestly don't remember her whining about Clark's secret, but she probably was. Why? I dunno.

Because all women look for reasons not to take their clothes off. They surround themselves with millions of these little reasons every second of the day, but the more she fell for that barrel chested hayseed the fewer these reasons she felt compelled to conjure new reasons or obey the many she was becoming tired of listening to, because she ached to be completely uncovered up around him, but Clark chose to be difficult and clog up her gumball machine with "lies" which quite frankly only an idiot wouldn't consider a deal breaker.

Men of course are the opposite of women in all ways, and it is millions and millions of reasons to desmock our wears that are in orbit of our every faculty which only by the strongest inner compunction and outright fear of public condemnation can we allay our inner pervert to resist what should be, weather permitting, logically comfortable.

Either driving force, amounts to same lack of fulfilment however.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Re: If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret w

Quoth broccoli

As for Lana...I honestly don't remember her whining about Clark's secret, but she probably was. Why? I dunno.

Because all women look for reasons not to take their clothes off. They surround themselves with millions of these little reasons every second of the day, but the more she fell for that barrel chested hayseed the fewer these reasons she felt compelled to conjure new reasons or obey the many she was becoming tired of listening to, because she ached to be completely uncovered up around him, but Clark chose to be difficult and clog up her gumball machine with "lies" which quite frankly only an idiot wouldn't consider a deal breaker.

Men of course are the opposite of women in all ways, and it is millions and millions of reasons to desmock our wears that are in orbit of our every faculty which only by the strongest inner compunction and outright fear of public condemnation can we allay our inner pervert to resist what should be, weather permitting, logically comfortable.

Either driving force, amounts to same lack of fulfilment however.

I feel exactly the same. I'm sure there was a good idea in the beginning but it wasn';'t s cogent by the final curtain. A complete clusterfuck.

Wait? I think I got it...

Women have to desperately find reasons to keep their clothes on in resistance against their natural compulsions and men have to desperately find reasons to keep their clothes off in resistance against their natural compulsions.

It's all about being pissed off by a state of equilibrium, because Lana must have be so extremely pissed that Clark made it so difficult for her give it up to him.

 

[Hermiod]

Re: If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret w

He's a simple farmboy from Kansas, but Lana and Lex in the first few seasons were treating the safety of his secret like National security. So what do you think that they might have thought was this dumb dopes huge secret?

Married to his cousin already at a young age in some freemason ceremony?

Murdered and ate his sister?

He's really Mexican?

Gayer than a handbag full of rainbows?

They quite clearly thought he was gay. I'm still not entirely convinced that's wrong either. At one point or another his beautiful (if extremely annoying) first love, his gorgeous and cute best friend, his love/hate relationship colleague and his hot (if man hating and evil) boss have all wanted him and he keeps saying no.

Then there were the Sorority girls Met U set him up with. Turned them down. Oh, and Alicia.

 

[Guy Gardener]

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And that's why Lana wasn't pregnant halfway through season 2 and why Flash Gordon thought he could ask Clark to keep his fluff sectioned off in dating stasis while he's out of the picture in the army.

Complete madness.

I started thjis thread honestly thinking they thought he was gay. Glad to see people could see through the joke.

 

[Hermiod]

Re: If not alien superpowers, what did they'all think Clark's secret w

And that's why Lana wasn't pregnant halfway through season 2 and why Flash Gordon thought he could ask Clark to keep his fluff sectioned off in dating stasis while he's out of the picture in the army.

Complete madness.

I started thjis thread honestly thinking they thought he was gay. Glad to see people could see through the joke.

Unfortunately, the joke is on Smallville's writers more than anyone else.

Pregnancy wouldn't have been a problem - Clark's Kryptonian.

 

[Apophis]

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In regards to Lex, remember that Lionel knew something was different about Clark. He arranged the adoption for the Kents, knowing something odd was going on since it was a big secret and that Clarks arrival coincided with the first meteor shower. I'm sure Lex picked some of this up from Lionel.