Watching that video [of the twins] today and seeing how much the boys have grown up, it just… it made me miss having little ones in the house, especially ones we made.
Also I wanna say, since this came up (repeatedly) in the comments on this post, what my opinion is on a few things regarding the Jon & Clark relationship.
I very much want them to make up, of course. But, for me, I don’t want their history to be glossed over in S3. I feel that Jon really needs to have Clark earn his trust, as well as Clark really needing Jon to earn his. Having their relationship suddenly be okay would, again for me personally, be really upsetting. Maybe frustrating.
Clark wasn’t intending to, but he let Jon down in such ways that Jon obviously doesn’t trust him - not in the way he should. Clark says the Fortress will be for all of them, and Jon immediately doubts this, makes a joke about how Clark’s probably just not considered the ones who can’t fly; like Clark just forgot him before.
Jon, likewise, has obviously shattered Clark’s trust. I don’t think I even need to elaborate on this, right?
They all love each other, but love alone isn’t trust.
(And as Clark had previously established with his Broken Trust speech, it’s something that takes time to rebuild if it’s broken. Their family needs time.)
So, I don’t want things being smoothed out over the between-seasons time-skip. I want to see it happen.
I wrote previously on the sub that I am in the camp of Clark trying to reach out to Jon and Jon being wary and/or distant. I don’t mean this as a punishment for Clark’s character, but as character development for them both. Clark needs to realize the chasm he’s (accidentally) built with Jon, in order to repair it. Jon needs to process his hurt in order to move past it. He always pushes things aside, and then explodes or self-destructs, and it isn’t healthy. They both need to grow, and they both need to slowly come together.
BUT, that said, I don’t want a season-long rebuilding. I want a middle ground. Fluff, angst and hurt+comfort. Maybe have it be one of the first half of the season’s arcs, but concluded by then.
I have also previously stated I wanted Jon to hide his powers from at least Clark, and by extension likely Lois, while he bonds with Nat and Jor over it all. I don’t think this is likely to happen, but I do want it. How in the show? I don’t think it would need more than an episode or two. Three at most, honestly. I think it’s got great story potential, but ultimately - I want to be clear - I want the Lane-Kents happy and healed and united. I just know shoving family issues under the bed and pretending the mess doesn’t exist so you can laugh in the “clean” space is not healthy, so I will, myself, be very unsatisfied with that.
Also, Jordan has always tried with Jon - Jon pushes people away. Granted, I have my own ideas for why that is, but factually, Jordan has tried reaching out since like, 1x02. He does have the character flaw (which he realized after getting yelled at by Lana) of leaning towards self-centered thoughts, but he has tried with Jon. Jon has also, after starting his XK punishments, started to try with Jordan. They aren’t in a perfect place as brothers, however, and frankly they never were (the pilot fighting illustrates this). I have wanted them to also grow and bond together since the first episode, as with Clark & Jon, but they need to actually get there. Skipping past it is, to be blunt, pretty cheap and hollow writing (sorry…). No thanks.
Edit: actually I feel like I should mention Jon did try earlier to reach out to Jordan, before Jordan did the performance with Sarah.
Onto Lois, since I’m apparently rambling about the whole family related to Jon, now. She has made some mistakes, admittedly some OOC, but some not, and I also want her to have a proper rebuilding with Jon. In 2x09 (30 Days, iirc), her actions were out of character but no less harmful; she didn’t intervene at all, and Jon clearly never expected her to. That’s not a good dynamic, not for a loving mother-son relationship. It isn’t the only instance, however. Bizzaro-Lois made it narratively clear that Lois has made mistakes, though. The same can be said of Bizarro in general and Jon-El, however, so really I have little hope of this being handled, anymore than I do with Clark & Jon, which is very, very, very small, and why I still have yet to decide on watching S3 and if so, how (as I talked about under a previous poll, wrt watching S3 at all or not). But I digress, the point is, it’s just as true that Lois has a need to realize her mistakes with Jon and grow, as it is with Clark needing to realize his mistakes with Jon and grow. Jordan of course has done his realizing, for the most part, back in S1 (right before the “if no-one else is gonna help you, I will.” exchange). He has been working on being a better brother for Jon, but Jon still doesn’t know how to rely on others, not truly, and he shuts Jor out whenever his twin starts to get too close (like when Jordan tries to reassure him after the XK fire).
Jordan made the comment “maybe (this family) isn’t all that close to begin with,” and in a way, he was entirely spot-on. They have vast love for one another, but being truly close? They are still lacking this, and that is what I want to watch change, because it has been established and it would be so good to see.
To be clearer: I really just want proper foundations for their fluff, so it feels thoroughly believable and right.
Edit: the paint scene felt right despite this foundation still needing to be built because it was, seemingly, being built; Clark promised to do better, the whole family was set on changing things between them, so this moment of happiness was a continuation of the process already in motion. But things are different now, the rifts are bigger now, so sudden fluff is, in my humble opinion, not going to truly repair anything.
Obviously, we probably won’t get that, and I’m sure I don’t need to explain why to this sub, but I just wanted to say my piece since it came up here.
One of these days, I’m gonna write an analysis on Jon’s character to get his traits/personality and relationships down. Not for anyone else really, but because I kind of need to.
Anyway. This was not directed at anyone, and I am interested in any replies, but I don’t do fighting b/c I am severely traumatized and it messes me up. So.
Apologies for the length and any incomprehensibility.
