"Clark's the most normal guys I've ever met"

[Honey45]

Is this going to make Lana..

a. think Clark is normal
b. realize Clark is more special than a meteor freak


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EDIT: Sorry, I think the typo in my first post is confusing some people. Please read and answer again. :)

[ChLoEfAn4eVaLUVSnCkLbK]

you don't have to say sorry :)

i'm gonna hope that it's B, but we'll see..

[bl24ndon]

I'd say a. he thinks hes normal, if he saw something wierd when he looked at Clark I'm sure he would've told the doctor when they left the house on the phone.

[Azurewrath]

No, I'm pretty sure that it was implied that he's not detecting Clark. Clark isn't meteor infected, if he was, he'd die. >_>

[jeffct87]

he can only see infected people. Clark wasn't infected... he traveled with the meteors

[jimmyolsenblues]

b) lana could realize clark's powers does not come from meteors specifically.

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[redraven]

It irritated me a bit when he said that because knowing the writers, it'll set Lana back 45 steps and she'll think he's normal again. :rolleyes:

Although I'm hoping for b. :)

[Man of Steels45x]

i hope it's b as well

[98chase]

I have this icky feeling that it is A, but I'm hoping that it is B. I'll be really disappointed if TPTB lead us on, make us think Lana will find out, and then rip it away.

[SmallvilleMan]

Well, unlike every other time, Lana SAW, with her very own eyes that Clark can't be hurt. She had the chisel for proof, she wont forget.

[Kalel33076]

How can Lana not realize that Clark is an alien.
1) She knows of all their powers
2) She knows Clark contains some of them
3) She knows that a spaceship landed in the first meteor shower

COME ON WOMAN PUT SOME THINGS TOGETHER!

[Zoghade]

I think that either Tobias didn't see anything (it's meteor-freak vision, not special-powers vision), or ability blurred between Chloe and Clark and he really DID pick up Clark...but thought it was Chloe.

[Iowa_Gent]

Originally posted by redraven
It irritated me a bit when he said that because knowing the writers, it'll set Lana back 45 steps and she'll think he's normal again. :rolleyes:

Although I'm hoping for b. :)

I know what you mean it will set her back now but maybe they will change that. Lana does know Clark saves people every day.

[shansgrl]

I think the poor girl doesn't know what to think right now.

Tobias knows Clark isn't infected, because he's not, so I don't think he's trying to throw Lana off.

Poor girl.....

[jimmyolsenblues]

lana could loose her mind over this , i mean everything she does is trying to find clark's powers, and boom solid statement, "Clark is not a meteor freak".

[jeffct87]

she's only seen him get hurt once. With the rope in the 2nd season I think. The only time.

[kismet]

no she's seen him hurt in hidden as well as mortal

[cantankerous]

Yeah.. Clark's got soooo much explaining to do if he ever comes clean to Lana.. it'll take him months..

[jimmyolsenblues]

Clark just found out lana would keep his secret.
Whoops, there was a miscalculation by the BDA.

[DaveyDave]

Clark is not a meteor freak. He gets his power from the yellow sun. All the kryptonites actually harm him. None of the meteor freaks are harmed by the kryptonite.

[Jacen_Solo]

Originally posted by DaveyDave
None of the meteor freaks are harmed by the kryptonite.

One could argue that point considering how many of the freaks end up dead, though so far as we know, none of them were directly hurt by the rocks.

[SVSpector]

We all know normal is not Clark Kent, unless Clark being GROUND ZERO (Kryptonian) was extremely bright yellow due to his ability to absorb sunlight. This could be why he said he was the most normal, he was the brightest he had ever seen....

I can't help but think there is something more to this statement that will come up later.

[ROCKY910]

I was about to say the same thing. Tobias almost overemphasized how "normal" clark was as if he knew clark for years, or perhaps he did used to remember clark from high school. If he did maybe he was just referencing how normal his behavior is.

[Mackdaddy]

I just liked the look on Lanas face when he told her that. Shes was like "Ah crap but I thought he was a freak." Well I guess its back to the drawing board for Lana:confused:

[Mr.Magic]

I think when he says Clark looks normal he really means normal, meaning that Clark looked to him exactly like he did before he lost his eyesight.

[Titan27]

I agreed. When I heard Tobias say "Clark is the most normal guy I've ever seen" I was like...ok I don't believe you at all. I don't know but I felt like the actor overemphasized that to the point he made it seem like he was lying.

[Phantazma]

I guess that means Clark is normal ... for a Kryptonian. ;)

Also, I figure Clark can't be meteor infected like humans since Clark can't get near the stuff without there being some sort of dangerous reaction(s) to his system. So Clark's probably the least infected out of all the residents of Smallville.

Oh and to add:
Tobias' statement was probably meant to be simply ironic.

[InMyPlace]

Clark wasn't infected though...so...

[maryjanewatson]

well, think of it like this. the people that know Clark best (even if they don't know about his secret) know he is far from normal.

tobias probably didn't know clark very well in highschool, so he only knew the "normal clark kent" everyone else saw, and seeing that he wasn't a meteor freak, just made him the "most normal person' he had ever met. clark once said to pete himself "I try to be more normal than anyone else". apparently, he accomplished that very well....to people he doesn't spend a lot of time around, lol.

[teddybairs]

I have to agree with phantazma. Most likely, just about everyone in Smallville has a little kryptonite in their system (it's probably in the air, water, and food supply in minute amounts given the saturation which Smallville has of it), except of course for Clark, who can't have it in his system without going into anaphalactic shock. It would then make sense that he would be the most "normal" person to Tobias because he is completely free of Kryptonite, and then some.

As far as why it wouldn't seem to be affecting Clark if it was really all over the place in Smallville, I would imagine it would have to be present in large enough amounts (visible amounts at least) to cause a reaction in Clark, in the same way that Uranium or Plutonium would have to be present in large enough amounts to cause a reaction in a human being.

[Son of Kal-El20]

Tobias can only sense meteor infected mutants. ET sensing isn't included.

[InLove_with_Chloe]

Originally posted by SVSpector
We all know normal is not Clark Kent, unless Clark being GROUND ZERO (Kryptonian) was extremely bright yellow due to his ability to absorb sunlight. This could be why he said he was the most normal, he was the brightest he had ever seen....

I can't help but think there is something more to this statement that will come up later.
Hmmmmmm, interesting...

[hedi sweet thighs]

Tobias ability was used to detect persons that had been exposed to the metors Clark is normal in the sense that he is actually from the planet he is in no way altered in any state due to the meteor showers.

[InLove_with_Chloe]

Originally posted by hedi sweet thighs
Tobias ability was used to detect persons that had been exposed to the metors Clark is normal in the sense that he is actually from the planet he is in no way altered in any state due to the meteor showers.
True, yet the phrasing "...the most normal guy" is interesting and potentially indicative of future twists, IMO.
He could have simply said "normal".

[Peat Moss]

I think that was just writing. But how are you "the most normal" anyway? Isn't the definition of normal being like everyone else? Thus, everyone else normal would be just as normal as you, or if you were more normal, it would mean you were not normal at all...

[Trent083]

Given that Clark is from the planet in which the meteor rocks were from (or part of, in this case) you would think that there would be some sort of distinct glow about clark, the way Tobias over-emphasized when he said this statement shows this to me (I could be wrong)

[Kryptonian-Ronin]

Maybe he just wanted to make sure Lana understood that Clark was not infected and at the same time, perhaps he saw how different Clark was and wanted to make that statement so the Lana would "drop it".

[meteor_phreak]

i agree with all the people saying that tobias couldn't see clark because he wasn't a meteor freak. i think that line was to emphasize that lana believed him, and that clark is therefore not a meteor freak. also, you have to get that, because of stuff like tobias letting him and chloe into his house and talking to them, tptb want us to think that tobias knows clark at least a decent amount. maybe the line from tobias' standpoint was that of "clark is one of the few people that is genuine and caring" unlike the doctors and lex that all want to take advantage of him.

[SVSpector]

Originally posted by Kryptonian-Ronin
Maybe he just wanted to make sure Lana understood that Clark was not infected and at the same time, perhaps he saw how different Clark was and wanted to make that statement so the Lana would "drop it".


I'm still not sure...the reaction Tobias gave was like he was looking directly at the sun......in an extremely dim room. He didn't respond that way in the bowling alley which was much brighter.

Either his reaction was to Clark and his extreme aura or Tobias's reaction was due to Chloe, who must the be the MOST meteor infected he has ever seen.

[meteor_phreak]

Originally posted by SVSpector
I'm still not sure...the reaction Tobias gave was like he was looking directly at the sun......in an extremely dim room. He didn't respond that way in the bowling alley which was much brighter.

Either his reaction was to Clark and his extreme aura or Tobias's reaction was due to Chloe, who must the be the MOST meteor infected he has ever seen. remember though, in the bowling alley, he took off his own glasses. he was ready for it, and probably opened his eyes slowly or whatever to account for that. at his house, clark knocked his glasses off accidentally, which took him by surprise.

[Ireallylikethisshow]

Originally posted by SVSpector
We all know normal is not Clark Kent, unless Clark being GROUND ZERO (Kryptonian) was extremely bright yellow due to his ability to absorb sunlight. This could be why he said he was the most normal, he was the brightest he had ever seen....

I can't help but think there is something more to this statement that will come up later.

Maybe his powers don't work for Kryptonians.

[Kryptonian-Ronin]

I'll have to re-watch that part tonight, to get a better look.

[margroks]

Maybe after everything that was going on, Tobias didn't trust Lana any more than Clark does and thought he'd throw her off the trail.

[dunkman]

Originally posted by Peat Moss
I think that was just writing. But how are you "the most normal" anyway? Isn't the definition of normal being like everyone else? Thus, everyone else normal would be just as normal as you, or if you were more normal, it would mean you were not normal at all...
Like the old saying, "'Normal' is a setting on a dryer". You know, my dryer doesn't say "normal" anywhere...

[Davlok]

Well assuming freaks are created by the result of mutation of human DNA due to kryptonite radiation, and Tobias is able to see these changes, clark should look "normal" to him since there would be no traces at all in Clark, compared to everyone else in Smallville who probably has a little.

Of course Tobias's version of normal is relative assuming he got his powers during the 2nd meteor shower and not the 1st.

[ClarksGal]

I think her statement regarding "another miraculous saving" or something like that made it seem like she still knows something's up with Clark. Now she knows he's not a meteor freak, but I think that means she knows that he's something else. And now Clark knows that she would protect him, which is cool. I still don't know that he should tell her, because that would put her in the same position that she was in before to have to lie to Lex. She's been doing that anyway, but it's dangerous for her. She's not the best liar. She's getting better at it, but Lex wrote the book. He's going to find out eventually and she's going to be in some serious doo-doo.

[Daspoo]

I think in light of her being aware of the aliens that came down from the ship in Arrival, and her talking in some other episode (can't remember which) about "what if something came down in the first meteor shower", it's going to be "b)". I can't imagine Lana's going to regress into "duh-duh-duuuuuuhhh" again...LOL

I'm pretty sure the writers are moving us closer and closer to Lana knowing Clark's secret, and him knowing that she does. We can't forget about this season's previous episodes when Lana is grilling Chloe about first what Clark's secret is, and next about Chloe not even having to tell her what the secret is, but just admitting that he has one.

[meteor_phreak]

Originally posted by ClarksGal
I think her statement regarding "another miraculous saving" or something like that made it seem like she still knows something's up with Clark. Now she knows he's not a meteor freak, but I think that means she knows that he's something else. And now Clark knows that she would protect him, which is cool. I still don't know that he should tell her, because that would put her in the same position that she was in before to have to lie to Lex. She's been doing that anyway, but it's dangerous for her. She's not the best liar. She's getting better at it, but Lex wrote the book. He's going to find out eventually and she's going to be in some serious doo-doo. i agree with this. it seems like they wrote the lines to point out that 1. she knows he's different and 2. she believed tobias. so the writers want us to know that she's thinking "if he's not normal and not a meteor freak, then what is he?"

[Iluvgreen]

I think Lana is too stupid to put all the clues together so I think she thinks he is normal now.

[ms.c.]

I thought Tobias stmt was very weird. He should have seen something different about Clark, imo.

[Coyote]

Tobias apparently can only see K mutants. Clark isn't a K mutant, so he may have appeared completely normal to Tobias.

Lana of course doesn't believe Clark is normal. She probably thought Tobias was lying.

[smallville38]

Originally posted by Iluvgreen
I think Lana is too stupid to put all the clues together so I think she thinks he is normal now.

I wouldn't be so sure. Lana has too much evidence against Clark being normal (the chisel, the bullet, etc.). She's also been quite convinced that he isn't normal in the past few episodes.

I think her whole comment on how "he would be same old Clark Kent to her" was a very good attempt by her to dig that secret out of him. Lana knows there's a secret and she knows its about how Clark miraculously saves her all the time. She's just going to be wildly confused for an episode or two and then she'll continue piecing things together.