Clark and Kryptonite

[bl24ndon]

Okay so Clark is able to walk around tunnels with kryptonite everywhere, and he even gets a rock stabbed into his arm and he can still walk fine and talk etc. Yet last week he gets one only one kryptonite rock placed nicely into his pocket and he passes out like no tomorrow. He didnt even have the strength to take it out of his pocket and throw it. But this week with even more kryptonite he can get stabbed and still walk fine.

[Thesis]

i was thinking the same thing...there's mad inconsistencies with his strength when it comes to kryptonite

[Spiderman39]

Yup, she definitely should be down and out.

[Spyderwalk]

Well. . I'm sure there are different grades of kryptonite. . maybe Chloe's one was really concentrated? Hold on . .I'm reaching here :-p

[superhippie2000]

thats because ummm clark gets less hurt when the kryptonite is in explosions :confused:

[aqgalaxy]

Originally posted by Spyderwalk
Well. . I'm sure there are different grades of kryptonite. . maybe Chloe's one was really concentrated? Hold on . .I'm reaching here :-p

That probably makes the most sense...

The Kents only save the real good kryptonite not the generic sh!t

[98chase]

Hmm, maybe the further from the rock Clark gets, the less it effects in? Maybe? If you notice, where Clark was walking you could see no Kryptonite. However, where Clark got up after the explosion, where the rock got stuck into his arm, there was Kryptonite. Is it possible that the rock stabbed him when he was near Kryptonite and when he walked away, it was still in his arm? Remember him stumbling when he initially got up after the explosion? He was near kryptonite.

[Mrdby]

his immune system sucks..lmao

[Clois is Canon]

I was under the impression that the kryptonite dust (like when Chloe noticed it on the bomb squad's jackets) may have been inhaled during or after the explosion. In which case, Clark might not be falling over with weakness from the kryptonite in the vicinity, but he was still vulnerable to injury.

When he and Lex crawled through the tunnel, he was having some serious issues because of how close he was to the kryptonite. My guess is that it does affect him in different ways, not to mention the fact that adrenaline was probably in overdrive while he was down there.

[Thesis]

i dont care what anyone says. lol....there's mad inconsistencies with kryptonite and Clark's powers...i mean he can maneuver his way through debris and rocks but he cant pick a rock out his pockets and throw it cross the room! i dunno

[xrayvision]

Kryptonite dust in Fever made him very sick (would have killed him had the ship not neutralized it).

[niki]

Thesis, you just smile and nod, and learn to accept it, I'm afraid!
There's definitely flaws to every show ... so inconsistencies are bound to happen, so let's just be happy with making up some theories! Haha.

[SeaNymph]

Originally posted by Thesis
i dont care what anyone says. lol....there's mad inconsistencies with kryptonite and Clark's powers...i mean he can maneuver his way through debris and rocks but he cant pick a rock out his pockets and throw it cross the room! i dunno
That bothers me, too. In "Phoenix," way back in the Season 3, didn't Clark throw the kryptonite across the moving truck?

[xrayvision]

Yeah he did. I always yell at the TV when he doesn't do the same in episodes since then.

[jack1487]

Well as he grows older the effect's of the kryptonite are not as great as they were when he was younger.


Jack

[caseybrn]

There are mad inconsistencies of Clark's relationship with kryptonite in all forms of media, television, movies, comics, etc...for like 50 years....But hey, thats fiction

[ClarksGal]

yeah, very inconsistent. oh, well.

[SMG Pro]

Originally posted by Spyderwalk
Well. . I'm sure there are different grades of kryptonite. . maybe Chloe's one was really concentrated? Hold on . .I'm reaching here :-p

best theory ever. only thing that really makes sense to explain the inconsistencies.

[ClarkRules!]

I read a long time ago on one of the forums from someone who knows the comics that kryptonite pieces have different amounts of radiation.

which is why clark can be felled by a small piece, like in Vengeance
and yet manuever with more around, like the kryptonite in the tunnel. because it basically turns him human, but then too much can have a more adverse affect.

i never read the comics, but that's what was said, which makes sense, except......

Smallville has never addressed this issue and they should have because otherwise it just looks like bad kryptonite continuity.

also, humans can be affected by kryptonite radation if over exposed which is why Lex's hand gets messed up from the kryptonite ring he wears to keep superman away which is why he ends up with the black glove.

i guess the writers expect us to do internet research about the superman story in the comics! LOL

[last man of krypton]

I've tried, for the love of Pete Ross, I've tried. I've racked my brain since seeing Clark skip along happily in the Kryptonite tunnel to attempt to come up with a plausible explanation, and I cannot come up with one. The rock Chloe used last week was a simple meteor rock - not refined or concentrated like the Kryptonite bars of Season 2 - and in fact looked very much like the ones this week. Many times I can overlook little things (I even ignored the fact that waving a blowtorch at someone who is blind doesn't return their sight, no matter the circumstances), but not this. Smallville writers, producers and directors, you've goofed. Badly.

[Jlvsclrk]

Well, first there's proximity. His reaction last week was to a rock placed directly by his body. This week, the rocks were mainly in the ceiling, some feet away. The degree to which Clark is affected by the green K is probably an inverse square relationship between the distance between him and the rock.

The second level is the degree to which the rock in question has been "charged" if you will. 'Cause I think we're dealing with a stimulated emission feedback loop between Clark and the rock, so the more energy there is stored in the rock to start with, the more intense the feedback loop. And the kryptonite in this episode has been underground so hasn't been exposed to solar radiation so is probably at its least dangerous exposure levels.

You might also handwave and say there's some lead involved in all the rock and dust coming down, so Clark may be getting some protective benefit from that.

See, I can rationalize just about anything!

[Who]

Well there was a lot of rubble everywhere. Maybe some of it contained lead.
As some have already stated. The Kryptonite effects on Clark seem to depend on Kryptonite quality, proximity, and Clark's age.
Also, when someone sneaks up on him with it he seems to do worse, then when he knows it is around and can brace himself for it.

[smallvillefreak24]

Definatley needs to be an explanation there that whole pass out not pass out thing.... maybe the whole sun thing was a factor.. like how his power comes from the sun.. I don't know...

[defga]

there was a certain proximity to Clark and the rocks in this episode. He was distanced from them enough to become of normal strength, but not enough to make him crumble. The rock was also not necessarily filled with kryptonite. It could have been random shrapnel that was able to pierce him because of his weakened condition.

[SupeK]

It was the sexiness that Lex was emanating that held the full effect of the Kryptonite at bay.

Or Smallville just writes whatever works for this week's episode. We dumb viewers. We forget in one week.

[BWOracle]

Kryptonite's affect on Clark/Superman is whatever the writers want it to be.

In Superman Returns, when he lands on the kryptonite island that Lex is creating, he's so weak that Lex and the henchmen beat the crap out of him. 10 minutes later, he's lifting the entire island into space.

In the Sacred episode of Smallville, in the Chinese temple Clark is exposed to 2 small stones of kryptonite in the eyes of the mask and completely collapses. In Nemesis, he has a piece of kryptonite imbedded in his arm and surrounded by kryptonite rocks and dust but he can still walk around.

Whatever a episode/movie needs determines how harmful it is.

[DARKRAGE]

I love how Kryprtonite effects Clark in the show so inconsistant but I just enjoy the ride, I remember season 1 when Kryptonite gave Clark a Vien effect but no more, I love it:lol: