What was Lara II?

[redeem147]

I know people have been calling the Lara in this episode (and it's Lara, not Laura, silly Zor-el) a clone, but does that name really fit? Yes, there was some of her DNA imbedded in the crystal, but what came out was a full grown woman in a white dress with a ring she could give to her 'son'. That's some clone.

She seemed to me more like a hologram with substance (sort of like Rimmer in the last seasons of Red Dwarf), but that still doesn't explain how she could give Clark the ring. (Clark, Clark, when will you learn? Never wear a ring.) It would also explain what Zor-el II was.

Or they could be sort of androids ala Brainiac, crystal-based rather than metal-based.

Or is Kryptonian science so beyond Earth science that we have no name or ability to comprehend what she is.

Or did the writers just think it would be 'cool'.

[MidgardDragon]

I don't think we really have the ability/science to comprehend what she is. It's kind of like she was pulled through time by the crystal, IMO. I vaguely remember her saying in her last memory that the planet was about to go boom, but I could be misremembering again. I don't think she's a clone, but the time travel theory doesn't really work either since she said she wasn't his mother, that his mother was dead. I think she just was like a fragment of Lara, with her memories, personality, and clothes/ring in-tact, but she wasn't the full person. I guess the best we can do is call her a clone and assume he managed to clone every detail, including clothing and ring (a bit scary to think he could produce kryptonite, though).

[Harrison_Bergeron]

My guess is that the crystal housed the information to duplicate her entirely like a Kryptonian CAD file, and the FOS was acting as a suped up prototyper that reconfigured molecules to make her. Similar to the way they do food on Star Trek, but way more advanced.

Problem in the timeline though, Clark introduced himself as Kal-El and she knew instantly that he was her son, Zor-El made the crystal before Kara proposed the name Kal-El.

[MidgardDragon]

She also said that about her last memory of Krypton, though. He must have used a later sample of DNA.

[xrayvision]

She used the term replicant. Like a clone, but seems to retain all memories. If you ask me, she seemed similar to the Lara of Superman II, except she had a corporeal body. By this, I mean, when Clark put the crystal in, she appeared, and when the crystal was shattered, all the replicants (Lara & Zor-El) disappeared as Lara or Jor-El would if Superman broke the crystals in the FOS in the movies.

[MidgardDragon]

Originally posted by xrayvision
She used the term replicant. Like a clone, but seems to retain all memories. If you ask me, she seemed similar to the Lara of Superman II, except she had a corporeal body. By this, I mean, when Clark put the crystal in, she appeared, and when the crystal was shattered, all the replicants (Lara & Zor-El) disappeared as Lara or Jor-El would if Superman broke the crystals in the FOS in the movies.

Hmm, an advanced hologram that can interact with the environment also sounds possible, given the Kryptonians advanced technology.

[Harrison_Bergeron]

I don't think she was any form of hologram, Kryptonite affects them chemically, if they were anything other than the genuine article the Blue K would do nothing to Clark, and the Green K would do nothing to Zor-El. I may have missed it, why doesn't Lara have powers? And why do we only refer to males by their whole names?

Also, just to confirm, the Blue K Ring disappeared with Lara nd Zor-El right? I thought I read that it was supposed to be around for a while. If it's gone that means we still don't have Blue K.

[MidgardDragon]

True that the kryptonite should have no effect if they are holograms, so again, I don't really know. I got the impression that Lara did have powers, since Zor-El did, I just don't think she used them. She probably hadn't been to Earth as much as Zor-El. It seemed to me that he had studied his powers on Earth and knew how to use the. The visit in Lara seemed like a rare occurence for Lara.

As far as referring to females by only their name and males by the full name, I think it might actually be related to the mythos, and how that worked on Krypton. I seem to remember reading about how different people were referred to in different ways, kind of like the difference between Mr./Ms./Mrs. on our world. I duno about the BlueK, but we've gotten confirmation that both it and Bizarro will be back, so I'm sure that either the ring didn't disappear, or, and this is only my own theory based on nothing else other than speculation, perhaps the crystal that we saw shatter into pieces could be the actual BlueK that effects Bizarro.

[muffinpeddler]

I think Lara and Zor-El were living constructs, formed from DNA and kryptonian sunstones. Their minds were an interactive construct as well, not unlike Jor-El.