Was Lara really his mother?

[sithius]

Thoughts? ;)

Personally, I don't think she was. If you had Lara from Krypton and this replicated Lara they would be 2 different people, to me anyway. There is a certain 'spark' about someone that a clone does not have.

I also think Clark was a moron for not accepting or thinking about this. Chloe did hint at it though.

[last man of krypton]

Exact quote:

Clark: "I don't want to lose you."
Lara: "You've already lost me. Your real mother died with Jor-El."

[svtwamedfan05]

Originally posted by last man of krypton
Exact quote:

Clark: "I don't want to lose you."
Lara: "You've already lost me. Your real mother died with Jor-El."

plain and simple

[xrayvision]

She was a replicant, as she called Zor-El. Like a clone, but a more advanced way to duplicate someone.

[83kaL]

Yeah it was really clear in the episode, a clone or some of Zor-El technologie...

[Coyote]

She was a replicant, but it is an interesting question as to whether she was still the same person, since she apparently had all of Lara's thoughts, feelings, and memories. Every person's physical body and brain is entirely replaced more than once over their lifetime, as their cells die and new ones replace them. But we still regard ourselves as the same person, because our minds and memories still continue. Lara's mind and memory continued in a new body, just like ours does, except the new body was grown all at once instead of gradually over time. So it may be possible to still consider her to actually be Lara. Zor-El seemed to think so, and he was familiar with the process used. Could the crystal's process have been similiar to a Star Trek transporter that takes apart someone's atoms, stores them, and puts them back together again? If so, are the Star Trek characters the same person, or is a new "replicant" person created every time they disintegrate their body to beam it somewhere? If it's the latter, they commit suicide every time they step in the transporter. An interesting question.

[reobeem]

Clones are clones, she even admited it that the real Lara died. As for the human body thing that's different because humans are born naturaly while clones are man made.

[dvg89]

she was a replicate from the original Lara's DNA

[freefall]

Originally posted by Coyote
She was a replicant, but it is an interesting question as to whether she was still the same person, since she apparently had all of Lara's thoughts, feelings, and memories. Every person's physical body and brain is entirely replaced more than once over their lifetime, as their cells die and new ones replace them. But we still regard ourselves as the same person, because our minds and memories still continue. Lara's mind and memory continued in a new body, just like ours does, except the new body was grown all at once instead of gradually over time. So it may be possible to still consider her to actually be Lara. Zor-El seemed to think so, and he was familiar with the process used.

You made some very interesting points, and the whole thing reminds me a lot during that time when Superman replicated/cloned Lois in DC One Million, using strands of her DNA. She had a new body obviously, but all her memories and experiences of the past were all intact.

[LoisJoanneKent]

Originally posted by seacrystal
You made some very interesting points, and the whole thing reminds me a lot during that time when Superman replicated/cloned Lois in DC One Million, using strands of her DNA. She had a new body obviously, but all her memories and experiences of the past were all intact.

You bring an interesting point. Ever since the whole blue crystal/clone thing was brought up, it just brought to mind about how Superman cloned Lois after she died to be with her forever.

[Billy Jor-El]

I agree to some extent. The replicant/clone is Lara in every way, but the fact that she acknowledges that Lara died with Jor-El on Krypton makes her different from the "real" Lara.

Real enough for Kal-El? He was worried that if he ever met his mother that she wouldn't live up to his expectations....but she did...and more...very cool.

[red_cape_7]

i was thinking that when clark pluged in the crystal and the beam shot through him to where lara appeared, that it was like the crystal was borrowing clark's body as a base to construct lara's clone according to the dna in the crystal. anyone else think the same?

[HowardFilms]

Yeah, it was very Bizarro of her.

[M0RGAN]

Originally posted by 83kaL
Yeah it was really clear in the episode, a clone or some of Zor-El technologie... She was a replicant, but a nice replicant none the less. :)