"You would outlive everyone"

[erikamichelle614]

Is that why Clark was sentenced to the fortress in the ice? I thought it was just a punishment with no real meaning. "Here, just freeze there for a while." haha

I guess it was so Clark would no longer be able to worry about those that he loves and that he would outlive them.

[Twitch]

That is some harsh parenting if that's the case. :lol:

[minerva73]

I think that Jor-El wanted to teach Clark a lesson. Chloe just made an assumption about why he was trapped in the Fortress because Clark already would outlive everyone regardless of whether or not he was frozen in ice (as said by Kara in "Fierce").

[Kevin24]

I don't think it was an assumption. I took it as fact.

[Odysseus]

Another example of the Jor-El A.I. being sadistic. Seriously, if Bizarro hadn't popped up and Jor-El then decided to relent, that would have been seriously cruel of Jor-El.

[LexLuv180]

I thought he would just trap him for a month or so as punishment. I never considered it being until everyone he loved died. If that's the case, WOW, how horrible.

[TheANIMAL (marcus)]

Good clever Jor-El, now you just need to fix Clark's mental health issues.

The poor guy needs some repairing in the head, he's just not right at the moment.

[maryjanewatson]

No one seems to get that it was a super-time out! Clark disobeyed his Daddy, and he got put in super-kryptonian time out.

[TheANIMAL (marcus)]

Clark has serious problems and needs some re-tuning into reality, Jor-El is doing the best he can.

[Servayne]

No one seems to get that it was a super-time out! Clark disobeyed his Daddy, and he got put in super-kryptonian time out.

I think you're right. Clark kept disobeying Jor-El over and over and well, they aren't human, so this was his version of time-out.

[Hopefulsuicide]

i never understood it... if this is their reason i'll accept it, but i wish they had explained it at the time instead of in a filler episode down the line

[niphler]

The Kryptonian way of grounding :rolleyes:

And it's actually not really out of the blue.
A little harsh but it certainly would have taught Clark a lesson :D

[go_clo]

Ya I always thought that Jor-El was just punishing him. I never really put much thought into how long he would keep him there cause I don't really like to put much thought into Smallville cause I'd probably outthink the writers and dissappoint myself. :p

But what Chloe said actually made alot of sense. I took it as fact but it's possible she was just assuming...although there isn't really reason to believe she would, she doesn't usually and if she got it wrong, I'm sure Clark would have corrected her.

It's a mystery to me. :confused:

[TheLeague]

ok so if thats true i guess smallville doesnt go with the "superman is immortal" story that some depictions go with

[migo]

The episode where the boy could see everyone's death showed that Clark is immortal.

[MixTKO]

The writers still have to make the story flow. They can't bog down scenes with the who, what, where, when, why and how's. The writers won't put a scene like Chloe telling CK he was an ice cube to outlive everyone else if that's not what they were trying to portray. Or Chloe saying Bizarro was on the sunny side of Mars. I take those things as facts the writers try to give us while still making the story flow.

[Dor el]

No one seems to get that it was a super-time out! Clark disobeyed his Daddy, and he got put in super-kryptonian time out.

Kids....(shakes head understandingly). Ya gotta love 'em. Especially those strong willed ones who do everything wrong before they decide to do the right thing...in parental eyes of course. Sometimes parents have to take strong measures to get kids' attention. Like another poster said, the stand in Jorel (Jorel AI) is doing the best he can. Daddy Jorel didn't plan for all that human contamination that might mess with the Kryptonian way of doing things. What's a dad to do?.....make your son into a popcicle .

[evilmadman]

i think that line was the writers attempt at some continuity, we knew he was being punished, but they were clearly trying to tell us what jor-el was trying to achieve

[All about Clark]

I think that Jor-El wanted to teach Clark a lesson. Chloe just made an assumption about why he was trapped in the Fortress because Clark already would outlive everyone regardless of whether or not he was frozen in ice (as said by Kara in "Fierce").

I think Clark and Chloe discussed this and that was what they both thought, not that it was necessarily true. Jor-el knew there were dangers and would have to release Clark before 40 - 60 years passed. I think this is more showing that Clark still has a very negative view of Jor-el at this point.