"Tim Bruening" <tsbrueni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:43:33 -0400 Reverend Lovejoy wrote:
>
> Bill Bickel wrote:
>> Exactly why is it cheating for Clark to play football, when it isn't
>> cheating for, say, abnormally super-sized men to play basketball? Clark
>> has
>> Kryptonian genes, Suleiman Ali Nashnush had "8 feet tall" genes. What's
>> the
>> difference?
>>
>> Bill Bickel
>>
>>
>
> Well, FWIW, what we've seen on the show is that Clark has discreet
> "powers" that he has to invoke in order to use, as indicated by the fact
> that normal humans can be imbued with them (Jonathon Kent, the leech
> guy) and Clark can lose them (the leech episoode again).
>
> So it's not just a matter of Clark being super-strong or super-fast. He
> has normal strength and speed, probably being whatever his muscles can
> do normally, sans powers. He also has powers, with which he can amplify
> his strength or speed - but need to be invoked consciously, and are
> separate from whatever his muscles can do.
>
> So, it is *possible* to imagine Clark playing fairly and not cheat.
> There's a discreet point where his natural strength and speed ends and
> he has to use powers to go further, which he can choose not to cross.
>
> That explains how he can make love safely!
>
The powers are not discreet, any more than Carly Patterson has discreet
powers which allows her to complete double back somersaults. Everything
about Clark is super, but one super part of him which people forget about
is
he has super reflexes. He can respond to the feedback in his muscles
precisely and with speed approching that of light. He knows exactly how
much of his power to use to complete a task, just as you probably know how
hard to squeeze an egg to pick it out of the carton without breaking it.
And, he hasn't made love, yet.
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