I think the tornado scene was the dumbest of the dumb.
Who would stand there and watch your father die, knowing you could save them?
Superpowers remaing a secret or not.
No way that ( most ) people with a heart would have did that.
That is just not in clark's character either.
I would have written that scene differently.
Everything leading up to it would have been the same.
The Clark and Jonathan arguing scene while in the car, etc.
Clarks senses, ie, superhearing, sight, etc haven't fully developed just yet. They are at about 50%
The tornado arrives. Jonathan stops the car and jumps out.
He tells Clark to go get those people and I'll get these.
They are both off saving people separately.
over half a mile now separates them.
The tornado closes in. The sound is deafening. We see people running for their lives.
Jonathan gets distracted by the sound of a dog, he attempts to save it.
The tornado closes in on him.
Clark is concentrating on the people he is saving and he doesn't know the tornado is closing in on Jonathan's location
( it's the same scene as in Mos, Jonathan saved the dog, he broke his foot. )
Jonathan calls out......clark.
Clark is busy saving people and doesn't hear him. He points at the bridge and tells them to run there.
It feels good saving people he thinks.
He returns a smile to a grateful little girl he just saved.
Clark I love you son..............
Clark pauses......he hears something in the air.
He tilts his head slightly and focuses.
It almost seems like.........a whisper.
At first he thinks it's just the howling of the wind and debris, but he feels something more is there.
He closes his eyes and focuses harder, and finally pulls it out.
He hears his dad through the chaos.
"clark" the voice says.
Clark looks in the direction the sound is coming from.
He squints his eyes and concentrates.
He sees Jonathan through the debris.
The tornado has him.
Clarks eyes grow wide in terror.
Jonathan knows clark sees him and he smiles at him.
He mouths the words goodbye, and take care of your mom......just as he goes airborn into the twister and disappears.
Clark takes off running at superspeed. ( he can't fly yet )
Everything around him slows down ( similar to flash speed ) and he enters the tornado.
Flying debris is all around and tries to hit Clark, but he is moving much faster than it, and avoids most of the debris.
Cars, trees, pieces of homes, etc, rush at him, but he brushes them aside like tissue paper, he even uses some like steps to try and reach Jonathan.
He looks up. Jonathan is high above him.
Clark jumps onto a flying car, he uses it to springboard to a nearby flying rooftop, then on to a huge sign, to get higher.
Nothing else matters now but his father.
He focuses his hearing on Jonathan's heartbeat..... it's slowing.
Clark increases his speed even more.
He is now moving faster than he ever has.
He gets Close............. closer still to Jonathan.
It's a race against death itself.
Clark yells over the sound of the wind in a booming voice that he never knew he possessed.
DAD! TAKE MY HAND!!! REACH!!
Clark reaches out to Jonathan ( oh so Close )
Jonathan's dirt and blood covered hand reaches ( in slo mo ) out from the debris for clark, but it instantly disappears in a cloud of death.
Clark listens for Jonathan's heartbeat.
He hears it for a second, But then it ceases...
Clark slows his superspeed and stops.
Jonathan is gone.
The tornado travels off into the distance and disappears.
Clark lowers his head.
He bends forward, with his hands on his knees, and silently weeps.
He finally makes the long walk back towards Martha. His clothes are in a tattered and dirty mess.
As he walks, a small break in the clouds above him reveal the sun. It shines down on him.
Martha sees Clark coming, but he's alone.
He walks up to her.
The look on his face says it all.
she collapses in heartache and screams.
Several women standing nearby that Jonathan had saved, comfort her.
Next scene is of Clark on the farm a few weeks later, honing his senses.
Martha is by his side, offering encouragment.
