kind of tired of people being able to hide and sneak up on Clark

[Superfreak]

He has two powers, which effectively make it nearly impossible, for him to be suprised by people on the show. I won't mention them... but I just feel that it's a bit of an important part of Clark's very slow journey towards near omnipotence. Does anyone find it strange, that normal everyday people are able to sneak up on clark... or even hide from him?

 

[Son of Sun]

I would brush this with the fact that his powers require concentration. But, of course, it's pretty dorky that when there's not anything to distract him, someone's able to sneak up on him.

Makes you feel like the makers aren't even trying.

 

[Superfreak]

I would brush this with the fact that his powers require concentration. But, of course, it's pretty dorky that when there's not anything to distract him, someone's able to sneak up on him.

Makes you feel like the makers aren't even trying.

some powers I would agree on, others I would not. Hearing I feel, is not something that he can turn on and off... just like us. It's one thing in SR that they got right: that is that some of his powers don't turn off. He hears everything, all the time.

 

[Son of Sun]

Yuh, that's what I meant.

Supes is pretty overpowering character, I'll give him that. If I was a bad guy I would prolly think twice before setting on plotting his demise - unless I was insane in the brain. Until the galactic mental health care is even remotely what it should, Supes'll have folks to pummel.

With SV I guess I like to think that his powers aren't on constantly and still take effort.

 

[Superfreak]

I guess this just comes back to my interpretation of his powers: that they are just parts of his biology, rather than more magical as they are in SV.

Like I don't think his xray vision should ever turn off... but rather he must choose to focus on the visual light spectrum to respect peoples privacy

And that he hears everything... just as a dog hears everything we hear, and more... Superman, just hears a lot more.

like he can't turn them on and off but rather, has learned how to just focus on those things that are acceptable for him to focus on (while he's clark of course). As supes, it's all go full power mojo. IMO


I just wish that people would stop 'suprising' clark on the farm. He should hear their heart beats, or foot steps. And he should see them coming from miles.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

I was always under the impression from the comics that his hearing and vision powers had to be "turned on" in order for him to use them, not that they're on all the time.

 

[Prison Mike]

yeah I think the Smallville universe has already established that he has to focus when zooming in his superhearing and x-ray vision. Otherwise, he's always on normal mode (sees and hears the same as a human).

 

[DvilDog]

It would suck if they were turned on all the time. he could never get anything done if he couldnt control his hearing and vision powers. Have they ever said how powerful his telescopic vision is?

 

[Superfreak]

It would suck if they were turned on all the time. he could never get anything done if he couldnt control his hearing and vision powers. Have they ever said how powerful his telescopic vision is?

sure he could... the same way a dogs life goes on, even though a dog can hear a lot more than we can. He's an advanced super alien. His brain would be able to compute all that extra info.

And we already know he's got a super brain (the ability to move super fast, comes with a prerequisite ability to be able to think atleast as fast as his superspeed allows him to move, no explanation should be needed there).


anyhow, on a tangent about powers: Even if the powers are on off, there has to be some sort of superhearing going on in the first place, otherwise he'd never notice things when his powers were off (ie. hearing whats her face scream in the car last week). I mean did he hear that because the director said things weren't going right, or because he heard a faint cry... and focused his hearing in more (reactionary) to hear it clearly?

And again... no one should ever be able to sneak up on supes. I mean it just don't make sense to me. I mean the barn, or take the farm. There are so many ways for him to sense that people are on his property: which would be a big deal, considering the state of the family only a few years ago. Kents would be a little unhappy about people coming on the farm, given clark's condition. He can see, and hear them coming from a lot farther away, than the driveway infront of the house... or right behind him

 

[Prison Mike]

I think he heard that actress' screaming because he focused his hearing in that direction (due to her not responding to the director). If Clark's powers were on all the time, he wouldn't have that vulnerability that makes him relateable to the viewers. Plus, he would be indestructable because he would know whenever someone was conspiring against him or something. That wouldn't make for some exciting storytelling.

 

[Son of Sun]

I wouldn't read too much into this. SV is SV, and doesn't exactly take itself very seriously. I have a hard time imagining the makers arguing about these kinds of matters backstage.

Personally I like to think that his powers are still developing, and because he hasn't had precise training they're still behind an effort - you can see how Clark concentrates in hearing or x-ray vision, or whatever. Doesn't exactly look like very effortless to me. This is how SV portrays his powers before his said training in the FoS, and I honestly can't see another way around it. I mean, where would the suspense be if Supes would've been the overpowering Supes that we know from day one? Basically I like the idea of his powers manifesting with age and need. I was grinning like crazy when he discovered his heat vision.

Man... I miss those moments when Clark and Jonathan would talk about these things.

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

OT creator... I thought the same thing myself.

 

[AgentPat]

This was already explained in the show. Clark has to focus his superhearing and vision in order to use those powers. Otherwise, he goes about life just like everybody else. He had to teach Kara how to use her superhearing. If superhearing was a power that was "on" all the time, she would have been in pain the moment she exited her spaceship. This was made VERY obvious when she had to focus in order to use superhearing, and then further concentrate in order to hear something specific. If Clark and Kara heard *everything* ALL of the time and couldn't shut it off, they'd go mad.

There also appears to be an instinctual component with Clark, because he sometimes hears people calling for help even when he's not concentrating. This last happened in Bizarro when he heard the call, had to concentrate in order to isolate what it was and where it was coming from, and then realized it was Chloe!

 

[mellyM]

This was already explained in the show. Clark has to focus his superhearing and vision in order to use those powers. Otherwise, he goes about life just like everybody else. He had to teach Kara how to use her superhearing. If superhearing was a power that was "on" all the time, she would have been in pain the moment she exited her spaceship. This was made VERY obvious when she had to focus in order to use superhearing, and then further concentrate in order to hear something specific. If Clark and Kara heard *everything* ALL of the time and couldn't shut it off, they'd go mad.

There also appears to be an instinctual component with Clark, because he sometimes hears people calling for help even when he's not concentrating. This last happened in Bizarro when he heard the call, had to concentrate in order to isolate what it was and where it was coming from, and then realized it was Chloe!

I also wondered that in Bizzarro he seemed to be hearing many sounds at once, like he was so upset he couldn't control anything for a moment, so I wondered if he had to focus to make his hearing normal. Maybe not though