(05-07-2017, 07:22 AM)irukandji Wrote: I was thinking about Superman this morning and thought I would bring up a question for discussion. Jorel (I don' think I am spelling this correctly) sent little Kal-el to earth because he felt Kal-el could fit in. As a result, Kal-el ends up on a farm in the Midwest, found by two very good people who happen to be childless. I can't think of Clark's earth father's name, but I can recall during that movie that he tells Clark that he's been sent here for a purpose.You can find all these answers in the series Smallville. His earth dads name was Jonathan Kent.
To know that his child would fit in on earth, Jorel would have had to have done a lot of study of the planet. Did he also pick the parents who would foster his child?
(05-07-2017, 07:43 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: Jor-El picked Earth for its similarities to Krypton for Kal-El's survival even though he believed the humans were primitive in their technology etc. He was a scientist and I believe he may have done some exploring himself. I'm sure there were other places he could have sent his son but he chose Earth. I don't think he picked the Kents though. That was just random, at least as far as how they found him. They were driving back home when they saw a "meteor" burning across the sky and crash not far from the road. They went looking and found a baby and quickly decided to keep him, loaded the spaceship and drove home with him. Kal-El's spaceship didn't crash anywhere near the Kents' farm. He just got lucky that the people that found the crash site first were desperate for a child since they couldn't have one on their own, to them it was an answered prayer. If someone else had found him, Clark would have been raised with different morals than the Kents instilled in him.Jo El pick earth because of the yellow sun which he knew would give Clark superpower. Krypton had a red sun, but as you say was advanced as far a technology.