Duane and i both like SciFi & some fantasy tv/movies.
I've not watched Smallville from the beginning. Shoot, i didn't even have a tv when that program began. Essentially, i missed the high school years of the program.
This is the last season for the program to run. We were watching an episode last night.
Background: Chloe, a friend of Clark's and many of the other characters, disappeared a while back without giving her friends any explanation. In this episode, she returns but her actions are confusing and it looks as if she is trying to harm her friends. Her actions become more clear as the show progresses, but each of the friends has to make a decision whether or not they will trust her. Clark really struggles with this.
I find this ironic (and the writers probably wrote it with this intention) because throughout the history of the program Clark has often done things without explanation to his friends, expecting them to trust him.
At the end of the program, Clark, realizing how much trust he has required from his friends over time, questions Chloe. He asks how she was able to place so much trust in him. (My recap of this here may not be exact, it went by quickly.) At times Clark lied to his friends, believing they were safer not to know the truth in some cases. Chloe often knew that Clark was lying. He questions how she could trust him regardless, and her response was that she was often able to see thru the lies, knowing he cared for her (and others) and was trying to protect them.
She finishes by saying, "That is the essence of trust in a person, isn't it, that you don't require them to give an explanation?"
I've long been meaning to write about the last book in the Harry Potter series. I recently re-read them. (I know a lot of Christian folks reject these books due to their subject matter. I have a lot to say on this, but that's a post for another day.)
Thru the books, one of Harry's mentors is Professor Dumbledore. At times this mentor has asked things of Harry without explanation. In one of the seven books, Harry has essentially no contact with his mentor, and when he tries to question him at times, Dumbledore ignores the attempt. At the end of that book he explains to Harry that he felt that keeping a distance would protect Harry. But of course, that raised a lot of resentment in Harry from the misunderstanding (of why this mentor would do such a thing).
In the final book, after learning more of his mentor, the info Harry gleans seems to be really contradictory and some of the choices the mentor has made seems to hold little regard for Harry's own life, Harry himself has to make a decision.
Harry really wrestles with the situation. And ultimately, he decides to follow the path he is on, the path set before him by his mentor, even tho much of it does not make sense to him.
Of course, i have much more to say on this, but i'm out of time for now.
Let's just say that my course is to explore this further. Sara's faith makes much more sense to me now, because she trusts that God is good and faithful, even if she doesn't have an explanation for all that has happened to her.
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I've not watched Smallville from the beginning. Shoot, i didn't even have a tv when that program began. Essentially, i missed the high school years of the program.
This is the last season for the program to run. We were watching an episode last night.
Background: Chloe, a friend of Clark's and many of the other characters, disappeared a while back without giving her friends any explanation. In this episode, she returns but her actions are confusing and it looks as if she is trying to harm her friends. Her actions become more clear as the show progresses, but each of the friends has to make a decision whether or not they will trust her. Clark really struggles with this.
I find this ironic (and the writers probably wrote it with this intention) because throughout the history of the program Clark has often done things without explanation to his friends, expecting them to trust him.
At the end of the program, Clark, realizing how much trust he has required from his friends over time, questions Chloe. He asks how she was able to place so much trust in him. (My recap of this here may not be exact, it went by quickly.) At times Clark lied to his friends, believing they were safer not to know the truth in some cases. Chloe often knew that Clark was lying. He questions how she could trust him regardless, and her response was that she was often able to see thru the lies, knowing he cared for her (and others) and was trying to protect them.
She finishes by saying, "That is the essence of trust in a person, isn't it, that you don't require them to give an explanation?"
I've long been meaning to write about the last book in the Harry Potter series. I recently re-read them. (I know a lot of Christian folks reject these books due to their subject matter. I have a lot to say on this, but that's a post for another day.)
Thru the books, one of Harry's mentors is Professor Dumbledore. At times this mentor has asked things of Harry without explanation. In one of the seven books, Harry has essentially no contact with his mentor, and when he tries to question him at times, Dumbledore ignores the attempt. At the end of that book he explains to Harry that he felt that keeping a distance would protect Harry. But of course, that raised a lot of resentment in Harry from the misunderstanding (of why this mentor would do such a thing).
In the final book, after learning more of his mentor, the info Harry gleans seems to be really contradictory and some of the choices the mentor has made seems to hold little regard for Harry's own life, Harry himself has to make a decision.
Harry really wrestles with the situation. And ultimately, he decides to follow the path he is on, the path set before him by his mentor, even tho much of it does not make sense to him.
Of course, i have much more to say on this, but i'm out of time for now.
Let's just say that my course is to explore this further. Sara's faith makes much more sense to me now, because she trusts that God is good and faithful, even if she doesn't have an explanation for all that has happened to her.
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