While I have to agree with Dragon that Martha just had a horrible case of bad timing, the rest of TOC's essay is essentially the core of my imagined 'How it Should Have Ended.'
When Lois and Clark went to the Kents for advice on whether Clark should go with Zara to New Krypton, I would have loved to see Jonathan say something like:
"Are you nuts? Why are you even considering this? Who do these people think they are, showing up here and asking you to give up your entire life, your history, your very identity to save a culture that *kicked you out* be sending you here? Either Jor-El knew about the New Krypton colony and he chose to send you here *instead* or they never told him about it in the fist place. In either case, they have absolutely no claim on your loyalty now.
Have you forgotten who your are? You are not Lord Kal-El. You haven't been since the day your mother lifted you out of that capsule. Read your birth certificate if you have to see it in writing, Clark. You are my *son.* You are Lois's *husband.* I don't care about the technicalities. I saw you stand there in front of God and man and promise to love Lois Lane for the rest of your life. I believe the phrase used was 'forsaking all others.' If you leave her now for this woman who doesn't know you from Adam, you are not the man I raised you to be.
My advice is for you two to fly to Vegas *this minute* and make what you already have legally binding, if for no other reason than to get Zara off your back.
"And another thing: have you forgotton every bit of history you ever read? If this Nor is really as tyranical as they say, and if this New Krypton colony is really a barren rock, then what's to stop Nor from figuring out where Zara found you and deciding that Earth would make a nicer home than New Krypton? In case you hadn't noticed, a technologically more advanced culture stealing natural resources from a less powerful culture is par for the course. So, after Vegas, your second stop should be Washington, where Superman should brief the President and the Joint Chiefs and the eggheads should get busy weaponizing every crumb of Kryptonite that we can find. Forget ruling New Krypton, Clark, your country and your world need you here at least as much as they say they need you there."
So there.
