Wow indeed.
Clark asked Lois to depend on him and accused her of failing him by not doing precisely that. But then he realized that he was in such bad mental state that he couldn't really be depended on.
Wow. But he realized it. And he's working on the problem. Unlike Terry, I thought the last few paragraphs were beautiful. Clark was gentle and caring before he left for his session with Dr. Friskin. He gently touched her cheek and squeezed her hand. Those are not gestures of a man who resents his wife more than he loves her. They are not the gestures of a man who resents his wife because she's making him see a shrink.
And Clark understands, too, at least intellectually, that he couldn't have saved New Krypton by killing Nor when Nor was defenceless. He might possibly have saved those six hundred colonists, but at the price of not honoring what was good and right about New Krypton as a society.
I would like to say more, but I have absolutely no time for that now!
Ann
