See - all this fandom hate is the exact reason I tend to just only operate out of LJ as my fannish outlet. I *like* that Clark is a screwed up intensely confused and conflicted teenager and that Lex is just as messed up, if not more, and that Jon will do some things and not other and is capable of extremes for his child because this makes them interesting. And I don't think that b/c Jon would not kill Nixon means he will never ever cross that line, because I think if right this minute - if it came down to Lionel Luthor's life or Lionel strapping Clark down on a lab table, then Jonathan would put a bullet between Lionel's eyes faster than we could blink.

And I don't think this would contradict the early S2 Jonathan at all because the danger is different and is immediate and represented by Lionel and Jon is *not* the same person he was then and is not the same person he was 15 years ago and is not the same person he was when he met Martha. But none of us are and this makes it fascinating.

So I don't get people who don't get that.