# Christopher Reeve to guest on "Smallville." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-reeve-to-guest-on-smallville/150931 "2003-01-25T23:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-reeve-to-guest-on-smallville/150931/21 "2003-02-26T15:40:56Z")
Haven’t watched the show for a while so I’m not really caught up on where we are in the mythos. Tuned in for the Reeve guest shot and I enjoyed it well enough. > [@](#): > > Given the other shout-backs to the original movie (the score, Swann’s message), I think Clark just got the translation wrong, and that the message actually reads more like the “They are a good people, Kal-el” speech from the movie. IIRC in the Byrne ret-con, either Jor-El or Lara (maybe both) knew that on Earth Kal-El would have super powers and there was something in Jor-El’s original message to Kal-El about ruling wisely, which was perhaps based on an assumption that one so clearly superior would rise automatically to lead/rule. We certainly see that impulse in Superman IV where Superman destroys the nukes and in several of the comics I recall from years ago when I was still reading them. Has there been any explanation as to how the writing ended up on the cave wall? ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-reeve-to-guest-on-smallville/150931/22 "2003-02-26T17:18:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*Has there been any explanation as to how the writing ended up on the cave wall? \*\* Supposedly a Kryptonian visited Earth several thousand years ago and “got it on” with one of the Native Americans living near current-day Smallville. The same visitor probably left the cave writings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-reeve-to-guest-on-smallville/150931.md?page=1)