>There's a reasonable implication that it was the death of his
>father that spurred that journey. While I don't think it would
>have taken much for a 2 minute conversation where she does
>this, and do agree that such a scene would be nice, it's
>hardly vital. It may be vital to you, but that's awfully petty
>in the grand scheme of the movie. I can understand listing it
>as a minor gripe, but there's no consequence to this to have
>any real issue with it.

Clark lets his father die so he would not out his powers. Why then, with his mother now widowed and his powers still a secret, would Clark leave home and become a drifter. And once he's a drifter, he goes back to doing what he had been doing (saving people and outing himself like with the bus), which is the anti-thesis of what his father wanted him to do.

And how is the moment that turned him into a drifter and drove him from his home a "petty" moment in the grand scheme of things? It's arguably the biggest character moment of the movie.