You raise a series of excellent points, most of them related to a central truth which I neglected in my original musings: namely, context is king. I can and do dispute only one of them - he didn't have any idea she was coming. Until that pod opened and he saw her, he believed that Zor-El had failed to keep his final promise.

The rest of it, though, is undeniable. Well played.

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