This is great! Exactly the kind of discussion that I was looking for.
I just want to say that I didn't post this question to challenge Wendy's premise. I'm not sure if that was what LNCroxmysocs meant here:
Sooo in the end, I guess I can accept this scenario as long as the author explains how Lois & Lex met in this new timeline, and how their relationship progressed.
or that Wendy needs to address it in her Trilogy (although she may if she wants to :rolleyes: )
Wendy just got me thinking and I decided to ask the question.
I raised the question because as I thought about it, I felt that Lex saw the conquest of Lois as an extention of his rivalry with Superman. He told Superman in the pilot, "Let the games begin." I think that the proposal and marriage were part of the game.
Yes, I agree with Tank that Lois is beautiful and intelligent, but as others have said, he always had beautiful and intelligent women around him. So why Lois?
Several reasons. First, she was only interested in him as a story and not romantically. (I wonder if he picked up her frustration after their first dinner together. We know that she came home and told Lucy that she didn't get the interview she wanted.) That she's only interested in the "story" presents a challenge for him. Can he "seduce" her and make her need him emotionally the way Toni Baines did or Miranda did?
Second, as others have said, if Lois is as good a reporter as she's said to be, then she presents a real danger if she's looking for the true story of Lex Luthor. He needs to keep his enemies close to him if that is the case, and what better way than marriage.
Third and most importantly imho, jealousy. I don't think that once he was sprayed by the pheremone (and I agree that it played a big part in Lex's pursuit of Lois) he could stand the idea that a) Lois was focussed on Clark while she was under the influence of the perfume, and b) that Lois, not under the perfume's influence was attracted to Superman, his arch-rival.
Carol raised another important question that has been dealt with in many fanfics, but I've never been happy about:
would Lois have said yes to a proposal and why?
I'd answer it, but I never could figure that one out even though many authors gave plausible reasons. To me that was always a plot device used by the writers of the series.
gerry
