I watched Fly Hard last night, and I watched Lex carefully. He was 'quite' (see UK vs US thread) enchanted with Lois, not his usual psychoself unless he was talking about how to deal with the bad guys.
He really seemed to care about her, watching her closely, seeing where she was going, how she was feeling. I almost believed him when he said that you couldn't buy eyes or a smile or whatever. He was enamoured with her.
But at the same time I wondered if Lex was jealous that she had her hopes on Superman saving them. She said that Superman would help if he could. Lex wanted to save them and get the credit, much in the same way that he did when Mencken 'kidnapped' Lois. Here, however, he wasn't calling the shots.
I'm still a believer that Lex was mainly interested in Lois because he was playing one-up-manship with Superman.
Lois, on the other hand, without a Clark/Superman, would very likely not have accepted Lex's proposal because she would not have had a) Superman's rejection to rebound from, and b) Clark's insistance that Lex was not all that he seemed which made Lois hackles go up. She felt that Clark was jealous, and so gave no credence to his warnings. She had to show Clark that she was right about Lex and he was wrong. That is part of her character: she is always right.
gerry
(Metwin1 welcome to Toronto. Hope you enjoy studying here.)
