This is so interesting, our different takes on Lois and Clark/Superman's characters.
I grew up with the comics. In the comics, Lois loved Superman and strongly suspected that Clark Kent was Superman. Kent was a total geek, and Lois despised Clark for demeaning himself by putting on such a silly act. But she completely loved Superman!
Superman's love for Lois was iffy at best. He had two other girlfriends who he might prefer over Lois. They were the stunning Wonder Woman and Lori Lemaris, the mermaid. And Lana Lang was lurking in the background.
Comic book Clark was pining for Lois, but he was such a parody of a man that you couldn't take him, or his supposed love, seriously. Particularly when you knew that he was deliberately making himself ridiculous!
So I took Lois's side in the love triangle between her and Clark and Superman. She was the one who was honest, and she wasn't stupid, either! And she was the one who truly loved.
In the movies it got even worse. Clark accidentally revealed his secret identity to Lois, then he shed his powers and made love to her. Then he regretted what he had done, got his powers back and gave Lois an amnesia kiss so that she wouldn't know what had hit her (in a very intimate place
). Then in the next movie, Lois was just a background character, because Superman had dumped her, so of course we didn't need to know anything about her!
Instead, Superman was romancing Lana Lang until he was hit by red K, after which he became a sex-crazed maniac who had sex with all kinds of women!
And finally, in Superman Returns, we learn that Superman had sex with Lois and then walked out on her, leaving her to raise their son alone, or at least without his help.
Because of all of this, I have such a hard time believing that it is
Lois who is the problem and who prevents Lois and Clark from getting together in LnC. It's so hard for me to accept that she is galactically stupid, or that she is more promiscuous than Superman, or that she is completely messed up and needs Clark to save her, or that she needs to figure out that she loves plain old
Clark Kent more than Superman. Heck, she needs Clark to show that he trusts her so that she can love and trust
the whole man, Clark
and Superman!
Phew!!! I needed to get that off my chest!
Ann
