Originally posted by LabRat:

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Of course there's nothing to say that Myrtyle or Voyle are right - perhaps they'd judged Clark and Lois's relationship all wrong.
Yes, that is my impression. But it could be because I have judged Lois and Clark's relationship all wrong myself.

You know that I am at least partly an LnC illiterate, LabRat, so maybe you can enlighten me. The way I remember TOGOM, Lois shows a lot of grief for Clark in that episode, so there seems to be nothing wrong with her ability to grieve. Clark, on the other hand, never shows much grief over Lois, at least according to my limited understanding of LnC. For example, Clark came very close to killing Lois in ATAI, but he wasn't too upset about it, not the way I remember that episode. I can understand that he didn't have time to be shocked or horrified at himself while he had to concentrate on saving Lois, but he didn't seem too upset at himself afterwards, either, when he had time to think about what he had almost done. He seemed to feel much worse about the fact that Lois didn't immediately accept his proposal than about his own near-killing of the woman who would give her life for his parents.

So is it really fair to think of Clark as more sensitive and more "talented" at grieving for Lois than Lois would be at grieving for Clark? Or is it just my lack of familiarity with the LnC show that makes me think that Clark didn't show much talent for grieving in the show, or at least he didn't show many signs of being good at grieving over Lois?

Ann