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Lois is on the boat with Lex and he brings out the crystal, he says to her "this is like a reunion" and "does this look familiar?"(showing her the crystal).
In the book, she starts to have a vague recollection of being at the FOS....crystal images start to form in her mind.
My theory is that when Jason threw the piano at Brutus, the shock may have brought back the memory of their lovemaking.
I understand that in Superman IV which I saw 1x in the theatre and never purchased on DVD or Video, that Superman takes Lois flying and somehow negated the mind wipe long enough for them to enjoy some time together....
does anyone else remember that??
anyway....one of the things that Lois may have whispered to Superman at the hospital is that she remembered everything....and that Jason was their son. That would explain why, at the end of the movie, Lois doesn't have to confront him...I believe it all came back to her...which would mean she knows that CK=S.
I didn't get the impression that she had broken up with Richard. In the novel, which admittedly left out the part about Jason being Clark's son, it says that Lois was trying to write her story about "Why the World Needs Superman" and that Richard was in bed. She goes to the balcony to have a cigarrette and then on her own, she opts not to smoke, then Clark appears and she asks him "Will we see you around?" and he says "I'm always around. Good nite, Lois".
I am hoping that the sequel (if the movie makes $200 mill domestically they say there WILL be a sequel....so $54 mill to go....) will address the entire "how much does Lois remember" scenario.
Since Richard originally lived overseas, running the DP's international division, it would be easy enough for Perry to transfer him back there, since he would know now that Lois loves Superman and that Jason is not biologically his father. But Richard and Jason have an emotional attachment, he's the only father that Jason has ever known, so somehow I think he might stay around. Superman and Richard have a mutual admiration thing going, even though they might be competing for Lois' affections. Richard is really a human version of Clark.
In the novel, Lois reflects on her first date with Richard - they went to a country fair together. Richard transferred to Metropolis just weeks after Superman disappeared and she repeatedly told him she didn't want a relationship but over time, they fell in love.
It's also stated in the novel that Jimmy tells Clark that Jason a preemie and almost didn't make it....this would lead you to believe that for the first several months, Lois didn't know she was pregnant, probably starting having sex with Richard a month or two after they started dating, and just assumed that Jason was premature because of it. And since he's half-human, and we don't know the gestation time for Kryptonians (their super-dense molecular structure may warrant a longer than human gestation period)....perhaps it seemed like Jason was premature when in fact it was actually a normal pregnancy for a Kryptonian....
Well I must have the babble gene in me tonite...
I just hope that the whole mind-wife in SII is explained...we just had a whole mini-series about the JLA and mind-wiping {"Identity Crisis")...and how wrong it was deemed to be....
They say you can't get over something unless you feel the pain...Clark didn't give Lois a chance to get over him....
OK, rambling done!
