But I think that was written specifically to throw us off, much like the X2 novelization and comics.
Right, I agree that it was written to throw us off. More specifically, it was written to make
us believe, at least those of us who haven't seen the movie, that Jason is Richard's child. For that matter, I remember reading an interview with Bryan Singer many months ago, perhaps in March or so, when he got the question of whose child Lois Lane's son would be. I clearly remember Singer answering: "It will be Richard's."
So I agree that we can't trust those comic book prequels and adaptations and novelizations. However, just because all that stuff was written to fool
us, we can't automatically assume that Lois Lane played along with this game of deceit and that she knew right away that the child she was carrying was Superman's. We can't take for granted that those comic books etc lie about
her initial ignorance about Jason's paternity.
The mindwipe was very much a factor in Superman II, and if this new movie is even loosely based on SII, who's to say that Lois in SR wasn't in fact mindwiped and sufficiently affected by it to start a relationship with Richard in good faith? Wasn't that the explicit purpose of the mindwipe, that Lois should be able to move on? Perhaps she had really forgotten almost everything about herself and Superman at the time when she met Richard! Perhaps at first she wasn't even really angry at Superman for leaving the Earth without saying goodbye to her! But perhaps the effects of the mindwipe wore off in time, so that she had Jason's paternity figured out by the time of Superman's return to the Earth. That would give her a good reason to be angry at him for just deserting her, even leaving without a word. Of course, she should have been furious about the mindwipe thing too. The fact that she doesn't confront Superman about that does suggest that she had not been mindwiped. But I don't think Singer worries that much about consistency here, so I'm still going to believe in the mindwipe.
Ann
