Thanks for the encouragement about my comments, Rivka. I almost didn't post because I was worried that my comments would be breaking an unspoken board rule or that CC would be hurt rather than helped.
Some people look very similar on film and in person. Some cannot be adequately captured by that medium. I guess Lois is among the former, and Clark among the latter.
Also, Clark avoids having pictures taken of him (as Clark) rather assiduously.
I understand your point here, which is why I said the problem may be mine rather than the story's. However (I always have a however, don't I?), the footage and photos I was thinking of were the personal ones, like the ones Lois has scattered around her apartment and on her desk. The problem is that we've seen those, and every one of them looks just like Clark. And those candid shots are the ones the family would keep and the museum supervisors would have studied.
OTOH, maybe most people don't study old family photos to watch family members change in the photos through the years and to identify the distinguishing characteristics that show up in an individual from early childhood to old age. If I'm just weird that way, that's also why it may be my problem rather than the story's.
James, I think you're right about the setting being after the events of MJD. In fact, that's what I'd been figuring. I just wanted to have something in the story that said our guess was right or not.
