Terry, you know I agree with you about your assessment of Lois's behaviour in this story. She should not have flatly refused Clark's proposal the way she did. On the other hand, again just like you said, Lois did behave infuriatingly on many occasions in the show, too. Presumably she turned Clark down because she was just too terrified of falling truly in love and having her heart broken all over again. Or perhaps she has been rejecting Clark for so long that this kind of behaviour has just become sort of automatic to her, in the same way that Clark's lies about his secret identity have been repeated so many times that they may have become automatic to him.
I agree with you even more strongly when you say that Clark should just have pushed the asteroid away instead of breaking it up. Changing an asteroid's course is really the only way to get rid of it. If you break it up into smithereens, the only thing that happens is that the mother of all rocky hailstorms will come screaming into the atmosphere of the Earth.
But of course, if Clark had just pushed Nightfall away, we wouldn't have gotten much of a story out of it. And I, for one, am so grateful that we didn't miss out on this story, David!
Ann
