Ann,
you are certifiable weird
So I think you let LCTNAOS suffer for the crimes of the classic superman mythos.
Guilty as charged, Arawn. But as I said, I've spent a lot more than half my life as a crazy Superman comic book addict, and I've seen only a few LNC episodes, so perhaps it's not so strange that I'm rather severely comic book-damaged. (
And I'm damaged by a religious upbringing, and by spending my life with my head among the stars.... Did you know I became a space buff the same year I became a Lois and Superman fan, in 1969?)
(And, speaking about nothing, how did I get so weird? Clearly I was born with more than my share of weirdness, but my religious upbringing certainly didn't help. I was told in no uncertain terms that I had to love God, but I found it harder and harder to love somebody who was so capricious and unpredictable. It was harder and harder to believe, for example, that the trials and tribulations that sinful people suffered were caused by the wrath of God, whereas the trials and tribulations that
we suffered just meant that God was testing our faith and our characters. So my inner Doctor Freud tells me that the moment I was exposed to Superman, I embraced him so fiercely because he was just the sort of kind and straightforward god that I wished that the God I was raised with had been like. And seeing a god fall in love with a human woman was no small thing, either...
Similarly, by the way, I probably fell in love with astronomy because this is a discipline which, just like the Bible, attempts to explain
everything.... And the explanations astronomy offered to me made more sense to me than the Bible.)
However, if we return to who Superman is in the comics and in LNC:TNAOS, I'd like to point out that the comics revamped Superman in 1987, so that Clark, not Superman, became the real person. LNC:TNAOS just took off from there.
Oh, and one more edit here.... Your metaphor about falling in love with Rhett Butler and finding out he is really Clark Gable is a very good one, indeed. I'm not saying I'm being fair when I'm judging Clark, but I
am saying there is no way I can forget all the bad things Superman did to Lois in the comics and in "Superman II", and that
does most certainly affect the way I look at Clark in LNC:TNAOS-related fanfic. Sorry!
And Sue, I never said that I didn't *like* this story! I did. Didn't you read my comment on it?
Ann
