Oh, Ann, you can't lump Chloe in with Mayson and Lana Lang!
See, the reason we Smallville fans who love Lois and Clark, still ship Chlark is because Chloe is much more like the canon Lois Lane than Smallville's own Lois is. Everything I love about Lois is inherent in Chloe: the inveterate curiosity, the furious drive to succeed, the arrogance and underlying vulnerability, the incisive intuition that lets her make bizzare but accurate leaps of logic - it's all there. She's like a younger, peppier, less abrasive version of Teri's Lois. Miles Millar created her for Smallville because Clark needed a Lois-like sidekick, but DC wouldn't give them the rights to that character. So they came up with Chloe Sullivan to fill that void, which she did rather too well. Erica Durance does a great job as Lois, but she's too - Amazonian. Her femininity simply doesn't show, in my opinion. More than that, the writers seem hell-bent on mutilating her character just so she has an excuse to be a series regular. Smallville's Lois is a long way from the Mad Dog Lane we all know and love. What is one to do?
I loved Chloe so much, I wanted her to have a part in Woman In the Mirror, but I realized she'd be entirely superflous - our Lois was already there. So instead, I decided to take the dynamic between Chloe and Lois in Smallville, which is one of deep sisterly love and friendship, and bring in an Erica Durance-like figure to complement Lois. Guess who that is? =)
Anyway, I'm not going to write Smallville fanfiction. Am not, am not, am not!! That's the last thing I need, and involves way too much teen angst. I'm already getting my quota of that from the Harry Potter fandom. <g>
Thank you for the sympathy, Ann. Yes, things have definitely calmed down. No more coffee for me! And to think I hate Nescafe!
Hasini.
