“That’s why she shouldn’t get involved with me,” he said. “I’m sort of nice at best.”
He smiled at her, as though it was a joke, but she knew better.
Lisa scowled and said, “Not from where I’m sitting.”
The adult world was more complicated than she wanted to admit. How did you take a prince who thought he was a frog and convince him of the truth?
What a telling comment. Lisa may be young, but she's figured Clark out in two shakes of a lamb's tail. She and her mom are going to have to work very hard to convince her dad that he's not a bad person. And despite his best efforts, Lois actually has a head start on it. Without knowing it or realizing it (not yet, anyway), she's seen both Kal-El and Clark up close and personal, and she thinks Clark is preferable to Kal-El, despite her self-defense moves to put space between them.
Ann, I've come over to your side. He needs to tell Lois right about now who else he really is. She needs to know the whole man, whether he thinks he's good enough for her or not.
I have this scene in my head.
Lisa tries to hint to her mother to get closer to Clark, but they both rebut the suggestion. The conversation goes on long enough for Lisa to come to a boil and blurt out the truth. After thinking about it, Lois slowly removes Clark's glasses and looks at him for a moment. Then she slaps him as hard as she can and snarls, "Don't pretend that hurt, Superman!"
Just like the series after all.
