Let me get this straight, okay?
Tim and Lana are having a baby together. And Clark still has this fantasy that he's going to divorce Lois after Christopher's fifth birthday and find Lana standing outside the courthouse with another baby on her hip, smiling and holding out her hand to him.
Just how nuts is this guy? I've never seen a version of Clark who's less mature, less realistic about life, more self-centered, more selfish, and generally less of a man than this one! He's even talking to his newborn son (legally if not biologically) about how he hopes the kid will understand why he plans to leave them for some other woman!
Even if you post two chapters daily from now until December 31st, I don't see how he's going to have the time to grow up. He's so messed up that he can't possibly become Superman any time soon. He'd just escape into the suit and refuse to face reality.
Lois was very rude to him in the elevator at the Planet, but after his lousy attempt to "comfort" her with his wonderful manliness the night she wore the sexy nightgown, and given his lack of communication with her since then, I can't blame her for it. The only problem is that she's going to get locked into that pattern of behavior with him and will be even less likely to allow him to talk to her and ask for forgiveness and another chance. Of course, as long as he has these irrational fantasies about Lana, that's unlikely to happen, too.
Maybe he should just let it slip that Lana is having Tim's baby but it doesn't matter to him. Maybe Lois will "gently" explain that having a man's child makes a difference to a woman, that Lana is more likely to marry Tim now than she was before. And she's even less likely to wait for Clark to shed Lois and Christopher in five years than she was before.
Gah! Doesn't he understand how devastating that would be to both children? Does he not grasp that when parents divorce it always scars the children, no matter their age? Why is he being so stupid!
/end rant
