We're getting close to the finish line, and the feedback is getting even more intense!
Evelyn, glad you liked the "rough justice" Superman dished out. Diana's plan was an excellent one if the vast majority of Amazons had been willing to fight to return to the ancient ways, but that's where her plan fell apart. She was so convinced that she was right that she wouldn't listen to anyone else.
Tank, it's implicit in canon and explicit in fanon that Clark and Lois have children somehow. Maybe that baby at the end of Season Four was their own biological child. We'll never know what the writers would have actually done, of course, but I choose to believe that Clark is genetically compatible with humans. He still has to breath oxygen (and presumably he exhales CO2), he can eat and digest human food (except for Lois' rumaki), he takes in liquids and we assume that he has to visit the little superhero's room occasionally, and he really enjoys sex with his wife. Conception might be difficult but not impossible.
As I tried to hint subtly in the earlier chapters, this Diana wasn't formed from clay and magically given life by Zeus (or whoever). She is Hippolyta's biological child and her father lives on the Isle of Husbands (more about that later). Were she to conceive, she'd bear a child and not a piece of enchanted pottery.
Maybe she wasn't wise (didn't listen to Athena's lectures in school), but she isn't stupid. She's almost too intelligent for her own good. Maybe she'll invent that purple ray later on, assuming the court doesn't condemn her.
Mozartmaid, glad you liked the super-swoop. Lois is no helpless maiden cowering from danger, but she's not super, either. Sometimes she needs some help, and I don't think she'll be upset about getting it this time.
Thanks, Laurach. Hope you like the last two chapters.
Malu, you're right about Superman's intentions. Without touching a single person, he announced his intention of destroying their way of life. Whether or not he would actually have done all those things is something we (thankfully) will never know.
Thanks for the superlative, Lovesuper97!
Thanks for the insight, Dandello. Seems we think alike on Diana's education. Maybe she should become a shepherd for a few years. That would teach her some humility.
I wondered about the "rip off the head" comment too, Andy G, but I can justify it in my mind because 1) it was a statement of what Superman could do and not what he planned to do 2) he was talking to a woman who refused to listen when he said "no" 3) he was mad as the dickens and still a bit scared for Lois. And I guess I did that scene well if you felt a little sorry for Diana!
Thanks for the kind words, Ann. My only quibble with your reverse characterization is that the Amazons of Themyscira are not all of a kind. I view their society as matriarchal rather than ultra-feminist, and many of them have loving (but unusual, at least to our sensibilities) relationships with their husbands. I haven't included much information about the men in the Amazons' lives because I didn't want to drag down the narrative, but I can see now that I need to add some information about them. You'll get a brief but necessarily incomplete summary in the last chapter.
Next chapter up very soon! Thanks for reading, everyone!
