Hi, Michael,
/imagines her going ‘Lo-Lo Lane for the Daily Planet’ during a press conference/ Oh boy. Not good.
Yep, pretty much.
She’d accepted this gracefully, and that worried him too. Under normal conditions, Lois would never have so calmly accepted his reworking her words.
Her normal reaction is also known as ripping his guts out with a dull spoon.
Yeah, Lo-lo is NOT Lois.
(I assume your quote is referencing my favorite exchange from an otherwise very forgettable version of Robin Hood.)
Lois would have decked the creep by now.
This reminds me of an interesting side note. In canon LnC, I was never comfortable with the way Lois treated Lex. She always seemed way too deferential. If you look at all of their interactions from that first dinner onward, it was like Lex was always getting "sweet puppy Lane" instead of "mad dog Lane."
I think I feel a story idea. What if everything else in S1 would have been the same, but Lois would have reacted to Lex's evasions at that first dinner with aggressive determination instead of passive acceptance?
Then again, he’s just having the same problems Martha has with Superman.
At one point this (the parallels between Lois/Lo-Lo and Clark/Superman) was going to be a key part of this story. However, those points ended up distracting from the main story that I wanted to tell.
Bob
