Originally posted by John Lambert:
EW: Actually, in S4's PvsLL, they do ask SM directly if he loves Lois, while on the stand no less, and he never answered the question.
JOHN: Well, he answers by saying that Clark loves Lois, which I guess is not an answer at all.
Well, not if you don't know CK=SM, it's not an answer. (Wow, was that a triple negative?
Touche! She's still mad.
JOHN: That would have made the story a lot shorter.
EW: Different, not necessarily shorter.
JOHN: I think their relationship would be further along at this point in time. Although, it might have taken just as much writing to get there, so we might actually not have a shorter story length wise, just cover less time.
At its heart this is a time-travel story. Time is very important, more important than the number of pages I can whittle it down to.
