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Crime does happen here in Kansas and surrounding states. It isn't limited to large cities or the coastal states. The papers, weekly or daily are not filled with farm reports, corn fests and shucking contests despite what Hollywood and national media would have you believe. Back in the 90s in my small town there were two disappearances that were never solved, and BTK was biding his time not that far from here. We might not make the national news every day but this is far from perfect as far as crime goes. With Perry's long career he would know this. He had to start somewhere, too.
And local papers are printed and put together by publishers with many more than two employees. The staff has to be up on all the news from small towns spread over more than one county. They are responsible for putting together publications for half a dozen or more individual towns each week.
I wish it was an idyllic paradise here, but it isn't.

95. Martha and Jonathan get to Metropolis care of 'Superman Express' multiple times--but they also seem to show up at Clark's by themselves a lot....just how often do they fly half way across the country to come to Metropolis?

96. We know that everyone thought that Clark was adopted, but did immediate family/friends ever dig any deeper? Was this information accepted at face value really that easily?

97. What was Clark's childhood like? We know about how he gradually got his powers and about the tree house 'Fortress of Solitude,' but there are a mighty few gaps in btw there

I also live in a rural community, one probably more the size of the Smallville of the same named television show, than the even smaller one I imagine the one from LnC was. We even have a daily paper (most days) with more than 50 employees. I know that there is crime in rural areas, because someone was shot in the alley behind my house not too long ago, and it wasn't the only shooting in town this year by a long shot. I wasn't bashing small town news. I was merely pointing out that it was different. Corn to apricots was just another way of saying apples to oranges.

But being the editor of a small rural newspaper (as I imagine the Smallville Gazette being) still isn't the same work experience when judging who is a better candidate for editor of the Daily Planet. In the same average week, Lois would have to have written up and investigated more stories, more quickly, in more dangerous situations than Clark would have to in Smallville. Clark might have more experience in the day to day running and budgeting of a paper than Lois would, but in a big city paper most of that stuff is handled by the people "upstairs". So, yes, as a candidate for editor of the DP, I could see Perry as seeing Lois as having more practical, high pace, high stress work experience than Clark would.

Gosh, thanks a lot, LMA! There have been so many great fanfics written in this fandom that I just want to spread the word about them. On my end, I'd like to thank the authors of all the fics. Sometimes the stories are so good, or they resonate with me so much, that when a topic comes up, a story about it immediately comes to mind.

Speaking of that sort of thing...

I don't know her ultimate fate, but she does help when Lois is afflicted by Dr. Deter's hypnosis-caused amnesia in ML Thompson's Nowhere To Run . And Star attends the L&C wedding!
You know, VirginiaR mentions this (along with a whole lot of other plot) in her amazing fic, Wrong Clark .

No, but in Shayne Terry's Duet , she's a hot-shot entertainment lawyer who is representing the next big thing, singer Clark Kent!

I don't know about the "Magic of the Night Ball", but I do know that Lois and Clark danced in Wendy Richards' fine The Dark Side of Christmas . Extra points for masquerades.

Dandello touched on this in Paradoxes .

Another Dandello fic, The Smallville Connection , talks about this.

Was this from "Fall of the House of Luthor"?

Actually, probably Clark would have to investigate more stories, with less staff the staff you do have has to do more.

Also, it is the Smallville Post. It looked like a respectable, and probably daily paper when we saw it in "Tempus Fugitive". Although it may have changed since 1966.

That said, Perry did say it was a very close call. I always figured he really made the decision he did because he knew that Clark would be OK with it, but Lois would have had problems with the reverse.

It must have been cut from the scene where Clark crosses his fingers and says he never really loved Lois, because they really never spoke after the wedding, except during that scene.

98. Are the Quantum Disbander, the Quantum Disrupter and the disingegration ray from "AKA Superman" all the same technology?

99. How the heck was Luthor's body intact, to be brought back to life? He jumped from the highest point in Metropolis - he should have been a greasy spot on the sidewalk, no?

100) Does Lois ever get her romance novel (either the one where the protagonist dies without meeting her soulmate or the one that is about Wanda Detroit) published?

101) Why did Jor-El send Kal-El to Earth (he makes explicit reference to sending Clark to Kansas on Earth) when Kal-El was engaged to Zara? Why not send him to New Krypton?
101a) Why didn't he mention something to that effect in the globe?

I figured that since the L&C universe has excellent human cloning technology, they just replaced Lex's broken bits with freshly cloned new parts.

Yes, this is mentioned as an aside in Dandello's fic Plane Storm . In Shayne Terry's Fugue , Lois has published three novels, but they are not romances.

Maybe Lois wasn't a published author in canon, but she was in fanfic!

102) What did the gossip pages say about Ultra Woman?
102a) The tabloids?

103.(a) What's the backstory on how Sir Charles (aka The Fox) and Lady Loisette fell in love?
103.(b) What's the backstory on how The Lone Rider and Lulu met and fell in love?

104: Does it not bother anyone that Loisette had to marry the precedent incarnation of Tempus because they fell to prevent it when Wells get Lois and Clark reincarnated? So poor Loisette, did she have to live ever after with Baron Tempos ?

And I was also thinking about the episode Seconds when Lois thought she was Wanda Detroit. I really do not understand why when Clark succeeds to find Lois, he let her go with Lex. Really, Luthor is an escaped felon, liar, thief, psychopath, killer et cetera, even if Lois was in her right mind when she told she wanted to go with Lex, Clark had just to make a citizen arrest and deliver him to the police so he could know what was wrong with Lois and go on again with the wedding, don't ya think ?

105. Clark gives off an aura that protects anything within a millimeter or so of his skin. (AKA, why normal, non-K bullets don't rip the suit.) So why the heck was he naked after smashing into Nightfall and falling back to Earth? His suit should have been protected by his aura, even with his memory getting scrambled/him blacking out.

(Note: Not that I am complaining about a naked Clark. Mmmmmmm...)

Maybe the prolonged friction on the dark side of the Earth reduced his aura enough so it no longer projected out from his body, therefore the suit was burnt off and causing Clark's amnesia when he hit the ground. The next day, he was exposed to sunlight and was back to normal.

No complaints here either.

That actually could make a lot of sense! Couple the lack of sunlight with the immense exertion of trying to move a 17(?) mile wide meteor...I can get on board with that theory, absolutely.

That's what I loved about [K]Nightfall was that he was naked, *except* for the belt that Batman had lent him.

Having a brain-fog here, but what about the cape? Don't seem to remember it being in too much danger throughout the series, but definitely not within a millimeter of his skin...

I do remember specifically that the cape got damaged when SM was bombed in that explosion where Lois's got ricochet cut on her forehead in NeverEnding Battle. Maybe after that Martha used more flame resistant cloth.

Also, Lois's high heels were flattened while stopping that runaway truck in Ultra Woman, so it's not impossible.