Hi guys
I hope the wait to find out why Lex tried to kill Lois isn't putting too many people off. Or maybe it's just a busy weekend for some of you.
Anyway, there were a number of things I decided that I wanted to address in this story - issues which came up in Summer Dreaming and in an interesting thread Gerry started in fanfic-related a few weeks ago.
Those questions were: why did Lois marry Luthor in the first place? And why on earth did he want to marry her?
It looks as if my explanations here are working for some of you - thank you! Maria said:
I always ask my self why Lois didn’t look for a job in another newspaper? Now I know.
Great explanation.
Thank you!! That's exactly what I was hoping for.
Janet, astute as ever, picked up on something else I'd only hinted at:
It makes a whole lot more sense now, as to why Lois married Lex-- how that could have come about and why she was unhappy despite Lex's apparently loving attitude. It puts another light on Lois being up at the lake property-- he may have passed it off as a desire to help her find a quiet place to concentrate on her novel, but it looks now like he wanted her quietly stashed away now that he'd neutralized her by marrying her. Makes you wonder what he has to hide that he'd go to these lengths. He could have probably just continued in his role as her friend; but suddenly "things changed" and he was actively pursuing her with marriage.
Yup, that's exactly what I was getting at. As for what it was that changed and why Lex decided to 'neutralise' Lois, all will start to be revealed in the next part.
And then there was one more revelation in this section:
And your reactions to this varied rather a lot.
are you going to save poor Jimmy?
poor Jimmy! I hope he's soon going to be vindicated, pardoned, apologized to and set free!
what about jimmy? Are you going to get him out of jail or leave him there to rot?
I think it's funny that Jimmy is in jail. Since Clark has no idea of Jimmy's place at the Planet, whether or not Lois cared about him at all, he may not have a need to rush getting Jimmy out of prison.
Poor Jimbo is probably some big prisoner's sweetheart right now <snicker>
ROFL, TJ!
Maybe this time he'll apologise to Lois and sweep her off her feet again so they can live happily ever after. How about that for a happy ending?
Thanks again, Maria, Nan, Janet, José and TJ!
Wendy