I'm amused that Lois has all those interview tapes. Hey, if I had conversations with Superman on tape, I'd keep them, too.
You're addressing something that has long bothered me about SR: the relative time involved in the trip itself.
The really ironic part is that they re-used the Brando footage in SR to keep him as Jor-El, and it's the Brando version of Jor-El that said he's been dead for thousands of years! [Roll Eyes]
Yeah, that's one of many problems with them trying to make SR a direct sequel to Superman II. I wish that they had been able to make Kevin Smith's script that he wrote in the 90's ... without, you know, Nic Cage as Superman ::shudder::. It was it's own story, not a follow-up to the old movies, and it didn't bother retelling Superman's origin because every single person already knows it.
Um, ok, that's a tangent.
Anyway, I'm enjoying the story!