Laura, nice introspective into Lois' thought processes during WWW.
It wasn't fair to keep stringing all of them along.
She wasn't actually stringing Superman along. You can make the case that it was Superman who was stringing her along. She just had to give him up in her own heart to realize who it was she really wanted.
He had been the one to pull away -- because Mayson Drake had been killed practically right in front of them.
This is the major complaint that I had from the late second season. It was clear Clark was hurting from Mayson's death, though from reasons she didn't know about. Yet she expected Clark to absolutely fine about it a week later even though she was hurt by it as well despite her jealousy and antipathy for Mayson. Clark was obsessed with finding her killer, something Lois would have done in his place. But she didn't give Clark the time to get over it before she started trying to make him jealous over Dan. Lois may have been able to make her excuse by blaming her own insecurities, but to hurt Clark like that was inexcusable.
Maybe Clark had associated anything romantic with Mayson's death. Could he feel bad that Mayson had died while he had been kissing her? Was that the reason for his mysterious disappearing act?
This is a plausible explanation, but one she never got from him. It is Clark's fault that he never took the opportunity to explain to her exactly how he felt about her. While all these interruptions as Superman may have been exasperating on screen, he did have a lot of downtime where he could have told her the truth, or at least a plausible excuse (assuming he knows how to make one, of course
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Did he know how much she needed him?
Clearly not, since he's about to leave town because she's too busy chasing Scarface.
Even though she had known all along who had always been the one to hold her affections, she had never done anything about her feelings. She had been scared. Frightened of his reaction.
Yeah, this made it half her fault, but she placed all the blame solely on Clark. Unfair.
Maybe she had initially started talking to him because Clark had made her so angry. And then when she realized that Clark was jealous of him, she kept stringing Daniel along to see if Clark would break.
That's exactly what she had been doing. Stringing Daniel along.
She felt so horrible! No, she'd never felt anything for Daniel. But she'd strung him along just to make Clark jealous.
This seems to be a habit with Lois. Fishface was showing blatant interest, so she decided to date him so she could hide from the person she really wanted. I know we had a collective "finally" when she made the right choice. Here, I'm glad she realized what she was doing.
Yes, she definitely made the right choice. In fact, it really hadn't been a choice at all. Clark had always been the one she loved -- it had just taken her so long to realize it. By some good fortune, he was still available even though it had taken her so long to make her decision. She hadn't lost him through it all. If nothing else had made her realize how much she needed him, that fact, alone, had.
She needed Clark. And now she just needed to make him realize how much they needed *each other*.
It's nice she realized here just how much time she wasted and how close she'd come to losing him after she'd spent so much time pushing him away.
She knew he loved her -- and she just needed to make *him* acknowledge his feelings.
This was actually closer to her own situation in the reverse of how she meant it. She was the one who actually took so long to admit her feelings. Clark had always known he felt that way. It was just the writers who wanted to torture us that kept him from taking one minute out of his day to tell her so. It was Clark who never really knew how she felt. She was clearly interested, but she never showed him it went anywhere beyond that. That mistake on her part nearly cost them both dearly, as he was ready to leave town, believing she didn't care.
Good pair of vignettes!
P.S. I'm also wondering why the man from Minnesota was written out.
I'm sure he would have made a much more believable potential suitor than "Just call me Daniel" Scardino.
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