Oh, I’m late to the party (again.) I’m finding this story, and today’s conversation, interesting partly because of my own personal dislike of the ease with which Lois seemed to fall for other men (Luthor, Scardino, Deter, even, I suppose, Superman). Meanwhile, although Clark was flattered by the attention Mayson gave him, he always knew that he knew that he knew that he loved Lois – even amnesia couldn’t make him forget *that*. I really hated that amnesia made Lois forget her feelings for Clark. Even though I am aware that Lois forgetting her love is more realistic than Clark remembering his, in the Lois and Clark world they are “soul mates” and I always wished the episodes of Lois’s amnesia had been written differently.
Her mind might not be willing to recognize her feelings for him, but her body most certainly had.
In the show, even though Lois did not remember Clark, did not remember loving Clark, and did not respond to anything Clark said, she DID respond to one thing: Clark’s kiss. When Clark kisses her on the sidewalk, the script says “She’s startled, then succumbs.” She later tells Deter, “I felt something. Something more than just partners.”
I actually like the explanation about the sense of smell (along with, I suppose, other sensory memories related to sight, touch, and even sound). Add to that the memories, partial memories, and even false memories, and I find Lois’s actions quite plausible.
Speaking of memories, partial memories, and false memories, I was jumping up and down at the fact that I DID remember the “my heart belongs to another man” line.
It had taken all of his powers of persuasion to convince her that […] neither Clark nor Lois had stripped down to their underwear in order to show each other their various battle scars - that what she was remembering was from Lethal Weapon 3, which they had watched one evening while working on that story.
LOL. One of the funniest bits of dialog on the TV show comes from this very episode:
LOIS: […H]ow does the chariot race fit it?
CLARK: The what?
LOIS: The chariot race. Some guy had spikes in his spokes and tore up some other guy's wheels.
CLARK: Uh, that's a Charlton Heston movie, Lois...
DETER: 'The Ten Commandments'.
CLARK: 'Ben-Hur'.
LOIS: Who Her?
CLARK: Ben.
DETER: No, 'Ten --'
LOIS: Ben...?
CLARK: ... Hur.
LOIS: Her what?
DETER: -- 'Commandments'.
LOIS:'Her Commandments?'
DETER(to Clark): You see what you've done? You've confused her.
CLARK (to Lois): The chariot race is 'Ben Hur,' the Red Sea is 'Ten Commandments,' and neither one actually happened to you. LOIS: But Soylent Green is people, right?
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LOIS: ... so those were all just movies, even where the apes are chasing him through a cornfield? (both men nod) But Charlton Heston _was_ President.
DETER (to Clark): You see what this is doing to her?
CLARK: Actually, she's right. In an alternate reality.
So, yes, very realistic having Lois mix up fact and fiction.
He pulled out what was quite obviously a diamond engagement ring. “And do you remember this?” […] Suddenly, the perfect response came to his query about whether she remembered their engagement came to her. “I do,” she said, raising her hand to allow him to slip the ring onto her finger.
*This* is why I cannot fault Clark for sleeping with Lois. This happened (on the show) after Lois had regained her memory, and serves to emphasis that, in Clark’s mind, that is what has happened here. (Although I have to admit I like the modifications you made, which help to put them on an equal footing rather than having a captor/captive relationship.)
Looking forward to MORE!
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