Why I love SVLois falling for Clark first is not only because it works with the post-Crisis retelling of the myth, (and that I hate mostly everything pre-Crisis related as far as Superman goes anyway), it works for me in Smallville's retelling of the myth set in this post-crisis world. Because that's basically what the show is doing now (and has been since season 4 IMO).
Because, usually, Lois doesn't meet Clark until he has all his separate identities firmly established. So she only, really, meets the separate parts of a whole man.
On Smallville, however, Lois met the whole person in one go. Because Clark hasn't yet had to separate himself into different people. So, because Lois always fall for the real person and not the disguise, as Clark had no working disguises when they met and were becoming friends, it totally makes sense that at some point she'd start falling for him since she always falls for the "real" person.
For me, SV rendered any chance of Lois falling for Superman first impossible the minute she met Clark Kent and he had NONE of his separate identities established yet. Because Lois was meeting the full person from the outset, not just one or two separate sides of him.
Same like she fell for Ollie without knowing he's the Green Arrow.
Exactly. Which was pretty much set up for now. And SV Lois has been shown to be uncomfortable with the "hero" side of these guys, not the "normal" side (because of the issues with her father). She didn't fall for Green Arrow, she fell for Oliver. Green Arrow was just the secret surprise she didn't expect.
And now, falling for Clark makes Superman the secret surprise she isn't going to expect.
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Re: pt.1
Date: 2008-10-10 04:51 pm (UTC)Why I love SVLois falling for Clark first is not only because it works with the post-Crisis retelling of the myth, (and that I hate mostly everything pre-Crisis related as far as Superman goes anyway), it works for me in Smallville's retelling of the myth set in this post-crisis world. Because that's basically what the show is doing now (and has been since season 4 IMO).
Because, usually, Lois doesn't meet Clark until he has all his separate identities firmly established. So she only, really, meets the separate parts of a whole man.
On Smallville, however, Lois met the whole person in one go. Because Clark hasn't yet had to separate himself into different people. So, because Lois always fall for the real person and not the disguise, as Clark had no working disguises when they met and were becoming friends, it totally makes sense that at some point she'd start falling for him since she always falls for the "real" person.
For me, SV rendered any chance of Lois falling for Superman first impossible the minute she met Clark Kent and he had NONE of his separate identities established yet. Because Lois was meeting the full person from the outset, not just one or two separate sides of him.
Same like she fell for Ollie without knowing he's the Green Arrow.
Exactly. Which was pretty much set up for now. And SV Lois has been shown to be uncomfortable with the "hero" side of these guys, not the "normal" side (because of the issues with her father). She didn't fall for Green Arrow, she fell for Oliver. Green Arrow was just the secret surprise she didn't expect.
And now, falling for Clark makes Superman the secret surprise she isn't going to expect.
*relurk*