I'm sorry that you're not getting the dynamic you were hoping for and I'm sympathetic to your frustrations about that. Personally, I prefer Lois Falls For Clark First to Lois Falls For Superman First because I like the idea of her falling for the actual guy rather than his persona (and that ties in to the fact that I always hated the trope that Superman was the real guy and Clark Kent was just a mask; to me it always seemed like such a ... reductive way of looking at the character). So yeah, I guess it all comes down to personal preference regarding the dynamic. The only thing I really need is that it be mutual; if Lois is realizing she's got deeper feelings for Clark, then I need the same thing to be happening on his side of the equation.
I wouldn't even think of trying to talk you out of how you feel -- what makes a 'ship work for people is often as individual a thing as fingerprints -- but I do disagree, somewhat, with a couple of your arguments.
1. It breaks canon.
This is problematic because if one is really going to go there, then Lois shouldn't be in Smallville at all. Neither should Oliver. There's never been any non-AU version of the uber-canon where Clark knew Lois before his first day at the Daily Planet or where he knew the Green Arrow before Clark became Superman. For that matter, it's only in the Silver Age Superboy line of comics that Clark and Lex knew one another and were friends before they were enemies. SV has played so fast and loose with many aspects of the canon already that I do think it's hard to single anything out -- other than Clark doesn't become Superman, Lex doesn't become a villain -- and say it's impermissible because it violates canon.
I can't think of one plausible reason why Lois has suddenly got this level of jealousy about Clark.
I read her OTT reaction as being precisely because she was surprised to find herself feeling proprietary about seeing Clark with Maxima. She didn't expect that out of herself, which suggests to me that what she feels was buried deep and she was taken aback when it bubbled to the surface. Even as she's talking to Maxima, she's denying that she feels anything. It's Maxima who insists there's something deeper there.
She falls for heroes, damn it! And she has never seen Clark as one.
I would argue that Lois falls for honorable men. She didn't know AC had any kind of powers when she dallied with him; she just knew that he had certain ideals about how the world should be that she found admirable. She fell for Oliver before she ever knew he was the Green Arrow and in fact, when she suspected him of being GA in Hydro, she was actually upset about it precisely because she didn't agree with GA's style of vigilantism. By my lights, she was crying about it to Clark because she thought she'd discovered that the honorable man she loved was really the sketchy vigilante whose moral compass didn't quite align with hers. She was upset because she wasn't quite sure she could reconcile the two. At the end of the day, she came to think better of GA because she thinks Oliver is an honorable man and that made it easier for her to give his actions as GA the benefit of the doubt that they were being done with good intentions.
It's SV canon that Lois already thinks Clark is an honorable young man (Reckoning).
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Date: 2008-10-10 11:27 pm (UTC)I wouldn't even think of trying to talk you out of how you feel -- what makes a 'ship work for people is often as individual a thing as fingerprints -- but I do disagree, somewhat, with a couple of your arguments.
1. It breaks canon.
This is problematic because if one is really going to go there, then Lois shouldn't be in Smallville at all. Neither should Oliver. There's never been any non-AU version of the uber-canon where Clark knew Lois before his first day at the Daily Planet or where he knew the Green Arrow before Clark became Superman. For that matter, it's only in the Silver Age Superboy line of comics that Clark and Lex knew one another and were friends before they were enemies. SV has played so fast and loose with many aspects of the canon already that I do think it's hard to single anything out -- other than Clark doesn't become Superman, Lex doesn't become a villain -- and say it's impermissible because it violates canon.
I can't think of one plausible reason why Lois has suddenly got this level of jealousy about Clark.
I read her OTT reaction as being precisely because she was surprised to find herself feeling proprietary about seeing Clark with Maxima. She didn't expect that out of herself, which suggests to me that what she feels was buried deep and she was taken aback when it bubbled to the surface. Even as she's talking to Maxima, she's denying that she feels anything. It's Maxima who insists there's something deeper there.
She falls for heroes, damn it! And she has never seen Clark as one.
I would argue that Lois falls for honorable men. She didn't know AC had any kind of powers when she dallied with him; she just knew that he had certain ideals about how the world should be that she found admirable. She fell for Oliver before she ever knew he was the Green Arrow and in fact, when she suspected him of being GA in Hydro, she was actually upset about it precisely because she didn't agree with GA's style of vigilantism. By my lights, she was crying about it to Clark because she thought she'd discovered that the honorable man she loved was really the sketchy vigilante whose moral compass didn't quite align with hers. She was upset because she wasn't quite sure she could reconcile the two. At the end of the day, she came to think better of GA because she thinks Oliver is an honorable man and that made it easier for her to give his actions as GA the benefit of the doubt that they were being done with good intentions.
It's SV canon that Lois already thinks Clark is an honorable young man (Reckoning).