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 Yup! On balanced reflection me too. And I've just struck out that part of my complaint for that reason. And also because it's been well pointed out that SV is more consistent with post-Crisis comics canon.
what makes a 'ship work for people is often as individual a thing as fingerprints Yeah, ultimately that's the problem. It doesn't work so well for me now and I'm not really attached to this post as meta--it's more just a record of my personal resignation about the dynamic flipping away from what I personally prefer.
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. Paid. But I found the whole thing massively overwritten. If it had been more restrained I could have rolled with it, but the strength of Lois's reaction (she screamed and tapped at his chest and stormed off!) seems to me like she couldn't really remain oblivious to her reaction and its implications. Yes, she protests against it to Maxima but Lois ain't dumb. She knows what that kind of over-the-top behaviour means and she may not like it but she just realised she has feelings for Clark. I think that showed in their final scene too where she very carefully avoided telling Clark what Maxima said. Once upon a time Lois would have blurted that out to him and been all 'HAAAA! Isn't that funny!' Now it's too close to the truth for her to voice.
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 That's not quite my reading of that scene, but I agree that it's well established that Lois likes honorable men. And she does think of Lois as one--she has gone so far as to say she'd be lucky to end up with someone like him one day. But before that did not mean she was actively interested in him, it just meant that she recognised in him qualities she appreciated.
Re: part I
Yup! On balanced reflection me too. And I've just struck out that part of my complaint for that reason. And also because it's been well pointed out that SV is more consistent with post-Crisis comics canon.
what makes a 'ship work for people is often as individual a thing as fingerprints
Yeah, ultimately that's the problem. It doesn't work so well for me now and I'm not really attached to this post as meta--it's more just a record of my personal resignation about the dynamic flipping away from what I personally prefer.
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.
Paid. But I found the whole thing massively overwritten. If it had been more restrained I could have rolled with it, but the strength of Lois's reaction (she screamed and tapped at his chest and stormed off!) seems to me like she couldn't really remain oblivious to her reaction and its implications. Yes, she protests against it to Maxima but Lois ain't dumb. She knows what that kind of over-the-top behaviour means and she may not like it but she just realised she has feelings for Clark. I think that showed in their final scene too where she very carefully avoided telling Clark what Maxima said. Once upon a time Lois would have blurted that out to him and been all 'HAAAA! Isn't that funny!' Now it's too close to the truth for her to voice.
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
That's not quite my reading of that scene, but I agree that it's well established that Lois likes honorable men. And she does think of Lois as one--she has gone so far as to say she'd be lucky to end up with someone like him one day. But before that did not mean she was actively interested in him, it just meant that she recognised in him qualities she appreciated.