Originally posted by Sue S.:
As far as the Superman visiting Lois dynamic goes, I’ve always fancied that he was a moth to flame. (I even wrote a series of short stories about it. <g>) Clark knows it's a bad idea on so many levels to make personal visits as Superman to Lois’ apartment. And yet he can’t stop himself from putting himself in that situation because he craves her attention.
No one has mentioned his visit at the end of “Wall of Sound”. After Clark wins his Kerth, Superman shows up in Lois’ apartment, ostensibly to thank her for her help in stopping Stokes. But he stays and takes a little Clarkish tease in admiring her Kerths and the way she “keeps them in the bottom of her closet”. To his credit, he does try to keep the visit business-like – it’s Lois who inches over the line to give him a rose and a kiss on the cheek.
To my mind, that’s exactly what keeps drawing him back as S2 goes on. He comes back to see her again at the end of CoM on a flimsy pretext and his unexpressed hopes are answered when Lois invites him to dance with her.
What’s particularly interesting to me is the fact that, after he’s alone with Lois, his voice gradually becomes more Clark and less Superman. He starts out with the deeper voice in both WoS and CoM, but once they start talking on a personal level (ie, once the thanks are over and he’s just chit-chatting), he becomes more like Clark. In WoS it’s when he comments that the lighting makes her awards look bigger. In CoM it’s when he tells her that he loves “Fly Me to the Moon.” YMMV.
