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cuidadora: Thank you for dropping in on this discussion. I welcome all viewpoints.
I’ve only joined the boards recently, and am still reading the first half of this story. So I may have a different perspective, and apologize if I miss some important facts.
Your facts seem pretty accurate to me.
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What I see when I read this part is both Lois and Clark hurting emotionally, and Clark also physically, with both of their support systems inadequate. Okay, their primary support systems are probably each other, and right now they’re thousands of miles apart. They can’t talk on the phone with Lois’s justifiable concerns about surveillance. And Clark doesn’t know her concerns, so he doesn’t understand.
Yea! That was what I was trying to convey.
Both are floundering, and their secondary support woefully inadequate.
Clark can't clearly tell Jimmy what went on without telling him more than Clark wants to tell, or can tell. At the moment, Lois is confused by what she learned at Lex's penthouse and nervous (ala how she acted during Invisible Man scare) that someone with an obvious beef against her might be out to get her. She doesn't want to risk Luthor using anyone else to get to her or Perry thinking that she's seriously has gone crazy.
I am confused about what’s up with Jimmy. I don’t understand why he was pushing Clark so hard to not go to the pool. Does he see Clark’s pain and not want to leave him alone? Is he just oblivious? Why can’t Clark go to the pool and Jimmy the casino if that’s what they each want?
As Jimmy said back in Part 181:
“Every one of us sacrificed something to save the Planet,” Jimmy said. “Unfortunately, it just wasn’t enough.”
Remember, Clark may have spent the last couple days in Lex's kryptonite cage, but Jimmy was only let out of jail the previous day. He's been in jail for months, and his mind has been focusing on that. Clark's injuries are more internal and not obvious to sight. The guys came to Vegas together, so it is assumed that their activities should be together, at least initially. More on Jimmy and his motivations, coming up in the next part.
I thought this chapter clarified many of Lois & Clark's issues and concerns.
I'm glad to read this. Thank you for your comments.
Mike M: Thank you for stopping by.
Excellent chapter, it puts a lot of things into perspective. I don't think Clark can consider that Lois cheated on/lied to him during the investigation any longer. Once he figures out what she knows, when she knew it about the torture and the Luthor non-death it will become crystal clear that she has and will continue to protect him regardless of its impact on her. In her view his well being comes first which is very telling. Nice to see this version of Lois back.
Thank you. While his visit to Cat made Clark worry needlessly at first, she also reassured him that Lois DID NOT CHEAT on him. He trusts Cat's judgment, and knows that his friend would not tell him this unless she honestly believed it. (Because if Cat honestly believed that Lois was with Lex, she wouldn't hesitate in stating so.) Cat told him in her note (which Phil passed to Clark before he left their apartment) that she was going to prove to him that Lois didn't cheat on him. Right now, Clark is plagued more by guilt on having doubted Lois's loyalty, by the images on Lex's sex tape which were pretty damning, and dealing with coping with these things without his powers. Even though, Clark knows that it wasn't Lois on the tape, his memory replays the images, which tell him otherwise... hence his torment.
Again nice long chapter that covers a lot of ground and sets things up for Clark's return from Las Vegas if he doesn't kill Jimmy first and get arrested there...
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Why does everyone naturally assume that Jimmy will die just because he doesn't show up in Metropolis over the next three years? Oh. Even though, some might consider this a spoiler, Clark doesn't kill Jimmy... although, he might be tempted to at some points.
Thank you all for your comments.
