Here's my 2c:
Favorite scene:
Clark editing Lois’s copy:
Clark: that’s not how you spell aquifer:
LOIS: easy Kent, you can be replaced.
Followed by some eye contact, grinning, office flirting.
Plot bunnies:
Sexism complaints by the mayor’s way he’s addressing women.
Fics
When the Sky Falls by Bob Bartholomew
After Nightfall: The Return of Superman by Bob Bartholomew (sequel)
Nightfall Honeymoon by Virginia R.
Green-eyed Monster by Virginia R. (prequel to Nightfall Honeymoon)
There must be more...
Quotes:
LOIS: I’ve never been a summer person. Especially in winter.
LOIS: Superman is in the shower? Did you see him? Does the outfit actually come off?
LOIS: I only know how to make four things, and this is the only one without chocolate.
LOIS: But we’re partners! I was starting to like having one.
LOIS: First Superman and now Clark. I don’t know who I’ll miss more.
PERRY (to Superman): You got a place to stay tonight? Lois & Cat: he can stay with me!
PERRY: Kent was a heck of a reporter. But so are you.
PERRY (Minute 18): Story about how Elvis was a law abiding citizen and President Nixon wanted to make him an honorary FBI agent.
CAT (to Lois): I know what will cheer you up. Double, double chocolate fudge.
Details:
Some good shots of the Metropolis crest. It seems to be inspired by the movie poster for the film Metropolis from 1920s.
Mayor Berkowitz (to Lois during the press conference): I got you, babe, but there is no need to worry.
The mayor is played by Sonny Bono. He’s pro-environment, so that tracks with the underlying story, and it also means the “Babe” is an inside joke, not actual rampant sexism from the 90s. Still, taken just inside the story, that’s quite a picture LnC is painting.
The city officials have hand fan with “Smoking can be hazardous to your health” printed on them.
Minute 6: Temperature Chart. Starts from Pilot and charts each episode. Includes only the big episodic Superman rescues. How did Lex heat up Metropolis during the first couple of episodes? The chart also shows that Neverending Battle is before Strange Visitor which is the airing order but not the logical order. Given that the chart was probably done by the production designers and is not meant to actually convey something to the viewers (early 90s TV sets, no frame-by-frame pause button), I would say it’s just random jokes, not canon. In particular as it states in the episode that it’s a complete chart, taken over successive days, not over the course of several months.
The sun-funnel explanation stated or repeated by Clark shows a disturbing lack of basic understanding of physics on Clark’s part. On the other hand, it tracks with how the invisibility suits are supposed to work. And Superman’s x-ray vision. Maybe this universe does indeed have visual rays like Euclid has proposed.
It’s the first appearance of Nigel St. John.
Why is Lex taking a cold bath in his office instead of turning on the AC?
Is Clark intentionally sabotaging the fingerprinting?
Minute 19: Lois giggles like a schoolgirl while standing next to Superman
Lois can make pasta salad. It’s one of the four things she can cook and the only thing not chocolate-based.
Superman makes Lois believe that Clark is running off to catch the story and leaving her behind. That’s actually quite the self-sabotage.
Minute 28: Superman holds Lois’s cheek with his right hand. (gesture from ATAI)
Minute 35: Clark holds Lois’s cheek with his right hand (gesture rom ATAI)
Lex has the private phone number / direct line for the mayor
Lex explains how one of the safety features of the power plant is that it cannot be shut down (i.e. the rods cannot be retracted to stop the nuclear reaction). This seems a bit…hazardous to me.
The inside of the nuclear reactor looks pretty fake/unrealistic when compared with Chernobyl or other reactor photos available.
Michael
