Whew! I started feeling uneasy as I soon as I read the revelation conversation. Lena's comments and replies seemed too carefully calculated for me. When the flash-forward (or present, really) had a woman reporter appear, panting, at a Superman (not Superman yet, right?) rescue, I felt relieved! Lena is NOT Lois. Lena, instead, is Clark's Claudette, so to speak.
It hurt to watch Lena play Clark so carefully on her string, but it was very well done. And when she carefully suggests blackmailing him for future "assistance"... well, wow. This woman is evil. Good evil, though.
Kudos to Clark, too, for being so efficient and careful about stopping the gunrunners in their tracks. And I had to laugh at "Men! Alien men!" as a great turnaround from the line on the show.
Soooo, Clark and Lois meet for the first time!
Very nice Lois babble there. Will we get to find out why Clark chose to settle long-term in Metropolis? Why he hasn't bothered getting himself a job at the DP?
I have only one niggling problem here. Clearly, Clark has been performing open super rescues for some time now, as the firemen knew who he was and the Spanish couple, despite the husband's inital fears, weren't skeptical about his abilities to fly them to the hospital. (Loved the Jon/Juan bit, btw.) I find it hard to believe that NO ONE has yet tagged Clark with SOME kind of name or other. Whether he likes it or not, some of the tabloids, or even the more respectable media, would have surely given him some name by now. The Metropolis Marvel? The Angel? *Something.*
This has been a great elseworlds so far, Taivas, and I'm looking forward to MORE!
Hazel