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Now, *that's* how it *should* have ended.

I LOVE IT!

Perfect solution that I've never seen anyone come up with before!

Thanks for sharing!

Great idea for a way round their predicament!!

And

Em

That makes so much sense. Duh! Why didn't I think of that?

Elisabeth
PS Love the title

Brilliant.

Tank (who is amazed that no one had come up with that variation before)

Absolutely delightful!

Yes, great idea.
It was very original and I love the reaction of Lois ! Excellent story !!

Delightful. Truly delightful. I loved the revelation and Clark having gained some sense.

Great idea! Much better than the original, and love Clark's jealousy giving his secret away.

Yours Jenni

*cough*We need a whole episode rewrite*cough*

Love it, and I can't believe I've never seen that ending before!

JD

Like others said, this was how it should have ended.

It's weird how some TV episodes are totally brainless just because the producers of the show want to use that episode to achieve a certain effect. The whole freezing episode was shoved into LnC just so that the producers could show its viewers that Lois Lane did in fact love Clark Kent, and she loved him even more than she loved Superman. Well, fine. But any way you look at it, the whole "You-have-to-freeze-me-so-that-we-can-save-Clark's-parents" scenario is totally contrived and stupid.

Stupid, stupid! Why did Bobby Ewing walk out of the shower in the Dallas episode way back, after he had seemingly been dead for months? It was because Patrick Duffy wanted to come back to the show.

You can try to "correct" that Dallas episode and make it appear reasonable, or else you just wash your hands off the whole thing and admit that this episode was a braindead thing.

But hey, BJ, your take on ATAI about quadruples the EIQ (episode intelligence quota) of it!

Ann

You rock, BJ. That was truly inspired!

LOL! Cute, funny and I loved both of their reactions to the revelation.

LabRat

Wouldn't it have been fun if that's how the revelation had gone? And we would have had episode continuity, to boot, LOL.

You rock, Brenda! Thanks for letting me preview it, and thanks for sharing it with all of us. Very fun.

Kathy

wonderful!

Loved it. Resurrection - very clever!
Loved that Clark got found out over his jealousy of Dan.

LOL cute!

Thanks, BJ - clever rewrite. So obvious when you think about it, and yet no one has.

c.

/slaps head/

Of course! It's obvious now that you've mentioned it! It makes total sense! Why didn't anyone else (i.e., the writers of the show, darn it!) remember Resurrection?

From TV Tropes:

Forgotten Phlebotinum:
A situation, most common in sci-fi and fantasy, where an amazingly useful power or device is revealed in one episode, and would be amazingly useful in later episodes, if it weren't for the fact that nobody seems to remember it. Sometimes the power or device is remembered under circumstances where it proves mostly useless, but not remembered when it would do any good.

This is for powers or devices that are forgotten in general. Something which the character does use a lot and only is forgotten this one time is Plot Induced Stupidity.

If the device is remembered, but there's some contrived excuse as to why it isn't available or won't work, that's Holding Back The Phlebotinum or It Only Works Once.

Not to be confused with We Have Forgotten The Phlebotinum . If they (finally!) remember to use it in the end, it's a Forgotten Superweapon .

This trope does not necessarily denote bad writing. It can be (as noted in the Order Of The Stick example) convenient writing instead. If the protagonists have some piece of phlebotinum that makes them invincible or at least very hard to so much as injure that is both reliable and accessible, vast numbers of plots have to be thrown out the window. Some would call this unwillingness to change the Status Quo and then adapt to the new order of things "lazy", but when one is working on a regular series, changing the status quo (interesting though it can be dramatically) is not something to be done lightly. When it's a Shared Universe this is even more pronounced. In such cases, "Forgotten" Phlebotinum is a subtrope of Real Life Writes The Plot.

When it's not forgotten and is used in a later episode because a writer wants to acknowledge continuity, it is Olaf\'s Hammer.

Yeah, I mean, the shields constructed on Utopia Planetia must be the worst pieces of crap ever assembled

Back on topic; Brenda, your muse is great. The entire idea of reusing Resurrection was so obvious. So obvious, in fact, that it never occurred to me until I read this little piece. BTW, Clark froze Lois a second time at the end of season 4, to get her out of a hostage situation. Can you imagine how shocked I was when I watched that episode again after I had completely forgotten about it?


You do know, of course, that ending it like this is a very Carol thing to do, right?

Michael