Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Clark TOC can be found Here

As you see, there's more than just a missing Dr. Brenda Muldoon who has departed from Metropolis recently.

Comments welcome.

It figures that Lana would sue Superman. And I guessed Linda King! Do I get a star?

Wow, we're got a lot of stories going on at once here.

Joan

You've sure got a lot of things going on all at once. I wonder why the kidnappers took both boys? Presumably the only difference between this universe and cannon is Clark. What difference could he have made that would affect the kidnappers? I guess there could be some butterfly effect going on, since alt-cannon-Clark's absence, alt-Clark's presence, Superman being different, and Lois behaving differently based on her flashbacks have admittedly had pretty wide effects.

I'm not surprised that Clark turned out to have spied on Lois's dinner with Lex. He's concerned about not showing her proper trust, but I don't think she's really earned his trust to the point that he shouldn't check out what's going on. She has been very secretive and vague about what she's up to, and her behavior has been circumspect. If Lois wants Clark to trust her implicitly, she needs to be implicitly trustworthy.

I like Clark's instant dislike for Linda. I'm interested to see how that plays out. Will he pretend to defect to the Star? Would he let Lois in on his plans if he did? Will he flirt with Linda to get information?

I think that should be "he was". The other possibility might be to start with "only", but you might need to do some other changes to, so it would be less of a stright forward fix.

I was hoping to learn who Lois saw in the mirror.

I was just about to go undercover again as Lois Lane.

I love "back in" followed by the a future time statements.

So are we assuming that canon was out of order?

I dislike Lana more every time she is mentioned.

Now how is this change from canon explained? Well, other than the EW wanting to make things different and more intense.

Well, in the 1990s with the economy booming, coffee shops had to take whoever they could get.

for Lois being forgotten.

And we have to sait to learn what Jimmy has discovered.

I sort of wish they had done these multiple stories running at one in the TV show, but I guess I know why they didn't. They were always trying to expand viewership, and that does not work well when stories build on eachother too much.

Stll, I think it would have made more sense to have had Linda King and the Star be recurring antagonists.

Two points each to all my Readers who commented on 107.

John: Thanks for the FDK. I know I'm behind in responding to lots of your other FDK, but I'm trying to keep in front of cushion. I almost delayed posting 108, because I didn't think 114 was quite there yet, but then decided it would as is. Please be patient with me. I haven't forgotten.

Thanks. I believe in one of the drafts I had started this sentence with "Only". Fixed.

We'll get there. Be patient. But I have a requirement to my Readers to show both LnC in each part.

Um... Thanks. I didn't know that. I meant that there wasn't anyone up there to hear him. Why don't sound waves travel in space?

Yes, you're absolutely correct. It was a poorly constructed sentence. I mean "His ardor" which reflected the ardor he sensed in her. I'll fix... somehow. <<in need a 'how will I do that?' smilie>> Fixed! (I hope. I used the above description.)

It always seems to be.

Sometimes one makes sounds one doesn't realize one is making.

Hearing and seeing (although not with x-ray vision). She's standing and has her back to him, so he can see her shift her stance and hear the ever so lightly contact of flesh to flesh.

Did I mention his self-control isn't the same as canon Clark's?

CLARK: Still, I would find it helpful.

Thank you. This Clark doesn't sugar coat things... obviously.

He thought "proper couple" not "intimate couple".

You say tomato, Clark reads potato.

But Herb convinced him that this was a better option... There's no way, you'll ever forgive Herb is there?

First they have to survive this investigation.

Yep, he's pretty bad with follow through. He knows what's "right", but he doesn't always go there.

Yep, that's far out there.

LOIS: SM = CK = LH

Well, it works for Clark.

It never made sense to me why the presidential election was in Feb? Please! I always shift it to Nov where it belongs. Civics! Hollywood writers. Did anyone of them graduate high school?

LANA: Well, Clark's memory of me is quite biased, if you must know.

CLARK: :rolleyes:

Who me? See above explanation.

LOL

Thanks. I figure this Lois is a bit more sure of herself and her position in life than canon Lois was at this point. She knows that Clark's Superman, and he adores her. It gives her strength.

See, in canon she just assumed Linda didn't know this.

Plus, he doesn't need much sleep.

That still doesn't make it the truth.

Partners. They stick up for one another.

Thanks. Fixed.

LOIS: Exactly what I was thinking.

They might, but only in passing.

Nods.

Actually, I believe he said that he wasn't sure if it would kill him on their flight out to show SM the spaceship. (or on the flight back to Metropolis afterwards.)

But, boy, that would have been some sad Christmas at the orphanage.

Clark Bear fans united against Clausy bear.

That mall scene was based on a real life event.

But if I don't leaving you wanting more, what makes you keep coming back? BTW: Thanks for continued readership.

EDIT: And here are your two points.

I agree. Plus, it makes sense when they keep telling us about stories they've been working on for months, which we're just now hearing about for the first time. :rolleyes:

Sound is vibration waves traveling through a medium, like air or water or walls. Since there is no air in space, there is nothing to vibrate, so there are no sound waves.

I don;t think we have had that requirement meant consistently, although it seems to have been done fairly well of late.

Jimmy:I want to be uped to being in each part.

Readers:This is not Lois and Jimmy, no allowance for that, you got your time to shine in "Another Lois".

Jimmy:No, that was Jimbo.

Because sound is a disturbance of matter, it only travels through mediums. In the vacum of space there are no molecule for it to disturbe. Sound waves are not a thing like light waves, just the disturbance of other things, and in space there are no other things to disturb.

Now I will have to re-read this part to make sure it now works. Oh the horror (now really).

I guess that is true. Also, who wants to have to worry about sub-vocal sounds?

Probably, although canon Clark never had to pretend not to be dating Lois when he really was.

he has his sweet aversion back.

Lois:If that was the only aversion he had back, I would be happy. But no, he has to have his much more disruptive to our hapiness aversion back as well.

I guess you have a point. Although maybe I was thinking it would take that long for Lois to take down Luthor.

After he sent Clark into such deep despair, probably not.

Considering how far he ever got with his complexed reveal to Lois campaign, yep, I doubt we will see follow through on this plan.

If it was not for the Christmas episode I would just argue that the time the episodes are set in and the time they are shown do not mesh. That is also in my mind the best way to make the Wedding Arc/Read wedding time work. The failed wedding was not in February 1996 but in August 1996. Then everything works. At least it works a lot more.

But canon Lois knew Clark adored her.

Lois:Which gives him lots of time to do things with me.

Maybe I need to re-read that part.

Superman gets sick with Lois showing up. Hmm, that would have prevented her from learning the truth at all.

We want Clarkie Bear! We want Clarkie Bear!

I don't really deserve them. I read other FDK to figure it out.

That’s ‘em good ears of his. After all, he can pick out Lois’s voice from across the city if she is really scared, why not pick up on a couple of gas atoms he manages to shake around. But he might think about flying back down now to take another gulp of air, otherwise, we get amnesiac Clark again.

What Lois reads: Useless yadda-di-yadda. We get amorous Clark again. Ears. Nose. What ever.

LOIS: I suddenly feel creeped out.

When it happens, he’ll never want to get out of…the bed again.

LEX: My regaling her about how I finally acquired more substance for project K is *not* boring.

Psychopaths are perfectly predisposed to being perfect gentleman. Unless they’re women. Then they’re ladies. Of the night. In Mindy’s case. Anyhow, is there also such a thing as a non-criminal murder?

LEX: The kind where you don’t get caught for. You know, when they don’t even know it’s been a murder.

LEX: That’s what my alpine fortress is for.

LEX: That’s what I had cloning invented for.


(Please also note the sleepware attire Lois is clothed in)

There’s a fanfic about that out there.

NASA: That was a historic monument.
NEIL A.: Hey! That’s not nice.
Alien from Independence Day: Oh stuff it. If he hadn’t, we would have done it in a couple of years.

CLARK: And I want to whine and grind and whine some more.
The Padre:

LEX: Well…at least until she bears me some offspring.

TEMPUS: And that’s why *I* always win.

Maybe Lana was off her meds again that week?



No dig about Lois having gone up a dress-size or two?

LINDA: I will have you know I blew up that prostitution ring masquerading as a strip joint without any external help.

CARPENTER: Duh!

And yet, he won’t sleep with Lois either.

LOIS: So? I’ve got urges, too. Sue me.

Will still get him hired at the Met Star, though.

Michael

We got Witness before Christmas.

Okay, I'll grant you space isn't full of oxygen type air, but I can't believe it's empty either. There has to be *something* out there. It's not like a vacuum, is it? Because that doesn't make sense.

/insert blonde joke about not needing rockets in space because space's vacuum sucks you where you want to go/

And yet I get a bunch of or

Yes, most high school reunions are during the summer.

Not during S1. She suspected something...

CLARK: And she calls *me* a lunkhead?

Possibly. Possibly not.

EW: /Takes back points/
CLARK: He was being honest. You should let him keep them.
EW: Are you EC? No, no you're not. You're just plain good guy Clark. I'm EVIL WRITER here. They just don't give that title to anyone... okay, they do, but the writer has to be willing to torture his/her characters.
CLARK: Well, you got me there. I'm feeling tortured.
EW: Just you wait. Just you wait.

Darth Michael: Sorry about not posting this last night. I ran out of energy. Also, if you consider 4 pages/day over 4 days equals 16 pages of a first draft part, to be fleshed out in editing. I'll be in denial if I'm still at 4 pages come Tuesday morning.

Well, actually, this Clark as opposed to S1 Clark knows he doesn't need oxygen to breath in space (kind of like canon Clark discovered come Super Mann when he flew to the sun on one gulp of air).

LOIS: /Stops dancing and starts to weap/ Fine. Back to my investigation.

CLARK:

Actually, if you read on, she feels empowered.

CLARK:

CLARK: So, it will happen in a bed. Good to know. Avoid going "to bed" with Lois.

CAT: Oh, deary. A bed really is only one of the tools in my arsenal. I'll be happy to give Lois pointers for you.

CLARK:

LOIS: Project K? Hmmmm. Kiwifruit? Knitwear? Knishes? Knives? Ooooh. That one has possibilities. Maybe he's discovered a new kind of metal that never dulls.

HENDERSON: Being that murder is a criminal offense, I'm going to have to say "no".

HENDERSON: Or that.

LOIS: Oh? Does it have a maze?

So, would that make the clone for consummating or for killing, Lex?

Oh, come on. I've only had one cup of coffee. What are you trying to do to my poor nerves?

What Clark sees standing behind Lois:

Well, that doesn't sound like a happily ever after type fic, so I believe I'll skip it.

Yeah, those ID4 aliens loved their heavy bass music.

CARLOS: Yea! It will be a while before I get another visit from that man who doesn't listen to anything I say and wants to ruin my life.

LOIS: Join the club.

LEX: I'm a member <<holds up card>>

Me thinks that ER presumes too much.

Because Tempus never settles?

LANA: No, just a case of mistaken identity, but that doesn't matter. Whoever they were, they still snubbed me.

EW: <<fist pump>> 2 points to me for keeping readers on their toes.

Perhaps the kidnappers don't know *which* boy is the real Chris Moskal <<wink, wink>> and returns Nicky, and then accidentally kills Chris or asks for another $5 mil for the real son. Burn!

-- Continuation of Response to Darth Michael's FDK --
CLARK: I can sue her for that?
CAT:

Yes, but if he won't admit his secret identity to Lois, why would he during an undercover job interview?

LOIS: /shrugs demurely/ She deserved it.

I'm sure the others in the press core would hold it against Linda for being so petty; they're a pretty rambunctious group.

Except he set it up in the universe without Superman as well.

And yet I get a bunch of or

Oh, I thought he just flew really, really, really fast. Although I never noticed that. See, I knew that there were continuity problems with Super Mann.

I do love the interchange when Lois learns Clark can read Russian, although why she is surprised that SM can read all languages I am not sure.

Well…?

Some crook’s going to go down hard.







So she knows whether to bring mace?

LEX: Potato. Potato. You just replicate a new one for every time. That way you don’t have to worry about wearing them out.

Oops? Hey. Wait a second. That’s just what you’re doing to us the entire time, so…turnabout’s fair play?



Lois got divorced from Dan in that fic and took up with Clark. If memory serves right. Or maybe Dan died.



He *is* unsettling.



Hmmm… /squints/ Lois is married to Lex? Clark has found the One Ring?



No, Lois only dressed up as a stripper. Linda dressed up as a prostitute who fronted as a stripper.

Alternatively:
:rolleyes: @ TV

Only if he hopes to never get nookie.

Since when does he make smart choices?

OTHER REPORTERS LOIS SNUBBED: I can corroborate how Mad Dog Lane pulled a loaded machine gun Ms. King and screaming something about killing her.

Michael

Well, each of my Parts of my story isn't supposed to be equal to an episode. More like a segment between advertisement breaks.

Nope. There may have been one M&J free episode, one Perry-free episode, clearly no Cat at the end of S1, and several Lex-free episodes in S1. I could have used some Lex-Free episodes in S3 though.

CANON SUPERMAN: I came in and danced with her. We met daily to discuss my rescues. It was almost like dating. Could explain why she fell for SM over CK, though.

WELLS: Better a busted marriage than a dead wife.

Well, it wouldn't make sense that Nightfall was further away than the sun, would it?

Well, I posted on Last Tuesday, but then rewrote the part, so I wasn't ready to post last Friday.

LOIS: "Dressed up" as a prostitute? If she does the act and gets paid for it, and goes back for more, it's not dress up.

CLARK: So, that would be bad, right?
LOIS: :rolleyes:

You mean? <<points to previous answer>>

LOIS: Ooops?

CLARK: We're partners! Share and share alike, right?
LOIS:
CLARK: So, let Lois wake up first. Gotcha!

CAT:

Well, if she did that she might be suffering from morning sickness as well.

I thought that was implied?
LEX: Lois is going to do me hard?

LOIS: Considering he appears to have no idea on what to do in a woman’s bedroom, maybe a tutor really is necessary.

Lois not figuring it out and thinking it’s just a metal, yeah…

Depends on your POV. Clark for instance, would disagree and think her a very bad person. Someone he wouldn’t want to touch. But he would go and try and save the clones. Only, what he’d do with a battery of Lois-like looking former sex-slaves, I have no idea…

Same goes for the stripping, doesn’t it?
LINDA: Plus, student loans.

Michael

Season 3 had quite a few Martha and Jonathan free episodes. "The Dad Who Came In From the Cold" comes to mind the fastest. It in some ways represents Clark moving out of his parents shadow. He is stressing a lot about being a parent, but he never turns to his own parents to ask questions about it. I don't think we get M&J show up in "Never on a Sunday" either.

I don't think they ever actually went all the way between commercial breaks without showing Lois and Clark. Of course in Season 1 they had a bunch of scenes that were not really connected with the show, like the start of "Pheremone My Lovely" with Clark using his eyes to cook his eggs/Superman rushing in to save the recycling from going in the trash.

Although, maybe my view is a bit skewed. When I watch some episodes I skip through the Lois and Clark free parts. That is the parts with neither Lois nor Clark.

Come to think of it I don't think M&J show up in "Ghosts", and I am not remembering anyone else showing up in "I Got You Under My Skin" but Lois and Clark, but I may need to think harder.

I am not sure we actually see Perry in the first episode with Tempus, despite all the talk about it being his birthday.

Do M&J show up at all in the Lex Jr. arc?

Also, I am pretty sure M&J don't show up in "Smart Kids". At least they are not listed in the script.

Except in canon, even after SM comes and dances with Lois, she choses Clark over SM. Also, that is essentially what happens in "Fall of the House of Luthor".

Actually, there is at least one Jimmy-free episode. "I've Got You Under My Skin", in large part because it is set entirely in one day and that happens to be Lois and Clark's day off, does not have Perry or Jimmy. Nor does it have M&J.

The honeymoon episode we get M&J (well, technically only historical equivalents), and Perry and Jimmy. "I've Got You Under My Skin" we get none of them.

LOIS: I've brought my own club!

CAT: Ooooh! Me! Choose me! Please!
LOIS: No.

So, you're saying that a metal that never dulls would be able to penetrate Clark's skin?

They're "former" sex slaves because Clois doesn't like sex?

Sad thing is, it's already time to post October's.

Even if he's dead? Wouldn't he rather be alive for Lois's pregnancy?

We're they trying to show that Clark was finally a grown up and didn't need his folks anymore?

I hated those Public Service Announcements non-sequators. They were annoying. "Recycle" and "Bo Knows" especially.

I often skip through the Lex only parts from S1. He has a tendency to monologue.

According to IMDb, only Lois and Clark show up for IGYUMS.

I believe he's in the background, because we hear his voice.

I think Clark consults them during Lex Jr., but Smart Kids could have done with a lot less kids.

Actually, in BatP Lois chooses SM over CK. In HoL, SM has already says no dice, so CK wins over SM.

Michael

That is one possible reading. However, I think the bigger reason is that once Lois knows CK=SM, she can advise him on issues that relate to this, so structurally he does not need M&J as much.

I am not sure I ever watched all of "Bo Knows".

The last time I watched the Pilot I skipped most of the Lex parts.

I re-watched it, and I was right. The whole thing is on Lois and Clark's day off, so it actually makes sense.

I rewatched the Lex Jr. arc, and I think we see no M&J. In that arc Dr. Klein seems to be the go to for consultations.

But isn't dancing with Lois mainly a reference to "Church of Metropolis"'s ending. So in S2 we have SM again romancing Lois. Early in "Whine, Whine, Whine" we have Dr. Friskin confronting Lois on whether she has given up on her Superman romance fantasy or not. Which is sort of odd since Dr. Friskin knows how much Superman really, really wants Lois.

So "Whine, Whine, Whine" has Lois totally reject SM in favor of CK. Which I always figure makes his claim of proposing before he tells her because he wants to know she will love him for him pretty weak.

CLARK: What are you saying? That... that... I'm a bad guy?

Why would Wolverine want to kill Superman? That makes no sense. But a team up of that nasty general who gave Wolverine his adamantium skeleton and Trask would be a scary combo.

WOMEN: Now were 'sex workers' because we get paid.
SUPERMAN:

I post a month ahead so that people have time to write the story for the next month. Time to post Nov/Dec challenge now. Where has the time gone?

LOIS: /scratches that idea off list/

Of course, we see in S3, even though L&C are together he still needs their advice on relationships.

It's not like M&J can backtrace Lois's DNA swipe, can they?

Okay, point John.

Well, she can't well ADMIT that to another patient, now can she? Anyway, if her patients live happily ever after, she needs to get new patients. If they don't, she doesn't. Win-Win for her to discourage them to get together. <<not that I'd ever think Dr. F would do that.>>

I don't think the people who wrote WWW helped out on the script for AtAi. It's annoying when episodes contradict each other like this.

Oh, look. Shoe is fitting.

I figured, he’d like a challenge? Another year has passed without me being able to focus brain power on Halloween story. Michael

So, it's HIS fault for not knowing?

WOLVERINE:
/on a side note, I can't picture Wolverine actually making this expression. /

Sadly this Halloween was absent of any new costume themed stories.

Huh... um...uh... I was working on something... uh... FDK, right. Got to... uh... mmmmmm.

It’s called a ‘double standard’.


Minute 1:20

Michael

It's too fleeting to catch with the naked eye. Also, I hear they cut Rogue from the new movie.

Maybe too busy cavorting with vamps and weres?

Michael