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I never like secretary Cosgrove, he always seemed to be playing a much deeper game.
How is Lois going to handle the Ida that her hubby is literally going to be a million miles away?

I'm wondering how they'll deal with the kiss now that everyone knows she's married to Clark.

Hi Morgana,

Thanks for the FDK!


Secretary Cosgrove is a minor character in this story.
As to how Lois is going to handle it - I guess the next couple of chapters will tell the tale.

Lois and Clark being married, and her knowing Clark’s secret, is sure to have a big impact on this story. I’m looking forward to seeing how you have it play out.

(begin physics geekery)
Not your fault, but I’ve always been peeved with the scientific illiteracy in this episode (ignore the flying man, please). First of all, a seventeen-mile object four days away at 8.3 miles/sec is not going to cast a shadow on the Earth’s surface. It would have to be much, much closer to do that.

An object that size could not affect the Earth’s rotation or orbit significantly on impact. Nightfall is to the Earth as a baseball is to a forty foot sphere. Earth has 100 million times the mass of Nightfall.

However, Nightfall is three times the size of what killed the dinosaurs (and thus nearly thirty times more massive), and would have a devastating effect on life on Earth. Not to mention obliterating everything for thousands of miles around the impact point. I feel the writers overdid it on the effects on the planet, and underestimated the impact to human and other life. Nuclear winter, firestorms, etc. etc.

I’ve modeled the impact using this handy calculator. You can play with the parameters yourself. As the page says, the results are uncertain, but they shouldn’t be off by an order of magnitude.

And of course, Clark didn’t have to destroy the asteroid to save Earth. If it’s four days away, he just needs to push it for a few minutes and it’ll miss. Don’t TV writers know basic orbital mechanics??!

Oh, wait…

Hi Virginia,

Thanks for the FDK!


Well, you see, the thing is - only a select few know that they are married. To the general public, since Lois retained her professional name, they are still Lane and Kent the writing team. They did not have an announcement put into the paper and since the ceremony was performed by a justice in Smallville, it will be harder for anyone to find out about it.

So, Lois and Clark don't think it will matter what Perry, Jimmy, and Lex think, when they see Lois throwing herself a man who isn't her husband? I hope not!

Hi Deb,

Thanks for the FDK!

I agree with you on the science errors and I have corrected some of them, but if I corrected them all there wouldn't be any story. I decided to leave most of it intact. There was a lot left out and no good explanation for some things so I have added here and there and also tried to explain some things. Hang on, I think it will be a fun ride.

Virginia,

Yes, there will be some interested observers, but the staff at the Planet know that Lois and Clark are very close to Superman and won't think anything of a good luck kiss from a close friend.