Plus, I liked that black suit on her, and the scene outside of Clark's place where he's dressed in all black too, after robbing the jewelry store.
I loved Clark dressed all in black. He looked
good in that scene.
I think it would've been interesting to see what would've happened if Clark had gotten out "Lois, I am Superman" before Mazik called OR just deciding to be unafraid and declaring it right after Mazik called instead of the lame excuses.
I wonder how Lois would've processed it if it had gone like that instead of the proposal, then the revelation.
I've always thought that, since Clark was about to tell her anyway, he should have done so as soon as he got off the phone with Mazik. Wouldn't the whole blackmail thing have gone better if Lois was in on what was really going on? Why
not tell her?
Although you can argue that a marriage proposal came too soon and that they could have had Lois and Clark dating for a longer amount of time...
When the show was on originally, it didn't occur to me that they hadn't been dating very long. In fact, Perry's comment that "shouldn't you try dating first?" when Lois tells him that Clark proposed seemed odd to me at the time. How many actual dates did they go on? One? I never noticed until I started re-watching the show in quick succession. Without having to wait in between episodes, that quick timeline was much more obvious. Or maybe I just wasn't paying attention because a was a teenager at the time and squee!!! Romance!!!
My favorite long-developing relationship in a drama is Sheradon and Delenn on Babylon 5. They spent a whole season getting to know each other, at the end of which he told her, "if we survive [this current predicament], call me John." A
whole season before they're on a first-name basis. Then they spend another season falling for each other, then the next season they're finally dating, at the end of which they finally get married. It's a very slow romance and very realistic. I'm not sure whether a romance that slow would have worked on Lois & Clark as well. I guess it might have if they didn't start the Clark-skipping-out-on-her problems quite as soon.
One external factor in the pace of their relationship was that the powers-that-be decided that Lois and Clark would get married on the show at the same time as they did in the comics. In fact, I saw in an interview in some special features (I think it might be on the
Superman: Doomsday DVD, but I don't remember) that the planned story arc for the comics in '93 was the wedding. Then when L&C came along, they put off that story line so that the comic wedding could coincide with the wedding on the show, so they had to come up with a new story arc. Apparently, someone jokingly suggested, "Why don't we just kill Superman?" They couldn't think of anything better, so they did. I've been wracking my brain to figure out which DVD that interview is on. I think I'll have to pull out my Superman cartoons and go through them to find it.