I like revelation stories, personally. The revelation itself is pretty much the most monumental event I can think of. It's not just a leap of faith on Clark's part -- telling Lois "here, here's everything you would ever need to destroy me and everyone I care about, should you decide to do so," -- it's also a conscious decision on his part to share a burden that will last a lifetime. Once Lois knows, the bell can't be unrung. In a sense, they're stuck linked to each other, even if only because of the secret, for the rest of their lives. From that point on, Lois is going to feel a moral responsibility to protect Superman and particularly, the Kents, while her perceived closeness to Superman is always going to make her a target. That's why in "Single Petal of a Rose," I had Clark ask Lois whom she would burden with that kind of responsibility.
I never have any urge to leave the show's revelation alone (unless the story I'm writing takes place well after it, like "The Longest Road" and the revelation isn't terribly relevant to the story). I HATED the revelation. I thought it was well acted and the dialogue was good and in character, but Clark's proposing to Lois--asking her to make a lifetime commitment to him without that key information--was, in my opinion, unethical. Yeah, he wanted to know that she loved him, not Superman, but she'd already proved that to be the case by that point, as far as I'm concerned. Of course, all the nonsense of not telling her "because the time was never right" or "he was always getting interrupted" while their relationship was practically imploding was also too much to bear.
