Again does Lex love Lois. NO, NO. The episode does not say Lex was sprayed with a 100% solution. Miranda says she has been using a 1% solution but a 100% solution would cause a permenent (sp) break down of all inhibitions. The analysis by Star Labs does not say it makes you fall in love. It was that it is a pheremone that breaks down that part of your brain that exercises restraint. That you have to already be ATTRACTED to a person - not in love attracted as in lust after them. Did Lex lust after Lois sure she was something to be conquered.
When Miranda sprays Lex she first sprays herself. I don't think she would be so crazy as to spray herself with a 100% solution. Maybe Lex by himself yes but that is not what happens in the show. She sprays herself, the air and then Lex. Then she asks him if he feels anything for her and he says no. Now get out I have a dinner date, and she questions him if it is with Lois. That is when she sends the note to Lois to get her to the airport to kill her.
As further proof that Lex did not love Lois at all in the episode Fall of the House Of Luthor it starts out with him flying around dressed as Superman looking down at Clark, Perry, Jimmy and Jack and the hard times that has be fallen them, Lois getting fitted for her wedding dress and Superman's grave. Then you see that Lex is wearing virtual goggles so you realize this is his fantasy. So obviously defeating Superman and his friends was a dream come true.
The next proof that Lex didn't love Lois comes when he goes to gloat to Superman when he is locked in the cage. He quotes the play Henry V to him. "She is beautiful therefore to be wooed, she is woman therefore to be WON." Not loved but won like she is not a person but a prize in a game. Then he goes on to say, and I have to say not in a way that conveys the feelings he is supposedly expressing "I love Lois, I really do, but she's just a little bit to independent don't you think. Well I'll take care of that." The way he says it does not express love but okay I've got her now I've won she's mine not yours and I'll break her. That is what I got out of his declaration.
Then when the police show up what does he do. He doesn't try to escape right away. He doesn't try to take Lois with him. He wastes valuable time going to the basement to take an axe to Superman. When he finds him gone he is angry and then he tries to escape.
In all the subsequent times he shows up it doesn't seem to me as if he is expressing love it is more of his megalomaniac ego that just won't except that Lois could not want him. He is crazy and just won't except that someone could not want him - LEX LUTHOR. No one turns him down. He does the walking away. There is no way he can let Lois walk away. He is just like all those men that go after their ex-wives and kill them. They just can't let you walk away. Lex is cut from the same cloth. And it is the way he has led his life. He got his way in business by either ruining your business, blackmailing you or having you killed. Lex is incapable of love look at how he treated his 2 sons in the show.
