Is what Clark has done to others and is doing to Lois really any less despicable than killing them?

He is, in a sense, murdering the people they were, and leaving behind someone else. A person who is no longer the one they were to start with. He might as well just kill them outright.

Not sure this Clark is going to be redemable.

Tank (who finds the story compelling but thinks any 'happy ever after' is going to be a tough sell)