Aria wrote:
Then he insensitively kissed Lois and made jokes in the middle of the killing field.
The only thing about the kiss that bothered me was the fact that it's their first kiss and it was witnessed by Perry, Jenny, and Steve, and Zod. It was more of a relief 'we've saved Metropolis from the World machine and survived' kiss. In that light, it wasn't very romantic. Neither of them has had time to processing the death and destruction around them, or even consider where they are. They are just happy to still be alive, and to have won that battle (since Zod is still alive at this point). In that regard, Lois is right. That isn't a good foundation for a relationship. They haven't yet had a chance to take a step back to view the destruction around them and go "whoa, you guys really destroyed Metropolis, Clark."
Technically, there isn't time for Clark to process and come to terms with everything that happened in this film before their tagged on 'everything will be okay' ending (unless a good year has passed by, but the filmmakers were obstinate when it came to NOT marking the passage of time well). If this is supposed to be the more emotional and "Dark Knight"-ish Superman, we need to see him introspectively process what happened during Zod's campaign of terror, and I hope he is at least still haunted by it in MoS-2.
Maybe he watched that news special in 1991 where the reporters in Kansas hid under that underpass and survived a tornado. That one news special is largely where the idea that overpasses were safe came from.
I knew I heard that it was a good idea somewhere.
