Angry Clark is not my favorite, and the story is a little gruesome for my taste. But I totally agree with Jen's assessment. The ending is - I don't think there is a better word for it - beautiful. The kind of beauty that cuts you open like a knife, but not in a bad way. You are defenseless against it. Imagine - Lois would fight Superman. She would stand up to someone who looked like Superman and was as strong as Superman. She would be hurt and bruised and have her clothes torn by clone-Superman. She would face rape by an inhumanly strong, ruthless, horrible perpetrator with an idealized hero's face and body. Yet she would not fall apart. Never that. Not lose her dignity.
Only when she faces the real Superman, and knows that he is really Clark, and knows that with him she is totally safe and loved, only then can and must she fall apart and dissolve in tears in his arms.
Ann
