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I started off the folder, and then got delayed by phone calls, etc. Now it's 3 hours later, and I've FINALLY had a chance to finish this section. And I have to say...

Awesome.

I've said that before, haven't I? Well, I have a feeling that I'll be using that word a lot more before this saga is over. And I'll need other adjectives as well - time to break out the thesaurus again.

Hmm...so why can't the soul-tracker find them? The only idea I've come up with is that Tempus has zapped L&C into a future beyond the Peacekeepers' current existence - and they can't read into the future. But Wells was able to track them both into the past and into a future beyond when he originally lived, so presumably the Peacekeepers would be able to as well.

Well, I love time-travel, dimension hopping, etc. So I'm eager to see the explanation.

The Tempus stuff is, as always, just splendid. Madge seems to understand him well, but he may have just outfoxed her this time.

The L&C interlude in the park was wonderful. I love how Lois is filing away all this information in her head - there's the investigative reporter hard at work - and the poker face conversation was wonderful.

Loved it.

But as much as I loved all the stuff that came before, I really fell head over heels when I saw Clark's reaction to the DP globe and it quickly became apparent that it's a museum with tour guides representing the characters we know and love. I'm dying to see more about how L&C react to this. Hope I make it to Saturday...

Kathy

Moved from the other thread...


LOVED THIS!!! I'm so glad you've already got part 2 posted.

I love Madge; she is such a wonderful character. I love their panic when Lois and Clark's life sign readings are registering, love Tempus's mocking words (you write him SO well!), and love Lois and Clark's confusion when they wake up in the park.

Love it, love it, love it!!! (Did I mention I love it? )

Even though I've had the privelege to read this already, it's been a while since I've read these opening installments, and they're even more fabulous than I remember. I'm enjoying them right along with everybody else!

Can't wait for part 3!

Wow, CC.

This is good. I really liked being inside Lois's head as she gathered all these little clues about him. Especially the guess about him needing to be 18 to get his flying license

But the Daily Planet... whoa. It's a museum. And the Luthor/Cage exhibit???? L&C are in for such shocks... can't wait to see them <g>

PJ

Next part ASAP pleaseeeeeeeee

Karla

ACK!!!I'm late! geez you take your kid to get her tooth pulled and next thing you know CC's got a whole new section posted!!

And oh boy what a doozy!<...forehead slapping icon here, or maybe this guy


TEEEEEEEJ

Shut up, really? They disappeared? That's awesome...well, not ideal, but that's just a really great idea. Anywho.

LOL

Meanwhile, good God, I'm going to pull my hair out! What is going on?! Where *are* they? How can it be off the Utopia radar? Can the peacekeepers find them? 2001 questions pour out.

And the 'he' here is Clark, perhaps?

I smell disaster.

JD


Edit: <And thanks to everyone who pointed out that the DP is a museum wherever and whenever they are>

Oh good God, thanks for pointing that out, Vicki! I clearly was not paying attention and would have driven myself crazy LOL.

Pam, I think perhaps that is Luthor-Cage (as in, cage made of kryptonite), not Luthor/Cage.

But this is CC, so I'm prepared to be completely mistaken.

CC, this is just so great that I have no words! Except to say that I can't wait for the next part!

*buckles up*

CC - I'm stunned by this story!! It's just wonderful, very different, thought provoking and completely hypnotic. WHERE are they?? And thanks to everyone who pointed out that the DP is a museum wherever and whenever they are - I just thought that someone had gone nuts and everything everywhere is some kind of homage to Superman. Poor Clark!

You've brought up, or you've had Lois bring up , so many great points that were never explored in the show - Clark's mannerisms, his familiarity with the planet (golf courses, do not trespass signs, litter, etc.), and I love how you've had her counseling him on how to develop a better poker face, etc.

I LOVE this, and can't wait to see what happens next.

I got a kick out of the fact that nobody seemed to think about removing the ring from Tempus or physically restraining him in any other way but having lots of bodies lie on top of him.

MORE please!

V

Yay part 2!!

CC you have me ROTFLMAO during most of this. Love, love, LOVE what must have been Lois' and Clark's stunned expressions as 'Perry' went on his tirade. Soooo funny!

Where in tarnation ARE they? I can't even begin to figure out what you have in store for us..darlin' (as Tempus would say).

woooohooooo..

~Liz

Well I have to hand it to tempus this time. He really has them in a pickle now<g> Of course I am wondering why the world isn't just dissapearing since Lois and Clark are missing from there own time. I am looking forward to hearing all about Lois finding out the story of Clark Kent/superman. I wonder how she is going to take it. Laura

This is great!! Fast-paced, funny, and riveting. I love the almost caricatured descriptions of Tempus and the Peacekeepers. I love the tongue-in-cheek discussion/lectures Lois and Clark are having, with her trying to pry stuff out of him, and giving him advice at the same time as to how to conceal that same stuff... And he's acting more and more Clark-like, more and more familiar with her as they interact. I've always wondered if Lois would have figured out Clark's secret faster and earlier if he'd spent more time with her initially. By the time they were interacting regularly as Lois and Superman, her preconceptions (misconceptions?) were set in concrete and she saw what she expected to see. But in the beginning, if he hadn't been remote with her, maybe she would have tumbled to the whole CK=S thing right away.

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I enjoyed these descriptions of the "interrogation"... you can tell they've all done this before, over and over and over and over... It's like Tempus is a one-man employment agency; because of him, all those other people have jobs as Peacekeepers or as ancillary Peacekeeper staff. Pretty funny!

And the over-the-top DP museum... as TEEEEEEEJ says, once Lois and Clark figure out where they are,
And as to when they are, are they in the current present? The Peacekeepers' present? Would that make the soul trackers glitch out? That could explain Tempus's "place so obvious", except for the part about the one place that unravels all Utopia. Unless we go back to TEEEEEEEJ's comment above...

I'm looking forward to your next installment!

~Toc

CC

This is superb.

Tricia

Rotfl!!

Jose

Ah, Madge. Dear, dear Madge. You just have to love her. She reminds me of one of those stalwart old biddies beloved of Ealing Comedies. Capable, no-nonsense, doesn't suffer fools gladly and with a biting wit to keep her going through the absurdities of her job. She's just adorable.

The banter and interaction between Clark and Lois was wonderful. I think my favourite was Lois concluding that on Clark's planet you have to be 18 to gain a flying licence. But, as others have said, there were just too many laugh-out-loud moments to count.

And then the capper - the Daily Planet museum. Wonderful!

LabRat (why isn't there more in my mailbox? You have a buffer to keep up, you know...)

I'm late, and everyone else has said everything already! :p CC, I'm speechless anyway. I don't know how you do it. This is amazing - the humour, the deft touches with description and detail everyone else has mentioned. Madge and Tempus. Clark noticing things about how Centennial Park has changed and Lois noticing things about Clark noticing things.

And I think Janet is right. Lois doesn't need the Daily Planet museum; she just needs to be alone with Superman for another half-hour or so and she'll have him all figured out.

As it is, I agree with TJ and others: I think they're in the present, in the Peacekeepers' time, and they're now inside a ghastly, tacky, Lane and Kent 'living museum' with costumed actors playing the parts of themselves and their colleagues. Never mind whether or not the penny will drop for Lois - in fact, there are several pennies to be dropped, aren't there? - I think she's going to deck somebody before too long!

As for this destroying Utopia, could you imagine the effect on Lois right now of being told that she'll marry the Mr Greenjeans farmboy, even if he is Superman? Running for the hills might be the tamest of her courses of action...

Roll on tomorrow!

Wendy

Brilliant.

Just freakin' brilliant.

Loved the banter between Tempus and Madge. (They reminded me of another couple near and dear to my heart ... Tempus/Madge 'shipping, anyone? <eg>) Loved that he sent them to the future instead of the past. (God, yes! So obvious, yet no one has thought of this before??) Loved that Lois kept picking up on these totally innocuous clues Clark dropped about golf courses and parks. (And especially her giving him the "help" he so desperately needed at this point.)

Loved Clark's reaction to the DP all gussied up; I actually gave the wooby lip when he thought that he'd scared everyone. (And LOL at the garishness of all the red, blue and yellow decorations -- I'm starting to see why Tempus wants to ruin it all! ) And then I got to "the DW wing" and laughed so loud that I was glad my kids were still in school. ROTFL!!!!

But then I got to this ...

And I was back to "brilliant!" again ... holy cow, you are a genius. It's fandom played out as tourist theater played out as fanfic. I'm in awe.

(And I just have to mention my appreciation of the "Graceland" aspect of it all ... Perry would be so proud of you, CC!)

I'm enthralled ... nearly speechless in my awe (well, not really, because I'm writing all this feedback, but for me, this is like being speechless!) ... ready to bow down and beg for the next part.

Yes, I'm begging. Down on my knees. Ready to come down there and wrestle it out of your hard drive. Saturday, huh? It's a date.

Kathy

I'm back with a nit. Rivka posted in the fdk for Part 1

Well, the second one was nagging at me, so I went to look it up on dictionary.com

I think that "replicate", which is the word CC used, *is* the one she wants. They're referring to whether or not this could be a duplicate Tempus. But the only definition given for "replicant" is "one who replies".

The word "replicant" isn't listed in merriam-webster. I don't have a print dictionary at the moment.

Kathy

This is totally awesome story that took a turn waaayyyy out into left field in a direction I wasn't expecting. More as fast as you can!!!
replicate is the verb
replicant is the noun
I don't know what the dictionaries are saying these days, but "replicant" is common usage in science fiction these days. (ref. Stargate SG-1) The replicators are the little machines that replicate themselves everywhere (or did until the end of season 8)

Artemis

Yes, Kathy, but... From Meet John Doe:

and I suspect this is what CC's referring to.


Wendy

That was indeed my assumption. And since I watched that episode not long ago, I was pretty sure of the word -- but I checked the script anyway.

I suspect the L&C writers nabbed the word from Blade Runner.

Definitions of replicant:
Wikipedia
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