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Soooooooo, any comments?

I'm making some guesses here but Alt-Clark looks a lot like the Clark that hopped off the bus in Season One suit-wise. I don't know why but I also am guessing that Cat's going to make him Season 3-4 Clark preeetty darn quick (suit-wise.)

Cat had some great lines in this chapter:


Nice way to remind us of the differences between Alt-Clark and Clark.

Joan

Hi Virginia,

I love the scene in Smallville with Jonathan, Martha and "Jerome". I know that that they are not his parents, but I think he should tell her who he is.They are able to understand.

And Cat is great (again) in this chapter. To help her, I found some ties.



No, just kidding!

Now, I'm looking forward to the date.

Well, I guess Cat is a better friend than I thought. She actually managed to get Clark out of what was a really bad situation into only a slightly bad situation.

What I don't get is why Lois has not tried to follow up on the fact she does know about Clark, that he is from Smallville, Kansas and see if there are Kents there.

Clark asked Lois out

She said yes

Things are looking up for them, even if their relationship has not gone in a stright direction, but meandered here and there.

I just hope Lois is ok with Clark's new look.

Christina: Yes, after this shopping trip he'll look more like late S2+ Clark. He wasn't looking like he just got off the bus, but alt-Clark definiately was no S4 canon Clark.

Joan: Cat still stealing the scenes she's in? Good!

CAT: What else is new? I've always done that.

I have to remind my Readers this isn't canon Clark every once and while.

Sydney: I'm you liked Jerome finally meeting M&J.

Um... Thanks. He'll be chosing his ties from this collection instead: Clark Kent Tie Collection

CAT: Are you sure those are ties for *men*? No, no, no. Clark needs to chose his own ties; that's the best way to demonstrate his own personality. And those are just... No. Even *I* would veto those.



John: Clark told Lois that his folks died when he was 10 and then he was put into foster care. Then after college, Clark traveled the world. She's under the assumption this means there shouldn't be any Kents left in Smallville. Don't worry this assumption will be corrected sooner than later.

It's not Cat's fault that Clark didn't kick out Toni.

CAT: Best friend of the Year award? I'll take it! Show those people who said I couldn't make friends with men. Of course, if Clark ever changes his mind about our just friendship status...

Things are on the upswing, yes.

LOIS: As long he doesn't start showing up in Hawaiian print shirts, I'll be okay. For some reason, those upset my stomach.

I guess it does make sense that Lois would not look for Kents in Smallville. However, since he has been open about being from Smallville, it would make sense that she should at least go there to find out what there is to learn.

Well, I guess I just have to say it is a good think that this Clark has not waited as long as Canon-Clark to ask Lois out. Really how little they actually dated before getting engaged is one of the weird things about the TV show. Even if we assume that a few weeks go between "Whine, Whine, Whine" and "And the Answer Is", it seems not much. I guess if we assume WWW fits when it was shown, and ATAI is in September at the beganing of the next season, since we have to allow for the summer break somehow when they have negative time between the end of season 2 and the start of season 3, Clark proposing to Lois after they have been steadily dating for about 3 months, with a few dates before that at least makes sense.

Still, it does not make sense that he did not ask her out more in Season 1. Luthor does not really go on any dates with her between the pilot and PML. In fact the more I think about it, the more it seems that he should at least ask her out at some point in "Smart Kids". I do not know if she would have said yes or no, but especially after she is so happy he snitched evidence, he should at least try.

Someone might point out that is just after "I'Ve Got a Crush on You", when Clark throws Lois under the bus by exposing her cover. However Lois seems to have forgotten about that in "Smart Kids" and in "Green, Green Glow of Home" she may disrespect Clark, but is not treating him as a coniving traitor.

If there is one issue with Season 1 it is that the shows do not build much on each other. Missing Clark is much more internally linked than Season 1.

Don’t they surgically lengthen models in some countries?







DingDingDing!

LOIS: Yes, but I’m undercover as the girl who crushed on him since before she flunked highschool and I’m currently playing at being ticked off.

Guilty conscience?

/whispers/ ‘for the winter’



Michael

John: I'm sure it's high on Perry's to-do list to let his star reporter fly out to Kansas to check up on her partner. She does have real stories she's working on.

Alt-Clark's reason for being in Metropolis is a different than canon Clark's. Actually on the show Lois and Clark started dating during "The Phoenix" when he asked her out on the date. They just didn't become exclusive until "WWW".

He was planning on telling Lois at the end of WWW, and then you think he's put it off for three months (between WWW and ATAI?) before finally deciding he NEEDS to tell her only to get that call from his barber? That seems a bit like Clark, but I'm going with they've already known each other for two years at this point and dated a few times since the Phoenix. Clark's waiting until marriage for sex, so he wants it to happen as soon as possible as opposed to date her for another year in case another man sweeps her off her feet in the meantime?

Working on his career. Lois told him in no uncertain terms "Don't fall for me, farmboy." So he's waiting for them to grow closer until he makes his move (another reason he's still a virgin until S4.)

Lex invited Lois to lunch in Neverending Battle but she canceled it to chase Superman. Then they reschedule in ILTY. He offers Lois his help during "Requiem" and I think asks her to accompany him. Her rush to his arms calling him "hero" points to Lex asking her on more dates after that. He does drop by her apartment past visiting hours during 'Crush' and expresses his interest. I've always wondered why she accepts the date with Luthor in PML after he's such a creepy businessman cutting corners and endangering Metropolis in MoSB.

He's thrown off because Lois indicates she doesn't like kids?

It's amazing what a little attracation can help you forgive. But she likes it when he does things like that to her. (Remember the Sewage Rec. Facility?)

Missing Clark? You mean her flashbacks? They are kind-of atuned to what's going on in her life at the moment.

Michael: Oh, look! I'm almost caught up. I think I'll break for lunch and do some non-FDK writing after this one though.

Let's hope not.

Exactly.

Nope, sorry, Luthor's going to be around for a while to come.

CLARK: Darn.

I didn't realize that you had thought Cat thought Clark had bought her.

I'm thinking later in the week, but Tuesday will do.

LOIS: And that makes it acceptable to SELL me to the first bidder without my say-so?

Clark knows this which is why he avoided the topic to begin with, tempting though it might be.

Plus, nothing sticks to Lex since he started that new waxing treatment.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww.

No, she find those a bit... distracting.

Goes clothes shopping with Cat is a bad thing?

I look something between this: and this: but only when I'm writing. Otherwise I look like a blonde one of these:



Yep. Old self ties.

CAT: I meant how they look.



Nan's alt-Clark?

Yep.

Um... Off page. More coming up; that was kind of a bridge-scene between parts to remind the ERs that Clark hadn't forgotten about the Kents after they saw him as Superman.

Jerome, Thomas, and Jonathan each drank a glass of lemonade and then the younger generation left to get back to work. Not all of us are trying for 200 parts. I was just tying a knot in that thread I left hanging.

Yeah, but would he call them ‘folks’?

/whispers/ Happenings in Part 44.



Michael

I did. Now I look like this: Luckily, I don't have to be well to type.

That's sad. Almost as sad a foot binding of the previous century.

LOIS: I'd rather not bite his head off, thank you. If he pleases me, I might let him live.

Ewww. How Silence of the Lambs.

CAT: That's right. If he's out of jail, I just have to wait for Lois to break his heart and that should be coming up right about...

LOIS: <Scoffing> It's not like it was a legal contract. I signed it "Lola Dane".

JONATHAN: I don't know Superman well enough to know if he would refer to his parents as folks.

But that considered spoilage.

I'll have to look that one up. While flipping around the Archive earlier I found that ML Thompson wrote a story about a ghost Clark ("Out of Time"). I'll have to read that (or download it to my Nook and add it to my list) to see how similar it is to Another Lois. Have you read that one?

Later, when Thomas isn't there.

EW: <Skeptical expression> You're not trying to get me to write 200 parts?

/hands over get-well tissues/ Also, you’re lucky. That doesn’t work with me. Too distracting.

Michael

Tank you. I'm thure my bethas will pick up and correct every spot my head hiths the kethboard when I sneeth. Ah-ah-ah-asjdl'fasjdf'asdjf'psdfja;sdlmfa;s - choo.

LOIS: How can it be legal? I didn't sign it with my legal name. Hello?

LEX: Loopholes, darling.

Right. Of course, all Kryptonians are taught British English.

So, did I.

Well, let's hope this story doesn't take that many parts. Of course, I am working on Part 56... So...

Did some *very* light googling. There are those who argue that unless both parties are aware that you’re not who you’re saying you are, it’s binding. Either that, or you can be sued for fraud etc.

At least the bad ones. Evil Empire officers are *always* British.



Michael

Being that she was an undercover journalist, the case for fraud could still be made.

Oh. So, there are good ones? Yes, I guess, one or two perhaps. The best way for someone in the Evil Empire to go undetected in the rest of the universe is to learn an American accent.

LOIS: Fraud or solicitation. Fraud or solicitation. Fraud or solicitation.

Yeah, Lois isn’t so sure about one of them. And the other tried to green-K her husband.

Michael

LOIS: *One* of them? Which one? The one who stole my husband-to-be? Nope, don't trust that hussy anywhere, anyhow, anyway! Well, there was that one concubine who showed me how not to make the leash rub me the wrong way, but other than that...

I think you want to say "from both the outside".

Thanks. Fixed.